34.1083, LINGUIST List Fund Drive 2nd Lottery Announcement

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From: Maria Lucero Guillen Puon [luceroguillen at linguistlist.org]
Subject: LINGUIST List Fund Drive 2nd Lottery Announcement


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2nd Lottery Announcement Prizes:

>From Wiley:
Introduction to Arabic Linguistics https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Introdu
ction+to+Arabic+Linguistics-p-9781119787563
DESCRIPTION
A comprehensive introduction to the linguistic fundamentals of modern
Arabic, ideal for Arabic language learners as well as speakers
interested in developing a richer understanding of language use and
behavior

Introduction to Arabic Linguistics presents a clear and engaging
overview of the core linguistic aspects of modern Arabic, focusing on
Modern Standard Arabic and Levantine Arabic. Designed to be welcoming
for undergraduates without fluency in Arabic and for students with
only limited familiarity with linguistics, this textbook covers all
fundamental areas of Arabic linguistics. Detailed yet accessible
chapters include comprehension and analysis questions, critical
thinking exercises, application examples with authentic data, reading
assignments, and classroom and homework projects.

The Mysteries of Bilingualism: Unresolved Issues https://www.wiley.com
/en-us/The+Mysteries+of+Bilingualism%3A+Unresolved+Issues-p-9781119602
415
DESCRIPTION
Eleven critical issues in the study of bilingualism: Insightful
analyses by renowned expert François Grosjean

The majority of people living around the world today are able to speak
more than one language, yet many aspects of the nature and experience
of bilingualism raise unresolved questions for researchers. Who
exactly is bilingual? What is the extent of bilingualism? How do
infant bilinguals who acquire two languages at the same time manage to
separate them?  Does language processing work differently when
bilinguals are interacting with monolinguals and with bilinguals? When
a speaker changes their language, do they also change aspects of their
personality?

>From Walter de Gruyter GmbH:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Multilingualism
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501507984/html
About this book
The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy.
In particular, recent distributional corpus-based approaches used for
semantic analysis have successfully uncovered subtle distinctions in
meaning between near-synonyms. However, most studies have dealt with
the semantic structure of sets of near-synonyms from a synchronic
perspective, while their diachronic evolution generally has been
neglected. Against this backdrop, the aim of this book is to examine
five adjectival near-synonyms in the history of American English from
the understudied semantic domain of SMELL: fragrant, perfumed,
scented, sweet-scented, and sweet-smelling. Their distribution is
analyzed across a wide range of contexts, including semantic,
morphosyntactic, and stylistic ones, since distributional patterns of
this type serve as a proxy for semantic (dis)similarity. The data is
submitted to various univariate and multivariate statistical
techniques, making it possible to uncover fine-grained
(dis)similarities among the near-synonyms, as well as possible changes
in their prototypical structures. The book sheds valuable light on the
diachronic development of lexical near-synonyms, a dimension that has
up to now been relatively disregarded.

Nonfinite Inquiries
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110769289/html
About this book
This study aims at developing a unified perspective on nonfiniteness,
encompassing its morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects. It
puts the emphasis on clause types distinct from standard infinitives
(gerund clauses, Celtic verbo-nominal structures, Portuguese inflected
infinitives, Latin dominant participle constructions) and takes
advantage of the most recent developments in syntactic theory. The
notions of defectiveness and completeness, the inheritance hypothesis,
the labeling requirement, the syntactic definition of lexical
categories, once combined together, appear to make accessible tighter
and more elegant analyses than previous accounts.

>From LangSci Press:
A grammar of Komnzo https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/212
Synopsis
Komnzo is a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea spoken by around
250 people in the village of Rouku. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda
subgroup of the Yam language family, which is also known as the
Morehead Upper-Maro group. This grammar provides the first
comprehensive description of a Yam language. It is based on 16 months
of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a text corpus of around 12
hours recorded and transcribed between 2010 and 2015. Komnzo provides
many fields of future research, but the most interesting aspect of its
structure lies in the verb morphology, to which the two largest
chapters of the grammar are dedicated. Komnzo verbs may index up to
two arguments showing agreement in person, number and gender. Verbs
encode 18 TAM categories, valency, directionality and deictic status.
Morphological complexity lies not only in the amount of categories
that verbs may express, but also in the way these are encoded. Komnzo
verbs exhibit what may be called ‘distributed exponence’, i.e. single
morphemes are underspecified for a particular grammatical category.
Therefore, morphological material from different sites has to be
integrated first, and only after this integration can one arrive at a
particular grammatical category. The descriptive approach in this
grammar is theory-informed rather than theory-driven. Comparison to
other Yam languages and diachronic developments are taken into account
whenever it seems helpful.

Highly complex syllable structure: A typological and diachronic study
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/249
Synopsis
The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language
whose strongest cross-linguistic patterns are often explained in terms
of a universal preference for the CV structure. Syllable patterns
involving long sequences of consonants are both typologically rare and
theoretically marginalized, with few approaches treating these as
natural or unproblematic structures. This book is an investigation of
the properties of languages with highly complex syllable patterns. The
two aims are (i) to establish whether these languages share other
linguistic features in common such that they constitute a distinct
linguistic type, and (ii) to identify possible diachronic paths and
natural mechanisms by which these patterns come about in the history
of a language. These issues are investigated in a diversified sample
of 100 languages, 25 of which have highly complex syllable patterns.



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