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General Linguistics 1 Highlights for 2004 1 Noam Chomsky 1 Titles by David Crystal 2 Titles by Andrew Radford 3 Highlights Titles by Jean Aitchison 4 Syntax 7 Phonetics and Phonology 8 Sociolinguistics 10 Studies in Interactional Linguistics 12 Key Topics in Sociolinguistics 12 Studies in English Language 14 Studies in the Cultural and Social Foundations of Language 15 ➤ See page 1 Semantics 16 Discourse and Pragmatics 17 Language Acquisition 17 Cognitive Linguistics 18 ➤ See page 1 ➤ See page 4 Historical Linguistics 19 Sign Language 21 Computational Linguistics 21 Bilingualism 22 Languages 22 Reference Grammars 22 Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions 27 Cambridge Language Surveys 28 English Language Teaching 30 Author and Title Index 33

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FORTHCOMING fundamentally changed the way we General think of ourselves, gaining a position in Linguistics Blooming English the history of ideas on a par with that Observations on the Roots, of Darwin or Descartes. This second Cultivation and Hybrids of the Highlights for 2004 edition has been thoroughly updated to English Language account for Chomsky’s most recent Kate Burridge work, including his continued Monash University, Victoria NEW contributions to linguistics, his further English is the most creative, changeable The Cambridge Guide discussion on evolution, and his and imaginative of languages. Some extensive work on the events of to English Usage words are invented to meet temporary September 11th, 2001. Pam Peters needs and are quickly discarded; others ‘Neil Smith’s book is a sympathetically Macquarie University, Sydney carry meanings hundreds of years old. personal and academically astute The Cambridge Guide to English Usage Language fascinates us, and we spend a introduction to important themes in is an A-Z reference book, giving an up- lot of time playing with it, concocting Chomsky’s linguistic and political work. to-date account of the debatable issues everything from puns, riddles and secret I recommend this book to students, of English usage and written style. Its languages to wonderful prose and and specialists will find it useful too.’ advice draws a wealth of recent poetry. We also worry about it a great James McGilvray, McGill University deal, looking up and checking words in 2004 228 x 152 mm 304pp research and data from very large 0 521 83788 X Hardback c. £42.50 corpora of American and British English dictionaries and usage guides, 0 521 54688 5 Paperback c. £15.99 - illuminating their many divergences occasionally arguing about definitions. Publication August 2004 and also points of convergence on This book celebrates our capacity to play with language, as well as which international English can be On Nature and based. The book comprises more than examining the ways we use it: in slang 3000 points of word meaning, spelling, and jargon, swearing, speaking the Language grammar, punctuation, and larger issues unspeakable, or concealing unpleasant Noam Chomsky of inclusive language, and effective or inconvenient facts. It is a book for Massachusetts Institute of Technology writing and argument. It also provides browsing, for finding beguiling snippets Edited by Adriana Belletti Università degli Studi, Siena guidance on grammatical terminology, about language, history and social and Luigi Rizzi and covers topics in electronic customs, and a formidable weapon in Università degli Studi, Siena communication and the internet. The word games. discussion notes the major dictionaries, ‘Blooming English is easy to read, In On Nature and Language Noam grammars and usage books in the US, informative and entertaining ... Anyone Chomsky develops his thinking on the UK, Canada and Australia, allowing interested in the English language relation between language, mind and readers to calibrate their own practices should get it. Enjoy!’ brain, integrating current research in Herald Sun as required. CGEU is descriptive rather linguistics into the burgeoning field of 2004 216 x 138 mm 272pp than prescriptive, but offers a principled neuroscience. The volume begins with a 0 521 83948 3 Hardback c. £37.50 lucid introduction by the editors Adriana basis for implementing progressive or 0 521 54832 2 Paperback c. £13.99 more conservative decisions on usage. Publication June 2004 Belletti and Luigi Rizzi. This is followed by some of Chomsky’s recent writings • The book is based on extensive, up-to- on these themes, together with a date corpus data rather than on the Noam Chomsky penetrating interview in which Chomsky author’s personal intuition or provides the clearest and most elegant prejudice introduction to current theory available. NEW EDITION • It is truly international in scope, It should make his Minimalist Program differentiating clearly between US, Chomsky accessible to all. The volume concludes UK, Canadian and Australian usages Ideas and Ideals with an essay on the role of intellectuals and referring to other regional Second edition in society and government. Nature and varieties as required Neil Smith Language is a significant landmark in • It is clearly and accessibly written, for University College London the development of linguistic theory. It easy use by anybody concerned with Noam Chomsky is one of the leading will be welcomed by students and accurate communication in English, intellectual figures of modern times. He researchers in theoretical linguistics, whether as a student, a writer, or in has had a major influence on linguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive science and other business and professional psychology and philosophy, and a politics, as well as anyone interested in spheres significant effect on many other the development of Chomsky’s thought. Contents: disciplines, from anthropology to • Brings together the recent writings of 2004 247 x 174 mm 622pp mathematics, education to literary one of the most prominent thinkers of 0 521 62181 X Hardback £25.00 criticism. In this rigorous yet accessible the twentieth century in a stunning Publication April 2004 account of Chomsky’s work and collection, published here for the first influence, Neil Smith analyses time Chomsky’s key contributions to the • Includes the clearest introduction study of language and the study of available to his highly influential mind. He gives a detailed exposition of approach to linguistics Chomsky’s linguistic theorizing, discusses the psychological and philosophical implications of Chomsky’s work, and argues that he has

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• Penetrating accounts of language, and of teachers, students and NEW EDITION mind and brain - it will appeal across professional English-users concerned linguistics, cognitive science and with their own linguistic legacy. The English as a Global philosophy of mind length of the book has been extended Language ‘Chomsky makes linguistics and there are 44 new illustrations, Second edition intellectually interesting, he makes it extensive new material on world English David Crystal exciting, and he makes it a discipline and Internet English, and a complete David Crystal, world authority on the that matters to the wider scientific updating of statistics, further reading English language, presents a lively and community.’ suggestions and other references. Stephen Pulman, The Times Higher Educational factual account of the rise of English as Supplement • The most successful general book on a global language and explores the ‘Perhaps the most accessible the English language (its past, present whys and wherefores of the history, introduction to Chomsky’s linguistic and future) current status and future potential of thought available.’ • Packed with colour illustrations, maps, English as the international language of The Guardian tables and graphics communication. English has been Contents: Foreword; 1. Introduction: some lauded as the most ‘successful’ • Difficult concepts explained in a concepts and issues in linguistic theory; language ever, with 1,500 million simple and accessible way 2. Perspectives on Language and Mind; speakers worldwide; but Crystal avoids 3. Language and the brain; 4. An interview ‘A delight and a treasure ... David taking sides and tells the story in a Crystal does a brilliant job of satisfying on minimalism; 5. The secular priesthood measured but engaging way, backed by and the perils of democracy. our curiosity about our mother tongue facts and figures. This new edition of his 2002 198 x 129 mm 216pp while illuminating the deepest 0 521 81548 7 Hardback £42.50 questions of who we are and where classic book includes new material (on 0 521 01624 X Paperback £15.99 we come from. A magnificent the vocabulary, grammar and achievement.’ pronunciation of New Englishes), Steven Pinker footnotes, new tables, and a full New Horizons in the ‘David Crystal is phenomenal ... This is bibliography. There are updates Study of Language a prodigious achievement ... The book throughout. This is a book for anyone of and Mind contains breadth of range, imaginative any nationality concerned with English: insight, and deep understanding ... It is teachers, students, language Noam Chomsky pervasively readable and stimulating.’ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor the Lord Quirk, FBA professionals, politicians, general Foreword by Neil Smith readers and anyone with a love of the ‘... a superb work that manages to be Outstanding and unique contribution to both scholarly and vastly entertaining language. the philosophical study of language and ... This is a deeply impressive book, for • The best available account of English mind by Noam Chomsky. it packs between two covers virtually as an international phenomenon everything any normal person might 2000 228 x 152 mm 248pp • Updated edition, with extra sections 0 521 65147 6 Hardback £42.50 care to know about English.’ 0 521 65822 5 Paperback £16.99 The Washington Post Book World on the future of English as a world Contents: Prefaces; 1. Modelling English; language, English on the Internet, the Part I. The History of English: 2. The origins possibility of an English ‘family’ of Titles by David of English; 3. Old English; 4. Middle English; languages, footnotes and a full Crystal 5. Early Modern English; 6. Modern English; bibliography 7. World English; Part II. English Vocabulary: • Suitable for anyone of any nationality 8. The nature of the lexicon; 9. The sources concerned with English: teachers, of the lexicon; 10. Etymology; 11. The NEW EDITION students, language professionals, structure of the lexicon; 12. Lexical The Cambridge dimensions; Part III. English Grammar: 13. politicians, general readers and Encyclopedia of the Grammatical mythology; 14. The structure anyone with a love of the language English Language of words; 15. Word classes; 16. The ‘A masterly synopsis of the spread of structure of sentences; Part IV. Spoken and English across the world ... English as a Second edition Written English: 17. The sound system; 18. Global Language arrives as an elegant David Crystal The writing system; Part V. Using English: successor to Robert McCrum’s The The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the 19. Varieties of discourse; 20. Regional Story of English, published in 1986. It English Language is one of the variation; 21. Social variation; 22. Personal is at the same time cool and immensely authoritative. Less than half publishing phenomena of recent times. variation; 23. Electronic variation; Part VI. Learning about English: 24. Learning the size, but with scarcely less text Rarely has a book so packed with English as a mother tongue; 25. New ways than its richly illustrated Rolls-Royce accurate and well researched factual of studying English; Appendices; Indexes. predecessor, it sets a new standard in information been so widely read and 2003 276 x 219 mm 506pp 85 line the popularisation of linguistics.’ popularly acclaimed. It has played a key diagrams 104 half-tones 27 tables Sir John Hanson (Director-General of The British role in the spread of general interest in 7graphs 53 maps Council), Times Higher Education Supplement language matters, generating further 0 521 82348 X Hardback £55.00 ‘This little book is a cross between a publications and broadcasting events 0 521 53033 4 Paperback £25.00 tourist guide and a no-nonsense school for an avid audience. Its First Edition textbook ... Crystal is skilled at assembling scattered yet useful data in appeared in hardback in 1995 and a a form that seems safe and reliable. He revised paperback in 1997. There have presents enough facts and figures to been numerous subsequent updated make readers feel that they are reprintings; but this Second Edition now getting good value for their time and presents an overhaul of the subject for money ... The book’s value is clear. It is a new generation of language-lovers a judicious mix of outline facts and good sense about language ... Overall, General Linguistics 3 this commonsensical little book will be level, the book introduces grammatical TEXTBOOK a useful tool for spreading the concepts and sets out the theoretical important message that English is not foundations of Principles and Linguistics supreme because it is superior ... , that Parameters and Universal Grammar, An Introduction English is not declining, and that it before progressing in stages towards Andrew Radford would be a tragedy if English alone University of Essex more complex phenomena. Each remained among languages.’ Martin Atkinson Jean Aitchison, Times Educational Supplement chapter contains a workbook section, in University of Essex which students are encouraged to make ‘This is a fascinating and useful book... David Britain a fine introduction for a wide variety their own analyses of English phrases University of Essex of potential users.’ and sentences through exercises, model Harald Clahsen Choice answers, and ‘helpful hints’. There is University of Essex Contents: Preface; 1. Why a global also an extensive glossary of terms. and Andrew Spencer language?; 2. Why English? The historical Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics University of Essex context; 3. Why English? The cultural 2004 247 x 174 mm 528pp 2 line foundation; 4. Why English? The cultural diagrams 3 tables 242 figures Self-contained introduction to legacy; 5. The future of global English; 0 521 83497 X Hardback £55.00 linguistics, offering a unique approach References; Index; List of tables. 0 521 54274 X Paperback £19.99 to language from a variety of Publication May 2004 2003 216 x 138 mm 228pp 5 tables perspectives. 1 figure 11 maps 1999 228 x 152 mm 454pp 33 tables 0 521 82347 1 Hardback £32.50 135 exercises 48 figures 3 maps 0 521 53032 6 Paperback £10.99 NEW TEXTBOOK 0 521 47261 X Hardback £50.00 English Syntax 0 521 47854 5 Paperback £18.99 Language Death An Introduction Andrew Radford David Crystal TEXTBOOK University of Essex A thorough review of the worldwide This textbook provides a concise, clear, Transformational problem of language endangerment and and accessible introduction to current Grammar death. syntactic theory, drawing on the key A First Course Canto concepts of Chomsky’s Minimalist Andrew Radford 2002 216 x 138 mm 208pp 1 table Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics 0 521 01271 6 Paperback £9.99 Program. Assuming little or no prior grammatical knowledge, Andrew 1988 228 x 152 mm 640pp 0 521 34750 5 Paperback £24.99 Radford takes students through a wide Language and the range of topics in English syntax, Internet beginning at an elementary level and TEXTBOOK David Crystal progressing in stages towards more Syntactic Theory and The first popular examination of advanced material. There is an extensive glossary of technical terms, and each the Structure of language on the Internet by a leading English authority. chapter contains a workbook section A Minimalist Approach 2001 216 x 138 mm 282pp 8 tables with ‘helpful hints’, exercises and model 0 521 80212 1 Hardback £15.00 answers, suitable for both class Andrew Radford discussion and self-study. This is an University of Essex abridged version of Radford’s major This textbook based on current work in Titles by Andrew new textbook Minimalist Syntax (also syntactic theory draws on Chomsky’s Radford published by Cambridge University minimalist programme. Press), and will be welcomed as a short Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics introduction to current syntactic theory. 1997 228 x 152 mm 570pp FORTHCOMING TEXTBOOK 2004 247 x 174 mm 400pp 2 line 0 521 47125 7 Hardback £52.50 diagrams 3 tables 179 figures 0 521 47707 7 Paperback £19.99 Minimalist Syntax 0 521 83499 6 Hardback £45.00 Exploring the Structure of 0 521 54275 8 Paperback £16.99 English Publication March 2004 TEXTBOOK Andrew Radford Syntax University of Essex A Minimalist Introduction Andrew Radford’s latest textbook, Andrew Radford Minimalist Syntax, provides a concise, University of Essex clear, and accessible introduction to Concise, readable introduction to current work in syntactic theory, current work in syntactic theory, mainly drawing on the key concepts of to Chomsky’s minimalist programme. Chomsky’s Minimalist Program. 1997 247 x 174 mm 293pp Assuming little or no prior knowledge of 0 521 58122 2 Hardback £45.00 syntactic theory, Radford takes students 0 521 58914 2 Paperback £16.99 through a diverse range of topics in English syntax - such as categories and features, merger, null constituents, movement, case, and split projections - and shows how the ‘computational component’ works within the minimalist framework. Beginning at an elementary

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Titles by Jean each of these chapters examines the • It is firmly based on research in writing system(s), phonology, modern linguistics and rejects many Aitchison morphology, syntax and lexicon of that errors of the older tradition, language, and places the language supporting its departures from Language Change within its proper linguistic and historical traditional grammar with reasoned Progress or Decay? context. The Encyclopedia brings argument together an international array of Third edition • It emphasises the clear explanation of scholars, each a leading specialist in Jean Aitchison grammatical terms; the user-friendly University of Oxford ancient language study. While designed layout, consistent terminology and primarily for linguistic professionals and This substantially revised third edition comprehensive index all ensure ease students, this work will prove invaluable of access for non-specialists gives a lucid and up-to-date overview of to all whose studies take them into the ‘It is certainly a notable achievement. language change. realm of ancient language. Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics No other grammar of English is at once 2001 198 x 129 mm 324pp 25 line ‘This tome on our world’s ancient as comprehensive and as diagrams 17 tables 7 graphs communication offers a detailed and systematically and lucidly informed by 0 521 79155 3 Hardback £40.00 practical insight into each language, present-day linguistic theory. I see it as 0 521 79535 4 Paperback £14.99 including writing, phonology and an essential work of reference not just lexicon.’ for specialist in English, but for any Good Book Guide general linguist who is prepared to The Seeds of Speech 2004 246 x 189 mm 1164pp 98 tables take the details of grammar seriously.’ Language Origin and Evolution 51 figures 5 maps Peter Matthews, Professor of Linguistics, Jean Aitchison 0 521 56256 2 Hardback c. £120.00 University of Cambridge Publication May 2004 University of Oxford ‘The Cambridge Grammar of the Accessible and wide-ranging English Language is for the twenty- The Cambridge first century what Jespersen’s A introduction to the origins and evolution Modern English Grammar, and Quirk, of human language. Grammar of the Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik’s A Canto English Language Contemporary English Grammar were 2000 216 x 138 mm 294pp 27 line for the twentieth.’ diagrams 8 half-tones 1 table 5 maps Rodney Huddleston University of Queensland Terry Langendoen, Professor of Linguistics at the 0 521 78571 5 Paperback £11.99 University of Arizona and Geoffrey K. Pullum University of California, Santa Cruz ‘Every computational linguist who The Language Web works on English (and that covers This book presents a new and most) needs to have this superb The Power and Problem of comprehensive descriptive grammar of Words - The 1996 BBC Reith reference grammar lying open on their English, written by the principal authors desk. And anyone who makes a living Lectures in collaboration with an international by teaching English language owes it Jean Aitchison research team of a dozen linguists in to their pupils to keep a copy in the University of Oxford five countries. It represents a major classroom.’ This is the text of the 1996 BBC Reith advance over previous grammars by Gerald Gazdar, Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Sussex lectures, with illustrations, notes, and an virtue of drawing systematically on the Contents: 1. Preliminaries Geoffrey K. afterword added which looks at the linguistic research carried out on English reception of the lectures. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston; 2. Syntactic during the last forty years. It overview Rodney Huddleston; 3. The verb 1996 198 x 129 mm 153pp incorporates insights from the 0 521 57475 7 Paperback £10.99 Rodney Huddleston; 4. The clause: theoretical literature but presents them complements Rodney Huddleston; 5. Nouns in a way that is accessible to readers and noun phrases John Payne and Rodney FORTHCOMING without formal training in linguistics. It Huddleston; 6. Adjectives and adverbs The Cambridge is based on a sounder and more Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston; consistent descriptive framework than 7. Prepositions and preposition phrases Encyclopedia of the previous large-scale grammars, and Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Huddleston; World’s Ancient includes much more explanation of 8. The clause: adjuncts Anita Mittwoch, Rodney Huddleston and Peter Collins; grammatical terms and concepts, Languages 9. Negation Geoffrey K. Pullum and Rodney Edited by Roger D. Woodard together with justification for the ways Huddleston; 10. Clause type and State University of New York, Buffalo in which the analysis differs from illocutionary force Rodney Huddleston; The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the traditional grammar. The book contains 11. Content clauses and reported speech World’s Ancient Languages is the first twenty chapters and a guide to further Rodney Huddleston; 12. Relative clauses comprehensive reference work treating reading. Its usefulness is enhanced by and unbounded dependencies Rodney all of the languages of antiquity. Clear diagrams of sentence structure, cross- Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum and Peter and systematic in its approach, the references between sections, a Peterson; 13. Comparative constructions Rodney Huddleston; 14. Non-finite and Encyclopedia combines full linguistic comprehensive index, and user-friendly design and typography throughout. verbless clauses Rodney Huddleston; coverage of all the well documented 15. Coordination and supplementation ancient languages, representing • The definitive grammar for the new Rodney Huddleston, John Payne and Peter numerous language families from millennium, written by an Peterson; 16. Information packaging around the globe. Each chapter of the international team of more than a Gregory Ward, Betty Birner and Rodney work focuses on an individual language dozen linguists and spanning a Huddleston; 17. Deixis and anaphora Lesley or, in some instances, a set of closely decade of research Stirling and Rodney Huddleston; related varieties of a language. 18. Inflectional morphology and related Providing a full descriptive presentation, matters Frank Palmer, Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum; 19. Lexical word- General Linguistics 5 formation Laurie Bauer and Rodney Russell to Quine, Davidson, Dummett, tradition that understands signification Huddleston; 20. Punctuation Geoffrey McDowell, Evans, Putnam, Kripke and as reliable indication. He then uses this Nunberg, Ted Briscoe and Rodney others, the authors demonstrate that interpretation to explain crucial areas of Huddleston; Further reading; Index. discarding the notion of reference does Locke’s metaphysics and epistemology, 2002 247 x 174 mm 1860pp not entail relativism or semantic including essence, abstraction, 0 521 43146 8 Hardback £120.00 nihilism. A provocative re-examination knowledge, and mental representation. of the interrelations of language and His discussion, which is the first book- NEW TEXTBOOK social practice, this book will interest length treatment of its topic, challenges Person not only philosophers of language but many of the current orthodox readings also linguists, psycholinguists, students of Locke, and will be of interest to Anna Siewierska University of Lancaster of communication and all those historians of philosophy and concerned with the nature and philosophers of language alike. This textbook deals with the acquisition of human linguistic 2003 228 x 152 mm 168pp grammatical category of person, which capacities. 