Books in the Sounds - Meaning - Communication series

The papers collected in this volume examine selected aspects of the interaction of phonology with phonetics, morphosyntax and the lexicon in a variety of languages. To approach the interface issues, the international contributors employ different methods of analysis and theoretical frameworks (such as Optimality Theory and Government Phonology).

The monograph attempts to examine the relationship between collective memory and oral texts. The material basis for this presentation consists of folklore oral texts, both prosaic and poetic, different as regards their genres (fairy tales, fables, recollections, traditions, legends, proverbs, and songs).

This book examines aspects of Celtic linguistics, including Irish initial mutations from a linguistic universal and contrastive perspective. It also analyses deverbal adjectives and assertive and declarative speech acts in Irish, and communication, language transmission, language change and language policy in Irish, Welsh, Breton and Sorbian.

The papers collected in this volume explore and discuss the major mechanisms, that is derivations and constraints, claimed to be responsible for various aspects of the linguistic systems, their syntax, phonology and morphology. The analyzed phenomena come from such languages as English, Old English, Polish, Russian, Hungarian and Icelandic.

The volume deals with valency phenomena in verbs and complex deverbal lexical structures (nominalizations, adjectivizations and synthetic compounds) in a variety of languages (English, Polish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Greek, Hebrew, Ga and Bantu languages). The proposed analyses are couched in lexically and syntactically driven approaches.

The book outlines a new approach to motivation in language. The approach proposes a cognitive theory of the linguistic sign, partly in opposition to classical Saussurean linguistics. The new theory is inspired and informed by Charles S. Peirce's semiotics, especially the distinction between the icon, the index, and the symbol.

The book offers a novel exploration into the semantic development of English terms concerning the concept of 'joy' ("bliss", "cheer", "delight", "dream", "game", "gladness", "glee", "joy", and "mirth"). The author adopts a panchronic perspective, according to which language reflects the way speakers experience the world.

The book discusses topics in learning foreign language lexis, including the bilingual lexicon, lexical competence and trends in vocabulary testing. It also reports on a longitudinal study of the changes in the receptive and productive lexicons of advanced learners of English. The results carry implications for course design and assessment in TEFL.

This book explores the relationship between language, culture and human mind in cognitive linguistics perspective. It offers a panchronic analysis of girl and woman as conceptualised in James Joyce's "Dubliners" by highlighting the cultural motivation behind the word.

The present collection of 14 papers is written by several international scholars who examine a variety of theoretical and descriptive issues topical in current phonetic and phonological research. This is done through a meticulous analysis of language data, often obtained experimentally, leading to broader theoretical implications.

This book focuses on current issues in formal linguistics. The twelve chapters explore the nature and role of universal principles and language-specific parameters. The analysed phenomena come from a wide range of languages, including English, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, and Polish.

The book focuses on online adaptation of Polish initial and final CC and CCC clusters by native speakers of British English. It offers an Optimality Theory analysis of a rich body of experimental data. The author provides evidence for the phonological approach to loan adaptation as well as for the core-periphery structure of the English lexicon.