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The city as a complex socio-cultural structure plays a central role economically administratively as well as culturally. Factors such as higher population density a more expansive infrastructure and larger social and cultural diversity compared to rural areas have a substantial impact on urban society and urban communication.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Focusing on the latter the contributions to this volume discuss the characteristics and dynamics of urban language use considering aspects such as contact variation and change as well as identity indexicality and attitudes but also spatial factors including mobility urbanisation/counterurbanisation and diffusion processes.<br/>The collected articles provide an update of ‘first wave’ approaches of variationist sociolinguistics but also establish a connection to ‘third wave’ research for readers from a broad range of fields especially sociolinguistics variationist linguistics and dialectology. The book presents modern methodological and conceptual ideas and a wealth of new findings but also serves as a reference work combining theoretical discussions with results from recent empirical studies.

This volume contains a selection of 18 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 31st edition of Going Romance. Phenomena found in Romance languages (European Portuguese French Italian Spanish Romanian) in Romance dialects (Cosentino Salentino southern Calabrese Neapolitan and Trevigiano) and even in creoles with a Romance lexifier (Makista and Kristang) either benefit from in-depth analyses confined to one single variety or are subjected to comparative analysis (dialect vs standard language dialect vs different major language(s) cross-dialectal comparison cross-Romance comparison and even comparison of language families). Theoretical and experimental approaches complement one another as do diachrony and synchrony. Individually and as a whole these contributions show how the Romance languages contribute to a better understanding of issues which are relevant in the current linguistic landscape: acquisition n-words ellipsis phenomena focus and polarity ditransitive constructions grammaticalization theory differential object marking language ecology event structure cyclicity passives and many more.

This volume examines changing boundaries between childhood and adulthood in British society and culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century − where these age boundaries are widely debated policed and contested − to investigate alternatives to conventional ideas of growing up. Building on observations especially in children’s literature criticism that human growth is shaped by a grand narrative that privileges adulthood and on terminologies of non-normative growth particularly in queer theory this monograph develops growing sideways as a concept that queers this grand narrative by destabilising childhood and adulthood and the boundaries between them. The concept is refined through close readings of twenty-first century British children’s literature television series film and participatory events troubling age boundaries via specific strategies in three conceptual areas: appearance play and space. Exploring power structures around age and gender this monograph traces growing sideways as a distinct and important alternative discourse of human growth.

Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses describes the collective elaboration of a situated cognitive approach with an emphasis on the relations between language and cognition within and across different sensory modalities and practices. This approach grounded in 40 years of empirical research is a departure from the analytic reductive view of human experiences as information processing.

The book is structured into two parts. Each author first introduces the situated cognitive approach from their respective sensory domains (vision audition olfaction gustation). The second part is the collective effort to derive methodological guidelines respecting the ecological validity of experimental investigations while formulating operational answers to applied questions (such as the sensory quality of environments and product design).

This book will be of interest to students researchers and practitioners dealing with sensory experiences and anyone who wants to understand and celebrate the cultural diversity of human productions that make life enjoyable!

As the first collective volume to focus exclusively on corpus-based approaches to register variation this book provides an exhaustive account of the range and depth of possibilities that the domain of register variation in English has to offer. It illustrates register variation analysis in different theoretical frameworks such as Probabilistic Grammar Systemic Functional Linguistics and Information Theory and proposes a new framework within the Text Linguistic Approach: the continuous-situational analytical framework. Several of the contributions apply Multi-Dimensional Analysis to corpus data in order to unveil register (dis)similarities while others rely on logistic regression models and periodization techniques based on Kullback-Leibler divergence. The volume includes both inter-register and intra-register variation analysis of a wide spectrum of varieties speakers and periods: British and American English learner varieties L2 varieties and also contains diachronic studies covering early and late Modern English. This broad scope should be a source of inspiration for anyone interested in historical and ongoing register variation in a vast range of varieties of English worldwide.

The essays collected in this volume engage in a conversation among lexicography the culture of the book and the canonization and commemoration of English literary figures and their works in the long eighteenth century. The source of inspiration for each piece is Allen Reddick’s scholarship on Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) the great English lexicographer whose Dictionary (1755) included thousands upon thousands of illustrative quotations from the “best” authors and more recently on Thomas Hollis (1720-1774) the much less well-known bibliophile who sent gifts of books by a pantheon of Whig authors to individuals and libraries in Britain Protestant bastions in continental Europe and America. Between the covers of Words Books Images readers will encounter canonical English authors of prose and poetry—Bacon Milton Defoe Dryden Pope Richardson Swift Byron Mary Shelley and Edward Lear. But they will also become acquainted with the agents of their canonization and commemoration—the printers and publishers of Grub Street the biographer John Aubrey the lexicographer and biographer Johnson the bibliophile Hollis and the portrait painter Reynolds. No less crucially they will meet fellow readers of then and now—women and men who peruse poach snip and savour a book’s every word and image.

