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Aarts,
Bas, and April McMahon, eds. 2006. The handbook of English linguistics.
Malden, MA: Blackwell. Pp. xviii + 806. US $169.95 (hardcover).
Agha, Asif. 2006. Language and social relations. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Pp. xv + 427. US $34.99 (softcover).
Allan, Keith. 2007. The western classical tradition in linguistics.
London: Equinox. Pp. xv + 351. US $29.95 (softcover).
Amberber, Mengistu, ed. 2007. The language of memory in a crosslinguistic
perspective. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. xi + 284.
US $142.00 (hardcover).
Arffman, Johanna. 2007. La coordination et les phrases juxtaposées
en français. Helsinki: Département des langues romanes,
Université de Helsinki. Pp. 172. 20,00 € (broché).
Arnbjörnsdóttir, Birna. 2006. North American Icelandic:
The life of a language. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba. Pp.165.
$34.95 (softcover).
Austin, Peter K., and Andrew Simpson. 2007. Endangered languages.
Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag. Pp. 306. €48.00 (softcover).
Baker, Brett. J. 2008. Word structure in Ngalakgan. Stanford: Center
for the Study of Language and Information. Pp. xvi + 332. US $45.00
(softcover).
Barton, David. 2007. Literacy: An introduction to the ecology of written
language. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Pp. xi + 245. US $39.95 (softcover).
Bayley, Robert, and Ceil Lucas, eds. 2007. Sociolinguistic variation:
Theories, methods, and applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. Pp. xvi + 405. US $37.99 (softcover).
Bickerton, Derek. 2008. Bastard tongues. New York: Hill and Wang.
Pp. xi + 270. US $26.00 (softcover).
Bickmore, Lee. 2007. Cilingu phonology. Stanford: Center for the Study
of Language and Information. Pp. xvi + 537. US $49.00 (softcover).
Blake, Barry. 2007. Playing with words: Humour in the English language.
London: Equinox. Pp. xii + 181. US $19.95 (softcover).
Boeckx, Cedric. 2008. Aspects of the syntax of agreement. New York/London:
Routledge. Pp. xi + 266. US $125.00 (hardcover).
Brick, Jean. 2006. Academic culture: A student's guide to studying
at university. Sydney: Macquarie University. Pp. xi + 264. US $29.95
(softcover).
Butt, Miriam. 2006. The theory of case. In the series Cambridge Textbooks
in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xiii +
258. US $34.99 (softcover).
Butt, Miriam, Mary Dalrymple, and Tracy Holloway King, eds. 2007.
Intelligent linguisctic architectures: Variations on themes by Ronald
M. Kaplan. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
Pp. xv + 421. US $37.00 (softcover).
Carter, Ronald, and Peter Stockwell, eds. 2008. The language and literature
reader. New York/London: Routledge. Pp. xii + 306. US $41.95 (softcover).
Chamizo-Domínguez, Pedro J. 2008. Semantics and pragmatics
of false friends. New York/London: Routledge. Pp. 186. US $125.00
(hardcover).
Collins, Beverley, and Inger M. Mees. 2008. Practical phonetics and
phonology: A resource book for students. 2nd ed. New York/London:
Routledge. Pp. xix + 305 + CD-ROM. US $35.95 (softcover).
Curat, Hervé. 2007. Lévi-Strauss mot à mot: Essai
d'idiographie linguistique. Genève/Paris: Librairie Droz. Pp.
376. US $52.00 (broché).
Cutting, Joan. 2008. Pragmatics and Discourse: A resource book for
students. 2nd ed. New York/London: Routledge. Pp. xv + 239. US $30.95
(softcover).
Dalzell, Tom, and Terry Victor. 2008. Sex slang. New York/London:
Routledge. Pp. ix + 201. US $17.95 (softcover).
Dalzell, Tom, and Terry Victor. 2008. Vice slang. New York/London:
Routledge. Pp. ix + 206. US $17.95 (softcover).
Danesi, Marcel. 2007. The quest for meaning: A guide to semiotic theory
and practice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. viii + 193.
$50.00 (hardcover).
de Fina, Anna, Deborah Schiffrin, and Michael Bamberg, eds. 2006.
