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Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary investigation of this vast territory bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed discussed and contested across time space cultures and media this second volume shows in its four core essays and twenty-four case studies four major pathways through the landscapes of realism: The psychological pathways focusing on emotion and memory the referential pathways highlighting the role of materiality the formal pathways demonstrating the dynamics of formal experiments and the geographical pathways exploring the worlding of realism through the encounters between European and non-European languages from the nineteenth century to the present.

Since the early years of generative grammar (Chomsky 1977 inter alia) the phenomenology of dislocation has proved to be a fertile area of research. This however has not been the case for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and hence this thorough monograph intends to fill this lacuna. Three aspects of this linguistic phenomenon stand out: the taxonomy of possible dislocated configurations syntax and interpretation. Though the structure in itself has been extensively studied in various languages including varieties of spoken Arabic this monograph shows that MSA presents properties that set it apart from known varieties and cannot be captured by an extension or modification of existing analyses. Moreover existing analyses are not fully satisfactory as there are open analytical questions regarding the interpretation and syntactic analysis of dislocation structures crosslinguistically. Particularly the optimal path to follow concerning dislocation structures in MSA is to argue for the claim that contrast as an information-structural notion underlies the interpretation of dislocated elements and these elements are best syntactically analyzed as being involved in a bisentential configuration contra monoclausal approaches to dislocation. This monograph should be relevant to anyone with an interest in the Arabic language and also to syntacticians and typologists with an interest in sentence structure.

This is the first generative-oriented volume ever published about Asturian and Asturian Galician two Romance languages which along with their intrinsic interest are crucial to understand the parametric distance between Spanish and Galician/Portuguese. Its chapters offer new insights about old puzzles like pronominal enclisis or apparent violations of bans on clitic combinatorics but they also deal with less explored grounds like aspect negation or prosody. Chapters make special emphasis on how the concerned issues result from complex interactions between syntax proper and its interfaces with sound and meaning. The book focuses on particular aspects of Asturian and Asturian Galician as well as on some effects of their contact with Spanish in their corresponding locations.

The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the concept of linguistic pejoration and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms such as -ie -o -ard -holic -rrhea -itis -porn -ish in the formation of English pejoratives. The examination of the inner structure of the resulting derivatives is based on an innovative methodology that encompasses the theories and approaches of Construction Morphology Componential Analysis and Morphopragmatics. Following the principles of this methodology pejorative words collected from dictionaries and corpora (a total of approximately 950 words) are abstracted into generalizations (or constructional schemas) where structural and functional similarities are used to cognitively trace the ways in which negative (or derisive) meaning is connected with a specific form. Through this multifaceted methodology my analysis showcases the fact that the universal properties of ‘diminution’ ‘excess’ ‘resemblance’ and ‘metonymization’ are what underlie the making of pejorative meaning. These generalizations along with the schematic representations of formatives can help linguists or linguistics enthusiasts in general to understand the conventions and intricacy of lexical pejoration.

This volume contains a set of articles based on papers selected from those delivered at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL Edinburgh 2018). It focuses on cutting-edge research in the history of English while reflecting the diversity that exists in the current landscape of English historical linguistics. Chapters showcase traditional as well as novel methodologies in historical linguistics (the latter made possible by the increasing quality and accessibility of digital tools) work on linguistic interfaces (between segmental phonology and prosody and syntax and information structure) and work on mechanisms of language change (such as Yang’s Tolerance Principle on the threshold for the productivity of linguistic rules in language acquisition). The volume will be of interest to those working on the historical phonology morphology syntax and pragmatics of English language change corpus linguistics computational historical linguistics and related sub-disciplines.

Many studies on the language of food examine English or adopt discourse analysis. This volume makes a fresh attempt to analyze Japanese focusing on non-discursive units. It offers state-of-the-art data-oriented studies including methods of analysis in line with Cognitive Linguistics. It orchestrates relatable and intriguing topics from sound-symbolism in rice cracker naming to meanings of aesthetic sake taste terms. The chapters show that the language of food in Japanese is multifaceted: for instance expressivity is enhanced by ideophones as sensory words iconically depicting perceptual experiences and as nuanced words flexibly participating in neologization; context-sensitivity is exemplified by words deeply imbued with socio-cultural constructs; creativity is portrayed by imaginative expressions grounded in embodied experience. The volume will be a valuable resource for students and researchers not only in linguistics but also in neighboring disciplines who seek deeper insights into how language interacts with food in Japanese or any other language.

Gender as a morphosyntactic feature is arguably “an endlessly fascinating linguistic category” (Corbett 2014: 1). One may even say it is among “the most puzzling of the grammatical categories” (Corbett 1991: 1) that has raised probing questions from various theoretical and applied perspectives. Most languages display semantic and/or formal gender systems with various degrees of opacity and complexity and even closely related languages present distinct differences creating difficulties for second language learners. The first three chapters of this volume present critical reviews in three different areas – gender assignment in mixed noun phrases subtle gentle biases and the gender acquisition in child and adult heritage speakers of Spanish – while the next six chapters present new empirical evidence in the acquisition of gender by bilingual children adult L2/L3 learners and heritage speakers of various languages such as Italian German Dutch or Mandarin-Italian.

This volume demonstrates how various methodologies and tools have been used to analyze the multidimensional dynamic and complex nature of identities and professional development of language teachers in digital contexts that have not been adequately examined before. It therefore offers new understandings and conceptualizations of language teacher development and learning in varied digital environments. The collection of pieces illustrates a field that is recognizing that digital environments are the contexts of teacher learning not simply the object of it and that issues of identity and agency are central to that learning. As an excellent resource on digital technologies CALL gaming or language teacher identity and agency the book can be used as a textbook in various applied linguistics courses and graduate seminars.