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Rethinking Sinclair and Coulthard’s sequentiality-based notion of the follow-up this volume explores its forms and communicative functions in traditional and contemporary modes of communication (parliamentary sessions interviews debates speeches op-eds discussion forums and Twitter) wherein political actors address challenges to their political agenda and to their political face. In so doing the volume achieves two major advances. First its contributions expand the understanding of follow-ups beyond the traditional focus on structural sequentiality considering communicative function as a defining feature of a follow-up. Second it broadens the understanding of what constitutes political discourse as not being limited to a single discourse but also being able to span multiple discourses of different forms and speech events over time.

This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch German Pennsylvania Dutch Icelandic Norwegian Swedish West Frisian and Yiddish and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The volume focuses on three critical issues underlying the notion of ‘heritage language’: acquisition attrition and change. The book offers theoretically-informed discussions of heritage language processes across phonetics and phonology morphology syntax and semantics and the lexicon in addition to work on sociolinguistics historical linguistics and contact settings. With this the volume also includes a variety of frameworks and approaches synchronic and diachronic. Most European Germanic languages share some central linguistic features such as V2 gender and agreement in the nominal system and verb inflection. As minority languages faced with a majority language like English similarities and differences emerge in patterns of variation and change in these heritage languages. These empirical findings shed new light on mechanisms and processes.

Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlantic relations between Africa and Jamaica and in particular to the understanding of African influences in Jamaican linguistic practices. The book constitutes a first study of these phenomena from a cognitive-linguistic perspective and investigates traveling conceptualizations at the intersection of language culture and cognition. The author explores Jamaican linguistic practices in different domains namely conceptualizations involving parts of the (human) body conceptualizations of events roles and relations underlying serial verb constructions and conceptualizations of kinship and names. The study can be regarded as an innovative contribution as it looks not only at linguistic expressions on the surface but discusses the underlying cultural and cognitive basis of semantic structures. The study thus aims at making African-Jamaican connections on the conceptual level visible and also discusses notions of consciousness agency and emblematicity.

This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate which topics and themes constitute the content of the stories but also by the psycholinguistic and textlinguistic questions of how children acquire linearization and other narrative strategies how they develop them and how they use them to structure these texts in an adult-like way. The tales are presented in morpheme-interlinear transcriptions with first textlinguistic analyses and cultural background information necessary to fully understand them. A summarizing comparative analysis of the texts from a psycholinguistic anthropological linguistic and philological point of view discusses the underlying schemata of the stories the means narrators use to structure them their structural complexity and their cultural specificity.

Auch die Britischen Inseln waren von der wikingerzeitlichen Expansion ab dem 8. Jh. betroffen. Nördlich und westlich des dänischen Danelag in England entstanden norwegische Siedlungen auf den Shetland- und Orkneyinseln in Nordschottland auf den Hebriden an der schottischen und nordenglischen Westküste um die Irische See herum und südwärts. Waren die Nordleute anfangs als Plünderer und Eroberer unterwegs wirkten sie bald auch als Händler und Stadt- und Staatengründer. Der daraus resultierende keltisch-westnordische Sprachkontakt hielt ein halbes Jahrtausend an und hinterließ Spuren im Norn der frühneuzeitlichen nordischen Sprache die bis ins 18. Jh. auf den Shetland- und Orkneyinseln und in Caithness gesprochen wurde. So finden sich Keltizismen sowohl in den wenigen Aufzeichnungen des Norn als auch im nordischen Substrat der schottischen Gegenwartsmundarten die das Norn ablösten.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The British Isles were among the geographical areas affected by the Viking expansion from the 8th century onwards. North and west of the Danish Danelaw Norwegian settlements were established on Shetland and Orkney in Northern Scotland on the Hebrides along the west coast of Scotland and Northern England around the Irish Sea and even further south. Raiders and conquerors at the outset the Norsemen soon became traders and founded towns and states. The resulting language contact between Celtic and Old West Norse lasted half a millennium and left its mark on Norn an early modern Nordic language spoken on Shetland Orkney and in Caithness until the 18th century. Thus Celticisms can be found both in the few written records of Norn and in the Nordic substratum of those varieties of Modern Scots that came to supplant Norn.