0 521 83119 9 Hardback £40.00 covers the first person, the second 2004 228 x 152 mm 432pp person, and the third person. Drawing 0 521 82287 4 Hardback £55.00 on data from over 500 languages, Anna 0 521 53744 4 Paperback £19.99 NEW Siewierska compares the use of person Natural Kinds and within and across different languages, John Searle Conceptual Change and examines the factors underlying this Joseph LaPorte variation. She shows how person forms Edited by Barry Smith State University of New York, Buffalo Hope College, Michigan vary in substance, in the nature of the It is generally agreed in science that the semantic distinctions they convey, in From his groundbreaking book Speech language used to describe such how they are used in sentences and Acts to his most recent studies of concepts as natural kinds terms is discourse, and in the way they function consciousness, freedom and rationality stable, even as the theories that explain to convey social distinctions. By looking John Searle has been a dominant and these terms are refined. In this at different types of person forms in the highly influential figure amongst illuminating book, Joseph LaPorte grammatical and social contexts in contemporary philosophers. This argues that scientists have not which they are used, this book systematic introduction to the full range discovered that sentences about natural documents an underlying unity between of Searle’s work begins with the theory kinds like ‘Whales are mammals, not them, arguing against the treatment of of speech acts and proceeds with fish’ are true rather than false. Instead, person markers based on arbitrary sets expositions of Searle’s writings on scientists have found that these of morphological and syntactic intentionality, consciousness and sentences were vague in the language properties. Clearly organized and perception, as well as a careful of earlier speakers and they have accessibly written, it will be welcomed presentation of the so-called Chinese refined the meanings of these terms to by students and scholars of linguistics, Room argument. The volume considers make the sentences true. In the process, particularly those interested in Searle’s recent work on social ontology however, they have also changed the grammatical categories and their use. and his views on the nature of law and meaning of these terms. This conclusion Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics obligation. It concludes with an 2004 228 x 152 mm 344pp 4 line appraisal of Searle’s spirited defence of prompts LaPorte to examine the diagrams 15 tables truth and scientific method in the face consequence of this change in meaning 0 521 77214 1 Hardback £55.00 of the criticisms of Derrida and other for the issue of incommensurability and 0 521 77669 4 Paperback £19.99 postmodernists. This is the only for the belief in the progress of science. Publication April 2004 comprehensive introduction to Searle’s This book will appeal to students and work, and as such it will be of particular professionals in the philosophy of NEW value to advanced undergraduates, science, the philosophy of biology and graduates and professionals in the philosophy of language. Word and World Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Practice and the Foundations of philosophy, psychology, linguistics, cognitive and computer science and Biology Language 2004 228 x 152 mm 232pp 6 line Patricia Hanna literary theory. diagrams 1 half-tone University of Utah Contemporary Philosophy in Focus 0 521 82599 7 Hardback £45.00 and Bernard Harrison 2003 228 x 152 mm 304pp 0 521 79288 6 Hardback £45.00 University of Utah 0 521 79704 7 Paperback £16.99 Numbers, Language, This important book proposes a new and the Human Mind account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation Locke’s Philosophy of Heike Wiese Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin of Wittgenstein. The authors deny the Language existence of a direct referential Walter R. Ott What constitutes our number concept? relationship between words and things. East Tennessee State University What makes it possible for us to employ Rather, the link between language and This book examines John Locke’s claims numbers the way we do; which mental world is a two-stage one, in which about the nature and workings of faculties contribute to our grasp of meaning is used and in which a natural language. Walter Ott proposes a new numbers? What do we share with other language should be understood as interpretation of Locke’s thesis that species, and what is specific to humans? fundamentally a collection of socially words signify ideas in the mind of the How does our language faculty come devised and maintained practices. speaker, and argues that rather than into the picture? This book addresses Arguing against the philosophical employing such notions as sense or these questions and discusses the mainstream descending from Frege and reference, Locke relies on an ancient relationship between numerical thinking

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and the human language faculty, TEXTBOOK 2003 247 x 174 mm 325pp 25 half-tones providing psychological, linguistic, and 5 maps Word-Formation in 0 521 56315 1 Hardback £60.00 philosophical perspectives on number, 0 521 56532 4 Paperback £20.99 its evolution, and its development in English children. Heike Wiese argues that Ingo Plag language as a human faculty plays a Universität-Gesamthochschule Siegen, Germany TEXTBOOK crucial role in the emergence of This textbook provides an accessible Typology and systematic numerical thinking. She introduction to the study of word- Universals characterises number sequences as formation, that is, the ways in which Second edition powerful and highly flexible mental new words are built on the bases of tools that are unique to humans and other words (e.g. happy - happy-ness), William Croft University of Manchester shows that it is language that enables focusing on English. The book’s didactic us to go beyond the perception of aim is to enable students with little or A thorough rewriting to reflect advances numerosity and to develop such mental no prior linguistic knowledge to do their in typology and universals in the past tools. own practical analyses of complex decade. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics ‘Heike Wiese builds the case for words. Readers are familiarized with the 2002 228 x 152 mm 368pp 16 tables numerical cognition growing out of the necessary methodological tools to 23 figures 1 map symbolic cognition at the base of obtain and analyze relevant data and 0 521 80884 7 Hardback £50.00 language - not as a parasitic spin-off, are shown how to relate their findings 0 521 00499 3 Paperback £18.99 or a mere naming of numerical to theoretical problems and debates. concepts, but as an ability whose roots The book is not written in the extend to the same underlying TEXTBOOK cognitive operations. This account of perspective of a particular theoretical the cognitive basis of number concepts framework and draws on insights from Writing Systems is breathtaking in its synthetic scope, various research traditions, reflecting An Introduction to Their impeccable in its thoroughness of important methodological and Linguistic Analysis analysis, and stunning in its originality. theoretical developments in the field. It Florian Coulmas It breaks new ground in bringing the is a textbook directed towards university Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Gesamthochschule rich history of mathematical- students of English at all levels. It can Duisburg, Germany philosophical analyses into clear This textbook introduces the major correspondence with recent cognitive- also serve as a source book for teachers science investigations of reasoning and advanced students, and as an up- writing systems of the world - from about and acquiring numerical to-date reference concerning many cuneiform to English spelling. knowledge, and it brings insights from word-formation processes in English. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics both paradigms to illuminate the Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics 2002 228 x 152 mm 290pp 65 tables mystery of the evolutionary and 2003 228 x 152 mm 254pp 23 tables 58 figures semiotic origins of number. Out of this 37 exercises 30 figures 0 521 78217 1 Hardback £45.00 effort to find a new synthesis have 0 521 81959 8 Hardback £45.00 0 521 78737 8 Paperback £17.99 emerged a number of remarkable 0 521 52563 2 Paperback £17.99 insights - about the nature of the Word precursors to number concepts in A Cross-linguistic Typology animal cognition, the origins and basis The History of for the special human capacity for Linguistics in Europe Edited by R. M. W. Dixon La Trobe University, Victoria systematic numerical cognition, and From Plato to 1600 and Alexandra Y.Aikhenvald the relationships between Vivien Law mathematical thinking and symbolic- La Trobe University, Victoria linguistic abilities. Each of these could Authoritative and wide-ranging, this In some languages words tend to be stand alone as the initiator of a whole book examines the history of western rather short but in others they may be body of further research (and likely linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, dauntingly long. In this book, a will). But the book offers something from its origins in ancient Greece up to more than this. Heike Wiese’s book is distinguished international group of the crucial moment of change in the scholars discuss the concept ‘word’ and proof that a work of theoretical rigor Renaissance that laid the foundations of and scientific originality can be its applicability in a range of presented in unassumingly lucid prose, modern linguistics. Some of today’s typologically diverse languages. An accessible to anyone with a serious burning questions about language date introductory chapter sets the parameters curiosity about the nature of back a long way: in 1400 BC Plato was of variation for ‘word’. The nine mathematical knowledge.’ asking how words relate to reality. chapters that follow then study the Terrence Deacon, Professor of Anthropology, Other questions go back just a few character of ‘word’ in individual University of California, Berkeley, and author of generations, such as our interest in the The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of languages, including Amazonian, Language and the Brain mechanisms of language change, or in Australian Aboriginal, Eskimo, Native 2003 228 x 152 mm 358pp 4 tables the social factors that shape the way we North American, West African, Balkan 79 figures speak. Vivien Law explores how ideas and Caucasian languages, and Indo- 0 521 83182 2 Hardback £50.00 about language over the centuries have Pakistani Sign Language. These changed to reflect changing modes of languages exhibit a huge range of thinking. A survey chapter brings the phonological and grammatical coverage of the book up to the present characteristics, the close study of which day. Classified bibliographies and enables the contributors to refine our chapters on research resources and the understanding of what can constitute a qualities the historian of linguistics ‘word’. An epilogue explores the status needs to develop, provide the reader and cross-linguistic properties of ‘word’. with the tools to go further. General Linguistics/Syntax 7

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Nahuatl, Mapuche, and several by observations about how the study of However, until now no attempt has Austronesian and Australian languages. African languages, specifically Bantu been made to provide a general account Baker argues for a formal, syntax- languages, has contributed to progress of this phenomenon in terms of a oriented, and universal approach to the in grammatical theory, including the formal theory of syntax. The aim of this parts of speech, as opposed to the debates that have raged within new and original book is to do precisely functionalist, semantic, and relativist linguistic theory about the relationship that. Using Chomsky’s Minimalist approaches that have dominated the between syntax and the lexicon, and the Program for linguistic theory, Roberts few previous works on this subject. This contributions of African linguistic and Roussou show how this approach book will be welcomed by researchers structure to the evaluation of competing gives rise to a number of important and students of linguistics and by grammatical theories. Clearly organised conceptual and theoretical issues related cognitive scientists of language. and accessible, The Syntax of Chichewa concerning the nature of functional Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 102 will be an invaluable resource for 2003 228 x 152 mm 370pp categories and the form of parameters, students interested in linguistic theory 0 521 80638 0 Hardback £60.00 as well as the relation of both of these and how it can be applied to a specific 0 521 00110 2 Paperback £20.99 to language change. 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The analyses are based on a wealth of and Rosalind Temple languages. authors conclude by arguing for a University of York theoretical shift in phonology, which 2003 228 x 152 mm 428pp 183 line Phonetic Interpretation presents diagrams 5 half-tones entails more attention to word innovative work from four core areas: 0 521 77262 1 Hardback £60.00 structure. As well as presenting the phonological representations and the authors’ pioneering work, this book also lexicon, phonetic interpretation and provides a much-needed overview of AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK phrasal structure, phonetic reduplication, the study of which has interpretation and syllable structure, and Phonology and become one of the most contentious in phonology and natural speech Language Use modern phonological theory. production. 