From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Tue Oct 14 12:54:10 2003 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:54:10 EDT Subject: Polysemy. Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language, edited by Brigitte Nerlich et al (2003) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- NEW FROM MOUTON DE GRUYTER! >From the series TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS. STUDIES AND MONOGRAPHS Series Editors: Walter Bisang (main editor for this volume), Hans Henrich Hock, and Werner Winter POLYSEMY Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language Edited by Brigitte Nerlich, Zazie Todd, Vimala Herman, and David D. Clarke 2003. xii, 422 pages. Cloth. Euro 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / approx. US$ 98.00 ISBN 3-11-017616-5 (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 142) About fifty years ago, Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy is 'the pivot of semantic analysis'. Fifty years on, polysemy has become one of the hottest topics in linguistics and in the cognitive sciences at large. The book deals with the topic from a wide variety of viewpoints. The cognitive approach is supplemented and supported by diachronic, psycholinguistic, developmental, comparative, and computational perspectives. The chapters, written by some of the most eminent specialists in the field, are all underpinned by detailed discussions of methodology and theory. Brigitte Nerlich is Senior Research Officer at the University of Nottingham, UK. Zazie Todd is Lecturer at Leeds University, UK. David D. Clarke is Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. Vimala Herman teaches at the University of Nottingham, UK. FROM THE CONTENTS: SETTING THE SCENE Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke Polysemy and flexibility: introduction and overview John R. Taylor Cognitive models of polysemy Brigitte Nerlich Polysemy: past and present COGNITIVE APPROACHES Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner Polysemy and conceptual blending Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of over Jarno Raukko Polysemy as flexible meaning: experiments with English get and Finnish pitää Ken-ichi Seto Metonymic polysemy and its place in meaning extension SYNCHRONY/DIACHRONY APPROACHES Adrienne Lehrer Polysemy in derivational affixes Beatrice Warren The role of links and/or qualia in modifier-head constructions Jean Aitchison and Diana M. Lewis Polysemy and bleaching Andreas Blank Polysemy in the lexicon and in discourse PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACHES Rachel Giora and Inbal Gur Irony in conversation: salience, role, and context effects Ann Dowker Young children's and adults' use of figurative language: how important are cultural and linguistic influences? Brigitte Nerlich, Zazie Todd and David D. Clarke Emerging patterns and evolving polysemies: the acquisition of get between four and ten years COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES Adam Kilgarriff "I don't believe in word senses" Yorick Wilks Senses and texts To sign up for our FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER, please visit our website at www.degruyter.de/newsletter To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage GmbH Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 200 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA Fax: +1 (914) 747-1326 E-mail: cs at degruyterny.com Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.mouton-publishers.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. 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Michael Meier-Brügger INDO-EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS With contributions by Matthias Fritz and Manfred Mayrhofer Translated by Charles Gertmenian 2003. xxii, 386 pages. Paperback. Euro 24.95 / sFr 40.00 / for USA, Canada, Mexico: US$ 24.95 ISBN 3-11-017433-2 (de Gruyter Textbook) This textbook on Indo-European Linguistics is designed as an introduction to the field. It presents current topics and questions in Indo-European linguistics in a clear and informative manner. This translation is based on the 8th edition of the work first published by Hans Krahe (6th edition 1985) and it takes account of more recent research. While Krahe only considered phonology and morphology, the textbook also includes a comprehensive account of syntax and lexis. Manfred Mayrhofer assisted with the section of phonology; Matthias Fritz wrote the section on syntax and provided support for the project as a whole. Michael Meier-Brügger holds the Chair in Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics at the Free University of Berlin. Matthias Fritz is Research Fellow in the Department of Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics at the Free University of Berlin. Manfred Mayrhofer is Professor Emeritus of Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Vienna. FROM THE CONTENTS: Terminology, Symbols, Abbreviations I. Introduction A The Field and its Study B Indo-European Linguistics in the Age of the PC and the Internet C A Word on the History of Indo-European