Recent Publications

This list acknowledges recent works (except offprints of single articles) that appear to bear on the scientific study of language. The receipt of individual books cannot be separately acknowledged and no book can be returned to the publisher. Note especially that by accepting a book the Editor implies no promise that it will be reviewed in this journal. Reviews are printed as circumstances permit.

Aboh, Enoch O., and James Essegbey (eds.) 2010. Topics in Kwa syntax. Dordrecht: Springer. Pp. 255.

Acuña Ferreira, A. Virginia. 2009. Género y discurso: Las mujeres y los hombres en la interacción conversacional. Munich: LINCOM Europa. Pp. 255.

Adelaar, Alexander, and Andrew Pawley (eds.) 2009. Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: A festschrift for Robert Blust. Canberra: Australian National University. Pp. xiii, 540.

Aelbrecht, Lobke. 2010. The syntactic licensing of ellipsis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xii, 230.

Al-Jabari, Raed (ed.) 2010. Oxford essential Arabic dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xii, 374.

Amberg, Julie S., and Deborah J. Vause. 2009. American English: History, structure, and usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xix, 223.

Babby, Leonard H. 2009. The syntax of argument structure. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xviii, 307.

Bangalore, Srinivas, and Aravind K. Joshi (eds.) 2010. Supertagging: Using complex lexical descriptions in natural language processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. xxiii, 488.

Bargiela-Chiappini, Francesca, and Michael Haugh (eds.) 2009. Face, communication, and social interaction. London: Equinox. Pp. xii, 331.

Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar; Nicole Dehé; and Anne Wichmann (eds.) 2009. Where prosody meets pragmatics. Bingley: Emerald. Pp. ix, 302.

Bartminski, Jerzy. 2009. Aspects of cognitive ethnolinguistics. London: Equinox. Pp. 250.

Beale, Walter H. 2009. Learning from language: Symmetry, asymmetry, and literary humanism. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Pp. 196.

Beavert, Virginia, and Sharon Hargus. 2009. Ichishkíin : Yakama/Yakima Sahaptin dictionary. Toppenish, WA: Heritage University, and Seattle: University of Washington Press. Pp. lxviii, 492. Includes CD-ROM.

Bennardo, Giovanni. 2009. Language, space, and social relationships: A foundational cultural model in Polynesia. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xxiii, 371.

Benson, Morton; Evelyn Benson; and Robert F. Ilson (eds.) 2010. The BBI combinatory dictionary of English: Your guide to collocations and grammar. 3rd edn. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xxxix, 462.

Berjaoui, Nasser. 2009. The empty category principle in English and Standard Arabic. Munich: LINCOM Europa. Pp. 120.

Blackledge, Adrian, and Angela Creese. 2010. Multilingualism. London: Continuum. Pp. ix, 255.

Blake, Barry J. 2010. Secret language: Codes, tricks, spies, thieves, and symbols. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. xi, 328.

Bluhme, Hermann, and Dmitri Milinski. 2010. A German language course on historical and linguistic principles. Munich: LINCOM Europa. Pp. 406.

Blust, Robert. 2009. The Austronesian languages. Canberra: Australian National University. Pp. xxviii, 824.

Boersma, Paul, and Silke Hamann (eds.) 2009. Phonology in perception. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 318.

Bowles, Hugo. 2010. Storytelling and drama: Exploring narrative episodes in plays. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. ix, 216.

Boye, Kasper, and Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen (eds.) 2010. Language usage and language structure. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. xiv, 354.

Brown, Earl K. 2009. A usage-based account of syllable- and word-final /s/ reduction in four dialects of Spanish. Munich: LINCOM Europa. Pp. xxv, 236.

Cann, Ronnie; Ruth Kempson; and Lutz Marten. 2005. The dynamics of language: An introduction. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Pp. xiii, 440.

Cašule, Ilija. 2010. Burushaski as an Indo-European 'kentum' language. Munich: LINCOM Europa. Pp. 109.

Clark, Julie Byrd. 2009. Multilingualism, citizenship, and identity: Voices of youth and symbolic investments in an urban, globalized world. London: Continuum. Pp. 274.

Clyne, Michael; Catrin Norrby; and Jane Warren. 2009. Language and human relations: Styles of address in contemporary language. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xi, 183.

Collins, James; Stef Slembrouck; and Mike Baynham (eds.) 2009. Globalization and language in contact: Scale, migration, and communicative practices. London: Continuum. Pp. xi, 283.

Computing and language variation 2.1, 2.2 (2008).

Crowley, Terry, and Claire Bowern. 2010. An introduction to historical linguistics. 4th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xxxii, 376.

Cummings, Louise. 2009. Clinical pragmatics. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xi, 305.

Cyran, Eugeniusz. 2010. Complexity scales and licensing in phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. xi...