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(xxvii, 843 pp.) Another ample Oxford typological anthology has arrived, joining a set of volumes that focus on such previously under-researched topics as serial verb constructions, evidentiality, and body-part expressions. In that spirit, Sarvasy and Aikhenvald have organized numerous contributions here investigating a syntactic structure that is unfamiliar in standard Indo-European languages, and is consequently seldom taught in linguistics courses: clause chaining. This is a senten
Congratulations?to Siva Reddy who has won a prestigious?2026?Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for early-career researchers! You can read all about it here.
The next P* group presentation will be on?Monday, Feb 23, 12-1pm?in?room 117?and on?Zoom.?Natalia will be presenting her?Honours Thesis?(attached),?Impoverished Nuclei in Lushootseed: A CVC Analysis.
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Research Methods in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies (CTIS) consists of an introduction by the editors, fourteen chapters, each with its own list of references and suggestions for further reading, and a subject index. The volume is intended to provide the CTIS community, which “is diversifying its areas of interest but also getting populated fast,” with much needed “more solid conceptual frameworks and better, up-to-date methodological guidelines” (p. 4). It “aims to pro
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The book Ideologies of Communication in Japan: Speakers, Interaction and the Creation of Difference is an edited volume by Florian Grosser, Patrick Heinrich, and Saana Santalahti that brings together twelve chapters (in addition to the introductory and concluding ones) analyzing circulating ideologies of communication as lived in contemporary Japan, highlighting the sociolinguistic transformations the country has undergone. The book is divided into three major parts: Part 1, Internati
2026. v, 219 pp.
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Pedagogical construction grammar — the fashion of the day?
Thomas Herbst & Thorsten Piske
pp.?1–16
A comprehensive grammar of spoken and written French as the first fully corpus-informed grammar of French
Dirk Siepmann & Christoph Bürgel
pp.?17–37
Constructicons as resources for language pedagogy — and vice versa : Experiences from Swedish
Benjamin Lyngfelt, Julia Prentice & Azizah Lenté Degez
pp.?38–66
Implications of cross
2025. iii, 106 pp.
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The many things that thing can become: A story of discourse and grammar in Sà’án Sàvi? ?à ?uù Xnúvíkó (Mixtepec Mixtec)
Guillem Belmar Viernes & Jeremías Salazar
pp.?285–313
A computational approach to mapping replacement processes in language change
Malte Rosemeyer
pp.?314–338
The link between syntax, semantics, discourse, and lexicon in counteridenticals: A multivariate extension of co-varying collexeme analysis
Jesús Olguín Martínez & Stefan Th.
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Introduction
Anna Kisiel, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems & Dejan Stosic
pp.?179–188
Articles
The syntax of similative clauses: Insights from Germanic
Marta Massaia
pp.?189–220
‘Wellness’ equatives and their extensions in English as well as in Dutch and German
Daniel Van Olmen & Johan van der Auwera
pp.?221–249
Equative and similative constructions in two Walser German linguistic islands of North-Western Ital
2026. iii, 158 pp.
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De-intensifying intensifiers in North Khiamniungan
Keen Thaam & Kellen Parker van Dam
pp.?1–17
Direction and associated motion in Barpak Ghale
Shigeki Yoshida
pp.?18–60
The expression of negation in southern Tujia: A diachronic perspective
Man Lu, Jeroen van de Weijer & Ziyi Huang
pp.?61–82
An interlinear glossed text in Thebo Tibetan: The story of Gser.mo.’tsho and Dngul.mo.’tsho
Sangsrgyas Tshering (Sangji Cili), Erin L
2025. v, 160 pp.
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Introduction
Register and professional discourse
Shelley Staples & Gavin Brookes
pp.?1–10
Articles
A register approach to specialized word list creation: Using keywords to supplement the Contracts Word List
Kyra Larsen, McKayla Lindman, Brett Hashimoto, Elizabeth Hanks & Jesse Egbert
pp.?11–41
Evaluative expression in architectural practice: An analysis of UK Design and Access Statements
Sara Lahlouhi & Hilary Nesi
pp.?42–74
One hu
2026. v, 120 pp.
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Racialised vocabularies of resilience: Inequality, body and mind, refusal
Marjo Lindroth, Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen & Claes T?ngh Wrangel
pp.?175–193
‘A resilient Europe’? The representation of European society in the national recovery and resilience plans
Monica Colombo
pp.?194–214
Embodied resilience and political resistance: Transformative voices from today’s social justice movements
Susanna Jussila
pp.?215–234
Resilience
2025. iii, 123 pp.
