Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

中高ドイツ語－入門　第10版
Weddige, Hilkert, Mittelhochdeutsch: Eine Einfuehrung. 10., ueberarb. Aufl. XII, 210 S. 2025:9 (Beck, GW) <750-1650>
ISBN 978-3-406-83812-5 paper ¥5,649.- (税込) EUR 24.00

Einfuehrung in das Mittelhochdeutsche Diese Einfuehrung beschreibt das Mittelhochdeutsche historisch-systematisch nach seiner Stellung innerhalb der Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und vermittelt knapp und uebersichtlich die Kenntnisse, die zum Verstehen und Uebersetzen mittelhochdeutscher Texte notwendig sind.

新約聖書ギリシア語を読む
Jenkins, Steffen G., Reading Biblical Greek: A Graded Reader for Beginners. 308 pp. 2026:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <750-116>
ISBN 978-1-108-84441-3 hard ¥19,789.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00
ISBN 978-1-108-94815-9 paper ¥6,498.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99

Reading Biblical Greek is aimed at students who are studying New Testament Greek for the first time, or refreshing what they once learned. Designed to supplement and reinforce The Elements of New Testament Greek, by Jeremy Duff, each chapter of this textbook provides lengthy, plot-driven texts that will be accessible as students study each chapter of The Elements. Each text is accompanied by detailed questions, which test comprehension of content from recent lessons and review challenging topics from previous chapters. The graded nature of the texts, together with the copious notes and comprehension questions, makes this an ideal resource for learning, reviewing or re-entering Greek. The focus of this resource is on reading with understanding, and the exercises highlight how Greek texts convey meaning. Finally, this book moves on from first-year Greek, with sections that cover the most important advanced topics thoroughly.

言語変化
Bar-Asher Siegal, Elitzur A. / Boneh, Nora et al. (eds.), Language Change: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. (Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science) X, 483 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <749-1564>
ISBN 978-3-031-85291-6 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

英語－歴史的入門　第3版
Barber, Charles / Beal, Joan C. / Shaw, Philip A., The English Language: A Historical Introduction. 3rd ed. 270 pp. 2025:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <749-1565>
ISBN 978-1-009-22862-6 hard ¥16,958.- (税込) GB￡ 59.99
ISBN 978-1-009-22860-2 paper ¥6,216.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99

未解読のエーゲ海の文字
Davis, Brent, The Undeciphered Aegean Scripts: Linguistic Investigations into the Languages They Encode. 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-1233>
ISBN 978-1-009-56234-8 hard ¥35,337.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00

Holm, Tawny L. / Monferrer-Sala, Juan Pedro (eds.), Syria, Mesopotamia, and the Comparative Study of Semitic Languages: Proceedings of the 7th and 8th Meetings of the International Association for Comparative Semitics. (Languages of the Ancient Near East) 400 pp. 2025:12 (Eisenbrauns, US) <748-1239>
ISBN 978-1-64602-323-3 hard ¥27,024.- (税込) US$ 129.99

This volume offers a wealth of perspectives on comparative Semitic linguistics emerging from the seventh and eighth meetings of the International Association for Comparative Semitics (IACS): the Madrid symposium (2016) was devoted to the role of Akkadian in the study of Comparative Semitics, and the Cordoba meeting (2019) focused on Syria at the historical crossroads of Semitic languages.The essays in this volume examine a broad variety of issues concerning Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Ethiopic, Berber, Chadic, and other Semitic and Afroasiatic languages. The contributions to part 1, "Mesopotamia," focus on Akkadian and its place within the Semitic language family. The chapters cover subjects such as verb tense and aspect, comparative Akkadian-Ugaritic philology, the nature of case marking in Akkadian and Arabic, and Aramaic cognates to Akkadian words. Part 2, "Syria," consists of chapters that engage with comparative Semitics within the framework of the languages of Syria throughout history, including Aramaic, Punic, Syrian Arabic, Ugaritic, and Akkadian. Part 3, "From al-Andalus to Ethiopia," features studies on the Semitic languages attested in medieval Spain (Andalusi Arabic), as well as Ethiopian Semitic and Afroasiatic languages in general, including Chadic and Berber. Written by leading linguists and philologists, this volume is bound to attract the attention of a diverse readership: Assyriologists, Arabists, Hebraists, Aramaicists, Semitists, and scholars of African languages (Chadic, Berber), as well as scholars interested in matters of syntax, language contact, and historical linguistics. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo, Ilya Arkhipov, Vit Bubenik, Maria Bulakh, Marielle Butters, Philippe Cassuto, Federico Corriente, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee, Olga Kapeliuk, Sergey Loesov, Jose Martinez Delgado, Gregorio del Olmo Lete, Ahmed Salem Ould Mohamed Baba, Victor Porkhomovsky, Francisco del Rio Sanchez, Gonzalo Rubio, Erin Shay, Olga Stolbova, and Wilfred G. E. Watson.

Scappaticcio, Maria Chiara (Editor-in-Chief), Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus. 6 vols. 2690 pp. 2025:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-1250>
ISBN 978-1-108-86870-9 hard ¥240,295.- (税込) GB￡ 850.00

The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (CLTP) is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and unique reference tool in six volumes, gathering nearly 1,500 Latin texts on papyrus. Editions are provided with both a palaeographic and a critical apparatus, English translations, and detailed introductions. The texts in CLTP cover a wide chronological range and many different types and genres. They include both literary and documentary texts, dating from the first century BC to the Middle Ages. They provide new knowledge about the circulation of Latin, offering unique insights into textual transmission and indeed into Latin literature itself, but also into topics such as ancient education and multilingualism, economics, society, culture, and multiculturalism in the ancient Mediterranean world. The result is a lasting and crucial reference work for all those interested in the history of Latin and of the Roman world.