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FORTHCOMING methodological issues that are central ‘This is a pioneering volume that to all socio-historical linguistic accounts, integrates previous disparate studies Medical Interpreting and more importantly, addresses the and sets out a new and distinctive and Cross-cultural question of what the appropriate research agenda ... the result is a brave work, and its authors deserve Communication sources are for linguists taking a socio- high praise.’ Claudia Angelelli historical approach. In each chapter, the Times Higher Education Supplement San Diego State University case studies present a range of Contents: Preface; 1. Making connection; When healthcare providers and patients phonological, morphological, syntactic 2. Talking sex and thinking sex: the do not speak the same language, and lexical issues, which pose different linguistic and discursive construction of medical interpreters are called in to methodological questions for sexuality; 3. What has gender got to do help. 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Contents: 1. Constructing, deconstructing shows how laughter plays a significant current debates on research methods, and reconstructing gender; 2. Linking the role in how people display, respond to, the public sphere and deliberative linguistic to the social; 3. Organizing talk; and revise identities and relationships. democracy, on broadcast talk, and on 4. Making social moves; 5. Positioning ideas Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, 18 what it means to participate in public and subjects; 6. Saying and implying; 2003 216 x 138 mm 202pp 1 half-tone life. 7. Mapping the world; 8. Working the 3 tables Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics market: use of varieties; 9. Fashioning selves. 0 521 77206 0 Hardback £42.50 2004 228 x 152 mm 300pp 2003 247 x 174 mm 378pp 11 line 0 521 79312 2 Hardback c. £45.00 diagrams 4 tables Publication November 2004 0 521 65283 9 Hardback £47.50 Gender and Politeness 0 521 65426 2 Paperback £17.99 Sara Mills Sheffield Hallam University NEW SERIES Style and Gender and Politeness challenges the notion that women are necessarily Sociolinguistic Key Topics in Variation always more polite than men as much of the language and gender literature Sociolinguistics Edited by Penelope Eckert claims. Sara Mills discusses the complex Stanford University, California This new series focuses on the main relations between gender and and John R. Rickford topics of study in sociolinguistics today. Stanford University, California politeness and argues that although It consists of accessible yet challenging there are circumstances when women This volume brings together leading accounts of the most important issues speakers, drawing on stereotypes of to consider when examining the experts from a range of disciplines to femininity to guide their behaviour, will create a broad perspective on the study relationship between language and appear to be acting in a more polite society. Some topics have been the of style and variation in spoken way than men, there are many language. Beginning with an subject of sociolinguistic study for many circumstances where women will act years, and are here re-examined in the introduction to theoretical issues, the just as impolitely as men. 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Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, 17 Discourse 2003 216 x 138 mm 278pp A Critical Introduction Laughter in Interaction 0 521 81084 1 Hardback £47.50 0 521 00919 7 Paperback £17.99 Jan Blommaert Phillip Glenn Universiteit Gent, Belgium Emerson College, Boston This new and engaging introduction Laughter in Interaction is an FORTHCOMING offers a critical approach to discourse, illuminating and lively account of how written by an expert uniquely placed to and why people laugh during Matters of Opinion cover the subject for a variety of conversation. Bringing together 25 years Talking About Public Issues disciplines. 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The book shows how Greg Myers argues that we must go crucial understanding of wider aspects participants in a conversation move back to these encounters, asking of power relations, arguing that critical from a single laugh to laughing questions such as what members of the discourse analysis should specifically be together, how the matter of ‘who laughs public thought they were being asked, an analysis of the ‘effects’ of power, first’ implicates orientation to social who they were talking as, and whom what power does to people, groups and activities, and how interactants work they were talking to. He reveals that societies, and how this impact comes out whether laughs are more affiliative people don’t carry a store of opinions, about. Clearly argued, this concise or hostile. The final chapters examine ready to tell strangers; they use opinions introduction will be welcomed by the contribution of laughter to in order to get along with other people, students and researchers in a variety of sequences of conversational intimacy and how they say things is as important disciplines involved in the study of and play, and to the invocation of as what they say. Engaging and gender. Engaging and original, the book informative, this book illuminates Sociolinguistics 13 discourse, including linguistics, linguistic ‘impolite’ utterances inevitably involve 2003 228 x 152 mm 196pp 9 tables anthropology and the sociology of their users in a struggle for power. A 5 maps 0 521 43051 8 Hardback £45.00 language. radically new account of linguistic Key Topics in Sociolinguistics politeness, the book will appeal to 2005 216 x 138 mm 250pp students and researchers in a wide Dynamics of Language 0 521 82817 1 Hardback c. £45.00 range of disciplines, in linguistics and 0 521 53531 X Paperback c. £16.99 Contact Publication January 2005 the social sciences. English and Immigrant ‘I can think of no-one in the field Languages better qualified to write a critical Michael Clyne Language Policy introduction to linguistic politeness University of Melbourne research than Professor Watts. He has a Bernard Spolsky The past decade has seen an Bar-Ilan University, Israel lively critical awareness of the unprecedented growth in the study of Language policy is an issue of critical shortcomings of the standard approach, an excellent overview of the language contact, associated partly with importance in the world today. In this presently available alternative the linguistic effects of globalization up-to-date introduction, Bernard approaches, and a willingness to work and increased migration all over the Spolsky explores many debates at the within standard theory to make the world. Written by a leading expert in the forefront of language policy: ideas of politeness research paradigm more field, this new and much-needed correctness and bad language; responsive to the needs and interests account brings together disparate of researchers around the world. There bilingualism and multilingualism; findings to examine the dynamics of language death and efforts to preserve is no doubt in my mind that a critical introduction to linguistic politeness contact between languages in an endangered languages; language choice will be met with enthusiasm by the immigrant context. Using data from a as a human and civil right; and world’s politeness researchers. This wide range of languages, including language education policy. Through book is predestined to become the German, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, looking at the language practices, first standard introduction to the field.’ Spanish, Croatian and Vietnamese, beliefs and management of social Professor Richard W. Janney, Institüt für Michael Clyne discusses the dynamics of Englische Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians- groups from families to supra-national their contact with English. Clyne organizations, he develops a theory of Universität, München Key Topics in Sociolinguistics analyzes how and why these languages modern national language policy and 2003 216 x 138 mm 318pp 2 line change in an immigration country like the major forces controlling it, such as diagrams Australia, and asks why some languages the demands for efficient 0 521 79085 9 Hardback £50.00 survive longer than others. 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Two central questions John Holm welcomed by students and researchers asked in this wide-ranging survey are of Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal in linguistics, bilingualism, the sociology how to recognize language policies, and There is widespread agreement that of language and education. whether or not language can be certain non-creole language varieties ‘Clyne ... has provided a managed at all. are structurally quite different from the comprehensive study of language Key Topics in Sociolinguistics European languages out of which they contact and language shift phenomena 2003 228 x 152 mm 262pp 4 tables grew; however, until now, linguists have in Australia. He has also succeeded in 0 521 80461 2 Hardback £45.00 making it a fascinating and highly found difficulty in accounting for either 0 521 01175 2 Paperback £16.99 accessible read ... Clyne’s treatment of their genesis or their synchronic pragmatic aspects is highly fascinating structure. 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Comparing from real-life speech situations, this new languages such as African-American Languages in a introduction to politeness breaks away English, Afrikaans and Brazilian Globalising World from the limitations of current models Vernacular Portuguese, John Holm Edited by Jacques Maurais and argues that the proper object of identifies the linguistic processes that Conseil de la langue française, Québec study in politeness theory must be lead to partial restructuring, bringing and Michael A. Morris commonsense notions of what into focus a key span on the continuum Clemson University, South Carolina politeness and impoliteness are. From of contact-induced language change Throughout human history, the fate of this, Watts argues, a more appropriate which has not previously been analysed. languages has been closely linked to model, one based on Bourdieu’s Informed by the first systematic political power relationships. Political concept of social practice, is developed. comparison of the social and linguistic shifts in the international system The book aims to show that the terms facts in the development of these continue to affect linguistic patterns, ‘polite’ and ‘impolite’ can only be languages, this book will be welcomed which today are still in a state of flux properly examined as they are contested by students of contact linguistics, following the end of the Cold War. This discursively. In doing so, ‘polite’ and sociolinguistics and anthropology. book considers the effects of present-

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day trends in global politics on the prominently throughout the volume. The NEW relative status of languages, and the extensive bibliography will facilitate directions in which the linguistic continued research. Medical and Scientific hierarchy might develop in the future. Studies in English Language Writing in Late What are the prospects for the 2003 228 x 152 mm 260pp 21 line Medieval English continuing spread of English? Will other diagrams 19 tables 1 map 0 521 82264 5 Hardback £42.50 Edited by Irma Taavitsainen traditionally prominent languages such University of Helsinki as French and German gain or lose and Paivi Pahta influence? Will languages such as Arabic NEW University of Helsinki and Japanese increase in international New Zealand English The late middle ages in England saw a status? Will minority languages continue Its Origins and Evolution flowering of scientific writing in the to lose ground and disappear? The book Elizabeth Gordon vernacular, taking English discourse in assesses these prospects, looking at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New new directions and establishing new major world regions, and with its Zealand textual genres. This book examines the interdisciplinary approach it will appeal Lyle Campbell sociolinguistic causes and effects of that to researchers and students of University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New process, on the basis of the empirical sociolinguistics and language planning Zealand evidence from manuscripts and a large as well as of international relations. Jennifer Hay computerised corpus. Topics covered ‘... with its interdisciplinary approach it University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New include scriptorial ‘house-styles’, code- Zealand will appeal to researchers and students switching, translation strategies, and of sociolinguistics and language Margaret Maclagan University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New transmission processes. The book offers planning as well as of international important new insights into relations.’ Zealand The Linguist List Andrea Sudbury vernacularisation, and makes a 2003 228 x 152 mm 362pp 4 line King’s College London significant methodological contribution diagrams 38 tables 1 map and Peter Trudgill to corpus linguistics. It will be welcomed 0 521 82173 8 Hardback £47.50 Université de Fribourg, Switzerland by linguists and historians of science 0 521 53354 6 Paperback £17.99 New Zealand English - at just 150 years alike. old - is one of the newest varieties of Studies in English Language Studies in English English, and is unique in that its full 2004 228 x 152 mm 304pp 8 half-tones 7 figures 1 map 20 genealogical tables Language history and development are 0 521 83133 4 Hardback £45.00 documented in extensive audio- recordings. The rich corpus of spoken English in the language provided by New Zealand’s FORTHCOMING Southern United ‘mobile disk unit’ has provided insight Legacies of Colonial States into how the earliest New Zealand-born English settlers spoke, and consequently, how Studies in Transported Dialects Edited by Stephen J. Nagle this new variety of English developed. Coastal Carolina University Edited by Raymond Hickey On the basis of these recordings, this and Sara L. Sanders Universität-Gesamthochschule-Essen book examines and analyses the Coastal Carolina University As a result of colonization, many extensive linguistic changes New varieties of English now exist around The English of the southern United Zealand English has undergone since it the world. Legacies of Colonial English States is possibly the most studied of was first spoken in the 1850s. The brings together a team of any regional variety of any language authors, all experts in phonetics and internationally-renowned scholars to because of its rich internal diversity, its sociolinguistics, use the data to test discuss the role of British dialects in distinctiveness among regional varieties previous explanations for new dialect both the genesis and subsequent history in the United States, its significance as a formation, and to challenge current of postcolonial Englishes. Considering marker of regional identity, and the claims about the nature of language the input of Scottish, English and Irish general folkloric appeal of southern change. The first ever corpus-based dialects, they closely examine a wide culture. 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Chinese Englishes Studies in the Social revolutions possible. The connections A Sociolinguistic History between language ideologies, privileged Kingsley Bolton and Cultural linguistic codes, and political concepts The University of Hong Kong Foundations of and practices shape the diverse ways This book explores the history of the Language we perceive ourselves and others. English language in China from the Bauman and Briggs demonstrate that arrival of the first English-speaking contemporary efforts to make schemes traders in the early seventeenth century Literacy and Literacies of social inequality based on race, to the present. Kingsley Bolton brings Texts, Power, and Identity gender, class and nationality seem together and examines a substantial James Collins compelling and legitimate, rely on body of historical, linguistic, and State University of New York, Albany deeply-rooted ideas about language sociolinguistic research on the and Richard Blot and tradition. Showing how critics of description and analysis of English in Lehman College, City University of New York modernity unwittingly reproduce these Hong Kong and China. He uses early Literacy and Literacies is a new and foundational fictions, they suggest new word-lists, satirical cartoons and data engaging account of literacy and its strategies for challenging the from journals and memoirs, as well as relation to power. The book develops a undemocratic influence of these voices more conventional sources, to uncover new synthesis of literacy studies, moving of modernity. the forgotten history of English in China beyond received categories, and Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, 21 and to show how contemporary Hong exploring the domain of power through 2003 228 x 152 mm 374pp Kong English has its historical roots in questions of colonialism, modern state 0 521 81069 8 Hardback £50.00 Chinese pidgin English. 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Through and Change all those working in the fields of Asian their analysis of two domains - those of Editors: David Sankoff studies and English studies, including literacies and power, and of literacies Université de Montréal those concerned with cultural and and subjectivity - they challenge William Labov literary studies. received assumptions about literacy, University of Pennsylvania Studies in English Language intellectual development and social and Anthony Kroch 2003 228 x 152 mm 356pp 4 line progress and argue that neither University of Pennsylvania diagrams 21 half-tones 10 tables 6 maps ‘universalist’ nor ‘particularist’ accounts 0 521 81163 5 Hardback £45.00 Language Variation and Change is the offer satisfactory approaches to the only journal dedicated exclusively to the phenomenon. 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JOURNAL detail. This book will serve as an nature of affixal polysemy, the reasons informative handbook for all linguists why there are multiple affixes with the Language in Society and cognitive scientists interested in the same function, and the issues of Editor: Jane Hill mental representation of vocabulary. mismatch between form and meaning in University of Arizona 2003 228 x 152 mm 302pp 7 tables word formation. Using a series of case Language in Society is an 11 figures studies from English, this book develops international journal of sociolinguistics 0 521 78067 5 Hardback £45.00 and justifies the theoretical apparatus concerned with all branches of speech necessary for raising and answering and language as aspects of social life. The Semantics of many questions about the semantics of The journal includes empirical articles of English Prepositions word formation. Distinguishing between general theoretical, comparative or Spatial Scenes, Embodied a lexical semantic skeleton that is methodological interest. Content varies Meaning, and Cognition featural and hierarchically organized, from predominantly linguistic to Andrea Tyler and a lexical semantic body that is predominantly social. Language in Georgetown University, Washington DC holistic, it shows how the semantics of Society aims to strengthen international and Vyvyan Evans word formation has a paradigmatic scholarship and cooperation in this field. University of Sussex character. In addition to original articles, the Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 104 journal publishes numerous reviews of this book provides the most 2004 228 x 152 mm 204pp the latest important books in the field. 0 521 83171 7 Hardback c. £45.00 comprehensive, theoretical analysis of Publication May 2004 Subscriptions the semantics of English prepositions Volume 33 in 2004: February, April, June, available. All English prepositions September and November FORTHCOMING Institutions print and electronic: £141/$225 originally coded spatial relations Institutions electronic only: £123/$196 between two physical entities; while Gesture Institutions print only: £125/$199 retaining their original meaning, Visible Action as Utterance Individuals print only: £48/$79 prepositions have also developed a rich Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Adam Kendon Languages (TESOL), American Council for set of non-spatial meanings. 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Written by a original ‘spatial scenes’ provide the leading authority on the subject, this foundation for the extension of meaning long-awaited study provides a from the spatial to the more abstract. comprehensive treatment of gesture and Semantics This analysis articulates a new its use in interaction, drawing on the methodology that distinguishes analysis of everyday conversations to between a conventional meaning and demonstrate its varied role in the Semantic Relations an interpretation produced for and the Lexicon construction of utterances. Adam understanding the preposition in Kendon accompanies his analyses with Antonymy, Synonymy and other context, as well as establishing which of Paradigms an extended discussion of the history of several competing senses should be the study of gesture - a topic not dealt M. Lynne Murphy taken as the primary sense. Together, University of Sussex with in any previous publication - as the methodology and framework are well as exploring the relationship Semantic Relations and the Lexicon sufficiently articulated to generate between gesture and sign language, explores the many paradigmatic testable predictions and allow the and how the use of gesture varies semantic relations between words, such analysis to be applied to additional according to cultural and language as synonymy, antonymy and hyponymy, prepositions. differences. Set to become the definitive and their relevance to the mental 2003 228 x 152 mm 266pp 54 line account of the topic, Gesture will be organization of our vocabularies. diagrams invaluable to all those concerned with Drawing on a century’s research in 0 521 81430 8 Hardback £50.00 human communication, and its linguistics, psychology, philosophy, publication marks a major development, anthropology and computer science, M. FORTHCOMING both in semiotics and in the emerging Lynne Murphy proposes a new, Morphology and field of gesture studies. pragmatic approach to these relations. 2005 228 x 152 mm 370pp Whereas traditional approaches have Lexical Semantics 0 521 83525 9 Hardback c. £50.00 claimed that paradigmatic relations are Rochelle Lieber 0 521 54293 6 Paperback c. £18.99 part of our lexical knowledge, Dr University of New Hampshire Publication January 2005 Murphy argues that they constitute Morphology and Lexical Semantics metalinguistic knowledge, which can be explores the meanings of morphemes derived through a single relational and how they combine to form the principle, and may also be stored as meanings of complex words, including part of our extra-lexical, conceptual derived words (writer, unionize), representations of a word. Part I shows compounds (dog bed, truck driver), and how this approach can account for the words formed by conversion. 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of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, of infinitival and participial complement Discourse and the book will appeal to researchers and clauses, finite complement clauses, finite Pragmatics graduate students in linguistics, stylistics and non-finite relative clauses, and co- and rhetoric. ordinate clauses. 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He argues that the that held by ordinary language How Children Learn acquisition process is determined by a philosophers fifty years ago: according Language variety of factors: the frequency of the various complex sentences in the ambient to them, speech acts, not sentences, are William O’Grady language, the complexity of the emerging the primary bearers of content. François University of Hawaii, Manoa constructions, the communicative Recanati argues for the relevance of this Adults tend to take language for controversy to the current debate about functions of complex sentences, and the granted - until they have to learn a new child’s social-cognitive development. semantics and pragmatics. Is ‘what is one. Then they realize how difficult it is said’ (as opposed to merely implied) Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 105 to get the pronunciation right, to 2004 228 x 152 mm 248pp 12 line determined by linguistic conventions, or acquire the meaning of thousands of diagrams 72 tables 13 graphs is it an aspect of ‘speaker’s meaning’? new words, and to learn how those 0 521 83193 8 Hardback c. £45.00 Do we need pragmatics to fix truth- words are put together to form Publication August 2004 conditions? What is ‘literal meaning’? To sentences. Children, however, have what extent is semantic composition a mastered language before they can tie NEW creative process? How pervasive is their shoes. In this engaging and context-sensitivity? Recanati provides an accessible book, William O’Grady Constraints in original and insightful defence of explains how this happens, discussing Phonological ‘contextualism’, and offers an informed how children learn to produce and Acquisition survey of the spectrum of positions held distinguish among sounds, their René Kager by linguists and philosophers working at acquisition of words and meanings, and Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands the semantics/pragmatics interface. their mastery of the rules for building Joe Pater 2003 228 x 152 mm 188pp 10 line sentences. How Children Learn University of Massachusetts, Amherst diagrams and Wim Zonneveld 0 521 79246 0 Hardback £40.00 Language provides readers with a highly Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands 0 521 53736 3 Paperback £14.99 readable overview not only of the language acquisition process itself, but This outstanding volume presents a also of the ingenious experiments and state-of-the-art overview of linguistic Modes of Discourse techniques that researchers use to research into the acquisition of The Local Structure of Texts investigate tis mysterious phenomenon. phonology. Bringing together well-known Carlota S. Smith It will be of great interest to anyone - researchers in the field, it focuses on University of Texas, Austin parent or student - wishing to find out constraints in phonological acquisition In studying discourse, the problem for how children acquire language. 