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Textbooks in English Language and Linguistics (TELL), edited by Magnus Huber & Joybrato Mukherjee
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The TELL Series
New Addition to the TELL Series:
Alexander Tokar: Introduction to English Morphology. Morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies the internal structure of words, word-formation mechanisms that give rise to new words, and mechanisms that produce wordforms of existing words. Intended as a companion for students of English language and linguistics at both B.A. and M.A. levels, this textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the entire field of English morphology, including English word-formation and English inflectional morphology. The textbook discusses not only basic introductory issues requiring no prior background in linguistics but also fairly controversial theoretical issues which different linguists treat in a different way. As in the previous volumes of the TELL Series, most of the analyses are illustrated with authentic language data, i.e. examples drawn from language corpora like the Corpus of Contemporary American English and British National Corpus.
Price Paperback 978-3-631-61841-7 22.80 €
Contents The Distribution of Morphs - Morphemes as Signs - The Segmentation of Words into Morphemes - Affixes Versus Roots - Isomorphic and Anisomorphic Lexemes - Word-Formation - Lexeme-Formation versus Lex-Formation - The Establishment of New Lexemes - Semantic Change - Lexeme-Manufacturing - Borrowing - Affixation - Apophony - Compounding - Blending - Back-Formation - Inflectional Morphology - Grammatical Categories.
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Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English: Theory and Description
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Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English
Language and Computers - Studies in Practical Linguistics 75
edited by Joybrato Mukherjee & Magnus Huber The present volume includes a selection of 20 papers from the 31st Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), held in Giessen (Germany) in May 2010. The conference topic was “Corpus linguistics and variation in English”. All the papers included in the present Conference Proceedings capture aspects of variation in language use on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive insights, and/or new methods of utilising corpora for the description of language variation. Of particular interest are the five plenary papers that are included in the present volume, focusing on corpus-based approaches to variation in language from different disciplinary perspectives: Stefan Th. Gries (quantitative-statistical descriptions of variation and corpora), Michaela Mahlberg (stylistic variation and corpora), Miriam Meyerhoff (variational sociolinguistics and corpora), Edgar W. Schneider (regional variation and corpora) and Elizabeth C. Traugott (historical variation/grammaticalization and corpora).
Price Hardbound 978-90-420-3495-2 55 €
Contents Joybrato Mukherjee and Magnus Huber: Introduction: Corpus linguistics and variation in English Marina Bondi and Corrado Seidenari: and now I’m finally of the mind to say i hope the whole ship goes down…: Markers of subjectivity and evaluative phraseology in blogs Doris R. Dant: Using COCA to evaluate The Chicago Manual of Style’s usage prescriptions Hans Martin Lehmann and Gerold Schneider: Syntactic variation and lexical preference in the dative-shift alternation Michaela Mahlberg: The corpus stylistic analysis of fiction – or the fiction of corpus stylistics? Manfred Markus: How can Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary be used as a corpus? Miriam Meyerhoff: Uncovering hidden constraints in micro-corpora of contact Englishes Hagen Peukert: Hidden structures in English corpora Thomas Proisl: Automatically exploring lexical tendencies in English Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras: Exemplifying constructions with for example and for instance as markers: A historical account Patricia Ronan: Modal would as a pragmatic softener in ICE Ireland Juhani Rudanko: “Talked the council out of adopting any resolution”: On the transitive out of –ing construction in American English Edgar W. Schneider: Tracking the evolution of vernaculars: Corpus linguistics and earlier Southern US Englishes Stefania Spina: Methodological issues in a television news corpus: Discourse and annotation Michael Stubbs: Corpora and texts: Lexis and text structure Elizabeth Closs Traugott: On the persistence of ambiguous linguistic contexts over time: Implications for corpus research on micro-changes Turo Vartiainen and Jefrey Lijffijt: Premodifying -ing participles in the parsed BNC
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Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar
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Studies in Corpus Linguistics 46
Marco Schilk This book contains the first in-depth corpus-based description of structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface in Indian English, the largest institutionalized second-language variety of English world-wide. For a set of three ditransitive verbs give, send and offer –collocational patterns, verb-complementational preferences and correlations between collocational and verb-complementational routines are described. The present study is based on the comparison of the Indian and the British components of the International Corpus of English as well as a 100-million-word web-derived corpus of acrolectal Indian newspaper language and corresponding parts of the British National Corpus. The present corpus-based ‘thick description’ of lexicogrammatical routines provides new perspectives on the emergence of new routines and patternings in Indian English and is conceptually and methodologically relevant for research into varieties of English worldwide.
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Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a paradigm gap
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Studies in Corpus Linguistics 44.
Edited by Joybrato Mukherjee and Marianne Hundt.
