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1. Michaelis, Susanne; Maurer, Philippe; Haspelmath, Martin & Magnus Huber (eds.), Melanie Revis & Bradley Taylor (collabs.). 2013. The atlas of pidgin and creole language structures . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. Michaelis, Susanne; Maurer, Philippe; Haspelmath, Martin & Magnus Huber (eds.). 2013. The survey of pidgin and creole languages . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Vol 1: English-based and Dutch-based languages .
   Vol 2: Portuguese-based, Spanish-based and French-based languages .
   Vol 3: Contact languages based on languages from Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas .

These books represent the most systematic and comprehensive guide ever published to the world’s pidgins, creoles and mixed languages, designed, edited, and written by the world’s leading experts in the field. The three-volume Survey brings together eighty-eight leading experts to present concise accounts of the world’s pidgin and creole languages. The division of its three volumes reflects the languages from which they originated. Each entry provides a linguistic and social history of the pidgin or creole in question and an analysis of their linguistic characteristics, and is accompanied by a location map and a bibliography. The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 130 structural linguistic features. These cover their phonology, syntax, morphology, and lexicons. Each map is accompanied by a commentary. The project is inspired by, but goes beyond, the successful World Atlas of Language Structures and draws on the same linguistic, cartographic, and computing knowledge and skills of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Individually and together the volumes represent an outstanding and unique resource of central interest and value to linguists of all persuasions throughout the world.

The Atlas (522 + xlviii pp.) shows the geographical distributions of more than 130 structural linguistic features at a worldwide scale, covering the phonology, syntax, morphology, and lexicons of 76 contact languages. Every map is accompanied by an introductory chapter describing the feature and interpreting its distribution among the contact languages.

Survey volume 1 (299 + xxiii pp.) covers pidgins and creoles based on English or Dutch. The former include languages spoken in Trinidad, Jamaica, Belize, Nicaragua, Cameroon, Ghana, China, and Hawai‘i as well as African American English in the United States. The three Dutch-based languages are Negerhollands, Berbice Dutch, and Afrikaans.

Survey volume 2 (285 + xxii pp.) covers pidgins and creoles based on Portuguese, Spanish, and French. The first include the three Cape Verdean creoles (Santiago, Brava, and São Vicente), Fa d’Ambô, and Korlai. The second include Cavite Chabacano, Zamboanga Chabacano, and Papiamentu. The third, French-based, include Haitian Creole, Guadeloupean Creole, Guyanais, Louisiana Creole, Reunion Creole, Mauritian Creole, Seychelles Creole.

Survey volume 3 (176 + xxi pp.) covers contact languages based on languages from Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. The African-based languages include Kikongo-Kituba, Sango, Fanakalo, Kinubi, and Juba Arabic. The Asian-based languages include Chinese Pidgin Russian, Singapore Bazaar Malay, Pidgin Hindustani, and Pidgin Hawaiian. The Australian-based language is Gurindji Kriol. The languages based on languages of the Americas are Media Lengua, Chinuk Wawa, Michif, and Eskimo Pidgin.

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Open Access: You can read the whole book online free of charge on the VariEng website .

This publication presents the second volume of conference proceedings from the 31st Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), which was held in Giessen in May 2010 under the title of "Corpus linguistics and variation in English".

This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and nonnative speech. It also reveals areas in which even highly advanced learners of English still deviate strongly from the native target norm and in which they have already approximated to it. Based on these findings, selected learners are subjected to native speakers' ratings of seven perceptive fluency variables in order to test which variables are most responsible for a perception of oral proficiency on the sides of the listeners. Finally, language-pedagogical implications derived from these findings for the improvement of fluency in learner language are presented. This book is conceptually and methodologically relevant for corpus-linguistics, learner corpus research and foreign language teaching and learning.

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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

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).

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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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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?'

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Series editors: Thomas Kohnen and 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.

Series editors: Magnus Huber and Joybrato Mukherjee

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.

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.

Contents/Inhalt: Editors’ preface – Christiane Brand/Thorsten Brato/Stefanie Dose/Sandra Götz: Norms in educational linguistics: An introduction – Bernard Spolsky: Discovering educational linguistics: The Navajo Reading Study – Ruth Bartholomä: Schulbücher als Medium der Sprachplanung (am Beispiel der tatarischen Sprache in Russland) – Richard Hudson: Norm, standard, deviation – Chahrazed Messadh: Foreign language speaking anxiety among Algerian students – Hélène Favreau: Linguistic norms and standards: Towards social exclusion – Mailin Antomo: «...weil das sagt man nicht!» - Weil -Verbzweitsätze im schulischen Grammatikunterricht – Frank G. Königs: Wie ernst müssen wir die Lernerorientierung nehmen? Oder: Warum Normenkonflikte im Fremdsprachenunterricht unausweichlich sind und wie wir damit umgehen könnten – Ralf Gießler: Zielnormen im Englischunterricht: Empirische Befunde zu Lernleistungen im Bereich Schreiben in Grundkursen an Haupt- und Gesamtschulen – Gabriela Marques-Schäfer/Eva Platten: DaF-Lernen in Chat und Wiki: Der Umgang mit Normen in zwei interaktiven Lernangeboten – Eirini Monsela: Pragmatische Äquivalenzen des Präteritums und des Perfekts für das Sprachpaar Deutsch-Neugriechisch – Martina Möllering: Language norms and integration: A role for educational linguistics.