新しい英語史　第3巻：伝達、変化、イデオロギー
Beal, Joan C. (ed.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume 3: Transmission, Change and Ideology. 832 pp. 2025:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-1424>
ISBN 978-1-009-20586-3 hard ¥39,578.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

How language change manifests itself in the history of English is the primary focus of this volume. It considers the transmission of English through dictionaries and grammars down to the digital means found today. The chapters investigate various issues in language change, for instance what role internal and external factors played throughout history. There are several dedicated chapters to change in different areas and on different levels of language, including investigations of the verbal system, of adverbs, of negation and case variation in English as well as more recent instances of syntactic change. It also looks at issues such as style and spelling practices which fed into emergent standard writing, and the complex of linguistic prescriptivism, with chapters on linguistic ideology, phonological standards and the codification of English in dictionaries. The volume concludes with a consideration of networks and communities of practice and the historical enregisterment of linguistic features.

新しい英語史　第4巻：イギリス、アイルランド、ヨーロッパ
Hickey, Raymond (ed.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume 4: Britain, Ireland and Europe. 600 pp. 2026:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-1426>
ISBN 978-1-009-20582-5 hard ¥33,924.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

新しい英語史　第6巻：アフリカ、アジア、オーストラレーシア、太平洋
Hickey, Raymond (ed.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume 6: Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. 600 pp. 2026:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-1427>
ISBN 978-1-009-20620-4 hard ¥33,924.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

This volume offers in-depth coverage of varieties of English across the world, outside of the British and North American arenas. Introductory chapters deal with the colonial transportation of English overseas and the generic types of English which resulted: first-language, second-language and foreign-language varieties, often subsumed under the label 'World Englishes'. English-lexifier pidgins and creoles are also examined. The remaining chapters treat forms of English in large geographical regions of the world. Anglophone Africa divides into three blocks, west, east and south, each with different linguistic ecologies determined by history and demography. Asia, especially South Asia and South-East Asia, is similar in the kinds of English it now shows. In recent decades, the significance of East Asia for varieties of English has increased given the economic development of China and the status of other Asian nations, such as South Korea and Japan.

Hutton, Christopher M., The People That Never Were: Linguistic Scholarship and the Invention of the Aryans. (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) 272 pp. 2025:7 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <748-1430>
ISBN 978-0-19-021298-8 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Though most recognize the term Aryan, few understand its extensive and complex history. Scholars continue to debate the location of the original Aryan homeland, but unlike with the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Greece, or Rome, there is no direct textual or archeological evidence of an ancient Aryan civilization. As Christopher M. Hutton argues in this book, Aryan, in essence, is a fictional category--the Frankenstein's monster of the western intellectual tradition. In The People That Never Were, Hutton takes a fresh look at the concept and asserts that much of the received wisdom is misleading or false. He begins by challenging the belief in the existence of an ancient Aryan race or people, making the case that the concept was brought into being by western philology and Indology. Hutton then takes the reader through the history of the Aryan concept, beginning with colonial scholarship in India around 1800, and ending in the first decades of the twentieth century. With a particular focus on the role of philologists' distorted readings of ancient Sanskrit texts, Hutton shows how Aryan came into English around 1840, promoted primarily by F. Max Mueller, whose own conceptual confusions subsequently were projected back onto ancient India and at the same time read into contemporary Europe. As a result, Aryan emerged as a free-standing explanatory device and a key to historical narratives of superiority and inferiority, leading to bitter controversies and profound misunderstandings that continue to this day. A critical intellectual resource on the Aryan paradigm, The People That Never Were interrogates the conceptual errors that provide the basis for historical linguistics, raising a challenging set of questions for the discipline. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

新しい英語史　第2巻：文書化、データの資料、モデリング
Kytoe, Merja / Smitterberg, Erik (eds.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume 2: Documentation, Sources of Data and Modelling. 906 pp. 2025:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-1431>
ISBN 978-1-009-20545-0 hard ¥39,578.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

This volume considers the various kinds of text which document the history of the English language. It looks closely at vernacular speech in writing and the broader context of orality along with issues of literacy and manuscripts. The value of text corpora in the collection and analysis of historical data is demonstrated in a number of chapters. A special focus of the volume is seen in the chapters on genre and medium in the textual record. Various types of evidence are considered, for instance, journalistic work, medical writings, historiography, grammatical treatises and ego documents, especially emigrant letters. A dedicated section examines the theories, models and methods which have been applied to the textual record of historical English, including generative and functionalist approaches as well as grammaticalisation and construction grammar. In addition, a group of chapters consider the English language as found in Beowulf and the writings of Chaucer and Shakespeare.

新しい英語史　第5巻：北米とカリブ海
Schilling, Natalie / Denis, Derek / Hickey, R. (eds.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume 5: North America and the Caribbean. 2026:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-1433>
ISBN 978-1-009-20576-4 hard ¥39,578.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

This volume examines the development of forms of English in North America, from the earliest founder populations through to present-day varieties in the USA, Canada and the Caribbean. The linguistic analyses of today's forms emphasise language variation and change with a view to determining the trajectories for current linguistic change. The section on English in the United States has dedicated chapters on the history of African American English and the English of Latinos in the USA. Part II is concerned with English in Canada, with chapters on the anglophone settlement of Canada and on individual regions of that country, including English in Quebec. The third section consists of chapters devoted to the history of English in the anglophone Caribbean, looking at various creoles in that region, both in the islands and the rim, with a special chapter on Jamaica and on the connections between the Caribbean and the USA.

新しい英語史　第1巻：コンテクスト、接触、発展
Wright, Laura / Hickey, Raymond (eds.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume 1: Context, Contact and Development. 880 pp. 2025:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-1434>
ISBN 978-1-009-20568-9 hard ¥39,578.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

This volume investigates the Indo-European and Germanic background to the English language, looking at how inherited elements of phonology and morphology survived into the Old English period. It then considers various kinds of contact between the first speakers of English and speakers of Celtic, Latin and Scandinavian, under different sociolinguistic circumstances. The manner in which initial standardisation of English took place, with considerable code-switching, and the structural changes which the language underwent in this early period are discussed. The various analytical methods used to examine the available data are considered in a dedicated chapter on philology. The volume also contains a set of longer chapters. These take a detailed look at various levels of language from phonology, morphology, syntax through to semantics and pragmatics, and include reviews of historical sociolinguistics and onomastics.

