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

Pillen, Alex, Endurance: Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World. (Brill Kurdish Studies 1) 220 pp. 2024:10 (Brill, NE) <726-965>
ISBN 978-90-04-70951-5 hard ¥28,776.- (税込) EUR 120.00

In Endurance , Alex Pillen portrays a sense of being unique within Kurdish cultural spheres. How to feel unique despite devastating violence, cultural oppression and assimilation is a question faced by many communities globally. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) is a focal point for such uniqueness. When a culture is under siege and many have lost a former way of life it may not be clear how a society looks itself in the mirror, finds its reflection. Alex Pillen's portrayal of Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World locates such lines of reflection within everyday language. The fear of a random geopolitical pair of dice is global, a fear to be honed when reading this account of uniqueness in the face of totalising loss

Ayil, Ephraim S., Identifying the Stones of Classical Hebrew: A Modern Philological Approach. (Ancient Languages and Civilizations 7) 220 pp. 2024:8 (Brill, NE) <726-1440>
ISBN 978-90-04-67799-9 hard ¥17,985.- (税込) EUR 75.00

Since the translation of the Septuagint in the 3rd century BCE, scholars have attempted to identify the stones that populate the biblical text. This study rejects the long-standing reliance on ancient translations for identifying biblical stones. Despite the evident contradictions and historical inconsistencies, scholars traditionally presumed these translations to be reliable. By departing from this approach, this volume presents a novel synthesis of comparative linguistics and archeogemological data. Through rigorous analysis of valid cognates, it establishes correlations between Hebrew stone names and their counterparts in ancient languages, corresponding to known mineral species. This methodological shift enables a more accurate identification of stones mentioned in biblical texts, thus recovering their true historical context. The research not only advances our understanding of biblical mineralogy but also provides a fresh perspective on the material culture of the Ancient Levant, offering valuable insights for scholars and laymen, linguists and archaeologists alike.

Frenkel, Miriam / Lieberman, Philllip I. (eds.), "An Inspired Man": Studies in Judeo-Arabic Culture Dedicated to the Memory of Joshua Blau. (Etudes sur le Judaisme Medieval 97) 440 pp. 2024:3 (Brill, NE) <726-1441>
ISBN 978-90-04-68656-4 hard ¥35,730.- (税込) EUR 149.00

Valdeson, Fredrik, The Diachrony of Ditransitives in Late Modern Swedish. (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 22) 310 pp. 2024:9 (Brill, NE) <726-1444>
ISBN 978-90-04-68638-0 hard ¥32,373.- (税込) EUR 135.00

This book presents the first major study of ditransitives in Swedish. Using a combination of well-established and innovative corpus-based methods, the book reveals considerable changes in the constructional behaviour of ditransitive verbs over the course of the last 200 years. The key finding is that the use of the so-called double object construction has decreased dramatically in terms of frequency, lexical richness and semantic range. This development is parallelled by a decisive increase in prepositional object constructions. The results are of high relevance to the ongoing debate within construction grammar on constructional productivity and on the nature of horizontal links.

Kim, Mary Shin (ed.), Exploring Korean Politeness Across Online and Offline Interactions. (Advances in (Im)politeness Studies) 268 pp. 2024:7 (Springer, GW) <726-1447>
ISBN 978-3-031-50697-0 hard ¥11,986.- (税込) EUR 49.99 *
ISBN 978-3-031-50700-7 paper ¥9,588.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open-access edited volume brings together the latest research on Korean politeness (K-Politeness) from multidisciplinary and multimodal perspectives across a broad range of different interactional contexts and communication platforms, both online and offline. The volume examines how Korean language speakers construct, negotiate, and utilize politeness or impoliteness as discursive practices during daily interaction. The studies not only include intimate interactions between family members and friends, but also institutional interactions between business vendors and customers, doctors and patients, talk show hosts and their guests, as well as politicians. The studies include discussions on the perception of Korean (im)politeness of K-wave viewers and fans. The role of media is discussed and how it influences public discourse and speakers' perception and practice of Korean (im)politeness. This text also examines interactions through instant text messages, chat boxes in livestreaming sites, online chat boxes with business vendors, and related communication channels. Although the disciplines and methodologies may vary, the studies are based on empirical research. This volume provides new insights through contributions from researchers of different disciplines, including communications, sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, and pragmatics; it appeals to students and researchers in these fields.

