1408, 2015

Linguistics – December 2013 to August 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 14, 2015|Linguistics|

Argument structure in usage-based construction grammar : experimental and corpus-based perspectives / Florent Perek, University of Basel.Contrastive studies in construction grammar / edited by Hans C. Boas. Developing orthographies for unwritten languages / edited by Michael Cahill and Keren Rice. Ecolinguistics : language, ecology and the stories we live by / Arran Stibbe. If I could turn my tongue like that : the Creole language of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana

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1103, 2014

South Asia – February 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 11, 2014|South Asia|0 comments

Fashion India : spectacular capitalism / edited by Tereza Kuldova. Dying wisdom : rise, fall and potential of India’s traditional water harvesting systems / editors, Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain. Partitioned lives : migrants, refugees, citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947-1965 / Haimanti Roy. Edge of empire : the British political officer and tribal administration on the North-West Frontier, 1877-1947 / Christian Tripodi. The life style of the eunuchs /

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0701, 2014

Linguistics – June to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 7, 2014|Linguistics|0 comments

Perspectives on aspect / edited by Henk J. Verkuyl, Henriette de Swart and Angeliek van Hout.  Translating the multilingual city : cross-lingual practices and language ideology / Tong-King Lee.  Verbs : aspect and causal structure / William Croft. Language attitudes, standardization and language change : perspectives on themes raised by Tore Kristiansen on the occasion of his 60th birthday / Marie Maegaard, Frans Gregersen, Pia Quist and J.Normann Jørgensen (eds.).

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1912, 2012

Linguistics – June to November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 19, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

e-journals Pragmatics and Society Volume 1(2010) onwards. System Volume 26(1998) onwards. Books Parametric variation : null subjects in minimalist theory / Theresa Biberauer … [et al.]. [Available as an e-book from Cambridge Books Online] The biolinguistic enterprise : new perspectives on the evolution and nature of the human language faculty / edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Cedric Boeckx. The limits of syntactic variation / edited by Theresa Biberauer. Language, Saussure,

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0608, 2012

Japan – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 6, 2012|Japan|0 comments

Public opinion, propaganda, ideology : theories on the press and its social function in interwar Japan, 1918-1937 / by Fabian Schäfer Japanese religions / edited by Lucia Dolce Celebrity gods : new religions, media, and authority in occupied Japan / Benjamin Dorman Pop culture and the everyday in Japan : sociological perspectives / edited by Katsuya Minamida and Izumi Tsuji translated by Leonie R. Stickland Understanding Japanese society / Joy

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2305, 2012

Linguistics – Jan to May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 23, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

Books Eish, but is it English? : celebrating the South African variety / Rajend Mesthrie with Jeanne Hromnik. Paradigm shift in language planning and policy : game-theoretic solutions / by Ettien Koffi. Theories of case / Miriam Butt. Prototypical transitivity / Åshild Næss. Differential subject marking / ed. by Helen de Hoop and Peter de Swart. Can these bones live? : translation, survival, and cultural memory / Bella Brodzki. Varieties

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0205, 2012

Japan – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 2, 2012|Japan|0 comments

Japan’s local newspapers : Chihoshi and revitalization journalism / Anthony S. Rausch. Scream from the shadows : the women’s liberation movement in Japan / Setsu Shigematsu. Urban spaces in Japan / edited by Christoph Brumann and Evelyn Schulz. The evolution of Japan’s party system : politics and policy in an era of institutional change / edited by Leonard J. Schoppa. Japan’s transnational environmental policies : the case of environmental technology

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3004, 2012

Linguistics – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

Meaning and relevance / Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber. Middle Arabic and mixed Arabic : diachrony and synchrony / edited by Liesbeth Zack and Arie Schippers.  Linguistic universals and language variation / edited by Peter Siemund. Language : the cultural tool / Daniel Everett.  [a.k.a “Cognitive fire” possibly US title] Minority languages in the linguistic landscape / ed. by Durk Gorter, Heiko F. Marten and Luk Van Mensel. Reciprocals and

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3004, 2012

Korea – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Korea|0 comments

Women and Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea : new perspectives / edited by Youngmin Kim and Michael J. Pettid. IT development in Korea : a broadband nirvana? / Kwang-Suk Lee. The quest for statehood : Korean immigrant nationalism and U.S. sovereignty, 1905-1945 / Richard S. Kim. Militants or partisans : labor unions and democratic politics in Korea and Taiwan / Yoonkyung Lee. Korean unification and the positions and roles of the

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3004, 2012

China and Inner Asia – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Journals Inner-Asia – Volume 1(1999) onwards. Books Newest trends in the study of grammaticalization and lexicalization in chinese /ed. Janet Zhiqun Xing. Confucian philosophy :innovations and transformations /edited by Chung-Ying Cheng and Justin Tiwald. Ming China, 1368-1644 :a concise history of a resilient empire /John W. Dardess. Merchants of Canton and Macao : politics and strategies in eighteenth-century Chinese trade /Paul A. Van Dyke. Reluctant regulators : how the West created

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