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TEXTBOOK Subscriptions Volume 31 in 2004: February, May, August Cognitive Second Language and November Institutions print and electronic: £183/$292 Linguistics Acquisition and Institutions electronic only: £159/$254 Universal Grammar Institutions print only: £162/$258 Lydia White Individuals print plus electronic: £48/$77 NEW TEXTBOOK McGill University, Montréal American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, International Association Cognitive Linguistics This authoritative textbook provides an for the Study of Child Language, International William Croft Pragmatics Association, American Council for overview and analysis of current second University of Manchester language acquisition research Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Teachers of English to Speakers of Other and Alan Cruse conducted within the generative Languages (TESOL), American Association for University of Manchester linguistic framework. 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Clearly organised and Grammar and the extent of mother Studies in Second accessibly written, it provides a useful tongue influence are presented and Language Acquisition introduction to the relationship between discussed, with particular consideration Editor: Albert Valdman language and cognitive processing in given to the nature of the interlanguage Indiana University the human brain. It covers the main grammar at different points in Studies in Second Language topics likely to be encountered in a development, from the initial state to Acquisition is a refereed journal devoted course or seminar, and provides a ultimate attainment. Throughout the to the scientific discussion of issues in synthesis of study and research in this book, hypotheses maintaining that second and foreign language acquisition fast-growing field of linguistics. The second language grammars are of any language. 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After outlining sociolinguistics, cognitive science, a typology of spatial coordinate systems anthropology and cross-linguistic in language and cognition, it is shown research. that not all languages use all types, and Historical Linguistics 19 that non-linguistic cognition mirrors the FORTHCOMING terms, language evolution is something systems available in the local language. that happens to, rather than through, The book reports on collaborative, Evolutionary speakers, and the interests of linguistic interdisciplinary research, involving Phonology constituents matter more than those of anthropologists, linguists and The Emergence of Sound their human ‘hosts’. This book will psychologists, conducted in many Patterns stimulate debate among evolutionary languages and cultures around the Juliette Blevins biologists, cognitive scientists and world, which establishes this robust University of California, Berkeley linguists alike. correlation. 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This University of Nottingham diagrams 25 tables 15 graphs book presents a new approach to the This is a major new reader of Old 0 521 81262 3 Hardback £47.50 English, the language spoken by the 0 521 01196 5 Paperback £17.99 problem of how genetically unrelated languages, from families as far apart as Anglo-Saxons before the Norman Native American, Australian Aboriginal, Conquest. Designed both for beginning Austronesian, and Indo-European, can and for more advanced students, it Historical often show similar sound patterns, and breaks new ground in two ways, first in also tackles the converse problem of its range of texts, and second in the Linguistics why there are notable exceptions to degree of annotation it offers. The fifty- most of the patterns that are often six prose and verse texts include the regarded as universal tendencies or established favourites such as The FORTHCOMING constraints. It argues that in both cases, Battle of Maldon and King Alfred’s A History of Afro- a formal model of sound change that Preface to his Pastoral Care,but also Hispanic Language integrates phonetic variation and others which have not before been Five Centuries, Five Continents patterns of misperception can account readily available, such as a complete John Lipski for attested sound systems without Easter homily, Aelfric’s life of Saint Pennsylvania State University reference to markedness or naturalness Aethelthryth and all forty-six Durham The African slave trade, beginning in the within the synchronic grammar. proverbs. Headnotes establish the fifteenth-century, brought African 2004 228 x 152 mm 416pp literary and historical contexts for the 0 521 80428 0 Hardback c. £50.00 works that are represented, and reflect languages into contact with Spanish Publication June 2004 and Portuguese, resulting in the the rich cultural variety of Anglo-Saxon Africans’ gradual acquisition of these England. Modern English word glosses languages. In this book, John Lipski NEW and explanatory notes are provided on describes the major forms of Afro- the same page as the text. Other Selfish Sounds and features include a reference grammar Hispanic language found in the Iberian Linguistic Evolution Peninsula and Latin America over the and a comprehensive glossary. A Darwinian Approach to ‘The selection of texts covers ground last 500 years. As well as discussing Language Change pronunciation, morphology and syntax, that no previous Reader has Nikolaus Ritt he separates legitimate forms of Afro- approached. There are items that will Universität Wien, Austria be of interest to specialists in Women’s Hispanic expression from those that This book takes an exciting new Studies and Cultural Studies ... The result from racist stereotyping, to assess perspective on language change, by reference grammar has the best how contact with the African diaspora explaining it in terms of Darwin’s presentation I have seen in a resource has had a permanent impact on of this sort - the content is both evolutionary theory. Looking at a contemporary Spanish. A principal issue comprehensive and concise; and the number of developments in the history is the possibility that Spanish, in contact arrangement is logical and user- of sounds and words, Nikolaus Ritt with speakers of African languages, may friendly. The headnotes are also shows how the constituents of have creolized and restructured - in the outstanding ...’ language can be regarded as mental Paul Remley, University of Washington, Seattle Caribbean and perhaps elsewhere - patterns, or ‘memes’, which copy 2004 228 x 152 mm 573pp permanently affecting regional and themselves from one brain to another 0 521 45426 3 Hardback c. £55.00 social varieties of Spanish today. The 0 521 45612 6 Paperback c. £18.99 when communication and language book is accompanied by the largest Publication April 2004 acquisition take place. Memes are both known anthology of primary Afro- stable in that they transmit faithfully Hispanic texts from Iberia, North and from brain to brain, and active in that South America, and former Afro- their success at replicating depends Hispanic contacts in Africa and Asia. upon their own properties. 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Alliteration and Sound speech, manuscript and print, and to ‘classical’ and the perennial use of Change in Early reconsider the historical fissures which Greece by later European civilizations as English they have come to represent. a source of knowledge and inspiration 2003 228 x 152 mm 312pp 6 half-tones would not have taken place without the Donka Minkova 5figures textual innovations of the classical University of California, Los Angeles 0 521 81063 9 Hardback £45.00 period. This book considers how writing, This study uses evidence from early reading, and disseminating texts led to English verse to reconstruct the course NEW new ways of thinking and new forms of of some central phonological changes in expression and behavior. The individual the history of the language. It builds on A Sociolinguistic chapters cover a range of phenomena, the premise that alliteration reflects History of Parisian including poetry, science, religions, faithfully the acoustic identity and French philosophy, history, law and learning. similarity of stressed syllable onsets. R. Anthony Lodge 2003 228 x 152 mm 272pp Individual chapters cover the history of University of St Andrews, Scotland 0 521 80930 4 Hardback £40.00 the velars, the structure and history of Paris mushroomed in the thirteenth vowel-initial syllable onsets, the century to become the largest city in the behavior of onset clusters, and the Motives for Language western world, largely through in- chronology and motivation of cluster Change migration from rural areas. The resulting reduction (gn-, kn-, hr-, hl-, hn-, hw-, Edited by Raymond Hickey dialect-mixture led to the formation of wr-, wl-). Examination of the patterns of Universität-Gesamthochschule-Essen new, specifically urban modes of group alliteration in Old and Middle This specially commissioned volume speech. From the time of the English reveals a hierarchy of cluster- considers the processes involved in Renaissance social stratification became internal cohesiveness which leads to language change and the issues of how sharper, as the elites distanced new conclusions regarding the causes they can be modelled and studied. The themselves from the Parisian ‘Cockney’ for the special treatment of sp-, st-, sk- way languages change offers an insight of the masses. Nineteenth-century in alliteration. The analysis draws on into the nature of language itself, its urbanisation transformed the situation current phonetically-based Optimality- internal organisation, and how it is yet again, with the arrival of huge Theoretic models. The book presents acquired and used. Accordingly, the numbers of immigrants from far-flung valuable new information about the phenomenon of language change has corners of France, levelling dialect- medieval poetic canon and elucidates been approached from a variety of differences and exposing ever larger the relationship between orality and perspectives by linguists of many sections of the population to literacy in the evolution of English verse. different orientations. This book brings standardising influences. At the same Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 101 together an international team of time, a working-class vernacular 2003 228 x 152 mm 420pp 2 line leading figures from different areas of emerged which was distinguished from diagrams 4 tables 4 graphs linguistics to re-examine some of the the upper-class standard not only in 0 521 57317 3 Hardback £60.00 central issues in this field and also to grammar and pronunciation, but most discuss new proposals. The volume is markedly in vocabulary (slang). This arranged into sections - including The Uses of Script and book examines the interlinked history of grammaticalisation, the typological Print, 1300-1700 Parisian speech and the Parisian perspective, the social context of Edited by Julia Crick population through these various language change and contact-based University of Exeter phases of in-migration, dialect-mixing explanations. It seeks to cover the and Alexandra Walsham and social stratification from medieval subject as a whole, bearing in mind its University of Exeter times to the present day. relevance for the general analysis of This volume builds upon the widening 2004 228 x 152 mm 305pp 22 tables interest in the connections between 19 maps language, and will appeal to a broad culture and communication in medieval 0 521 82179 7 Hardback £45.00 international readership. and early modern Europe. Focusing on 2003 228 x 152 mm 298pp 0 521 79303 3 Hardback £42.50 England, it takes a critical look at the scholarly paradigm of the shift from Written Texts and the script to print, exploring the possibilities Rise of Literate Culture TEXTBOOK and limitations of these media as in Ancient Greece Grammaticalization vehicles of information and meaning. Edited by Harvey Yunis Second edition The essays examine how pen and the Rice University, Houston Paul J. Hopper press were used in the spheres of Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania religion, law, scholarship, and politics. From the sixth through the fourth centuries BCE, the landmark and Elizabeth Closs Traugott They assess scribal activity both before Stanford University, California and after the advent of printing, developments of Greek culture and the This is a general introduction to illuminating its role in recording and critical works of Greek thought and grammaticalization, the change whereby transmitting polemical, literary, literature were accompanied by an lexical terms and constructions come in antiquarian and utilitarian texts. They explosive growth in the use of written certain linguistic contexts to serve also investigate script and print in texts. By the close of the classical grammatical functions, and, once relation to the spoken word, period, a new culture of literacy and