Pollock, Jean-Yves, Studies on Interrogative and Relative Syntax in French and Romance. (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) 336 pp. 2024:11 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <726-1451>
ISBN 978-0-19-891032-9 hard ¥28,314.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00 *

This book provides a detailed study of the unusually large array of interrogative and relative grammars mastered by French speakers. Each of its eight chapters is devoted to one aspect of their interrogative competence and to the closely related syntax of their relative, exclamative, and cleft constructions. Jean-Yves Pollock draws on the rich traditional and generative literature devoted to this type of construction and makes use of all the theoretical tools of modern generative grammar, including the displacement known as remnant movement and the highly articulated high and low left peripheries of the clause developed within the cartographic approach. French speakers' competence in these complex areas often seems to set them apart from speakers of other Romance languages: this book hence adopts a comparative approach to isolate those features of French that are responsible for the unique properties exhibited by the constructions under investigation. A greater understanding of French questions, clefts, free relatives, and exclamatives is achieved through comparison with the equivalent constructions in English and Romance - more specifically Italian and Northern Italian dialects - and those French constructions equally shed light on the syntax of English, Italian, and Northern Italian dialects.

Bulakh, Maria, The T-Stems in Soqotri: A Contribution to Semitic Detransitivising Derivation. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 113) 280 pp. 2024:9 (Brill, NE) <726-1477>
ISBN 978-90-04-70377-3 hard ¥32,373.- (税込) EUR 135.00

This book presents the results of a field research on the verbal system of Soqotri, a little-studied language spoken on the island of Soqotra (Arabian Sea) and belonging to the Modern South Arabian branch of Semitic. The investigation focuses on the so-called T-stems (marked by the infix -t-), mostly employed as derivational means of detransitivisation. In this book you will find comprehensive descriptions of the synchronic morphology and semantics of the T-stems, as well as an inquiry into their diachronic background. Simultaneously, the study is a contribution to the general typology of detransitivising derivation in the languages of the world.

Bulalang, Sharon, Western Subanon Grammar. (Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects 3) 350 pp. 2024:9 (Brill, NE) <726-1478>
ISBN 978-90-04-70300-1 hard ¥28,776.- (税込) EUR 120.00

Western Subanon Grammar is the first ever comprehensive description of Western Subanon, a highly endangered indigenous Austronesian minority language in the southern Philippines. Written by a native speaker and the result of intensive fieldwork, the book's 26 chapters cover the phonological, morpho-syntactic, and discourse properties of the language. Special attention is devoted to the salient grammatical features of Western Subanon, including symmetrical voice, relative clauses, ellipsis, and scope. The volume also makes available numerous examples online through Kaipuleohone, the digital linguistic archive of the University of Hawaii.

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Korangy, Alireza / Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, Behrooz (eds.), The Handbook of Persian Dialects and Dialectology. 537 pp. 2024:8 (Springer, GW) <726-1481>
ISBN 978-981-9981-50-2 hard ¥43,160.- (税込) EUR 179.99 *

This innovative, investigative, and expansive handbook covers a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects and accents can be examined and parsed with the view of understanding better the devices and paths through which language, and cultural cognizance, operate in tandem. As the first book in English to engage Persian dialects and dialectology on a broad and comprehensive scale, it develops an understanding of the paths through which maximization of the expressive power of words exists in Persian under the rubric of cultural conceptualizations. An insightful and all-encompassing resource for analyzing and augmenting knowledge of Persian linguistics, this work presents a thorough and all-encompassing interdisciplinary treatment of Persian. It is a vital resource for socio- and cultural linguists, as well as anthropologists and Iranists. It is also an excellent reference for historians researching Persian civilization, culture, literature and art.

Rose, David, Languages of Australia's First Peoples in Narrative: Australian Stories. (Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics) 400 pp. 2024:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-1484>
ISBN 978-1-350-41389-4 hard ¥27,170.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *

Celebrating the diverse languages of Australia's First Peoples, this book presents stories told by elders in eighteen languages from around the continent, and explores their patterns of meaning. The stories recount the experiences of the tellers and histories of their communities, from tales of anti-colonial resistance to origin stories of the Dreaming. The book aims to make the languages accessible and engaging through the voices of the elders, while building readers' knowledge about language and language learning. It opens with some basic language knowledge for reading the stories. Each chapter then begins with the cultural and historical contexts of the stories, which are first previewed in English translation, then presented sentence-by-sentence, setting out the original sounds and wordings, glossed with plain English. Extracts are selected to illustrate patterns of meanings that are characteristic of each language. The final chapter sums up the various meaning patterns the stories use, and interprets their evolution in the light of First Peoples' deep histories, as recorded by archaeology and traditional knowledge. The book will be useful for language learning programs in communities and schools, for researchers of language and language teaching, and for any reader with an interest in the languages and cultures of Australia's First Peoples.