Linguistics D Overview of the Indo-European Linguistics D Overview of the Indo-European Languages and their Sources E The Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European II. Proto-Indo-European Phonology A General Information B Proto-Indo-European Vowels C Proto-Indo-European Consonants D Larger Phonetic Unities III. Proto-Indo-European Morphology A General Information B Verbs C Nouns and Adjectives D Pronouns E Numerals IV. Proto-Indo-European Syntax, prepared by M. Fritz A General Information B Sentence Syntax C Verbal Morphosyntax D Nominal Morphosyntax V The Proto-Indo-European Lexicon A General Information B Word Formation C The Lexicon of Names Sign up for our free electronic newsletter at www.degruyter.com/newsletter. To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage GmbH Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 200 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA Fax: +1 (914) 747-1326 E-mail: cs at degruyterny.com Please visit our website for other publications by Walter de Gruyter and Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.degruyter.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. 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Eric Holt) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:34:48 EST Subject: Book announcement: Optimality Theory and Language Change Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Book announcement: Optimality Theory and Language Change Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Volume 56 October 2003, 472 pp. Edited by D. Eric Holt University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA Optimality Theory and Language Change: · discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail; · treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish; · shows that the application of OT allows for innovative and improved analyses; · allows researchers that appeal to OT to see the connections of their (usually synchronic) work with diachronic studies; · contains a complete bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change. This volume may be used as one of the texts in courses on historical phonology or syntax that treat these topics from generative approaches or that give a general survey of various frameworks of research into these areas. Likewise, the volume may serve as a text for courses in phonology, syntax and Optimality Theory that have a component dedicated to extensions of linguistic theory to historical change. It is of interest for historical linguists, researchers into Optimality Theory and linguistic theory, and for phonologists and syntacticians with an interest in historical change. Ordering information: Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-1469-4 Paperback, ISBN 1-4020-1470-8 For more information visit: http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-1469-4 Customers in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australasia: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Order Dept, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands F +31-78-6576476 T +31-78-6576050 E orderdept at wkap.nl W www.wkap.nl Customers in the Americas: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Order Dept, P.O. Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham MA 02018-0358, USA F +1-781-681-9045 T +1-781-871-6600 or (toll free within US) +1-866-269-wkap E kluwer at wkap.com W www.wkap.com TABLE OF CONTENTS List of contributors Acknowledgements PART I: OPTIMALITY THEORY AND LANGUAGE CHANGE: OVERVIEW AND THEORETICAL ISSUES D. ERIC HOLT Remarks on Optimality Theory and language change PAUL BOERSMA The odds of eternal optimization in Optimality Theory RANDALL GESS On re-ranking and explanatory adequacy in a constraint-based theory of phonological change RICARDO BERMÚDEZ-OTERO & RICHARD M. HOGG The actuation problem in Optimality Theory: Phonologization, rule inversion and rule loss APRIL MCMAHON When history doesn't repeat itself: Optimality Theory and implausible sound changes CHARLES REISS Language change without constraint reranking PART II: CASE STUDIES OF PHONOLOGICAL CHANGE DONKA MINKOVA & ROBERT STOCKWELL English vowel shifts and 'optimal' diphthongs: Is there a logical link? VIOLA MIGLIO & BRUCE MORÉN Merger avoidance and lexical reconstruction: An OT model of the Great Vowel Shift HAIKE JACOBS The emergence of quantity-sensitivity in Latin: Secondary stress, Iambic Shortening and theoretical implications for 'mixed' stress systems CONXITA LLEÓ Some interactions between word, foot and syllable structure in the history of the Spanish language D. ERIC HOLT The emergence of palatal sonorants and alternating diphthongs in Old Spanish JAYE PADGETT The emergence of contrastive palatalization in Russian PART III: CASE STUDIES OF SYNTACTIC CHANGE BENJAMIN SLADE How to rank constraints: Constraint conflict, grammatical competition and the rise of periphrastic _do_ LARRY LAFOND Historical changes in verb-second and null subjects from Old to Modern French Bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change RANDALL GESS REFERENCES INDICES Names Languages Constraints Terms From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Tue Oct 14 12:54:10 2003 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:54:10 EDT Subject: Polysemy. Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language, edited by Brigitte Nerlich et al (2003) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- NEW FROM MOUTON DE GRUYTER! >From the series TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS. STUDIES AND MONOGRAPHS Series Editors: Walter Bisang (main editor for this volume), Hans Henrich Hock, and Werner Winter POLYSEMY Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language Edited by Brigitte Nerlich, Zazie Todd, Vimala Herman, and David D. Clarke 2003. xii, 422 pages. Cloth. Euro 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / approx. US$ 98.00 ISBN 3-11-017616-5 (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 142) About fifty years ago, Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy is 'the pivot of semantic analysis'. Fifty years on, polysemy has become one of the hottest topics in linguistics and in the cognitive sciences at large. The book deals with the topic from a wide variety of viewpoints. The cognitive approach is supplemented and supported by diachronic, psycholinguistic, developmental, comparative, and computational perspectives. The chapters, written by some of the most eminent specialists in the field, are all underpinned by detailed discussions of methodology and theory. Brigitte Nerlich is Senior Research Officer at the University of Nottingham, UK. Zazie Todd is Lecturer at Leeds University, UK. David D. Clarke is Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. Vimala Herman teaches at the University of Nottingham, UK. FROM THE CONTENTS: SETTING THE SCENE Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke Polysemy and flexibility: introduction and overview John R. Taylor Cognitive models of polysemy Brigitte Nerlich Polysemy: past and present COGNITIVE APPROACHES Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner Polysemy and conceptual blending Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of over Jarno Raukko Polysemy as flexible meaning: experiments with English get and Finnish pit?? Ken-ichi Seto Metonymic polysemy and its place in meaning extension SYNCHRONY/DIACHRONY APPROACHES Adrienne Lehrer Polysemy in derivational affixes Beatrice Warren The role of links and/or qualia in modifier-head constructions Jean Aitchison and Diana M. Lewis Polysemy and bleaching Andreas Blank Polysemy in the lexicon and in discourse PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACHES Rachel Giora and Inbal Gur Irony in conversation: salience, role, and context effects Ann Dowker Young children's and adults' use of figurative language: how important are cultural and linguistic influences? Brigitte Nerlich, Zazie Todd and David D. Clarke Emerging patterns and evolving polysemies: the acquisition of get between four and ten years COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES Adam Kilgarriff "I don't believe in word senses" Yorick Wilks Senses and texts To sign up for our FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER, please visit our website at www.degruyter.de/newsletter To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage GmbH Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 200 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA Fax: +1 (914) 747-1326 E-mail: cs at degruyterny.com Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.mouton-publishers.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. 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Michael Meier-Br?gger INDO-EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS With contributions by Matthias Fritz and Manfred Mayrhofer Translated by Charles Gertmenian 2003. xxii, 386 pages. Paperback. Euro 24.95 / sFr 40.00 / for USA, Canada, Mexico: US$ 24.95 ISBN 3-11-017433-2 (de Gruyter Textbook) This textbook on Indo-European Linguistics is designed as an introduction to the field. It presents current topics and questions in Indo-European linguistics in a clear and informative manner. This translation is based on the 8th edition of the work first published by Hans Krahe (6th edition 1985) and it takes account of more recent research. While Krahe only considered phonology and morphology, the textbook also includes a comprehensive account of syntax and lexis. Manfred Mayrhofer assisted with the section of phonology; Matthias Fritz wrote the section on syntax and provided support for the project as a whole. Michael Meier-Br?gger holds the Chair in Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics at the Free University of Berlin. Matthias Fritz is Research Fellow in the Department of Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics at the Free University of Berlin. Manfred Mayrhofer is Professor Emeritus of Comparative and Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Vienna. FROM THE CONTENTS: Terminology, Symbols, Abbreviations I. Introduction A The Field and its Study B Indo-European Linguistics in the Age of the PC and the Internet C A Word on the History of Indo-European