R.Hickey監修　新しい英語史　全6巻
Hickey, Raymond (General ed.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language. 6 vols. 2026:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <100-6556>
ISBN 978-1-009-20202-2 hard GB￡ 0.00

Avxentevskaya, Maria / Most, Glenn W. (eds.), Signs and Signification in a Global Comparative Perspective: Premodern and Early Modern Sources in Original and Translation. (Ancient Languages and Civilizations 12) 275 pp. 2025:8 (Brill, NE) <747-1777>
ISBN 978-90-04-70717-7 hard ¥16,242.- (税込) EUR 69.00

Theories and practices of signification have flourished across space and time. This book examines premodern thinking on signs in ancient Greek philosophy, Chinese divination, Islamic theology, Hebrew epistemology, medieval Latin logic, South Asian language theory, and early modern European artificial languages. Each chapter analyzes and contextualizes key primary sources presented in their original language and English translation, offering rich resources for comparative analysis of approaches to semiosis in religious and scholarly exegesis, prognostication, and the philosophical search for distinctions between natural and artificial signs. The volume brings to light both universal concerns and unique cultural features that shaped the evolution of semiotics.

Fendel, Victoria Beatrix, Giving Gifts and doing Favours: Literary classical Attic Greek Support-Verb Constructions. (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 24) 540 pp. 2025:7 (Brill, NE) <747-1778>
ISBN 978-90-04-73051-9 hard ¥39,782.- (税込) EUR 169.00

Peikola, Matti / Tyrkkoe, Jukka / Varila, Mari-Liisa (eds.), Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English. (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 61) 370 pp. 2025:3 (Brepols, BE) <747-1779>
ISBN 978-2-503-60045-1 hard ¥23,540.- (税込) EUR 100.00

Arnzen, Ruediger, An Abridged Greek-Arabic Dictionary of the Medieval Translations from Greek into Arabic (ABGAD). Volume I: Alpha. (Scientia Graeco-Arabica 42/1) 380 pp. 2024:10 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-4>
ISBN 978-3-11-077217-3 hard ¥35,297.- (税込) EUR 149.95 *

From 8th to 11th century, many Greek texts have been translated into Arabic. These testimonia are of great interest for several research areas; e.g. for parts of Medieval Islamic sciences or rather their reception in different parts of Europe; for the history of textual transmission of the translated texts and for the lexicography of classical Arabic. This dictionary provides reliable and complete data on the Greek-Arabic equivalents.

M.P.Streck著　古バビロニア語テキストブック　第5版
Streck, Michael P., Altbabylonisches Lehrbuch. 5., ueberarb. Aufl. (Porta Linguarum Orientalium. Neue Serie 23) XIX, 323 S. 2025:6 (O. Harrassowitz, GW) <746-1563>
ISBN 978-3-447-12326-6 paper ¥9,368.- (税込) EUR 39.80

Das Akkadische ist die nach Umfang, geographischer Breite und chronologischer Laenge der Bezeugung bedeutendste altorientalische Sprache sowie eine der wichtigsten semitischen Sprachen. Das Altbabylonische Lehrbuch fuehrt anhand des altbabylonischen Dialektes in das Akkadische ein und bietet zugleich eine Einfuehrung in die Keilschrift, das wichtigste Schriftsystem des Alten Orients. Das Lehrwerk enthaelt eine kurz gefasste Grammatik auf dem neuesten Stand der Forschung, 15 Lektionen, in denen die Grammatik, das Vokabular, die Keilschriftzeichen und die Technik von Transkription und Transliteration eingeuebt werden, sowie in den neuassyrischen Duktus und in die altbabylonische Kursive umgesetzte und kommentierte altbabylonische Lesestuecke. Des Weiteren erleichtern ein Glossar, ein nach Wortklassen und Bedeutungsgruppen gegliederter akkadischer Grundwortschatz, ein Zeichenindex, Loesungen zu den Uebungen in den Lektionen und den Lesestuecken und ein zusaetzliches Glossar grammatischer Terminologie, ein Index der Belegstellen und eine Bibliographie das Erlernen des Akkadischen. Die fuenfte, ueberarbeitete Auflage dieses bewaehrten Lehrbuchs bietet einen gegenueber der vierten Auflage korrigierten, leicht erweiterten und auf den neuesten Forschungsstand gebrachten Text.

Zucker, Arnaud / Le Feuvre, Claire / Chriti, Maria (eds.), Ancient and Medieval Greek Etymology: Theory and Practice II. (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 178) 470 pp. 2025:2 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-1569>
ISBN 978-3-11-157250-5 hard ¥38,828.- (税込) EUR 164.95 *

This volume on ancient Greek synchronic etymology offers a set of papers evidencing the cultural significance of etymological commitment in ancient and medieval literature. It continues a collective work (begun in a first volume under the same title) of reflection on, and valorization of the significance, development and impact of the Greek etymologizing thought. The three sections illustrate the variety of approaches to the same object, which was much more than a technical way of studying language for Greek writers. Contributions focus on the functions of etymology as they were intended by the authors according to their own aims. The wide range of genres and authors and the interplay between theoretical reflection and applied practice demonstrate the importance of etymology in Greek culture. The studies proposed here show how versatile the uses of etymology are in ancient texts, appearing both technical and inspired, literary and philosophical, serious and playful, lexicological and conceptual. Part of them deals with the link and difference between etymology and etiology. The work is of special interest to scholars on etymology in ancient Greek scholarship and on more general issues in lexicology, semiology, and folk-etymology.