Discourse and identity. In the series Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
23. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xi + 462. US $37.99
(softcover).
de Lacy, Paul, ed. 2006. The Cambridge handbook of phonology. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. Pp. x + 697. US $150.00 (hardcover).
de Lacy, Paul. 2006. Markedness: Reduction and preservation in phonology.
In the series Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 112. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Pp. xviii + 447. US $99.00 (hardcover).
Debski, Robert. 2006. Project-based language teaching with technology.
In the series Teaching with New Technology 5. Sydney: Macquarie University.
Pp. vi + 87 (softcover).
den Dikken, Marcel. 2006. Relators and linkers: The syntax of predication,
predicate inversion, and copulas. In the series Linguistic Inquiry
Monograph 47. Cambridge, MA/London: MIT Press. Pp. xi + 351. US $32.00.
(softcover)
di Sciullo, Anna Maria. 2006. Asymmetry in morphology. In the series
Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 46. Cambridge, MA/London: MIT Press.
Pp. xix + 234. US $30.00 (softcover).
Dinnsen, Daniel A., and Judith A. Gierut, eds. 2008. Optimality theory,
phonological acquisition and disorders. London: Equinox. Pp. xiii
+ 513. US $45.00 (softcover).
Doetjes, Jenny, and Paz González, eds. 2006. Romance languages
and linguistic theory 2004: Selected papers from 'Going Romance',
Leiden, 9-11 December 2004. In the series Current Issues in Linguistic
Theory 278. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. iv + 320.
US $144.00 (hardcover).
Dollinger, Stefan. 2008. New dialect formation in Canada: Evidence
from the English modal auxiliairies. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. Pp. xxii + 355. US $149.00 (hardcover).
Duff, Patricia A. 2008. Case study research in applied linguistics.
New York/London: Lawrence Erlbaum. Pp. ix + 233. US $40.95 (softcover).
Fasold, Ralph W., and Jeffrey Connor-Linton, eds. 2006. An introduction
to language and linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pp. xvi + 540. US $39.99 (softcover).
Filppula, Markku, Juhani Klemola, and Heli Paulasto. 2008. English
and Celtic in contact. New York/London: Routledge. Pp. xix + 312.
US $125.00 (hardcover).
Fought, Carmen. 2006. Language and ethnicity. In the series Key Topics
in Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xiv
+ 249. US $34.99 (softcover).
Frawley, William, ed. 2006. The expression of modality. In the series
The Expression of Cognitive Categories 1. Berlin/New York: Mouton
de Gruyter. Pp. ix + 268 (hardcover).
Freidin, Robert. 2007. Generative grammar: Theory and its history.
New York/London: Routledge. Pp. vii + 387. US $160.00 (hardcover).
Freidin, Robert, Carlos P. Otero, and Maria Luisa Zubizaretta, eds.
2008.
Foundational issues in linguistic theory: Essays in honor of Jean-Roger
Vergnaud. Cambridge, MA/London: MIT Press. Pp. xxxii + 389. US $35.00
(softcover).
Gass, Susan M., and Larry Selinker. 2008. Second language acquisition:
An introductory course. New York/London: Routledge. Pp. xxviii + 593.
US $49.95 (softcover).
Goddard, Ives. 2006. The autobiography of a Meskwaki woman: A new
edition and translation. In the series Memoir 18. Winnipeg: Algonquian
and Iroquoian Linguistics. Pp. v + 221. $40.00 (softcover).
Goddard, Ives. 2007. The owl sacred pack: A new edition and translation
of the Meskwaki manuscript of Alfred Kiyana. In the series Memoir
19. Winnipeg: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics. Pp. v + 239. $40.00
(softcover).
Godjevac, Svetlana. 2006. Focus projection in Serbo-Croatian. In the
series Stanford Monographs in Linguistics. Stanford: Center for the
Study of Language and Information. Pp. vi + 186. US $32.00 (softcover).
Guimarães, Eduardo, and Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros, eds. 2007.
History of Linguistics 2002: Selected papers from the Ninth international
conference on the history of the language sciences, 27-30 August 2002,
São Paulo-Campinas. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Pp. x + 242. US $132.00 (hardcover).
Harley, Heidi. 2006. English words: A linguistic introduction. Malden,
MA: Blackwell. Pp. vii + 296. US $29.95 (softcover).
Hasan, Ruqaiya, Christian Matthiessen, and Jonathan J. Webster, eds.
