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

Simpson, Andrew (ed.), New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in Honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li. (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today 272) 571 pp. 2022:5 (J. Benjamins, NE) <674-2012>
ISBN 978-90-272-1067-8 hard ¥24,370.- (税込) EUR 105.00

This volume brings together 19 cutting edge studies written by some of the most prominent linguists working on Chinese formal syntax, as a Festschrift volume dedicated to Yen-Hui Audrey Li. The contributions to the volume address a wide range of issues currently developing in the field of Chinese syntax, grouped into five thematic sections on the structure of lexical and functional projections, modal verb syntax, syntax-semantics interactions, the syntax and interpretation of particles, and the acquisition of syntactic structures. With its rich descriptive content sourced from different varieties of Chinese, and its theoretical orientation and analyses, the book provides an important new resource both for researchers with a primary interest in Chinese and other linguists interested in discovering how properties of Chinese can inform the analysis of other languages.

Alboiu, Gabriela / King, Ruth (eds.), Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers Selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 360) 275 pp. 2022:3 (J. Benjamins, NE) <674-2044>
ISBN 978-90-272-1084-5 hard ¥24,370.- (税込) EUR 105.00

This volume brings together selected papers from the 48th annual Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, held at York University in Toronto, Canada, in April 2018. It presents original research on a wide variety of Romance languages both past (Latin, Old Catalan, Old Iberian Romance, Old Spanish, Old Portuguese, and West-Iberian Medieval Latin) and present (Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, French, Picard, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish) along with a number of contemporary dialects, including Basque Country Spanish, Dominican Spanish, Maine French, Neapolitan, and Picardie French. Divided into four sections - Interfaces, Bridging issues at the CP-TP-vP levels, Bridging issues at the PP-DP levels, and Bridging issues in linguistics - the volume gives researchers and advanced students access to contemporary issues and novel ideas bridging across various areas of Romance linguistics (e.g., morphology, syntax, semantics, phonology, sociolinguistics, first and second language acquisition).

Alzayid, Ali A., Arabic Dislocation. (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today 271) 240 pp. 2022:3 (J. Benjamins, NE) <674-2045>
ISBN 978-90-272-1066-1 hard ¥22,977.- (税込) EUR 99.00

Since the early years of generative grammar (Chomsky 1977, inter alia), the phenomenology of dislocation has proved to be a fertile area of research. This, however, has not been the case for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and hence this thorough monograph intends to fill this lacuna. Three aspects of this linguistic phenomenon stand out: the taxonomy of possible dislocated configurations, syntax and interpretation. Though the structure in itself has been extensively studied in various languages, including varieties of spoken Arabic, this monograph shows that MSA presents properties that set it apart from known varieties and cannot be captured by an extension or modification of existing analyses. Moreover, existing analyses are not fully satisfactory as there are open analytical questions regarding the interpretation and syntactic analysis of dislocation structures crosslinguistically. Particularly, the optimal path to follow concerning dislocation structures in MSA is to argue for the claim that contrast, as an information-structural notion, underlies the interpretation of dislocated elements, and these elements are best syntactically analyzed as being involved in a bisentential configuration, contra monoclausal approaches to dislocation. This monograph should be relevant to anyone with an interest in the Arabic language, and also to syntacticians and typologists with an interest in sentence structure.

Hunt, Steven, Teaching Latin: Contexts, Theories, Practices. 240 pp. 2022:4 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <674-2048>
ISBN 978-1-350-16138-2 hard ¥22,528.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-16137-5 paper ¥7,036.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99 *

Building on and updating some of the issues addressed in Starting to Teach Latin, Steven Hunt provides a guide for novice and more experienced teachers of Latin in schools and colleges, who work with adapted and original Latin prose texts from beginners' to advanced levels. It draws extensively on up-to-date theories of second language development and on multiple examples of the practices of real teachers and students. Hunt starts with a detailed look at deductive, inductive and active teaching methods, which support teachers in making the best choices for their students' needs and for their own personal preferences, but goes on to organise the book around the principles of listening, reading, speaking and writing Latin. It is designed to be informative, experimental and occasionally provocative. The book closes with two chapters of particular contemporary interest: 'Access, Diversity and Inclusion' investigates how the subject community is meeting the challenge of teaching Latin more equitably in today's schools; and 'The Future' offers some thoughts on lessons that have been learnt from the experiences of online teaching practices during the Covid-19 lockdowns. Practical examples, extensive references and a companion website at www.stevenhuntclassics.com are included. Teachers of Latin will find this book an invaluable tool inside and outside of the classroom.

Labeau, Emmanuelle, The Decline of the French Passe Simple. (Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory 18) 450 pp. 2022:7 (Brill, NE) <674-2050>
ISBN 978-90-04-51032-6 hard ¥34,582.- (税込) EUR 149.00

The disappearance of the French simple past has been hotly debated since the early 20th century. This volume offers an overview of its fortunes since French emerged as a language, provides a description of its distinctive features, and discusses the potential impact of its supposed demise on the whole French verb system. These assumptions are tested against a large corpus of contemporary texts. The study concludes that, despite the erosion of its meaning and its increasingly infrequent use, the simple past tense is still used by native speakers in various contexts, and no single substitute has yet emerged. Nevertheless, the simple past may be evolving into a stylistic marker, making it fertile ground for future cross-linguistic studies.