Series editors: Magnus Huber and Joybrato Mukherjee

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.

Series editors: Magnus Huber and Joybrato Mukherjee

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.

Corpus linguistics has revolutionized the study of language since the 1960s. This textbook serves as an introduction to the basic concepts of English corpus linguistics.

Das Buch bietet den ersten umfassenden Überblick über den Stand der Translationsprozessforschung (speziell der Übersetzungsprozessforschung) mit ihren Methoden und Analyseverfahren, den Möglichkeiten der Datendokumentation und -bereitstellung sowie ihren Modellen und Ergebnissen und zeigt zukunftsträchtige Perspektiven für die weitere Forschung auf. Es richtet sich an Übersetzungsstudierende, Übersetzungsdidaktiker und professionelle Übersetzer sowie Forschungsinteressierte gleichermaßen. Studierende, aber auch professionelle Übersetzer finden darin Anstöße zur Reflexion ihrer eigenen kognitiven Prozesse und damit zur Optimierung ihrer Übersetzungsleistungen. Übersetzungsdidaktiker erhalten Anregungen für die Lehre. Forschungsinteressierten liefert es in kompakter Form die Basis für weiterführende Arbeiten. Wer berufl ich mit Übersetzung zu tun hat, gewinnt Einblick in die Komplexität der Profession und damit auch den Wert der auf diesem Gebiet erbrachten Leistungen.

Series editors: Thomas Kohnen and Joybrato Mukherjee

In today's informed society, the news media have taken it upon themselves to provide the general public with information that is technical in nature and was previously restricted to the scientific discourse community. This popular presentation of scientific or technical facts is of particular interest to the corpus-based study of Language for Specific Purposes (LSP). The characteristics of the specific domain texts, e.g. medical journal articles, are perceived as a potential barrier to communication by the layman and this linguistic barrier must be lowered by awareness of and adaption to the communicative competence of the general audience. Using corpus-based methodology, the present study focuses on the word level, placing special emphasis on collocations and semantic prosodies. On the basis of the findigs of the corpus analysis, a comprehensive model of lexical popularisation is sketched out.

For this book, Arnd Nadolny and Joybrato Mukherjee have collected five exciting short stories concerning India. Although specifically designed for use at school, this book offers a compelling read for anyone interested in Indian culture and history.

The editors also provide infoboxes and additional authentic texts for each story and a number of study questions to motivate further work on the subject.

Meher Pestonji, Outsider; Anita Desai, A Devoted Son; Salman Rushdie, Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies and The Free Radio; Bharati Mukherjee, Nostalgia.

This collection of selected conference papers from three SPCL meetings brings together a cross-fertilization of approaches to the study of contact languages. The articles are grouped into three coherent sections dealing with, respectively, phonetics and phonology, including Optimality Theory; synchronic analyses of both morphology and syntax; and diachronic tracings of language change, with special focus on sound patterns as well as semantics. An added value of the volume is that most of the articles are in various ways significant for more than one linguistic subgrouping, and there is a significant overlap of interests; the sections also cover sociolinguistic subjects, give both theoretical and functional linguistic analyses of language data, and discuss issues of grammaticalization. Thus, in discussing a number of issues relevant far beyond the study of pidgin and creole languages, as well as providing a wealth of linguistic data, this volume also contributes to the broader field of linguistics in general.

Series editors: Thomas Kohnen and Joybrato Mukherjee

The use of corpora and corpus technology for language learning and teaching purposes has been on the agenda of researchers, lexicographers and pedagogues for more than two decades now. This volume is intended to take stock of some major developments in corpus-informed language pedagogy and brings together a number of contributions, many of which were originally presented at the Language Technology Section of the LearnTec Conference in Karlsruhe (Germany) in 2005. The contributions present new resources, new tools and new methods for corpus-informed language pedagogy. In general, the papers demonstrate a noticeable shift from the more traditional uses of corpora and corpus technology in linguistic research towards uses with specific pedagogical goals in mind.

Contents: Sabine Braun/Kurt Kohn/Joybrato Mukherjee: Introduction – Joybrato Mukherjee: Corpus linguistics and language pedagogy: the state of the art - and beyond – Sabine Braun: ELISA: a pedagogically enriched corpus for language learning purposes – Sandra Götz/Joybrato Mukherjee: Evaluation of Data-Driven Learning in university teaching: a project report – Ulrike Gut: Learner speech corpora in language teaching – Josef Schmied: Corpus linguistics and grammar learning: tutor versus learner perspectives – Christopher Tribble: Using keywords to read the news – Christiane Brand/Susanne Kämmerer: The Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI): compiling the German component – Nadja Nesselhauf: Researching L2 production with ICLE – Yvonne Breyer: My Concordancer : tailor-made software for language learners and teachers – Sebastian Hoffmann/Stefan Evert: BNC web (CQP-edition): the marriage of two corpus tools – Christoph Müller/Michael Strube: Multi-level annotation of linguistic data with MMAX2.