Books Available for Review

[Thomas E. Payne]

Books available for review in Studies in Language
April, 2009

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Ansaldo, Umberto. (ed.) 2007. Deconstructing Creole. Amsterdam/Philadelphia:
John Benjamins. Arnovick, 

Bouma, Gerlof.  (ed.) 2007. Cognitive foundations of interpretation.
Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Bremmer, Rolf. H.   2009. An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, grammar,
reader, glossary. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 

Butler, Christopher S.  (ed.) 2007. Functional perspectives on grammar and
discourse. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Studies in Language
Companion Series 85

Butler, Christopher S.  (ed.) 2009. Deconstructing constructions.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Studies in Language companion series
107

Dehe, Nicole.  (ed.) 2007. Parentheticals. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. Linguistics Aktuell/Linguistics Today 106

Donohue, Mark.  (ed.) 2008. The typology of semantic alignment. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. 

Downing, Raquel Hidalgo and Wichman, Soren.  (eds.) 2007. Functional
perspectives on grammar and discourse. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. Studies in Language Companion Series 85

Englebretson, Robert.  (ed.) 2007. Stancetaking in discourse.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 

Fanselow, Gisbert, Fery, Caroline and Schlesewsky, Matthias.  (eds.) 2006.
Gradience in grammar: Generative perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. 

Filipovic, Luna.   2007. Talking about motion: A crosslinguistic
investigation of lexicalization patterns. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. Studies in Language Companion Series 91

Giannakidou, Anastasia.  (ed.) 2009. Quantification, definiteness &
nominalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oxford Studies in
Theoretical Linguistics

Givon, T.   2009. The genesis of syntactic complexity.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 

Gomez Gonzalez, Maria de los Angeles, et al.  (eds.) 2008. Languages and
cultures in contrast and comparison. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.


Gomez Gonzalez, Maria de los Angeles, et al.   2009. Current trends in
contrastive linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Studies in
Functional and Structural Linguistics

Good, Jeffrey.   2008. Linguistic universals and language change. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. 

Hannay, Mike and Gerard K. Steen.  (eds.) 2007. Structural-functional
studies in English grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 

Heine, Bernd and Tania Kuteva.   2007. The genesis of grammar: A
reconstruction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Studies in the Evolution of
Language

Hengeveld, Kees and J. Lachlan Mackenzie.   2008. Functional discourse
grammar: A typologically-based theory of language structure. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. 

Hilpert, Martin.   2008. Germanic future constructions: A usage-based
approach to language change. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Constructional Approaches to Language 7

Huber, Magnus.  (ed.) 2007. Synchronic and diachronic perspectives on
contact languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Creole Language
Library 32

Hudson, Richard.   2007. Language networks: The new word grammar. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. 

Kulikov, Leonid, et al.  (eds.) 2006. Case, valency and transitivity.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Studies in Language Companion Series
77

Leow, Ronald P.  (ed.) 2009. Little words: Their history, phonology, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics and acquisition. Washington, DC: Georgetown University
Press. 

Lopez-Couso, Maria Jose, and Elena Seoane.  (eds.) 2008. Rethinking
grammaticalization: New perspectives. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. Typolgogical Studies in Language 76

Miestamo, Matti.  (ed.) 2008. Language complexity: Typology, contact,
change. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Studies in Language
Companion Series 94

Miyaoka, Osahito.  (ed.) 2007. The vanishing languages of the Pacific Rim.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Muller, Henrik Hoeg and Alex Klinge.  (eds.) 2008. Essays on nominal
determination. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Studies in Language
Companion Series 99.

Narrog, Heiko.   2009. Modality in Japanese: The layered structure of the
clause and hierarchies of functional categories. Amsterdam/Philadelphia:
John Benjamins. Studies in Language Companion Series 109.

Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. (ed.) 2007. Rciprocal constructions (5 volumes).
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Typological Studies in Language 71

Nikolaeva, Irina.  (ed.) 2007. Finiteness: Theoretical and empirical
foundations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

O'Connor, Loretta.   2007. Motion, transfer and transformation: The grammar
of change in Lowland Chontal. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Studies in Language Companion Series 95.

Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach.  (eds.) 2007. What counts as evidence
in linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Benjami's Current
Topics

Plaisier, Heleen.   2007. A grammar of Lepcha. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV.
Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region

Polguere, Alain and Igor Melchuk.  (eds.) 2009. Dependency in lingusitic
description. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Studies in Language
Companion Series 111

Ramchand, Gillian and Charles Reiss.  (eds.) 2007. The Oxford handbook of
linguistic interfaces. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Rasinger, Sebastian M.   2008. Quantitative research in linguistics: An
introduction. London/New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. 

Reuland, Eric, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, and Giorgos Spathas. (eds.) 2007.
Argument structure. [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 108].g\g\
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Schneider, Stefan.   2007. Reduced parenthetical clauses as mitigators: A
corpus study of spoken French, Italian and Spanish. Amsterdam/Philadelphia:
John Benjamins. Studies in Corpus Linguistics 27

Seoane, Elena and Maria Jose Lopez-Couso.  (eds.) 2008. Theoretical and
empirical issues in grammaticalization. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. Typological Studies in Language 77.

Siegel, Jeff, et al. 2008. Language description, history and development.
Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley [Creole Language Library
30]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Toyota, Junichi.   2008. Diachronic change in the English passive.
Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan. 

van der Wurff, Wim.  (ed.) 2007. Imperative clauses in generative grammar.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Linguistics Aktuell/Linguistics
Today

Verhoeven, Elisabeth.   2007. Experiential constructions in Yucatec Maya: a
typologically based analysis of a functional domain in a Mayan language.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Studies in Language Companion Series
87

Wanner, Leo.  (ed.) 2007. Selected lexical and grammatical issues in the
meaning-text theory. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Studies in
Language Companion Series 84

Yu, Alan C. L. 2007. A natural history of infixation [Oxford Studies in
Theoretical Linguistics]Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Zúñiga, Fernando.   2007. Deixis and alignment: Inverse systems in
indigenous languages of the Americas. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. Typological Studies in Language 70