Lorenzo, Guillermo (ed.), Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias. (Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 36) 218 pp. 2022:3 (J. Benjamins, NE) <674-2051>
ISBN 978-90-272-1093-7 hard ¥24,370.- (税込) EUR 105.00

This is the first generative-oriented volume ever published about Asturian and Asturian Galician, two Romance languages which, along with their intrinsic interest, are crucial to understand the parametric distance between Spanish and Galician/Portuguese. Its chapters offer new insights about old puzzles, like pronominal enclisis or apparent violations of bans on clitic combinatorics, but they also deal with less explored grounds, like aspect, negation or prosody. Chapters make special emphasis on how the concerned issues result from complex interactions between syntax proper and its interfaces with sound and meaning. The book focuses on particular aspects of Asturian and Asturian Galician, as well as on some effects of their contact with Spanish in their corresponding locations.

Saxena, Anju, The Linguistic Landscape of the Indian Himalayas: Languages in Kinnaur. (Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages 14) 450 pp. 2022:7 (Brill, NE) <674-2053>
ISBN 978-90-04-51224-5 hard ¥34,582.- (税込) EUR 149.00

This monograph is a contribution to the documentation of the linguistic situation of the Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh (Indian Himalayas) which has been so far almost undescribed. The Sino-Tibetan languages Kinnauri and Navakat and the Indo-Aryan language Kinnauri Pahari, all spoken in Kinnaur, are described both individually and as parts of a multifaceted linguistic ecology that extends into the surrounding wider Himalayan region. The author combines traditional linguistic description and a quantitative computational procedure to disentangle genealogical and areal characteristics of the languages of Kinnaur.

Baauw, Sergio / Drijkoningen, Frank / Meroni, Luisa (eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 32, Utrecht. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 357) 320 pp. 2021:12 (J. Benjamins, NE) <674-1974>
ISBN 978-90-272-1012-8 hard ¥24,370.- (税込) EUR 105.00

This volume contains a peer reviewed selection of invited contributions, papers and posters that were presented at the 2018 venue of Going Romance (XXXII) in Utrecht (a four day program that included two thematic workshops).The papers all discuss data and formalized analyses of one or more Romance languages or dialects, in either synchronic or diachronic perspective, and pay particular attention to the variation and the actual variability that is at stake, not only in syntax and morpho-syntax but also in semantics and phonology. Beyond the discussion of differences between languages and/or dialects from a formalist perspective, the volume also contains a number of papers linking the theme of variation to sociolinguistic issues such as natural bilingualism and micro-contact.

Nicolae, Alexandru / Dragomirescu, Adina (eds.), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 355) 377 pp. 2021:12 (J. Benjamins, NE) <674-1985>
ISBN 978-90-272-1005-0 hard ¥24,370.- (税込) EUR 105.00

This volume contains a selection of 18 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 31st edition of Going Romance. Phenomena found in Romance languages (European Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian), in Romance dialects (Cosentino, Salentino, southern Calabrese, Neapolitan, and Trevigiano), and even in creoles with a Romance lexifier (Makista and Kristang) either benefit from in-depth analyses confined to one single variety, or are subjected to comparative analysis (dialect vs standard language, dialect vs different major language(s), cross-dialectal comparison, cross-Romance comparison, and even comparison of language families). Theoretical and experimental approaches complement one another, as do diachrony and synchrony. Individually and as a whole, these contributions show how the Romance languages contribute to a better understanding of issues which are relevant in the current linguistic landscape: acquisition, n-words, ellipsis phenomena, focus and polarity, ditransitive constructions, grammaticalization theory, differential object marking, language ecology, event structure, cyclicity, passives and many more.

Ferrando, Antoni / Babbi, Anna Maria (eds.), La "cavalleria umanistica" italiana / The Italian "Humanistic Chivalry": Enyego (Inico) d'Avalos e 'Curial e Guelfa' / Enyego (Inico) d'Avalos and 'Curial e Guelfa'. (IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 29) xxiii, 203 pp. 2021:11 (J. Benjamins, NE) <674-1992>
ISBN 978-90-272-0928-3 hard ¥22,049.- (税込) EUR 95.00

古典中国語・中世中国語辞典　第3版
Kroll, Paul W., A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese. 3rd ed. Newly Rev. & Expanded. 732 pp. 2022:3 (Brill, NE) <674-15>
ISBN 978-90-04-49939-3 paper ¥12,533.- (税込) EUR 54.00

A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese is the long-desired Chinese - English reference work for all those reading texts dating from the Warring States period through the Tang dynasty, and beyond. Comprising 8,000+ characters, arranged alphabetically by Pinyin, with an index by "radical" and stroke- count , and various appendices, including one with reign-eras and exact accession dates of emperors according to both Chinese and Western calendars.