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

Laidler, Kateryna, From Jazz and Rap to Dzhaz and Rep: Phonological Adaptation of English Loanwords in Russian. (Sounds - Meaning - Communication. Landmarks in Phonetics, Phonology and Cognitive Linguistics 15) 286 pp. 2022:10 (P. Lang, SZ) <690-1459>
ISBN 978-3-631-88324-2 hard ¥14,546.- (税込) SFR 58.00

The book provides a significant insight into the complex process of English loanword adaptation in Russian. It is based on an in-depth analysis and comparison of a rich body of experimental data on the adaptation of both established and online loans of those English sounds absent from Russian phonemic inventory. The analysis is couched within the Optimality-Theoretic framework. The uncovered patterns offer valuable contribution to the ongoing debate on loanword phonology.

Brakel, Arthur, Portuguese Morphophonology: A Generative-Markedness Approach. Volume 3: Verbs. 422 pp. 2022:9 (P. Lang, SZ) <690-1472>
ISBN 978-3-0343-3844-8 paper ¥24,076.- (税込) SFR 96.00

‘Verbs’ presents data concerning conjugation class, regularity, irregularity, frequency, and a person number hierarchy before examining regular verb inflection. Transparent past tense verbs provide the template for analysis of all tenses, moods and aspects. The present indicative has a O tense-mood-aspect morpheme. Present tense irregular verbs, including suppletives, evince vocalic and consonantal mutability. The key to irregular pluperfect, past and future subjunctive lies in the stems of the irregular preterite?the most marked of all past tense verbs. The final chapter demonstrates verbal derivation using theme vowels, intermediate suffixes, and prefixes. All 4 chapters provide grammars of the phenomena examined. A Postscript presents verbal hierarchies in the FrePOP lexicon.

Brakel, Arthur, Portuguese Morphophonology: A Generative-Markedness Approach. Volume 2: Nominals. 498 pp. 2022:9 (P. Lang, SZ) <690-1473>
ISBN 978-3-0343-3843-1 paper ¥29,594.- (税込) SFR 118.00

‘Nominals’ examines and evaluates inflectional patterns for unproblematic nouns, adjectives, pronouns and demonstratives. The section on suffixal derivation of ordinary nominals evaluates the productivity and markedness of noun and adjective forming suffixes. An entire chapter demonstrates how the suffix +sion++e+ varies in words such nacao ‘nation’ and nacional ‘national’. Problematic phenomena concerning gender and number occur when specific deriving suffixes attach or fail to attach to specific nominals. Diminutive and augmentative suffixes not only convey affect, they also work as deriving morphemes. Prefixes have a major role in nominal formation. Compound nominals are either true or semi-compounds, lexical or grammatical. Each chapter provides a grammar of the phenomena examined.

Brakel, Arthur, Portuguese Morphophonology: A Generative-Markedness Approach. Volume 1: Foundations. 478 pp. 2022:9 (P. Lang, SZ) <690-1474>
ISBN 978-3-0343-3845-5 paper ¥25,581.- (税込) SFR 102.00

‘Foundations’ reviews prior work in Portuguese phonology. The Portuguese (morpho)phonemic inventory illustrates its markedness approach. A 156 phoneme database demonstrates markedness in phonemes worldwide. Reviewing analyses of specific Portuguese segments, it proposes a phonemic inventory: 7 vowels, 18 consonants. The volume refines an analysis of Portuguese stress and reviews 2 acoustic studies thereof. It rejects rhythmic waves and syllable weight to determine degrees of tonicity. An algorithm divides strings of segments into syllables. The study also catalogues syllable onsets and codas. The final chapter advances a lexicon and morpheme boundaries to distinguish 8 morphemic affinities. Postscripts present the study’s database, FrePOP’s database, phonemic resolution, markedness and sonority.