Large computational lexicons are central NLP resources. Swedish FrameNet++ aims to be a versatile full-scale lexical resource for NLP containing many kinds of linguistic information. Although focused on Swedish this ongoing effort which includes building a new Swedish framenet and recycling existing lexicons has offered valuable insights into general aspects of lexical-resource building for NLP which are discussed in this book: computational and linguistic problems of lexical semantics and lexical typology the nature of lexical items (words and multiword expressions) achieving interoperability among heterogeneous lexical content NLP methods for extending and interlinking existing lexicons and deploying the new resource in practical NLP applications. This book is targeted at everyone with an interest in lexicography computational lexicography lexical typology lexical semantics linguistics computational linguistics and related fields. We believe it should be of particular interest to those who are or have been involved in language resource creation development and evaluation.

The book presents a new perspective on clausal syntax and its interactions with lexical and discourse function information by analysing Hungarian sentences. It also demonstrates ways in which grammar engineering implementations can provide insights into how complex linguistic processes interact. It analyses the most important phenomena in the preverbal domain of Hungarian finite declarative and wh-clauses: sentence structure operators verbal modifiers negation and copula constructions. Based on the results of earlier generative linguistic research it presents the fundamental empirical generalisations and offers a comparative critical assessment of the most salient analyses in a variety of generative linguistic models from its own perspective. It argues for a lexical approach to the relevant phenomena and develops the first comprehensive analysis in the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. It also reports the successful implementation of crucial aspects of this analysis in the computational linguistic platform of the theory Xerox Linguistic Environment.

This book aims to contribute to the knowledge of the cultural and linguistic relations between Italy and the Crown of Aragon in the 15th century. In particular it studies some relevant aspects of the chivalric romance entitled Curial e Guelfa written in Italy around 1443-1448 in Catalan but mainly Italian in spirit sources and onomastics. It is probably the very first work of a genre known as “humanistic chivalry” the epitome of which will be Ariosto’s Orlando furioso.

The literary context of Milan and Naples (The Three Crowns Troubadour Lyrics Humanism) is analyzed in the first part of the volume. It is this context that made possible the gestation of the Curial an extraordinary anonymous romance which was most likely written by the knight Enyego d’Àvalos (Inico d’Avalos) born in Toledo but raised in Valencia. The second part of the volume is devoted to the study of some lexical stylistic and syntactic aspects of the Curial which show the author's excellent knowledge of Catalan and the constant influence of Italian in the romance.



Questo libro si propone di contribuire alla conoscenza delle relazioni culturali tra l'Italia e la Corona d’Aragona nel XV secolo. In particolare studia il romanzo dal titolo Curial e Güelfa scritto in Italia intorno al 1443-1448 dotato di italianità fonti e onomastica ma scritto in catalano. È probabilmente la primissima opera di un genere noto come “cavalleria umanistica| la cui epitome sarebbe l’Orlando Furioso dell’Ariosto.

Questo volume analizza il contesto letterario di Milano e Napoli che ha reso possibile questo straordinario romanzo anonimo di cui conosciamo ormai con quasi assoluta certezza che il suo autore era Enyego o Inico d'Avalos. I contributi in questo volume approfondiscono alcuni degli aspetti lessicali stilistici e sintattici di Curial e Güelfa e mettono in evidenza l'eccellente conoscenza del catalano da parte del suo autore nonché la presenza onnipresente della lingua italiana.

El libro pretende contribuir al conocimiento de las relaciones culturales entre Italia y la Corona de Aragón en el siglo XV. En concreto se ocupa de la novela Curial e Güelfa gestada en Italia hacia 1443-1448 de espíritu fuentes y onomástica principalmente italianos pero redactada en lengua catalana. Es probablemente la manifestación más primeriza del género literario conocido como “caballería humanística” que tendrá su punto culminante con el Orlando furioso d’Ariosto.

Este volumen analiza el contexto literario de Milán y Nápoles que hizo posible esta extraordinaria novela anónima de la que ahora sabemos con casi absoluta certeza que su autor fue Enyego o Inico d’Avalos. Las contribuciones de este volumen profundizan en algunos de los aspectos léxicos estilísticos y sintácticos de Curial e Güelfa y destacan el excelente conocimiento del catalán de su autor así como la presencia omnipresente de la lengua italiana.

This volume includes fourteen papers on the acquisition of Romance languages eleven of which were presented at the Romance Turn 9 held in Bucharest in September 2018. The studies offer new insights into central issues in the literature such as syntactic complexity in both typical and impaired language settings intervention effects the acquisition of phenomena which involve both syntactic parameters and an external interface as well as cross-linguistic interference effects. They present novel longitudinal and experimental data on the first language acquisition and second language learning of French Italian European and Brazilian Portuguese Romanian and Spanish. A unique feature of this volume is the focus on the interaction of language specific properties and of factors which are not specific to the faculty of language in the narrow sense such as data processing the nature of the input discourse structure computational load sociolinguistic properties and the development of Theory of Mind.