2012

Book Cover This clear and accessible introduction to linguistic typology covers all linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change. There is also a discussion on methodological issues in typology. This textbook is the first introduction that consistently applies the findings of the World Atlas of Language Structures, systematically includes pidgin and creole languages and devotes a section to sign languages in each chapter. All chapters contain numerous illustrative examples and specific feature maps. Keywords and exercises help review the main topics of each chapter. Appendices provide macro data for all the languages cited in the book as well as a list of web sites of typological interest. An extensive glossary gives at-a-glance definitions of the terms used in the book. This introduction is designed for students of courses with a focus on language diversity and typology, as well as typologically-oriented courses in morphology and syntax. The book will also serve as a guide for field linguists.

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Series editors: Magnus Huber and Joybrato Mukherjee

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.

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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Book Cover 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).

Contents

Joybrato Mukherjee and Magnus Huber: Introduction: Corpus linguistics and variation in English
Gisle Andersen: Listenership in polylogic discourse
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
Stefan Th. Gries: Corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and cognitive/psycholinguistics: Towards more and more fruitful exchanges
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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Velupillai, Viveka. 2012. An Introduction to Linguistic Typology. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Tokar, Alexander. 2012. Introduction to English Morphology. Textbooks in English Language and Linguistics (TELL) 5. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang.

Mukherjee, Joybrato; Huber, Magnus, eds. 2012. Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English: Theory and Description. Language and Computers - Studies in Practical Linguistics 75. Amsterdam: Rodopi.