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A multi-corpus approach to the placement of however : Nativeness vs expertise
Ma?té Dupont & Sylviane Granger
pp.?161–183
Interactive roles of L1 properties and L2 textbook input for constructing L2 knowledge: Evidence from Korean subject?predicate honorific agreement
Boo Kyung Jung, Gyu-Ho Shin & Chanyoung Lee
pp.?184–218
Trainee EFL teachers’ development and implementation of tasks in young learner classrooms
Sima Khezrlou
2025. iii, 96 pp.
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Forging a path for in-situ Chinese learning through eight decades of shifting US-China relations, with a focus on IUP
Vivian Ling
pp.?175–187
中美合作国际中文教育的一个案例：普北班 (Princeton-in-Beijing) 成立三十年
周质平
pp.?188–192
The Hopkins-Nanjing center: Pioneer in U.S.-China joint ventures in higher education
Cornelius C. Kubler
pp.?193–204
中美关系对汉语二语教学的影响：以香港中文大学雅礼中国语文研习所为例
吴伟平
pp.?205–216
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Locating Chinese L2 interactional compe
2026. iii, 152 pp.
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To speak or not to speak Urdu: A Bihari dilemma in Bangladesh
Mohammad Sajjad Hossen & Paul J. Moore
pp.?1–30
Identity dynamics of ESP teachers from English vs. non-English departments at Indonesian universities
Noni Mia Rahmawati, Yansyah Yansyah, Yohanis Nurak Siwa & Bambang Yudi Cahyono
pp.?31–57
Compiling the first spoken corpus for Turkish youth talk: Overview of the corpus and methodological issues
Esranur Efeo?lu-?zcan &
We are pleased to announce that the materials of the Corpus Oral de Madrid (CORMA) have been released and are now available for online consultation via the official website: https://www.corma.ugent.be.
CORMA is a reference resource for the study of spontaneous conversational Spanish in present-day Madrid. Its aim is to document through explicit methodological criteria the pragmatic, discursive, and sociolinguistic variation of colloquial speech across different interactional settings, providing
2026. iii, 124 pp.
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Accountability and type-fittedness as indicators of conditional relevance in interaction: Evidence from German proposals for joint action
Alexandra Gro? & Malte Rosemeyer
pp.?1–33
Phonetic features in the interactional management of laughter
Richard Ogden, Marina N. Cantarutti & Jürgen Trouvain
pp.?34–65
Marking pedagogical saliency with honh in Taiwan Mandarin interaction
Ann Tai Choe & Shu-Yu Huang
pp.?66–94
Initiating a
This volume offers a systematic, interdisciplinary investigation into the language of persuasion in contemporary tourism discourse, with a focus on English-language travel boards’ use of Instagram and official websites.
Drawing on Corpus Linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, the book examines how linguistic and visual resources are strategically deployed to construct idealized representations of destinations and evoke positive emotional responses. Through a multimodal analysis, the v
Publisher: Bern Open Publishing
https://bop.unibe.ch/
Journal Title: Language Policy in Africa (LPIA)
eISSN: 3042-4046
Volume Number: 2
Issue Number: 1
Subtitle: Special Issue: Terminologies in African Languages (Part 1)
Issue Date: 31.01.2026
Link: https://bop.unibe.ch/LPIA/issue/view/1547
Main Text:
2026. 324 pp.
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Articles
La terminologie culturelle: Une introduction à la théorie et à la méthode
Marcel Diki-kidiri
DOI : 10.36950/lpia-02-01-2026-1
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Tittle: Teaching Heritage Speakers in the Age of AI: Language, Culture, and Identity
Editor: ?lvaro González Alba (Regis University) Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics (TAL) – De Gruyter Brill
Overview
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming language learning, reshaping how linguistic knowledge, cultural meaning, and identity are constructed in educational spaces. While AI-mediated instruction has been widely discussed in second language learning, its impl
I’m a German studies student currently working on my Master’s thesis focused on Austrian German. My research explores sociolinguistic and contact linguistics aspects, specifically comparing generational differences in language use (influences from neighboring languages vs. modern anglicisms).
I am looking for suitable corpora to conduct my practical analysis. I am specifically interested in:
Media & Digital Communication: Databases or archives of Austrian newspapers, blogs, or social media