Linguistics D Overview of the Indo-European Linguistics D Overview of the Indo-European Languages and their Sources E The Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European II. Proto-Indo-European Phonology A General Information B Proto-Indo-European Vowels C Proto-Indo-European Consonants D Larger Phonetic Unities III. Proto-Indo-European Morphology A General Information B Verbs C Nouns and Adjectives D Pronouns E Numerals IV. Proto-Indo-European Syntax, prepared by M. Fritz A General Information B Sentence Syntax C Verbal Morphosyntax D Nominal Morphosyntax V The Proto-Indo-European Lexicon A General Information B Word Formation C The Lexicon of Names Sign up for our free electronic newsletter at www.degruyter.com/newsletter. To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage GmbH Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 200 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA Fax: +1 (914) 747-1326 E-mail: cs at degruyterny.com Please visit our website for other publications by Walter de Gruyter and Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.degruyter.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. 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Eric Holt) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:34:48 EST Subject: Book announcement: Optimality Theory and Language Change Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Book announcement: Optimality Theory and Language Change Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Volume 56 October 2003, 472 pp. Edited by D. Eric Holt University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA Optimality Theory and Language Change: ? discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail; ? treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish; ? shows that the application of OT allows for innovative and improved analyses; ? allows researchers that appeal to OT to see the connections of their (usually synchronic) work with diachronic studies; ? contains a complete bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change. This volume may be used as one of the texts in courses on historical phonology or syntax that treat these topics from generative approaches or that give a general survey of various frameworks of research into these areas. Likewise, the volume may serve as a text for courses in phonology, syntax and Optimality Theory that have a component dedicated to extensions of linguistic theory to historical change. It is of interest for historical linguists, researchers into Optimality Theory and linguistic theory, and for phonologists and syntacticians with an interest in historical change. Ordering information: Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-1469-4 Paperback, ISBN 1-4020-1470-8 For more information visit: http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-1469-4 Customers in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australasia: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Order Dept, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands F +31-78-6576476 T +31-78-6576050 E orderdept at wkap.nl W www.wkap.nl Customers in the Americas: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Order Dept, P.O. Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham MA 02018-0358, USA F +1-781-681-9045 T +1-781-871-6600 or (toll free within US) +1-866-269-wkap E kluwer at wkap.com W www.wkap.com TABLE OF CONTENTS List of contributors Acknowledgements PART I: OPTIMALITY THEORY AND LANGUAGE CHANGE: OVERVIEW AND THEORETICAL ISSUES D. ERIC HOLT Remarks on Optimality Theory and language change PAUL BOERSMA The odds of eternal optimization in Optimality Theory RANDALL GESS On re-ranking and explanatory adequacy in a constraint-based theory of phonological change RICARDO BERM?DEZ-OTERO & RICHARD M. HOGG The actuation problem in Optimality Theory: Phonologization, rule inversion and rule loss APRIL MCMAHON When history doesn't repeat itself: Optimality Theory and implausible sound changes CHARLES REISS Language change without constraint reranking PART II: CASE STUDIES OF PHONOLOGICAL CHANGE DONKA MINKOVA & ROBERT STOCKWELL English vowel shifts and 'optimal' diphthongs: Is there a logical link? VIOLA MIGLIO & BRUCE MOR?N Merger avoidance and lexical reconstruction: An OT model of the Great Vowel Shift HAIKE JACOBS The emergence of quantity-sensitivity in Latin: Secondary stress, Iambic Shortening and theoretical implications for 'mixed' stress systems CONXITA LLE? Some interactions between word, foot and syllable structure in the history of the Spanish language D. ERIC HOLT The emergence of palatal sonorants and alternating diphthongs in Old Spanish JAYE PADGETT The emergence of contrastive palatalization in Russian PART III: CASE STUDIES OF SYNTACTIC CHANGE BENJAMIN SLADE How to rank constraints: Constraint conflict, grammatical competition and the rise of periphrastic _do_ LARRY LAFOND Historical changes in verb-second and null subjects from Old to Modern French Bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change RANDALL GESS REFERENCES INDICES Names Languages Constraints Terms