2007. Continuing discourse on language: A functional perspective.
Two volumes. London: Equinox. Pp. ix + 1051. US $120.00 (softcover).
Heritage, Jone, and Douglas W. Maynard, eds. 2006. Communication in
medical care: Interaction between primary care physicians and patients.
In the series Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics 20. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. Pp. xix + 488. US $39.99 (softcover).
Hirtle, Walter. 2007. Language in the mind: An introduction to Guillaume's
Theory. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. Pp. x
+ 273. US $85.00 (hardcover).
Hirtle, Walter. 2007. Lessons on the English verb: No expression without
representation. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.
Pp. viii + 346. US $85.00 (hardcover).
Honda, Maya, and Wayne O'Neill. 2008. Thinking linguistically: A scientific
approach to language. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Pp. x + 253. $37.99 (softcover).
Hyland, Ken. 2006. English for academic purposes. An advanced resource
book. London/New York: Routledge. Pp. xvi + 340. (softcover)
Jarvis, Scott, and Aneta Pavlenko. 2008. Crosslinguistic influence
in language and cognition. New York/London: Routledge. Pp. xviii +
287. US $50.00 (hardcover).
Jourdan, Christine, and Kevin Tuite, eds. 2006. Language, culture,
and society. Key topics in linguistic anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Pp. xi + 310. US $34.99 (softcover)
Karimi, Simin, Vida Samiian, and Wendy K. Wilkins, eds. 2007. Phrasal
and clausal architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation.
In honor of Joseph E. Emonds. In the series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics
Today 101. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. vi + 423. US
$162.00 (hardcover).
Labeau, Emmanuelle, Carl Vetters et Patrick Caudal, dir. 2007. Sémantique
et diachronie du système verbal français. Dans la collection
Cahiers Chronos 16. Amsterdam/New York : Rodopi. Pp. 262. $55,00 €
(broché).
Labov, William. 2006. The social stratification of English in New
York City. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xii
+ 485. US $39.99 (softcover).
Laks, Bernard with Serge Cleuziou, Jean-Paul Demoule, and Pierre Encrevé,
eds. 2008. Origin and Evolution of languages: Approaches, models,
paradigms. London: Equinox. Pp. 345. US $95.00 (hardcover).
Larrivée, Pierre. 2007. Du tout au rien: Libre-choix et polarité
négative. Paris: Honoré Champion. Pp. 240. 48,00 €
(relié).
Lebeau, Emmanuelle, Carl Vetters et Patrick Caudal, dir. 2007. Sémantique
et diachronie du système verbal français. Dans la collection
Cahiers Chronos 16. Amsterdam/New York : Rodopi. Pp. 262. 55,00 €
(broché).
Lee, James F., and Alessandro G. Benati. 2007. Delivering processing
instruction in classrooms and in virtual context: Research and practice.
London: Equinox. Pp. x + 161. US $29.95 (softcover).
Léon, Pierre R. 2007. Phonétisme et prononciation du
français. 5e éd. Paris: Armand Colin. Pp. 269. 20,50
€ (broché).
Losonsky, Michael. 2006. Linguistic turns in modern philosophy. In
the series The Evolution of Modern Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Pp. xvi + 275. US $24.99 (softcover).
Macaulay, Monica. 2006. Surviving linguistics: A guide for graduate
students. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. Pp. xiii + 143. US $18.95 (softcover).
Mairal, Ricardo, and Juana Gil, eds. 2006. Linguistic universals.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xii + 216. US $32.99 (softcover).
Martin, Bronwen, and Felizitas Ringham. 2006. Key terms in semiotics.
London: Continuum. Pp. 275. (softcover)
Matsumoto, Yoshiko, David Oshima, Orrin Robinson, and Peter Sells,
eds. 2007. Diversity in language: Perspectives and implications. Stanford:
Center for the Study of Language and Information. Pp. ix + 298. US
$32.50 (softcover).
McCarthy, John J. 2008. Doing Optimality Theory: Applying theory to
data. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Pp. xii + 310. $49.99 (softcover).
McEnery, Tony. 2006. Swearing in English: Bad language, purity and
power from 1586 to the present. In the series Routledge Advances in
Corpus Linguistics 9. London/New York: Routledge. Pp. xv + 276. US
$75.00 (hardcover).