Blanco-Suarez, Zeltia, Death-related Intensifiers in the History of English: Grammaticalisation and Related Phenomena. (English Corpus Linguistics 18) 330 pp. 2025:2 (P. Lang, SZ) <746-1722>
ISBN 978-1-80374-514-5 paper ¥18,559.- (税込) SFR 74.00

An all-important question for humans, death is unsurprisingly used as a source of intensification in language, perhaps even cross-linguistically. This book explores the use of death for intensification purposes in English and aims to shed light on how certain forms from this semantic field came to be used with an intensifying function over time, specifically dead(ly), mortal(ly) and to death. The author provides a full account of the evolution of these intensifiers from their origins up to present-day English from the perspective of grammaticalisation and other concomitant phenomena. To this end, this corpus-based research resorts to evidence from historical dictionaries, diachronic corpora and electronic collections. The study conducted, unprecedented in the number of examples analysed, combines both a qualitative and a quantitative approach to provide the most comprehensive picture of the long diachrony of these intensifiers.

Bockmann, Joern / Ihden, Sarah / Langhanke, R. u. a., Mittelniederdeutsche Sprache und Literatur: Eine Einfuehrung. (De Gruyter Studium) 300 S. 2026:2 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-1723>
ISBN 978-3-11-022425-2 hard ¥7,049.- (税込) EUR 29.95

Die erste Einfuehrung in die Sprache und Literatur des Mittelniederdeutschen verknuepft literarhistorische Darstellung und sprachliche Beschreibung mit dem Ziel, eine umfassende und bewusste Lektuerekompetenz zu foerdern. Besonderheiten ihrer Konzeption sind, dass Sprache und Literatur stets zusammengedacht werden, dass die Einfuehrung an der Ueberlieferung orientiert ist und dass ausgewaehlte Texte mit kleineren Uebungen in die Kapitel integriert sind. Mittelniederdeutsche Sprache wird aus synchroner Perspektive auf den verschiedenen grammatischen Ebenen beschrieben. Diachrone Aspekte werden dort ergaenzend einbezogen, wo sie dem Textverstaendnis dienen. Um ein breites Verstaendnis des Mittelniederdeutschen zu ermoeglichen und das Lesen und Uebersetzen der Quellen zu erleichtern, wird auf sprachliche Variation als ein wesentliches Merkmal historischer Sprachstufen eingegangen. Die Sprachlehre beruecksichtigt Ergebnisse aktueller Forschung und bezieht Daten des ?Referenzkorpus Mittelniederdeutsch/Niederrheinisch (1200?1650)“ ein. Die sprachlichen Phaenomene werden an den Texten veranschaulicht, die der literaturgeschichtliche Teil der Einfuehrung vorstellt. Orientiert an Gattungstraditionen und Texttypen sowie an herausragenden Schreiborten und greifbaren Autorpersoenlichkeiten wird die Vielfalt mittelniederdeutscher Textkultur abgebildet. Dabei wirft das Lehrbuch nicht nur einen Blick auf kanonische Quellen der Ueberlieferung, sondern auch auf eher randstaendig wahrgenommene Texte und Textgruppen. Das Mittelniederdeutsche wird in seiner zeitlichen und raeumlichen Breite abgebildet. So wird textliche Vielfalt sichtbar. Um die LeserInnen in die Lage zu versetzen, mittelniederdeutsche Texte selbstaendig zu bearbeiten, werden die Primaertexte umfaenglich in das Lehrbuch eingebunden. An ihnen werden nicht nur literaturgeschichtliche Informationen und literaturwissenschaftliche Ansaetze veranschaulicht, sondern anhand von Uebungen auch das Wissen um grammatische Merkmale geschaerft. Auf diese Weise wird die Lektuere-, Uebersetzungs- und Analysekompetenz gefoerdert. Ergaenzt werden die Sprachlehre und die Literaturgeschichte durch eine Einfuehrung in zentrale Arbeitsmethoden wie die Nutzung von Woerterbuechern, Grammatiken, Korpora und Atlanten sowie in die individuelle Literaturrecherche.

Della Calce, Elisa / Mocella, Paola / Mollea, Simone (eds.), New Perspectives in Global Latin: Second Conference on Latin as a Vehicle of Cultural Exchange Beyond Europe. (Roma Sinica 6) 264 pp. 2025:3 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-1724>
ISBN 978-3-11-129617-3 hard ¥20,232.- (税込) EUR 85.95 *

The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic perspective which spans from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, the conference and its proceedings have paid special attention to texts related to Africa and Asia. The richness of literary genres as well as the dialogue between the Humanities and hard sciences characterize this volume. Students of Classics will find reflections on the role of Latin in the humanistic and missionary traditions, whereas historians of ideas and historians of religions will be able to pinpoint key moments in the use of Latin language and culture in Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Ethiopian contexts. This volume can also be of interest to people working on Digital Humanities and computational linguistics in Latin language, and it represents a novelty on the world scene, along the lines of the previous Global Latin I Conference, which was yet again held in Siena in 2019.

Koessinger, Norbert (Hrsg.), Altsaechsisch: Beitraege zur altniederdeutschen Sprache, Literatur und Kultur. (Ergaenzungsbaende zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 146) 700 pp. 2025:3 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-1725>
ISBN 978-3-11-133918-4 hard ¥32,943.- (税込) EUR 139.95

This volume is the first in German studies history to present a comprehensive study of the cultural heritage of the Low German region in the early Middle Ages. It is testament to the vibrant interdisciplinary research being conducted in this field, with the knowledge presented here opening up many new prospects for further research into Old Saxon.

近世ゲルマン諸語における主語特性
Modicom, Pierre-Yves, Subject Properties in Early Modern Germanic Languages: A Contrastive Corpus-Based Study. (Konvergenz und Divergenz 13) IX, 375 pp. 2025:4 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-1726>
ISBN 978-3-11-154413-7 hard ¥25,881.- (税込) EUR 109.95 *

This monograph is devoted to the cross-linguistic profile of subjects in Early Modern Germanic languages. The typologically complex question of subject criteria is addressed in a functional framework relying on recent developments in Construction Grammar. The set of data is extracted from a parallel corpus made up of the 1587 German chapbook about the life of Dr. Faustus and its English, Dutch and Danish translations, all of which had been published by 1592. At that time, the syntactic features of English subjects were still comparable to Continental languages like Danish, facilitating the inclusion of English in a cross-Germanic analysis. The analysis makes use of two comparative concepts of subjecthood; argumental subjecthood, centred on the argument-structural characteristics of subjects, and informational subjecthood, which corresponds to the syntacticization of information-structural properties. Subjecthood is defined as a labile multi-level configuration of argumental and informational parameters. This approach sheds new light on notorious tricks of Germanic syntax such as oblique subjects, expletives, scrambling and subjectless passives.