grammaticalized, continue to develop emphasising the constant interaction textuality had come into existence new grammatical functions. The authors and symbiosis of these three media. In alongside the traditional practices of live synthesize work from several areas of sum, this collection will help to refine oral discourse. New avenues for human linguistics, including historical the boundaries between cultures of activity and creativity arose in this period. The very creation of the linguistics, discourse analysis, and Historical Linguistics/Sign Language/Computational Linguistics 21 pragmatics. Data are drawn from many Grammar, Gesture, and intuitively compelling implicatures. It languages including Ewe, Finnish, Meaning in American provides a computable method for French, Hindi, Hittite, Japanese, Malay, constructing these logical forms and is and especially English. This second Sign Language one of the most formally precise and edition has been thoroughly revised Scott K. Liddell linguistically grounded accounts of Gallaudet University, Washington DC with substantial updates on theoretical discourse interpretation currently and methodological issues that have In sign languages of the deaf some available. The book will be of interest to arisen in the decade since the first signs can meaningfully point toward researchers and students in linguistics edition, and includes a significantly things or can be meaningfully placed in and in philosophy of language. the space ahead of the signer. This expanded bibliography. Particular ‘This study presents a dynamic attention is paid to recent debates over obligatory part of fluent grammatical semantic framework called Segmented directionality in change and the role of signing has no parallel in vocally Discourse Representation Theory ... grammaticalization in creolization. produced languages. This book focuses where the interaction between Grammaticalization will be a valuable on American Sign Language to examine discourse coherence and discourse and stimulating textbook for all linguists the grammatical and conceptual interpretation is explored in a logically precise manner.’ interested in the development of purposes served by these directional signs. It guides the reader through ASL Studia Logica grammatical forms and will also be of Studies in Natural Language Processing grammar, the different categories of interest to readers in anthropology and 2003 247 x 174 mm 548pp 23 figures psychology. directional signs, the types of spatial 0 521 65058 5 Hardback £50.00 Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics representations signs are directed 2003 228 x 152 mm 296pp 4 line toward, how such spatial conceptions diagrams 16 tables can be represented in mental space JOURNAL 0 521 80421 3 Paperback £18.99 theory, and the conceptual purposes 0 521 00948 0 Hardback £50.00 Natural Language served by these signs. The book Engineering demonstrates a remarkable integration Executive Editor: of grammar and gesture in the service John I. Tait Sign Language of constructing meaning. These results University of Sunderland also suggest that our concept of Editors: ‘language’ has been much too narrow Branimir K. Boguraev FORTHCOMING and that a more comprehensive look at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New Sign Language and vocally produced languages will reveal York Linguistic Universals the same integration of gestural, and Christian Jacquemin gradient, and symbolic elements. CNRS-LIMSI Wendy Sandler 2003 228 x 152 mm 398pp 13 tables Natural Language Engineering meets and Diane Lillo-Martin 240 figures the needs of professionals and Sign Languages are of great interest to 0 521 81620 3 Hardback £55.00 0 521 01650 9 Paperback £19.99 researchers working in all areas of linguists, because while they are the computerised language processing, product of the same brain, their physical whether from the perspective of transmission differs greatly from that of theoretical or descriptive linguistics, spoken languages. In this pioneering Computational lexicology, computer science or and original study, Wendy Sandler and engineering. Its aim is to bridge the gap Diane Lillo-Martin compare spoken Linguistics between traditional computational languages with those that are signed, in linguistics research and the order to seek the universal properties of Logics of Conversation implementation of practical applications human languages. Drawing on general with potential real-world use. As well as linguistic theory, they describe and Nicholas Asher University of Texas, Austin publishing research articles on a broad analyze sign language structure, range of topics - from text analysis, showing linguistic universals in the and Alex Lascarides University of Edinburgh machine translation, information phonology, morphology, and syntax of retrieval and speech analysis and People often mean more than they say. sign language, while also revealing non- generation to integrated systems and Grammar on its own is typically universal aspects of its structure that multi modal interfaces - it also insufficient for determining the full must be attributed to its physical publishes special issues on specific meaning of an utterance; the transmission system. No prior areas and technologies within these assumption that the discourse is background in sign language linguistics topics, an industry watch column and coherent or ‘makes sense’ has an is assumed, and numerous pictures are book reviews. important role to play in determining provided to make descriptions of signs Subscriptions and facial expressions accessible to meaning as well. Logics of Conversation presents a dynamic semantic framework Volume 10 in 2004: March, June, September readers. Engaging and informative, Sign and December Language and Linguistic Universals will called Segmented Discourse Institutions print and electronic: £134/$205 be invaluable to linguists, psychologists, Representation Theory, or SDRT, where Institutions electronic only: £116/$177 Institutions print only: £118/$180 and all those interested in linguistic this interaction between discourse coherence and discourse interpretation Individuals print only: £30/$48 theory and its application to sign Linguistics Society of America, Association for languages. is explored in a logically precise manner. Computational Linguistics: £25/$37 2005 228 x 152 mm 400pp 270 figures Combining ideas from dynamic Print ISSN 1351-3249 0 521 48248 8 Hardback c. £55.00 semantics, commonsense reasoning and Electronic ISSN 1469-8110 0 521 48395 6 Paperback c. £19.95 speech act theory, SDRT uses its analysis Publication February 2005 of rhetorical relations to capture

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Assuming little few large-scale treatments of the 0 521 00464 0 Paperback £13.35 prior knowledge of linguistic subject specific to the ancient world. terminology, Portuguese: A Linguistic This book is the first work to deal JOURNAL Introduction is designed to help systematically with bilingualism during a intermediate and advanced students of period of antiquity (the Roman period, Bilingualism: Portuguese understand how the down to about the fourth century AD) in Language and language functions at all levels, and to the light of sociolinguistic discussions of Cognition give students of linguistics a useful bilingual issues. The general theme of Editors: David W. Green starting point for work on the structure the work is the nature of the contact University College London of Portuguese. Keeping linguistic theory between Latin and numerous other Ping Li to a minimum, it focuses on presenting languages spoken in the Roman world. University of Richmond the linguistic facts in a clear and Among the many issues discussed three Juergen M. Meisel accessible way, providing a useful global are prominent: code-switching (the Universität Hamburg overview of the language and its practice of switching between two and Pieter Muysken surrounding issues. Nijmegen University languages in the course of a single 2004 228 x 152 mm 300pp utterance) and its motivation, language Bilingualism is an international peer- 0 521 80126 5 Hardback c. £50.00 contact as a cause of change in one or reviewed journal focusing on 0 521 80515 5 Paperback c. £18.99 Publication December 2004 both of the languages in contact, and bilingualism from a cognitive science the part played by language choice and perspective. 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comprehensive in its coverage, this book elementary phonology and morphology, from oral tradition to literacy and will be welcomed by scholars and and defines and illustrates the textuality in Ancient Israel, students of Slavic languages, as well as fundamental syntactical features of Schniedewind engages the broader linguists across the many branches of Biblical Hebrew that most intermediate- cultural and historical questions of the circumstances under which the Bible the discipline. level readers struggle to master. The was written ... Sophisticated and broad Cambridge Language Surveys volume divides Biblical Hebrew syntax, in its scope and yet easy to follow, this 2004 228 x 152 mm 500pp and to a lesser extent morphology, into book will certainly become a 0 521 22315 6 Hardback c. £75.00 four parts. 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Trenchard ‘Arnold and Choi have given to all who La Sierra University, California love the Hebrew Scriptures a clear, NEW This Dictionary provides students, concise, correct and carefully prepared pastors, and other readers of the Bible guide to Biblical Hebrew syntax, Ancient Hebrew with a convenient and useful source of helping its students to interpret Inscriptions word meanings and English glosses for scriptures more accurately.’ Corpus and Concordance Bruce K. Waltke the entire vocabulary of the Greek New Volume 2 2004 216 x 138 mm 240pp 2 line Testament. In addition to reflecting the diagrams Graham Davies full range of semantic uses and nuances 0 521 82609 8 Hardback £30.00 University of Cambridge with appropriate examples, according to 0 521 53348 1 Paperback £13.99 Assisted by J. K. Aitken the most recent lexical research, the D. R. de Lacey Concise Dictionary includes the FORTHCOMING P. A. Smith following features: identifying the part and J. Squirrel How the Bible Became of speech, listing cognate key words, This is the sequel to the first volume of noting principal parts for each verb as a Book Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions: Corpus used in the New Testament (giving the Textualization in Ancient Israel and Concordance, published in 1991. It frequency of use in the New Testament), William M. Schniedewind contains some 750 inscriptions from the and citing the New Testament reference University of California, Los Angeles Old Testament period which were for each word used only once. The For the past two-hundred years Biblical mainly published for the first time Dictionary also identifies enclitics, scholars have usually assumed that the between 1990 and 2000. Some were postpositives, and non-Greek words, Hebrew Bible was mostly written and discovered in regular archaeological and contains numerous cross references edited in the Persian and Hellenistic excavations, others come from private for irregular forms. It should prove to be periods. Recent archaeological evidence collections. The new material includes an essential accompaniment to any and insights from linguistic ostraca from different sites, which are of course of NT Greek or serious study of anthropology, however, point to the religious, literary and historical the Bible in its original form. earlier era of the late-Iron Age (eighth- importance, and extensive information 2003 216 x 138 mm 196pp though-sixth centuries BCE) as the 0 521 81815 X Hardback £32.50 about the personal names which were 0 521 52111 4 Paperback £10.99 formative period for the writing of in use in the biblical period. The number biblical literature. How the Bible Became of coin-legends and other texts from the a Book combines recent archaeological Persian and early Hellenistic periods has NEW TEXTBOOK discoveries in the Middle East with also been enlarged. Each text is A Guide to Biblical insights culled from the history of supplied with a brief description, an Hebrew Syntax writing to address how the Bible first approximate date and publication came to be written down and then information. The concordance provides Bill T. Arnold became sacred Scripture. It provides rich Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky an easy way to discover which Hebrew insight into why these texts came to and John H. Choi words and proper names occur in non- Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky have authority as Scripture and explores biblical sources and helps greatly to why Ancient Israel, an oral culture, widen the basis for Hebrew language This introduces and abridges the began to write literature. It describes an study. syntactical features of the original emerging literate society in ancient ‘Davies is to be warmly congratulated language of the Hebrew Bible or Old Israel that challenges the assertion that Testament. Scholars have made on this work of primary scholarship, literacy first arose in Greece during the which has made full use of the significant progress in recent decades in fifth century BCE. computer revolution, but as an aid to understanding Biblical Hebrew syntax. and not a substitute for the Yet intermediate readers seldom have ‘In this extremely well written book, William Schniedewind tackles what has painstaking probing which our access to this progress due to the emerged as the most important forefathers have taught us dare not be technical jargon and sometimes-obscure question in biblical studies of our time abandoned.’ locations of the scholarly publications. ... the issue of when the ancient The Society for Old Testament Study This Guide is an intermediate-level Israelite accounts and traditions were 2004 228 x 152 mm 290pp 0 521 82999 2 Hardback £65.00 reference grammar for Biblical Hebrew. put in writing. 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The competence in Russian, aims to broaden Second edition influence of the dialects in shaping the and improve their vocabulary by Martin Durrell development of Italian is also providing detailed information on University of Manchester acknowledged. Clear, readable and easy groups of Russian words with related This is a new, thoroughly revised edition to consult via its two indexes, this is an meanings. It is invaluable as a guide to of the acclaimed Using German,first essential reference for learners seeking finding the right word for the context. In published in 1992. It provides guidance access to the finer nuances of the order to enhance understanding of the for those who have already acquired the Italian language. structure of the Russian vocabulary, basics of German and wish to extend 2004 238 x 169 mm 386pp 1 map groups of synonyms are organised their fluency and confidence. 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A Chomsky, Noam...... 1, 2 Glenn, Phillip...... 12 Aarts, Bas...... 7 Clahsen, Harald ...... 3 Gordon, Elizabeth ...... 14 Achieving Success in Second Language Clyne, Michael ...... 13 Goswami, Usha ...... 29 Acquisition...... 23 Coffin, Edna A...... 22 Grammar, Gesture, and Meaning in Acquisition of Complex Sentences, The..17 Cognitive Linguistics ...... 18 American Sign Language...... 21 Adams, J. N...... 22 Collins, James ...... 15 Grammar of Semelai, A...... 27 Adelaar, Willem F. H...... 28 Concise Dictionary of New Testament Grammar of Tariana, A...... 27 Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y...... 6, 27 Greek, A ...... 24 Grammaticalization...... 20 Aitchison, Jean ...... 4 Constraints in Phonological Acquisition.17 Green, David W...... 22 Aitken, J. K...... 24 Coulmas, Florian...... 6 Green, John N...... 28 Alliteration and Sound Change in Early Crago, Martha ...... 29 Group Dynamics in the Language English...... 20 Crick, Julia...... 20 Classroom...... 30 Alosh, Mahdi...... 27 Critical Pedagogies and Language Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, A ...... 24 Analyzing Syntax ...... 7 Learning ...... 31 Gussenhoven, Carlos ...... 9 Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions...... 24 Croft, William...... 6, 18 Anderson, Stephen R...... 7 Crosbie, Elena V...... 25 H Cruse, D. Alan...... 18 Angelelli, Claudia...... 11 Hanna, Patricia ...... 5 Crystal, David ...... 2, 3 Annual Review of Applied Linguistics ....29 Harding-Esch, Edith ...... 22 Curzan, Anne...... 15 Applied Psycholinguistics ...... 29 Harrison, Bernard...... 5 Arnold, Bill T...... 24 Hartman, James...... 32 Ashby, William J...... 28 D Hay, Jennifer...... 14 Asher, Nicholas...... 21 Danesi, Marcel...... 26 Hayes, Bruce...... 8 Atkinson, Martin...... 3 Davies, Graham ...... 24 Heycock, Caroline ...... 7 Auer, Peter...... 10 Day, Richard R...... 30 Hickey, Raymond...... 14, 20 Ayres-Bennett, Wendy...... 11 Denison, David ...... 7 Hill, Jane...... 16 Azevedo, Milton...... 22 de Lacey, D. R...... 24 Hinskens, Frans ...... 10 Developing Grammar in Context ...... 32 History of Afro-Hispanic Language, A ....19 B Dialect Change...... 10 History of Linguistics in Europe, The ...... 6 Bachman, Lyle F...... 31 Diessel, Holger...... 17 Hogg, Richard...... 7 Baker, Mark C...... 8 Discourse...... 12 Holm, John ...... 13 Bamford, Julian...... 30 Dixon, R. M. W...... 6 Hopkins, Diana ...... 32 Batchelor, R. E...... 27 Dörnyei, Zoltán ...... 30 Hopper, Paul J...... 20 Bauman, Richard ...... 15 Dravidian Languages, The...... 28 Houston, Stephen D...... 25 Belletti, Adriana...... 1 Durand, Jacques ...... 28 How Children Learn Language ...... 17 Bilingual Family, The...... 22 Durrell, Martin ...... 26 How the Bible Became a Book...... 24 Bilingualism and the Latin Language.....22 Dynamics of Language Contact...... 13 Huddleston, Rodney...... 4 Bilingualism: Language and Cognition....22 Hunter, Erica C. D...... 25 Binding Theory...... 8 E Hyland, Ken ...... 31 Blevins, Juliette...... 19 Eckert, Penelope ...... 11, 12 Blommaert, Jan...... 12 Ehrman, Madeline E...... 23 I Blooming English...... 1 English as a Global Language ...... 2 Inkelas, Sharon ...... 9 Blot, Richard...... 15 English in the Southern United States ...14 Boguraev, Branimir ...... 21 English Language and Linguistics...... 7 J Bolozky, Shmuel...... 22 English Pronouncing Dictionary...... 32 Bolton, Kingsley...... 15 English Pronouncing Dictionary Network Jacquemin, Christian...... 21 Borsley, Robert D...... 7 CD-ROM...... 32 Jefferson, Rebecca J. W...... 25 Briggs, Charles L...... 15 English Pronouncing Dictionary with CD- John Searle...... 5 Britain, David...... 3 ROM...... 32 Jones, Daniel ...... 32 Büring, Daniel...... 8 English Syntax ...... 3 Journal of Child Language ...... 18 Burridge, Kate...... 1 Esling, John ...... 10 Journal of French Language Studies ...... 28 Bybee, Joan ...... 9 Evans, Vyvyan ...... 16 Journal of Germanic Linguistics...... 28 Evolutionary Phonology...... 19 Journal of Linguistics ...... 7 Ewen, Colin J...... 10 Journal of the International Phonetic C Association ...... 10 Cambridge Advanced Learner's Extensive Reading Activities for Teaching Dictionary ...... 32 Language...... 30 Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English K Language, The...... 2 F Kager, René ...... 17 Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Fabb, Nigel ...... 7 Kaisse, Ellen M...... 10 Ancient Languages, The...... 4 Fagan, Sarah M. B...... 26 Kendon, Adam...... 16 Cambridge Grammar of the English Féry, Caroline...... 9 Kerswill, Paul ...... 10 Language, The...... 4 Finegan, Edward...... 10 Khan, Geoffrey...... 25 Cambridge Guide to English Usage, The ..1 First Writing, The...... 25 Kinder, J. J...... 26 Cambridge Old English Reader, The...... 19 Flowerdew, John...... 31 Kirchner, Robert ...... 8 Cameron, Deborah...... 11 Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju ...... 28 Campbell, Lyle ...... 14 Kroch, Anthony...... 15 Carruthers, Janice ...... 28 G Kroeger, Paul ...... 7 Chesters, Graham ...... 29 Ganho, Ana Sofia...... 27 Kruspe, Nicole...... 27 Chinese Englishes...... 15 Gender and Politeness ...... 12 Kulick, Don ...... 11 Choi, John H...... 24 Gender Shifts in the History of English ..15 Chomsky ...... 1 Gesture ...... 16 Author and Title Index 35

L N Savini, V. M...... 26 Labov, William ...... 15 Nagle, Stephen J...... 14 Schniedewind, William M...... 24 Ladefoged, Peter...... 10 Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change....5 Scott, David...... 25 Language Activities for Teenagers...... 30 Natural Language Engineering...... 21 Second Language Acquisition and Language and Gender ...... 11 Nettle, Mark ...... 32 Universal Grammar ...... 18 Language and Sexuality ...... 11 Neuroscience of Language, The ...... 7 Second Language Listening...... 31 Language in Society...... 16 New Horizons in the Study of Language Second Language Writing ...... 31 Language and the Internet...... 3 and Mind...... 2 Seeds of Speech, The ...... 4 Language Change...... 4 New Zealand English ...... 14 Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution .19 Language Death ...... 3 Nordic Journal of Linguistics ...... 28 Semantic Relations and the Lexicon ...... 16 Language in the USA...... 10 Norton, Bonny ...... 31 Semantics of English Prepositions, The...16 Language Organ, The...... 7 Numbers, Language, and the Human Semiologies of Travel from Gautier to Language Policy...... 13 Mind...... 5 Baudrillard...... 25 Language Teaching ...... 30 Setter, Jane...... 32 Shekhtman, Boris...... 23 Language Web, The...... 4 O Languages in a Globalising World ...... 13 Shockey, Linda ...... 10 Languages in Contact ...... 13 O'Grady, William...... 17 Siewierska, Anna ...... 5 Languages of the Andes, The...... 28 Ogden, Richard...... 9 Sign Language and Linguistic Universals21 Language Variation and Change ...... 15 On Nature and Language...... 1 Slavic Languages, The ...... 23 LaPorte, Joseph ...... 5 Ott, Walter R...... 5 Smith, Barry...... 5 Lascarides, Alex ...... 21 Smith, Carlota S...... 17 Laughter in Interaction...... 12 P Smith, Neil...... 1, 2 Smith, P.A...... 24 Law, Vivien ...... 6 Pahta, Paivi ...... 14 Smyth, Sarah ...... 25 Leaver, Betty Lou ...... 23 Pater, Joe...... 17 Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French, A Legacies of Colonial English...... 14 Pellegrino, Valerie...... 23 20 Levinson, Stephen C...... 18 Pennington, Jonathan T...... 25 Sociolinguistic Variation in Seventeenth- Lexical Categories...... 8 Person ...... 5 Century France...... 11 Liddell, Scott K...... 21 Peters, Pam...... 1 Space in Language and Cognition...... 18 Lieber, Rochelle...... 16 Phonetic Interpretation ...... 9 Spencer, Andrew ...... 3 Lieven, Elena ...... 18 Phonetically Based Phonology...... 8 Spolsky, Bernard ...... 13 Lightfoot, David W...... 7 Phonology ...... 10 Squirrel, J...... 24 Lillo-Martin, Diane ...... 21 Phonology and Language Use...... 9 Statistical Analyses for Language Lindstromberg, Seth...... 30 Phonology of Tone and Intonation, The ...9 Assessment...... 31 Linguistics...... 3 Plag, Ingo...... 6 Steriade, Donca ...... 8 Li, Ping ...... 22 Politeness ...... 13 Studies in Second Language Acquisition...18 Lipski, John...... 19 Portuguese ...... 22 Study Abroad and Second Language Literacy and Literacies...... 15 Published Material from the Cambridge Use...... 23 Literal Meaning ...... 17 Genizah Collection...... 25 Style and Sociolinguistic Variation ...... 12 Local, John ...... 9 Pullum, Geoffrey K...... 4 Sudbury, Andrea ...... 14 Locke's Philosophy of Language...... 5 Pulvermüller, Friedemann ...... 7 Lodge, R. Anthony...... 20 Sussex, R...... 23 Logics of Conversation...... 21 Swales, John...... 32 Louden, Mark L...... 28 R Syllable in Optimality Theory, The...... 9 Radford, Andrew...... 3 Syntactic Change...... 8 ReCALL ...... 28 Syntactic Theory and the Structure of M Recanati, François...... 17 English...... 3 Maclagan, Margaret ...... 14 Reduplication...... 9 Syntax ...... 3 Marsden, Richard...... 19 Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew, A Syntax of Chichewa, The ...... 8 Matters of Opinion ...... 12 22 Maurais, Jacques...... 13 Reference Grammar of Modern Standard T Meisel, Juergen M...... 22 Arabic, A...... 23 Taavitsainen, Irma...... 14 McConnell-Ginet, Sally...... 11 Reference Grammar of Russian, A ...... 23 Tait, John I...... 21 McGovern, Timothy...... 27 Reif, Shulamit ...... 25 Temple, Rosalind...... 9 McGroarty, Mary...... 29 Research Genres...... 32 Thompson, June...... 29 Mchombo, Sam A...... 8 Rickford, John R...... 10, 12 Timberlake, Alan ...... 23 Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Riley, Philip...... 22 Toohey, Kelleen...... 31 Medieval English...... 14 Ritt, Nikolaus...... 19 Transformational Grammar...... 3 Medical Interpreting and Cross-cultural Rizzi, Luigi ...... 1 Traugott, Elizabeth Closs...... 20 Communication ...... 11 Roach, Peter ...... 32 Trenchard, Warren C...... 24 Miller, Lindsay...... 31 Roberts, Ian ...... 8 Trudgill, Peter...... 14 Mills, Sara...... 12 Roussou, Anna...... 8 Tsui, Amy B. M...... 32 Minimalist Syntax ...... 3 Rules, Patterns and Words...... 31 Tyler, Andrea...... 16 Minkova, Donka...... 20 RUS': A Comprehensive Course in Russian Typology and Universals...... 6 Modes of Discourse ...... 17 25 Morphology and Lexical Semantics...... 16 Ryding, Karin C...... 23 Morris, Michael A...... 13 U Motives for Language Change ...... 20 S Understanding Expertise in Teaching .....32 Murphey, Tim...... 30 Uses of Script and Print, 1300–1700, The . San José, Miguel Ángel...... 27 Murphy, M. Lynne ...... 16 20 Sanders, Sara L...... 14 Muysken, Pieter C...... 22, 28 Using Arabic ...... 27 Sandler, Wendy ...... 21 Myers, Greg...... 12 Using German ...... 26 Sankoff, David...... 15

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W Wade, Terence ...... 26 Walsham, Alexandra ...... 20 Watts, Richard J...... 13 Wenham, J. W...... 25 Wharton, Sue ...... 30 White, Lydia...... 18 White, Nijole...... 26 Wiese, Heike...... 5 Willis, Dave...... 31 Woodard, Roger D...... 4 Word...... 6 Word and World ...... 5 Word-Formation in English...... 6 Writing Systems...... 6 Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece ...... 20

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