Review: Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: Shanley E. M. Allen, Mareike Keller, Artemis Alexiadou, Heike Wiese (eds.) (2025) SUMMARY Linguistic Dynamics in Heritage Speakers: Insights from the RUEG Group, edited by Shanley E. M. Allen, Mareike Keller, Artemis Alexiadou, and Heike Wiese, brings together fifteen papers from the DFG Research Unit Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations (RUEG). The papers examine the language use of heritage speakers of German, Greek, Russian, and Turkish with either English or German as their majority language, alongside comparison data from monolingual speakers of each langu

Review: Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: Shanley E. M. Allen, Mareike Keller, Artemis Alexiadou, Heike Wiese (eds.) (2025)

Books: Semantically Vacuous Elements in German: Roehrs (2025) This book investigates adjectival inflections and the article ein in many different contexts in German including in various non-canonical contexts. It pursues two goals. On the one hand, it strives to provide a more comprehensive description and account of adjectival inflections and the article ein. This includes an examination of the interaction of these two elements. On the other hand, it seeks to identify similarities between these different types of elements to address certain theoretical qu

Books: Semantically Vacuous Elements in German: Roehrs (2025)

It's so amazing to me that "A Grammar of Mandan" already has almost 900 downloads after being put online less than a year ago! It's amazing to see how Open Access publishing really boosts visibility, so I'm pleased to see more publishers go that direction.

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Just published "Semantically vacuous elements in German: Adjectival inflections and the article 'ein' " by Dorian Roehrs #openaccess #ogl langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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We accepted "Indigenous languages of the Americas and their structures: Sounds" by The Saguaro Group langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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We accepted "Das Framing von Extremismusvarianten im medialen Diskurs der Jahre 1999–2021: Eine corpus-driven Methode zur Erschließung und Visualisierung semantischer Frames" by Tim Feldmüller langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Books: Echoes of the Past: Mohammadirad (2025) This book is a collection of 15 narratives in Hewramî. It offers a unique window into the life of Hewramî speakers, including their oral and social history, social relations, recollections of past life, and storytelling traditions. The stories were told by five narrators. All the stories have been transcribed, translated, annotated, and analysed. The volume contains an introduction that provides an overview of the language and speech community. The texts are presented in two formats: as paral

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Books: The Stories of Siko and Yowao: Vogel (2025) The Jarawaras are a small Amerindian community in lowland Amazonia, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Their language is one of half a dozen languages of the Arawan family. Yowao and Siko, both now deceased, were elderly Jarawara storytellers. Their stories are valuable from several points of view. First is their literary value -- some of the stories are quite humorous, for example. Secondly, they are a window into the life of the Jarawaras -- their social relations, history, and traditional reli

Books: The Stories of Siko and Yowao: Vogel (2025)

Books: A Grammar of Japhug: Jacques (2025) Japhug is a vulnerable Gyalrongic language, which belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) family. It is spoken by several thousand speakers in Mbarkham county, Rngaba district, Sichuan province, China. This grammar is the result of nearly 20 years of fieldwork on one variety of Japhug, based on a corpus of narratives and conversations, a large part of which is available from the Pangloss Collection. It covers the whole grammar of the language, and the text examples provide a unique insight

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Just published "The Ende way: Short stories and songs from Limol prepared with the Ende Language Committee" by Kate L. Lindsey #otc #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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We accepted "I always migrated by reindeer: Lamunkhin and Bystraja Even narratives about their traditional way of life" by Brigitte Pakendorf langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Just published "Echoes of the past: Hewramî narratives" by
Masoud Mohammadirad #otc #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Just published "A grammar of Japhug : Second edition" by Guillaume Jacques #cogl #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Just published "The Stories of Siko and Yowao: Jarawara texts" by Alan Vogel #otc #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Books: Biased Questions: Trinh, Benz, Goodhue, Yatsushiro and Krifka (eds.) (2025) Asking a question means, essentially, presenting the hearer with a set of propositions with the request that she choose from it those that are true. It is a well-known fact about natural language that questions can be "biased": the propositions presented are not all equal, so to speak. For example, the speaker's belief, or contextual evidence, might favor some against others. The formal means employed by grammar to express such biases have been of interest to linguists for a long time, and the i

