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

Tarsi, Matteo, Loanwords and Native Words in Old and Middle Icelandic: A Study in the History and Dynamics of the Icelandic Medieval Lexicon, from the Twelfth Century to 1550. (Studies in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 4) 332 pp. 2022:9 (Brepols, BE) <690-1453>
ISBN 978-2-503-59815-4 hard ¥20,009.- (税込) EUR 85.00 *

Jachym, Barbara, Wissenschaft und Ideologie Linguistische Analyse des deutsch-polnischen Diskurses zur Ethnogenese der Slawen aus kontrastiver Sicht. (Studien zur Text- und Diskursforschung 28) 338 S. 2022:10 (P. Lang, SZ) <690-1455>
ISBN 978-3-631-88334-1 hard ¥17,556.- (税込) SFR 70.00

Das Buch strebt eine linguistische Analyse der deutsch-polnischen Polemik zur Ethnogenese der Slawen (1918-1938) an. Die Untersuchungen basieren auf den Forschungsergebnissen der linguistischen Diskursanalyse und als Analysenbasis wurde das Mehr-Ebenen-Modell (DIMEAN) von Spitzmueller/Warnke adaptiert. Das Hauptaugenmerk richtet sich auf die Untersuchung der Akteure und der intertextuellen Relationen. Eine grosse Rolle faellt dem historischen Kontext und den Medien zu, die nicht nur als Diskursplattform, sondern auch als Mitspieler im Diskurs zu verstehen sind. Die Studie bezweckt, den in einer konkreten Situation wurzelnden Diskurs, in dem Wissenschaft, Politik und Oeffentlichkeit zusammenfliessen und seine Akteure in ihrer Wechselrelation mit dem Diskurs wie auch ihre Sprachverwendung zu untersuchen.

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.

Fuyi, Xing, Modern Chinese Complex Sentences III.: Adversative Type. (Chinese Linguistics) 344 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <690-1507>
ISBN 978-1-032-44650-9 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-44853-4 paper ¥9,043.- (税込) GB￡ 31.99 *

This book is the third volume of a four-volume set on modern Chinese complex sentences, with a focus on adversative complex sentences and relevant forms.Complex sentences in modern Chinese are unique in formation and meaning. The author proposes a tripartite classification of Chinese complex sentences according to the semantic relationships between the clauses, i.e., coordinate, causal, and adversative. This volume analyzes representative forms of adversative type, including the prototype, the clauses linked by connectives referring to "otherwise", the combinations of clause structures and certain adversative conjunctions or linking adverbs indicating an adversative relationship, the adversative factors and relationship in two typical progressive sentences, factive sentences, and concessive forms. It also discusses the adversative type in the broad sense, classifying the different forms and analyzing the semantic meaning, pragmatic value, and implications for research and language teaching.The book will be a useful reference for scholars and learners in Chinese grammar and language information processing.

Shi, Yuzhi, The Evolution of Chinese Grammar. 500 pp. 2023:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <690-1510>
ISBN 978-1-108-84405-5 hard ¥36,751.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *

The Chinese language has the longest well-documented history among all human languages, making it an invaluable resource for studying how languages develop and change through time. Based on a twenty-year long research project, this pioneering book is the English version of an award-winning study originally published in Chinese. It provides an evolutionary perspective on the history of Chinese grammar, tracing its development from its thirteenth-Century BC origins to the present day. It investigates all the major changes in the history of the language within contemporary linguistic frameworks, and illustrates these with a wide range of examples taken from every stage in the language's development, showing how the author's findings are relevant to contemporary descriptive, theoretical, and historical linguistics. Shedding light on the essential properties of Chinese and, ultimately, language in general, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students of Asian linguistics, historical linguistics and syntactic theory.

Sirhan, Nadia R., Mastering Arabic Vocabulary: For Beginner to Intermediate Learners of Modern Standard Arabic. 336 pp. 2023:3 (Routledge, UK) <690-1511>
ISBN 978-1-032-16901-9 hard ¥38,164.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-16900-2 paper ¥11,022.- (税込) GB￡ 38.99 *

Mastering Arabic Vocabulary: For Beginner to Intermediate Learners of Modern Standard Arabic provides a structured vocabulary course for novice students of Arabic.Arranged thematically, and by root, the course is a flexible resource that can be used alongside other learning materials. The unique root organisation supports students' understanding of the structure of Arabic words and of the connection between form and meaning in Arabic vocabulary. The wealth of exercises throughout are designed to reinforce learning and help students gain a solid foundation in the key vocabulary needed to reach an intermediate level.Mastering Arabic Vocabulary is the ideal reference for building a strong foundation in Arabic vocabulary, for students from beginner level up to B1-B2 CEFR and ACTFL Intermediate-Low to Intermediate-High.

Van Rooy, Raf / Van Hecke, Pierre / Van Hal, Toon (eds.), Trilingual Learning: The Study of Greek and Hebrew in a Latin World (1000-1700). (Lectio: Studies in the Transmission of Texts & Ideas 13) 440 pp. 2022:12 (Brepols, BE) <690-1246>
ISBN 978-2-503-60106-9 hard ¥23,540.- (税込) EUR 100.00