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IVITRA 24
Computational Phraseology
Edited by Gloria Corpas Pastor and Jean-Pierre Colson
May 2020. xi, 327 pp.
Whether you wish to deliver on a promise, take a walk down memory lane or even on the wild side, phraseological units (also often referred to as phrasemes or multiword expressions) are present in most communicative situations and... read more
IVITRA 27
Canvi lingüístic, estandardització i identitat en català / Linguistic Change, Standardization and Identity in Catalan
Edited by Hans-Ingo Radatz
May 2020. xvii, 190 pp.
The multiplicity of parallel identities that make up our personalities is a phenomenon in which our individual identitary choices merge with diverse collective identities. The present volume is a contribution to the field of... read more
SLSI 33
Mobilizing Others
Grammar and lexis within larger activities
Edited by Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, Emma Betz and Peter Golato
May 2020. vi, 285 pp.
Requesting, recruitment, and other ways of mobilizing others to act have garnered much interest in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. This volume takes a holistic perspective on the practices that we use to get... read more
ILL 17
Operationalizing Iconicity
Edited by Pamela Perniss, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
May 2020. xii, 331 pp.
The Iconicity in Language and Literature series has long been dedicated to the recognition and understanding of the pervasiveness of iconicity in language in its many forms and functions. The present volume, divided into four... read more
SiBil 59
Lost in Transmission
The role of attrition and input in heritage language development
Edited by Bernhard Brehmer and Jeanine Treffers-Daller
May 2020. vii, 276 pp.
Heritage speakers are a fascinating group of bilinguals with a unique profile. Living abroad as immigrants of the second generation, they speak the language of their own speech community (the heritage language) at home, and the... read more
SiHoLS 127
History of Linguistics 2017
Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, (ICHoLS 14), Paris, 28 August – 1 September
Edited by Émilie Aussant and Jean-Michel Fortis
May 2020. xviii, 245 pp.
The present book is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (Paris 2017). The volume is divided thematically into three parts: I. Notions and categories, II.... read more
BPA 9
Language Processing in Advanced Learners of English
A multi-method approach to collocation based on corpus linguistic and experimental data
Marco Schilk
May 2020. xvii, 293 pp.
The production and processing of collocations and formulaic language is a field of growing interest in corpus linguistics and experimental psycholinguistics. In the past this fascinating field at the interface of grammar and the... read more
IHLL 26
Hispanic Linguistics
Current issues and new directions
Edited by Alfonso Morales-Front, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz
May 2020. vi, 344 pp.
This volume addresses a wide range of phenomena including intonation, restructuring, clitic climbing, aspectual structure, subject focus marking, code-switching, lenition, loanwords, and heritage learning that are central in... read more
CAL 27
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Elena Smirnova
May 2020. vi, 355 pp.
This volume brings together ten contributions by leading experts who present their current usage-based research in Diachronic Construction Grammar. All papers contribute to the discussion of how to conceptualize constructional... read more
WLP 7
A Language Management Approach to Language Problems
Integrating macro and micro dimensions
Edited by Goro Christoph Kimura and Lisa Fairbrother
May 2020. ix, 273 pp.
In recent years there has been increased interest in examining the treatment of language problems across different levels of society, ranging from individual interactional issues to language policy and planning... read more
FTL 7
Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts
Edited by Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic
May 2020. xi, 346 pp.
The creative potentiality of metaphor is one of the central themes in research on creativity. The present volume offers a space for the interdisciplinary discussion of the relationship between metaphor and creativity by focusing... read more
FTL 8
Relevance Theory, Figuration, and Continuity in Pragmatics
Edited by Agnieszka Piskorska
May 2020. vii, 357 pp.
The chapters in this volume apply the methodology of relevance theory to develop accounts of various pragmatic phenomena which can be associated with the broadly conceived notion of style. Some of them are devoted to central... read more
LA 259
Silently Structured Silent Argument
Yuta Sakamoto
May 2020. xiii, 266 pp.
Theoretical linguistics in the generative tradition has payed much attention to issues related to silence ? children know the syntax of silence despite the fact that they do not have direct access to it throughout their language... read more
Z 227
Historical Linguistics
A cognitive grammar introduction
Margaret E. Winters
May 2020. xvii, 241 pp.
This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics.... read more
LA 260
Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics
20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais
Edited by Roberta Pires De Oliveira, Ina Emmel and Sandra Quarezemin
May 2020. ix, 216 pp.
This book opens with Angelika Kratzer and Luigi Rizzi talking about contemporary issues, such as non-recursiveness of focus and the semantics of topics. The chapters climb down the spine from the left periphery to DP: the value... read more
VARGReB 5
The Middle Voice in Baltic
Axel Holvoet
May 2020. xvii, 250 pp.
The fifth volume in the VARGReB series is a monograph presenting a collection of studies on middle-voice grams in Baltic, that is, on a widely ramified family of constructions with different syntactic and semantic properties but... read more
P&bns 309
Errors and Interaction
A cognitive ethnography of emergency medicine
Sarah Bro Trasmundi
May 2020. xii, 246 pp.
Trasmundi combines her background as a cognitive ethnographer with theory of radical embodied cognition and interaction to investigate how healthcare practitioners manage cognitive events in patient treatment and diagnosing that... read more