McEnery, Tony, Richard Xiao, and Yukio Tono. 2006. Corpus-based language
studies. An advanced resource book. London/New York: Routledge. Pp.
xx + 386. (softcover)
Mel'cuk, Igor. 2006. Aspects of the theory of morphology. Edited by
David Beck. In the series Trends in Linguistics 146. Berlin/New York:
Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. xvi + 615 (hardcover).
Miller, Donna R., and Monica Turci, eds. 2007. Language and verbal
art revisited: Linguistic approaches to the study of literature. London:
Equinox. Pp. 287. US $90.00 (hardcover).
Mladenov, Ivan. 2006. Conceptualizing metaphors: On Charles Peirce's
marginalia. In the series Routledge Studies in Linguistics 4. London/New
York: Routledge. Pp. x + 189. US $65.00 (hardcover).
Morris, Michael. 2007. An introduction to the philosophy of language.
In the series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Pp. ix + 326. US $29.99 (softcover).
Nation, Paul, and Peter Yongqi Gu. 2007. Focus on vocabulary. Sydney:
Macquarie University. Pp. vi + 177. A $29.95 (softcover).
O'Rourke, Miachel, and Corey Washington, eds. 2007. Situating semantics:
Essays on the philosophy of John Perry. Cambridge, MA/London: MIT
Press. Pp. vii + 593. US $40.00 (softcover)
Orlandi, Eni P. et Eduardo Guimarães, dir. 2007. Un dialogue
atlantique: Production des sciences du langage au Brésil. Paris:
ENS Éditions. Pp. 139. 23,00 € (broché).
Parkinson, Dilworth B. 2006. Using Arabic synonyms. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Pp. xv + 688. US $50.00 (softcover). (written in
Arabic)
Payne, Thomas E. 2006. Exploring language structure: A student's guide.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xxii + 367. US $34.99 (softcover).
Pharies, David A. 2007. A brief history of the spanish language. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press. Pp. xv + 298. US $25.00 (softcover).
Rampton, Ben. 2006. Language in late modernity: Interaction in an
urban school. In the series Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
22. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xviii + 443. US $95.00
(hardcover).
Reinhart, Tanya. 2006. Interface strategies: Optimal and costly computations.
In the series Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 45. Cambridge, MA/London:
MIT Press. Pp. x + 340. US $32.00 (softcover).
Ricento, Thomas, ed. 2006. An introduction to language policy: Theory
and method. In the series Language and Social Change 1. Malden, MA:
Blackwell. Pp. xii + 371 (softcover).
Robinson, Peter, and Nick C. Ellis, eds. 2008. Handbook of cognitive
linguistics and second language acquisition. New York/London: Routledge.
Pp. x + 566. US $69.95 (softcover).
Rowicka, Grazyna J., and Eithne B. Carlin, eds. 2006. What's in a
verb? Studies in the verbal morphology of the languages of the America.
Utrecht: LOT. Pp. ii + 252 (softcover).
Salaberry, Rafael, and Barbara A. Lafford, eds. 2006. The art of teaching
Spanish: Second language acquisition from research to praxis. Washington,
DC: Georgetown University Press. Pp. xii + 244 (softcover).
Salmons, Joseph C., and Shannon Dubenion-Smith, eds. 2007. Historical
linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th international conference
on historical linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July-5 August 2005.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. viii + 413. US $169.00
(hardcover).
Saussure, Louis de, dir. 2006. Nouveaux regards sur Saussure: Mélanges
offerts à René Amacker. Genève: Librairie Droz.
Pp. 254. US $52.00 (broché).
Schegloff, Emanuel A. 2007. Sequence organization in interaction:
A primer in conversation analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. Pp. xvi + 300. US $36.99 (softcover).
Schiffrin, Deborah. 2006. In other words: Variation in reference and
narrative. In the series Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
21. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xvi + 373. US $39.99
(softcover).
Sheorey, Ravi. 2006. Learning and teaching English in India. In the
series Research in Applied Linguistics 7. New Delhi/Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage. Pp. 226. US $52.00 (hardcover).
Silverman, Daniel. 2006. A critical introduction to phonology: Of
sound, mind and body. In the series Continuum Critical Introduction
to Linguistics. London/New York: Continuum. Pp. xii + 260 (softcover).
Slabakova, Roumyana, Silvina A. Montrul, and Philippe Prévost,
eds. 2006. Inquiries in linguistic development: In honor of Lydia
White. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. vi + 363. US $156.00
(hardcover).