Books: Biased Questions: Trinh, Benz, Goodhue, Yatsushiro and Krifka (eds.) (2025)

Books: Notes on the Grammar of Andakí: Moens, Pache (2025) This book presents the first grammatical description of Andakí, an extinct language and presumed isolate once spoken in southern Colombia. Written in an accessible style, this book is valuable to both linguists and scholars of South American indigenous cultures. Although Andakí was documented to some extent in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, its grammar has never been systematically analyzed until now. Drawing on sometimes fragmentary data, all made available in an online database, the b

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Books: The Construction of Multilinguals as Others: Alexiadou, Scarvaglieri, Schroeder and Wiese (eds.) (2025) Multilingualism is the normal condition for contemporary as well as historical human societies. However, European nation-state building has led to a strong “monolingual habitus” that constructs a community of monolingual speakers as bearers of a nation. This erases or exoticises multilinguistic practices and excludes multilingual speakers. The effects of this exclusion are visible in the public discourse on multilingual speakers, where we find a widespread “Othering” of multilingual speakers, un

Books: The Construction of Multilinguals as Others: Alexiadou, Scarvaglieri, Schroeder and Wiese (eds.) (2025)

Books: Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Information Structure in Niger-congo Languages: Akinlabi, Korsah, Rose and Sulemana (eds.) (2025)

Books: Prosody and Attention Orienting: Lialiou (2025) Humans are confronted everyday with an influx of sounds coming from several sources. In a given auditory environment, some of the sound events might be unexpected, rare, or new. Our cognitive system has the ability to detect such sounds, and consequently activate an attention orienting response. This book provides an in-depth investigation of the interplay between prosody and attention orienting during online speech processing by using two complementary experimental methods, electrophysiology

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Books: Locative and Existential Predication: Däbritz, Budzisch and Basile (eds.) (2025) Locative and existential predications are fundamental linguistic constructions that exhibit significant formal overlap while serving distinct communicative functions. Locative clauses typically anchor a definite referent to a spatial context, whereas existential clauses introduce new, often indefinite, referents into discourse. Despite their central role in syntactic and typological research, the cross-linguistic diversity of these predications remains largely underexplored. This collective volu

Books: Locative and Existential Predication: Däbritz, Budzisch and Basile (eds.) (2025)

Books: Verb-third Phenomena in Germanic Verb-second Languages: Harchaoui and Modicom (eds.) (2025) With the exception of English and its varieties, all Present-Day Germanic languages display some kind of verb-second (V2) rule, according to which the finite verbal form has to be put in the second position of the clause in declarative utterances. But even within the Germanic domain, the exact contours of the V2 rule vary strongly in time and space. Above all, the so-called bottleneck demanding that one and only one constituent be placed before the finite verb is not equally respected in all Ger

Books: Verb-third Phenomena in Germanic Verb-second Languages: Harchaoui and Modicom (eds.) (2025)

thanks for pointing this out, we have corrected the cover in the catalog

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Just published "Biased questions: Experimental results and theoretical modelling" edited by Tue Trinh, Anton Benz, Daniel Goodhue, Kazuko Yatsushiro & Manfred Krifka #openaccess #tgdi langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Just published "Notes on the grammar of Andakí" by Jelien Moens and Matthias Pache #openaccess #ela langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Just published "The construction of multilinguals as Others: Do we practice what we preach?" edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Claudio Scarvaglieri, Christoph Schroeder & Heike Wiese #openaccess #cam langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Just published "Cross-disciplinary approaches to Information Structure in Niger-Congo languages" edited by Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Sampson Korsah, Sharon Rose & Abdul-Razak Sulemana #openaccess #cal langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Just published "Verb-third phenomena in Germanic verb-second languages: Historical and variational perspectives" edited by Sarah Harchaoui & Pierre-Yves Modicom #openaccess #ogl langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Just published "Prosody and attention orienting: The role of rising intonation in speech processing" by Maria Lialiou #openaccess #silp langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Just published "Locative and existential predication: On forms, functions and neighboring domains" edited by Chris Lasse Däbritz, Josefina Budzisch & Rodolfo Basile #openaccess #rcg langsci-press.org/catalog/book...