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

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.

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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.