Steckley, John L. 2007. Words of the Huron. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier
University Press. Pp. xvii + 259. $29.95 (softcover).
Stetkevych, Jaroslav. 2006. The Modern Arabic literary language: Lexical
and stylistic developments. Washington, DC: Georgetown University
Press. Pp. xxiii + 135. US $21.95 (softcover).
Stockewll, Peter. 2007. Sociolinguistics: A resource book for students.
2nd ed. New York/London: Routledge. Pp. xv + 254. US @@ (softcover).
Sun, Chaofen. 2006. Chinese: A linguistic introduction. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. Pp. xiv + 234. US $32.99 (softcover).
Sunderland, Jane. 2006. Language and gender: An advanced resource
book. London/New York: Routledge. Pp. xxiv + 359 (softcover).
Taleghani, Azita H. 2008. Modality, aspect and negation in Persian.
Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. ix + 183. US $158.00
(hardcover).
Tallerman, Maggie. 2006. Understanding syntax. 2nd ed. In the series
Understanding Language. London: Hodder Arnold. Pp. x+ 266. (softcover)
Teschner, Richard V., and Eston E. Evans. Analyzing the grammar of
English. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Pp.
xiv + 232. $34.95 (softcover).
Tsohatzidis, Savas L., ed. 2007. John Searle's philosophy of language:
Force, meaning and mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp.
ix + 297. US $34.99 (softcover).
Tsujimura, Natsuko. 2007. An Introduction to Japanese linguistics.
2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Pp. xv + 501. US $49.95 (softcover).
Venuti, Lawrence. 2008. The translator's invisibility: A history of
translation. 2nd ed. New York/London: Routledge. Pp. xii + 319. US
$33.95 (softcover).
Vorobej, Mark. 2006. A theory of argument. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. Pp. x + 324. US $29.99 (softcover).
Wales, Katie. 2006. Northern English. A social and cultural history.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xvii + 257. US $90.00 (hardcover).
Wardhaugh, Ronald. 2006. An introduction to sociolinguistics. 5th
ed. In the series Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics 4. Malden, MA:
Blackwell. Pp. viii + 418. US $39.95 (softcover).
Wei, Li, and Melissa G. Moyer, eds. 2008. The Blackwell guide to research
methods in bilingualism and multilingualism. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Pp. xvii + 403. $54.99 (hardcover).
Wells, J.C. 2006. English Intonation: An introduction. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. Pp. ix + 276 + CD-ROM. US $39.99 (softcover).
Williams, Ronald J. 2007. William's Hebrew Syntax. Revised and expanded
by John C. Beckman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. xvi+
248. $24.95 (softcover).
Wolfart, H.C., dir. 2006. Actes du trente-septième congrès
des algonquinistes. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba. Pp. xv + 496.
48,00 $ (broché).
Wolfart, H.C., ed. 2007. Papers of the thirty-eight algonquian conference.
Winnipeg: University of Manitoba. Pp. xiii + 416. $48.00 (softcover).
Wolfram, Walt, and Nathalie Schilling-Estes. 2006. American English.
2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Pp. xv + 452 (softcover).
Yavas, Mehmet. 2006. Applied English phonology. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Pp. x + 245. US $34.95 (softcover).
Yip, Virginia and Stephen Matthews. 2007. The bilingual child: Early
development and language contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. Pp. xxiii + 295. US $29.99 (softcover).
Zaenen, Annie, Jane Simpson, Tracy Holloway King, Jane Grimshaw, Joan
Mailing, and Chris Manning, eds. 2007. Architectures, rules, and preferences:
Variations on themes by Joan W. Bresnan. Stanford: Center for the
Study of Language and Information. Pp. xxii + 554. US $39.95 (softcover).
Zanuttini, Raffaela, Hector Campos, Elena Herburger, and Paul H. Portner,
eds. 2006. Crosslinguistic research in syntax and semantics: Negation,
tense, and clausal architecture. Washington, DC: Georgetown University
Press. Pp. 247. US $49.95 (softcover).
Zubizaretta, Maria Luisa, and Eunjeong Oh. 2007. On the syntactic
composition of manner and motion. In the series Linguistic Inquiry
Monograph 48. Cambridge, MA/London: MIT Press. Pp. xi + 228. US $32.00
(softcover).