Oppermann, Sophia J., Coordination Structures in Old and Middle High German. (Linguistische Arbeiten 590) XVIII, 372 pp. 2024:12 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-1727>
ISBN 978-3-11-154442-7 hard ¥25,881.- (税込) EUR 109.95 *

Based on the quantitative analysis of a large corpus of Old and Middle High German prose texts, this volume provides a first extensive overview on the syntactic properties of coordination structures featuring the coordinators inti/und and joh in Old and Middle High German and discusses potential analyses in a generative framework. After introducing the main properties of coordination structures in Modern Standard German in Chapters 1 and 2, the results of the corpus study are presented in Chapters 3-6. Chapter 3 focuses on the coordinators inti/und and joh, showing that coordination structures with both coordinators already exhibit the same characteristic types of ellipsis as well as the same parallelism of the conjuncts as their Modern Standard German counterparts. Chapters 4-6 each discuss one major aspect of diachronic change: verbal agreement with conjoined subject-NPs (Chapter 4), the conditions regarding the omission of referential subject-pronouns in clausal or verbal coordination structures (Chapter 5) and so-called ‘inversion after und’ (Chapter 6). The volume thus provides a deeper understanding of the syntax of coordination structures in both a synchronic and diachronic perspective for researchers and students.

Claridge, Claudia (ed.), News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press. (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 105) 250 pp. 2025:1 (J. Benjamins, NE) <745-910>
ISBN 978-90-272-1918-3 hard ¥28,248.- (税込) EUR 120.00

This volume extends research on ideology in the news into the historical sphere, spanning discourse from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The chapters investigate the ideological representation and assessment of political events across three continents, such as uprisings, independence, and genocide, but also of pervasive socio-cultural aspects like gender and language. For this, they rely on a wide range of sources, from handwritten news letters via general daily papers to specialized magazines, and from classical editorial content to letters published in newspapers. The geographical and linguistic focus of the texts investigated comprises British, American, Italian, German, and Polish discourse. The articles use both qualitative and quantitative corpus-based methodology, such as keyword or collocational analysis. The book is of interest for scholars in (historical) linguistics, history, and journalism studies.

Warburton, Kara / Humbley, John (eds.), Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making. (Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 24) 677 pp. 2025:8 (J. Benjamins, NE) <745-1189>
ISBN 978-90-272-2029-5 hard ¥30,602.- (税込) EUR 130.00

Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making is a collection of individual contributions by leading terminology scholars from around the globe who describe historical developments of terminology as a discipline and a field of practice. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive written record of the history of terminology as it evolves from a set of practices to a discipline in its own right. Terminology has witnessed considerable theoretical and methodological developments in recent decades. These changes need to be understood within the context of their historical foundations. The book has three main focus areas. The first examines the prehistory of terminology, going back to the Ancient World, leading to the second, where the pioneers of modern terminology, Eugen Wuester in particular, are placed in their historical context. The final section is an account of how terminology developed in some twenty countries and language communities.

Bach, Xavier / Esher, Louise / Gaglia, Sascha (eds.), Comparative and Dialectal Approaches to Analogy: Inflection in Romance and Beyond. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 55) 320 pp. 2025:9 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <745-1192>
ISBN 978-0-19-888874-1 hard ¥27,987.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00

This volume brings together specialists in inflectional morphology, historical linguistics, and dialectology to explore the processes, directionality, models, and targets of morphological analogy. The chapters draw on atlas data and historical sources, as well as experimental and computational methods, and present case studies from a range of Romance and Germanic languages. Existing work on inferential relationships, predictability, and complexity has investigated what information speakers can access with respect to the shape of inflectional forms; the studies presented here examine how speakers make use of that information and shed light on the properties and contours of inflectional structure. The book is divided into three thematic sections that explore, respectively: the range of objects and patterns that morphological analogy can manipulate; the influence of frequency effects on the choice of models and targets in analogical change; and the mechanisms of change and how these can be modelled. The contributors discuss a variety of significant theoretical issues including the advantages of different models of analogy and inflection, constraints on the choice of template for analogy, autonomous morphology, and non-canonical inflection and morphological complexity. The historical, variationist approaches taken here will complement the considerable existing body of theoretical work in this field and will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on language change, language complexity, and word structure.

ラテン語におけるアラインメントと主語性
Fabrizio, Claudia, Alignment and Subjecthood in Latin. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics) 320 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <745-1194>
ISBN 978-0-19-894316-7 hard ¥27,987.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00

This book provides a detailed, empirically supported, and theoretically informed examination of alignment and subject assignment in Latin. The author challenges the myth of Latin as a language defined solely by a nominative-accusative alignment system through a comprehensive analysis of a wide range of constructions across the history of the language within a single, consistent framework. In accordance with the idea of a tension between a syntactically principled system and a semantically oriented system of alignment, the book offers an in-depth exploration of quirky case and alternating patterns of argument realization. The analysis demonstrates that alongside a tendency to neutralize the semantic roles of arguments for syntactic purposes, Latin displays numerous grammatical patterns that do depend on the semantic relation between the arguments and their predicate. The fundamental assumption is that the underlying principles of lexical semantics (i.e. for verbs, their Aktionsart and their argument structures) are crucial in accounting for those marked patterns that do not fit the canonical nominative-accusative alignment. The book also defends the idea that subjecthood in Latin should be understood as a split relation between a Privileged Syntactic Argument and a pivot, distinguishing between coding and behavioral properties of subjects. The findings shed new light on the grammar of Latin, and make a strong case for a rich, and fully analyzable, lexicon in the architecture of grammar.

