37.3460, Books: Expressivity in European Languages: Williams (ed.) (2026)

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Date: 21-Oct-2026
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Expressivity in European Languages: Williams (ed.) (2026)


Title: Expressivity in European Languages
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

Editor(s): Jeffrey P. Williams

Paperback ISBN:  9781108984430 Pages:  410 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Paperback ISBN:  9781108984430 Pages:  410 Price: Europe EURO 29.17
Paperback ISBN:  9781108984430 Pages:  410 Price: U.S. $ 32.99

Abstract:

There is an emerging perspective in the discipline of linguistics that
takes expressivity as one of the key components of human communication
and grammatical structure. Expressivity refers to the use of grammar
in natural languages to convey sensory information in a creative way,
for example through reduplication, iconicity, ideophones and
onomatopoeia. Expressives are more commonly associated with
non-European languages, so their presence in European languages has so
far been under-documented. With contributions from a team of leading
scholars, this pioneering book redresses that balance by providing
copious, detailed information about the expressive systems of a set of
European languages. It comprises a collection of original surveys of
expressivity in languages as diverse as Hungarian, Finnish, Turkish,
Scots, German, Greek, Italian, Catalan, Breton and Basque, all with
the common goal of challenging structuralist assumptions about the
role of syntax, and showing how expressivity is both typologically
diverse and universal.

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)


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