The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes and second-language varieties are typically non-native forms of English that emerge in language contact situations, it is high time that they are described and compared on an empirical basis in order to draw conceptual and theoretical conclusions with regard to their form, function and acquisition. The present collection of articles places special emphasis on empirical evidence obtained from large-scale analyses of computerised corpora of learner Englishes (such as the International Corpus of Learner English) and of second-language varieties of English (such as the International Corpus of English). It addresses questions such as ‘Are the phenomena we find in ESL and EFL varieties features or errors?’ or ‘How common and wide-spread are features across contact varieties of English?’ ISBN: 978 90 272 2320 3 Price: 90 € Also to be published as an e-book soon.
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How to Do Things with Texts: Patterns of Instruction in Religious Discourse 1350-1700
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English Corpus Linguistics, Volume 12.
Edited by Thomas Kohnen & Joybrato Mukherjee. The things we do with words are reflected in texts and we do things with texts just as we do things with words. This book sets out to explore how texts function in a given discourse community, and how the functions that texts may have in that particular community can be identified and assessed from a diachronic perspective. It systematically distinguishes general discourse functions (e.g. religious instruction) from more specific text functions (e.g. exegesis, exhortation), and outlines co-occurrence patterns of text functions for selected genres. A contrastive view of the evolution of these profiles ties the changes in individual genres to the complex and dynamic network of which they are a part. Combining corpus methodology with detailed qualitative discussion, this book identifies text functions as the performative centre of texts and shows how language variation and change strongly depend on the dynamics of the complete network of genres in the domain. Contents: Discourse functions and text functions - Communication forms of religious instruction in Early English - Functional genre profiles - Text functions: elaboration, transformation and dissolution - Genres as networks - Domain-based approaches to language variation and change. About the author: Tanja Rütten is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cologne and one of the compilers of the Corpus of English Religious Prose. She graduated in English literature, linguistics, and history from the University of Duisburg and also obtained a teaching degree. In 2010 she received her doctoral degree at the University of Cologne. Her main research interests are historical speech act theory, communication forms in Early English and variational linguistics. ISBN: 978-3-631-61802-8 |
Norms in Educational Linguistics: Linguistic, Didactic and Cultural Perspectives
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This volume is a collection of German and English papers presented at a symposium for young researchers on ‘Norms in Educational Linguistics’, which was held in Giessen (Germany) in 2008.
The proceedings represent a multitude of philologies, theoretical frameworks and applications and are structured in thematic sections ranging from Language policy as a reflection of cultural norms to Norm, standard, deviation and Target norms in foreign language teaching. The editors are a team of young scholars who research and teach at the English Department at the University of Giessen (Germany). They are members of the local postgraduate working group in educational linguistics and associated with the university’s interdisciplinary Research Network Educational Linguistics. Christiane Brand is a senior lecturer; Stefanie Dose, Sandra Götz and Thorsten Brato are currently research assistants at the University of Giessen. ISBN: 978-3631590140 |
Textbooks in English Language and Linguistics (TELL)
New book series by Magnus Huber and Joybrato Mukherjee
Volume 3: Rolf Kreyer. Introduction to English Syntax (2010) This book provides an overview of basic syntactic categories, analytical methods and theoretical frameworks that are needed for a comprehensive and systematic description and analysis of the syntax of English as it is spoken and written today. It is therefore useful for students of the English language but also for teachers who are looking for an overview of traditional syntactic analysis. In addition, the book explores various related aspects, such as syntactic variation, the relation between syntax and semantics, and psycholinguistic approaches to syntax. One focus throughout is to introduce the reader to the 'art' or science of syntactic argumentation. Almost all of the examples that are found in this book are drawn from language corpora - each syntactic concept, therefore, is exemplified by authentic language data. ISBN: 978-3-631-55961-1
Volume 2: Jürgen Esser. Introduction to English Text-linguistics (2009) This is a comprehensive introduction to English text-linguistics. It deals with those areas of text-linguistics that have enjoyed widespread attention in English linguistics, notably aspects of cohesion and coherence. Further topics are corpus-based studies in lexical patterns and in text classifications, psycholinguistic and cognitive studies in text constitution and decoder-orientation. One special feature of this book is that it not only covers abstract lexical and grammatical structures but also medium-dependent written and spoken presentation. ISBN: 978-3-631-56003-7
Volume 1: Ulrike Gut. Introduction to English Phonetics and Phonology (2009) This comprehensive textbook provides a practical introduction to English phonetics and phonology. Assuming no prior background, the author outlines all of the core concepts and methods of phonetics and phonology and presents the basic facts in a clear and straightforward manner. In sections marked as advanced reading it is shown how these concepts and methods are applied in language acquisition and language teaching. The textbook contains exercises, an index, suggestions for further reading and many audio examples on the accompanying CD-ROM. An essential text for students embarking on the study of English sounds at B.A. level and beyond. ISBN: 978-3-631-56615-2 |
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