This collection of articles contributed by both experienced and novice researchers addresses core issues in three different domains of Hispanic Linguistics: theoretical linguistics language acquisition and language contact. Together these papers provide an overview of how the analysis of Spanish contributes to current formal and experimental linguistics while on an individual level offering fine-grained analyses and innovative proposals covering a wide range of areas such as semantics and pragmatics syntax morphology phonology prosody dialectal variation first second and bilingual language acquisition as well as sociolinguistics. The volume will be a resource for graduate students academics and researchers in theoretical experimental and descriptive linguistics in general and Hispanic Linguistics in particular.The selection of chapters included in this volume were presented at the 17th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium hosted in October 2013 by the Language Acquisition Research Laboratory at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa Canada.

A major contribution to the study of language acquisition and language development inspired by theoretical linguistics has been made by research on the acquisition of Italian syntax. This book offers an updated overview of results from theory-driven experimental and corpus-based research on the acquisition of Italian in different modes (monolingual early and late L2 SLI etc.) as well as exploring possible developments for future research. The book focuses on experimental studies which address research questions generated by linguistic theory providing a detailed illustration of the fruitful interaction between linguistic theorizing and developmental studies. The authors are leading figures in theoretical linguistics and language acquisition; their own work is featured in the research presented here. Students and advanced researchers will benefit from the systematic review offered by this book and the critical assessment of the field that it provides.

Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde is the first study that investigates the intricate influence of the avant-garde movements on children’s literature in different countries from the beginning of the 20th century until the present. Examining a wide range of children’s books from Denmark France Germany Hungary the Netherlands Russia Sweden the United Kingdom and the USA the individual chapters explore the historical as well as the cultural and political aspects that determine the exceptional character of avant-garde children’s books. Drawing on studies in children’s literature research art history and cultural studies this volume provides comprehensive insights into the close relationships between avant-garde children’s literature images of childhood and contemporary ideas of education. Addressing topics such as the impact of exhibitions the significance of the Bauhaus and the influence of poster art and graphic design the book illustrates the broad range of issues associated with avant-garde children’s books. More than 60 full-color illustrations demonstrate the impressive variety of design in avant-garde picturebooks and children’s books.

Winner of the Edited Book Award 2017 of The Children's Literature Association.

Winner of the Edited Book Award 2017 of the International Research Society for Children's Literature.

This book is about the functional categories of three Caribbean creoles: Saramaccan Haitian Creole and Papiamentu with two specific goals. The first one is to evaluate the respective contribution of the source languages to the functional categories of these three creoles. The second is to evaluate the degree of similarity/dissimilarity of the functional categories across these creoles. This study is cast within the relabeling-based account of creole genesis. Several lexical items discussed in this book may fulfill more than one grammatical function thus raising the issue of multifuctionality. No such in-depth comparative work of these three creoles with their source languages and of the three creoles among themselves is available elsewhere in the literature. This book is addressed to linguists (including Master and PhD students) interested in syntactic categories and more specifically in functional categories to creolists and to researchers interested in language contact.

Although for some scholars the very possibility of syntactic reconstruction remains dubious numerous studies have appeared reconstructing a variety of basic elements of Proto-Indo-European syntax based on evidence available particularly from ancient and/or archaic Indo-European languages. The papers in this volume originate from the Workshop “PIE Syntax and its Development” (Thessaloniki 2011) which aimed to bring together scholars interested in these problems and to shine new light on current research into ancient Indo-European syntax. Special attention was paid to the development of the hypothetical reconstructed features within the documented history of Indo-European languages.

The articles in this volume were originally published in the Journal of Historical Linguistics Vol. 3:1 (2013).