Books: The Japanese DP and the Structure of its Modifiers: Viktor Köhlich (2026)

This book offers an analysis of the Japanese DP in line with the cartographic research program. It addresses theoretical linguists interested in nominal modification as well as scholars in the field of Japanese studies. The main results concern the identification of three domains, a DP-external domain, a domain for indirect modifiers and a domain for direct modifiers, with specific discussion on the latter two, and an account for the internal structure of nominal modifiers. On the one hand, this

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Books: Language Landscapes: Brett Reynolds (2026)

Language landscapes is a practical map of English for TESL educators, built around form–meaning pairings and the needs of real classrooms. Adopting a CGEL-informed framework, it stabilizes the category – function distinction (e.g., determinatives vs determiner function), pares back overloaded labels (especially in the adverb/preposition space), and introduces syntax trees as a teacher’s analytic lens rather than a student exercise. Early chapters address standards and normativity alongside a usa

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Books: Speech during Exercise: Heather Weston (2026)

Much of human communication occurs while people are moving, exerting themselves, or otherwise not at rest, yet speech production in such contexts has received little systematic attention. Previous studies have typically addressed respiration, phonation, or articulation separately, making it difficult to characterize changes in speech production as a whole. This book presents a multi-level investigation of speech during controlled physical activity. Combining respiratory data, acoustic analysis,

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Books: Nine Navajo Narratives: Lukas Denk, Melvatha Chee (2026)

Éí bik'ehgo kééhwiit'į́. 'In accord with that, we live.' So speaks a medicine man after recounting how the four sacred mountains were set in place to anchor the world of the Diné. To live in accord with something is to know where you stand, even when the ground shifts. And the ground shifted constantly across the late 19th and early 20th centuries: at Round Rock where armed men faced down U.S. cavalry; in the canyons where boys fled from bears; in the corrals from which sheep were driven away by

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Books: Histórias de Siko e de Yowao: Alan Vogel (2026)

Os jarawaras são um povo indígena das terras baixas da Amazônia, no estado do Amazonas, Brasil. A língua deles é uma de meia dúzia de línguas da família linguística Arawá. Siko e Yowao, ambos falecidos agora, eram anciãos contadores de histórias jarawaras. As histórias têm valor sob vários pontos de vista. Em primeiro lugar, há o valor literário – algumas das histórias são muito cômicas, por exemplo. Em segundo lugar, as histórias constituem uma janela para a vida dos jarawaras: as suas relações

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Books: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Stefan Müller (2026)

Das Buch ist eine abgeschlossene Einführung in das Framework der Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. In einem einführenden Kapitel wird der Übergang von einfachen Phrasenstrukturgrammatiken zu den komplexeren Repräsentationen mit Merkmalbeschreibungen motiviert. Das zweite Kapitel führt allgemein verständlich in den Formalismus der Merkmalstrukturen ein. In den verbleibenden Kapiteln werden phänomenbezogen verschiedene Grammatikbereiche diskutiert, wobei die Analysen jeweils für das Deutsche a

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Books: Tracing the history of pronunciation in nineteenth-century English: Marco Wiemann (2026)

A key challenge of studying the historical phonology of any language is how to reconstruct the pronunciation of periods before the availability of sound recording. Many studies of pre-twentieth-century pronunciation rely on sources that comment on how people spoke, or infer pronunciation from spelling variation or rhymes. This book is the first to investigate the phonology of nineteenth-century English based on a new kind of written source material: it examines pronunciation evidence provided by

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Books: Futures of the past: Stefan Hartmann, Lena Schnee (eds.) (2026)

Thinking of and talking about future events is a crucial part of our everyday lives. Thus, it is not surprising that in the languages of the world, a variety of markers for future time reference has developed. The goal of this volume is to take a contrastive perspective on the evolution of future constructions by bringing together scholars working on different languages and language families. In doing so, the edited volume opens up new perspectives on long-standing questions regarding the diachr

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Books: Pamoja tena 'Together again': Carstens, Russell, Akingbade, Morton, and Diercks (eds.) (2026)

The papers in this volume were selected from those presented at the 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, which was held at the University of Connecticut in June, 2024. The volume contains 22 papers with diverse topics within phonology, morphology, syntax, language acquisition, and historical linguistics. The African languages that are investigated in this volume include Kom, Igbo, Dagaare, Igala, Kalenjin, Rɨ̀kpá, Ekhwa Adara, Hausa, Nduga, Maa, Lugwere, Emai, Seenku, Kirundi, Chichew

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Books: Life and Death on Karas: Visser (2026)

This collection of ten texts in Uruangnirin offers insights into the language and culture of the inhabitants of the Karas Islands in eastern Indonesia. All stories relate to life and death. They range from narratives about important life events such as circumcision, engagement and burial to accounts of natural and supernatural threats to the environment of the Uruangnirin speakers. The presentation of the texts are as follows: first, the complete text in Uruangnirin with a free translation in

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Books: Directional Extensions in Chadic Languages: Lovestrand (2026)

This monograph provides the first large-scale comparative study of how verbal morphology encodes directionality across Chadic languages. Drawing on a database of 91 languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad, the book analyzes ventive, itive, vertical, and boundary-crossing extensions. The quantitative study examines where directional extensions occur and what meanings they can co-express, highlighting issues of multifunctionality and efficiency in grammar, as well as providing initial insi

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Books: The Multilingual Lexis of the Medieval English Manor: Mambelli (2026)

Despite decades of scholarship on lexical borrowing in post-Conquest England, the vocabulary of the medieval countryside has remained largely outside the lens of contact linguistics — an oversight shaped by the long-standing assumption that French influence was confined to elite domains. At the same time, the multilingual reality of medieval England has made monolingual lexicography an increasingly inadequate tool: the Anglo-French, Medieval Latin, and Middle English lexicons of the period canno

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Books: Apprehensional Constructions in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective: Faller, Vuillermet, and Schultze-Berndt (eds.) (2026)

The functional domain of apprehensionality encompasses grammatical markers or constructions which conventionally encode or pragmatically implicate that the situation described by the clause is an undesirable possibility. Its main manifestations discussed in this volume are (i) apprehensives, which are modal markers which can occur in main clauses, and thus could serve to translate English might in Don't go near this dog, it might bite (but also add a component of undesirability), and (ii) precau

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Books: Indigenous Languages of the Americas and Their Structures: The Saguaro Group (ed.) (2026)

What do people mean when they talk about the sound pattern of a language—what linguists call phonology? This book explores that question in a hands-on way, with a focus on applying the knowledge in language revitalization and community language work. The book introduces basic ideas and analytic strategies using examples from Indigenous languages across North and South America. Short comprehension checks invite you to test your understanding, and language explorations encourage you to apply what

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