LINGUIST List 21.5045 Mon Dec 13 2010 Books: Syntax: Boas (Ed) Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Paul Peranteau , Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar: Boas (Ed) Message 1: Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar: Boas (Ed) Date: 11-Dec-2010 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar: Boas (Ed) E-mail this message to a friend Title: Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar Series Title: Constructional Approaches to Language 10 Publication Year: 2010 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CAL%2010 Editor: Hans C. Boas Electronic: ISBN: 9789027287601 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00 Electronic: ISBN: 9789027287601 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027204325 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 90.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027204325 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027204325 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.40 Abstract: The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that the semantic description (including discourse-pragmatic and functional factors) of an English construction can be regarded as a first step towards a "tertium comparationis" that can be employed for comparing and contrasting the formal properties of constructional counterparts in other languages. Thus, the meaning pole of constructions should be regarded as the primary basis for comparisons of constructions across languages - the form pole is only secondary. This volume shows that constructions are viable descriptive and analytical tools for cross-linguistic comparisons that make it possible to capture both language-specific (idiosyncratic) properties as well as cross-linguistic generalizations. Linguistic Field(s): Syntax Subject Language(s): English (eng) Written In: English (eng) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=52108 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Morgan & Claypool Publishers Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/ Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ Springer http://www.springer.com University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ Wiley-Blackwell http://www.wiley.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/ International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be Langues et Linguistique http://y.ennaji.free.fr/fr/ Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp St. Jerome Publishing Ltd http://www.stjerome.co.uk Utrecht institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ Page Updated: 13-Dec-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.