Humphries, Emma, Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities: 19th- and 21st-century language commentary on French. (IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 54) 259 pp. 2025:4 (J. Benjamins, NE) <745-1195>
ISBN 978-90-272-1960-2 hard ¥30,602.- (税込) EUR 130.00

This book offers two new perspectives on language attitudes and ideologies. First, it compares language commentary from two thus far relatively neglected time periods: the 19th and 21st centuries. Second, it draws on non-traditional, dialogic sources to explore not only the well-studied "expert" views on language but also the perspectives of the "audience" engaging with these texts. Using France and the French language as its case study, the book explores the areas of stability and change in questions of linguistic authority, insecurity, and correctness. It sheds new light on the evolution of the long-established genre of language commentary and deepens our understanding of the language attitudes and ideologies that shape how language is viewed, discussed and judged. This book will appeal to linguists interested in language attitudes and ideologies in both historical and contemporary contexts.

Kennard, Holly / Lindsay-Smith, Emily et al. (eds.), Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1-5 August 2022. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 369) 305 pp. 2025:4 (J. Benjamins, NE) <745-1196>
ISBN 978-90-272-1917-6 hard ¥29,425.- (税込) EUR 125.00

This book offers a peer-reviewed selection of the best and most original contributions to the twenty-fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. They faithfully reflect the spirit of the Conference in that they all display a shared passion for the diachronic study of language but also an exciting diversity of research questions, theoretical approaches, linguistic phenomena, and languages explored. Data are drawn from Algonquian, Arandic, Bantu, Cushitic, Edoid, Indo-European, Manchu, Tangkic, Tungusic, and Uralic-among other languages and language-families. In addition to addressing, always with new insights, more traditional concerns of historical linguistics, such as reconstruction, classification, the effects of contact and borrowing, the determinants of morphological, syntactic, phonological, and semantic change, this book presents studies on less conventional topics, for example the diachrony of ideophones.

Bernard, Chams, Like Dust on the Silk Road: On the Earliest Iranian and BMAC Loanwords in Tocharian. (Leiden Studies in Indo-European 27) 340 pp. 2025:7 (Brill, NE) <744-1538>
ISBN 978-90-04-73252-0 hard ¥34,133.- (税込) EUR 145.00

"How did the Tocharians reach China?" "Who did they meet on the way?" are some of the most intriguing questions in Indo-European studies. This book is zooming in on a specific part of the question: on their way to China, Tocharians were in contact with an Iranian people living in the south Siberian Steppes, and with a people related to the Oxus Civilization (BMAC). This Iranian people spoke a specific language, called here "Old Steppe Iranian". They gave Tocharians many words, such as maniye 'servant', etswe 'burden-carrying horse' or 'mule', pake 'portion, share'. The BMAC-related people gave the Tocharians other words such as etre 'hero' and kercapo 'donkey'. This book reconstructs features of the language of both these peoples, and examines how they influenced the Tocharians. Based on the latest archaeological findings, it also suggests a reconstruction of the chronology and the way the Tocharians followed before entering the Tarim Basin.

Palmer, Axel, Indo-Slavic Lexical Isoglosses and the Prehistoric Dispersal of Indo-Iranian. (Leiden Studies in Indo-European 26) 2025:6 (Brill, NE) <744-1540>
ISBN 978-90-04-73053-3 hard ¥25,658.- (税込) EUR 109.00

During the past decade, the ancient DNA revolution has had a massive impact on the scholarly debates on the origins and dispersals of language families. Now, linguists are asking the question: does linguistic and genetic evidence paint the same picture of the human past? This book sheds new light on an old hypothesis on the relatedness of Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic languages, by studying unique lexical correspondences of these branches. It argues that their common Indo-Slavic origin supports an emerging picture based on ancient DNA, which shows a genetic relationship between prehistoric populations of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Matessi, Alvise / Giusfredi, Federico et al. (eds.), Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World. Volume 2: The 1st Millennium and the Eastern Mediterranean Interface. (Ancient Languages and Civilizations) 500 pp. 2025:6 (Brill, NE) <744-1360>
ISBN 978-90-04-72969-8 hard ¥23,540.- (税込) EUR 100.00

During the 1st millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia acted as a melting pot and crossroads of languages, cultures and peoples. The political map of the world changed after the collapse of the Bronze Age, the horizon of sea routes was expanded to new interregional networks, new writing systems emerged including the alphabets. The Mediterranean world changed dramatically, and Indo-European languages - Luwic, Lydian, but also Phrygian and Greek - interacted with increasing intensity with each other and with the neighbouring idioms and cultures of the Syro-Mesopotamian, Iranian and Aegean worlds. With an innovative combination of linguistic, historical and philological work, this book will provide a state-of-the-art description of the contacts at the linguistic and cultural boundary between the East and the West.

Shi, Yuzhi, The Historical Morpho-Syntax of Chinese. 489 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <743-1588>
ISBN 978-981-9604-86-9 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book provides a comprehensive history of the evolution of Chinese grammar over the past 3,000 years. Presenting the theoretical frameworks of grammaticalization, cognitive linguistics, and linguistic typology, it focuses on the motivations, mechanisms, and courses of the evolution of the Chinese morphology and syntax. The development of a language is similar to that of an organic body, with internal correlations between the emergences of new phenomena and the disappearances of old phenomena within in a particular period. The book explores all the major historical changes in depth, including word order changes, constructionalizations, replacement of old morphological markers with new ones, information-organizing principles, and newly formed grammatical devices. It also discusses the main motivations responsible for grammatical changes, such as phonological changes, the overall property change of the grammatical system, the frequency of co-occurrences of words and phrases, pragmatic contexts, and language contacts. The Chinese language, which has had the longest history and has been continuously documented, is the quintessence of the intelligence of human beings as a whole. As such, this comprehensive history of the Chinese language is meaningful in many ways-scholarly, culturally, and socially, and is a valuable resource for anyone interested in exploring the cognition of human.

Hidalgo, Margarita, Mexican Spanish in the Twentieth Century: Stratification and Variation. (Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics) 320 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-1087>
ISBN 978-1-032-50472-8 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

Mexican Spanish in the Twentieth Century explores the trends and patterns of sociolinguistic stratification and variation, providing a clearer understanding of linguistic variation in Mexican Spanish as spoken in the twentieth century.The connection between past and present is evidenced through language data on Mexican Spanish gathered from various sources. The historical background of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is revisited from the standpoint of stratification, conflict, and economic adjustments that fit within the model of modernity. This book advances both theoretical and methodological applications deemed necessary to crafting new research perspectives in Latin American sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Seminal literary samples of Mexican and Latin American literature are presented systematically to exemplify the presence and vitality of linguistic variables along with their historical and social cultural context, offering a comprehensible and digestible approach to this field of study.Mexican Spanish in the Twentieth Century is a comprehensive volume for students and researchers of Hispanic linguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics. It will appeal to readers with an interest in the diversity of Latin American Spanish.

Schneider, Britta, Liquid Languages: Constructing Languages in Late Modern Cultures of Diffusion. (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact) 314 pp. 2025:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <741-1602>
ISBN 978-1-009-24987-4 hard ¥28,270.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00

Which ideas about language are prevalent in cultures that are not framed in Western nationalist and literate traditions? How do people conceptualise language if speakers of the same community are multilingual, have access to different language resources and only partially share ideas about what is right and wrong in language? This book explores the 'liquid' properties of language, highlighting how languages, as discursive-material assemblages, can differ in their degree of fixity. It provides a linguistic anthropological study of the language ideologies in Belize, where ethnic belonging and language practice do not necessarily match and where stable language norms are not always considered a value. Scrutinising ethnographic data and examinations of local performances of English, it shows that languages emerge in relation to belonging, prestige and material culture. Bringing to the fore liquid language cultures, it provides important additions to our understanding of late modern language assemblages in a globalising world.

Saczynska-Vercamer, Monika / Zaricky, Ales (eds.), Borders, Borderlands, Language: Culture and Society in the Slavic World through the Centuries. (FOKUS 18) 300 S. 2025:4 (Schoeningh, GW) <741-1579>
ISBN 978-3-506-79774-2 hard ¥27,777.- (税込) EUR 118.00

This collection of studies is devoted to the social role of language in the history of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. The authors examine the specificity of East Central Europe, an area that was a borderland between ‘West’ and ‘East’. The region was largely inhabited by Slavic people, which gave it the character ? and sometimes the name ? of a Slavic world, but it was also home to non-Slavic ethnic groups (Germans, Hungarians, Jews). Various cultures, traditions, religions, faiths reinforced by social and economic divisions, as well as changing political borders over the centuries, created a complex picture of human relations. The authors set out to understand the history of East Central Europe through language ? or rather co-existing languages ? and the role they played at different levels of communication and in different systems of human relations (social, economic and political).

Irving, Sarah / Sanchez-Summerer, Karene et al. (eds.), Colonial Vocabularies: Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870-1970. (Languages and Culture in History) 282 pp. 2025:1 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <741-1600>
ISBN 978-90-485-6039-4 hard ¥31,945.- (税込) GB￡ 113.00 *

Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans' colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, "Oriental language teachers" - as they were termed prior to the Second World War - were fundamental. European state nationalisms influenced and increasingly competed with each other by promoting their languages and cultures abroad, by means of both private and governmental actors. At the same time, learning Arabic became more prominent around the Mediterranean. The first half of the twentieth century corresponded with the emergence of new media; language was thought of as a cultural product to be exported into new cultural spaces. However, many blind spots remain in the history of linguistic thought and practices, including the forgotten and neglected voices of those involved in learning and teaching Arabic. This volume aims to revisit aspects of this linguistic encounter, including its vision, profile, priorities, trajectories, and practices.

Park, Sung Min, The Prestige Language of Christianity in the Book of Acts: Historical Sociolinguistic Approaches to Multilingualism. (Linguistic Biblical Studies 29) 386 pp. 2025:5 (Brill, NE) <740-155>
ISBN 978-90-04-72708-3 hard ¥42,136.- (税込) EUR 179.00

Researching ancient languages is notoriously difficult in sociolinguistics, due to the scarcity of data. This challenge is addressed by utilizing recent sociolinguistic theories and models to investigate the prestige languages used by early Christians in Acts. Drawing on historical documents, archaeology, and inscriptions, this study reconstructs the complex multilingual settings of the time. It reveals how Greek, despite the diverse linguistic landscape, became the dominant language in nearly all official contexts of early Christianity. This work breaks new ground in understanding early Christian communities and their linguistic practices, offering historical sociolinguistic approaches to the study of ancient languages and societies.

Aerts, Simon, Latin Tense and Aspect in 3D: A Revision of Verbal Categories in Antiquity and Beyond. (Routledge Advances in Functional Linguistics) 176 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <740-1580>
ISBN 978-1-032-35407-1 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book applies an SFL-inspired, multi-dimensional approach to Latin linguistics, offering fresh insights into Latin narrative tenses while addressing challenges posed by its closed-corpus nature. Bridging Classics and Linguistics, it categorizes the functional potential of the verbal categories "tense" and "aspect" and reshapes existing labels through a quantitative analysis of select historiographical narratives. Aerts elucidates the communicative subtleties of tense and aspect in Latin and highlights their relevance to modern linguistic methodologies and cross-linguistic investigations.Contributing to functional linguistic theory, the volume explores the semantic boundaries of tense and aspect in human languages, uncovering previously unrecognized uses in Latin and addressing obstacles in historical language analysis. It showcases how modern tools enhance reproducibility and deepen our understanding of grammatical systems, with implications for the study of Latin, Romance languages, and beyond. This book will appeal to scholars in linguistics, classical philology, and historical linguistics.

Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard / Waltereit, Richard (eds.), Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 54) 496 pp. 2025:7 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <740-1581>
ISBN 978-0-19-893905-4 hard ¥33,641.- (税込) GB￡ 119.00

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This volume explores the long-held assumption in linguistics that language change may proceed in a cyclical fashion. Cyclic change has recently attracted renewed interest, most notably with respect to the evolution of negation across a range of languages, but also in relation to a wide range of other phenomena. The chapters in this book take as their point of departure the hypothesis that cyclic change is pragmatically driven, and analyse forms of this change in morphosyntax, the lexicon, and semantics and pragmatics - as well as the interaction between these levels - across a range of mainly Indo-European languages and language families, but also including Semitic, Sinitic, and Austronesian languages. They also discuss the epistemological status of cycles; explore their relationship with other recognized forms of change; examine the limits of the notion of a cycle in language change; and discuss cyclicity from a cognitive-pragmatic and sociopragmatic perspective.

van Beek, Lucien (ed.), Language Change in Epic Greek and other Poetic Traditions. (Leiden Studies in Indo-European 25) 250 pp. 2025:4 (Brill, NE) <740-1583>
ISBN 978-90-04-53701-9 hard ¥28,248.- (税込) EUR 120.00

Homeric language fascinates because of its many oddities with respect to other forms of Ancient Greek. From which dialects did this poetic language take shape and develop? In which ways did individual poets alter the language? In this volume you will find twelve cutting-edge studies on linguistic change in oral traditions, with a focus on Early Greek epic but also including Near-Eastern traditions (Biblical Hebrew, Quranic Arabic). Several studies focus on an innovative idea of phonological change occurring within an oral tradition. You will also find studies on the adaptation of linguistic form to meter; formulae and epithets; and contact between different traditions or registers.

Korenjak, Martin, Latein: Portraet einer Weltsprache. (Beck'sche Reihe: Wissen 2967) 128 S. 2025:3 (Beck, GW) <739-1065>
ISBN 978-3-406-83196-6 paper ¥2,824.- (税込) EUR 12.00 *

古代以降のギリシア語－歴史言語学における進展と課題
Holton, David / Manolessou, Io (eds.), The Greek Language after Antiquity: Advances and Challenges in Historical Linguistics. (British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies) 256 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-1532>
ISBN 978-1-032-42734-8 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

The Greek Language after Antiquity offers an in-depth look at the diachrony of the Greek language, focusing on a period relatively neglected by modern scholarship: the more than 1,000 years between the end of Antiquity and the early modern period. These studies, written by experts in the field, target different levels of analysis (phonology, morphology, semantics, lexicon, dialectology, sociolinguistics), combining substantial primary data with various theoretical approaches.It begins with a radical proposal for a different approach to the historical linguistics of Greek, focused on the process of language diversification, as opposed to the traditional genetic approach to dialect emergence. Other topics include register variation in Byzantine literature, crucial for understanding the subsequent evolution of a written standard; morphological variation in conjunction with problems of textual transmission in medieval and early modern vernacular texts, with special focus on the notion of "philology"; evidence for language contact in the Late Medieval period; and the use of graphemic evidence, i.e. spelling, to detect changes in pronunciation over a long time span. Two chapters examine issues of word formation: one presents a new research project on diachronic derivational morphology; the other examines compound formation in the Cretan dialect. The final chapter examines theoretical and methodological issues in studying the historical semantics of Greek.This book is essential reading for researchers in Greek historical linguistics and especially useful for students, teachers and researchers in Classics, Byzantine studies and general linguistics, with important connections to the historical linguistics and text-critical studies of other languages, particularly Romance and Turkish.

Cooper, Paul, Yorkshire Dialect in the Nineteenth Century: Enregisterment, Authenticity, and Identity. (Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics) 248 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <737-1996>
ISBN 978-1-032-53480-0 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book draws on a framework of enregisterment and indexicality to chart the ways in which the Yorkshire dialect came to be associated with particular linguistic repertoires and social stereotypes from the nineteenth century through to today. Cooper situates the work within a historical enregisterment framework, rooted in an ideological approach to the study of language.Focusing on representations of the Yorkshire dialect in a corpus of nineteenth-century writing, comprising poetry, ballads, songs, and plays, Cooper explores how the dialect came to be enregistered and indexical of social values such as friendliness, directness, or authenticity, and how sub-varieties impacted the division of communities along ideological lines. The volume also includes qualitative analyses of metalinguistic commentary from such historical sources as dictionaries, glossaries, and magazines. Taken together, the book offers a holistic picture of the evolution of the Yorkshire dialect and in turn, stereotypes of "Yorkshireness" which persist to this day. Cooper shows how an enregisterment approach can offer a deeper understanding of the historical relationships between dialect and identity and in turn, contemporary perceptions of dialects and their speakers.This volume will be of interest to students and scholars in historical sociolinguistics, dialectology, and English language.

谷明信著　後期中英語から初期近代英語までの二項句
Tani, Akinobu, Binomials in Late Middle English to Early Modern English: Style, Frequency and Etymology. (Routledge Studies in Historical Linguistics) 264 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <737-1999>
ISBN 978-1-032-58390-7 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book charts the development of style and lexicon in the English language from Late Middle English to Early Modern English through the analysis of binomials across a wide range of texts and genres.The volume elucidates the forms, functions, and origins of binomials, otherwise understood as word pairs, such as "safe and sound," as they manifest in representative prose texts from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and in the Helsinki Corpus from the fourteenth through to the early eighteenth centuries. The book begins with cross-comparative analyses of binomials, examining their frequency, etymological makeup, and repetition in prose texts including Chaucer and Malory to explore the stylistic characteristics of each text, toward zooming out to examine their development in texts across different genres, from political to philosophical to legal texts, in the Helsinki Corpus. In charting binomial development over both time and text type, the volume offers readers a unique historical perspective into the evolution of phraseology from Late Middle English through to Early Modern English and in turn, a solid foundation for future research on lexical development in the English language.This book will be of interest to scholars in English historical linguistics, English stylistics, English corpus linguistics, and English lexicology.

新アッシリア語の文法
Leonhardt, Hannes, Neuassyrische Grammatik. (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 16) 742 S. 2024:6 (O. Harrassowitz, GW) <737-1806>
ISBN 978-3-447-12206-1 hard ¥23,069.- (税込) EUR 98.00