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Welcome to the Language and Linguistics Catalog 2010

Brill is delighted to present you with the best and the latest in the field of Language and Linguistics. New online reference works, book series and journals are continuously being added to the program to create valuable publication outlets and cater for increasingly-demanding research requirements.

This Fall, the successful Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries will be launched online as a rich, voluminous database reconstructing the lexical heritage of the Indo-European languages. This publication strengthens Brill’s Language and Linguistics online presence, showcasing the widely-acclaimed Linguistic Bibliography Online and the dynamic Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online.

As of 2011, the successful Journal of Language Contact will be published by Brill, joining a growing list of high-quality journals. The latest edition to this list is the interdisciplinary journal: Language Dynamics and Change that will publish cutting-edge research in the field of historical linguistics and language change.

Two new book series, Brill’s Handbooks in Linguistics and Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory, provide relevant reference sources and state-of-the-art research monographs in all linguistic (sub)disciplines. In addition, several other new book series were launched, such as: Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, Brill’s Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages and Linguistics, Brill’s Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages. To discover what’s new, explore this catalog, or browse through the program online: brill.nl/language_and_linguistics

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Linguistic Bibliography Online

Edited by Hella Olbertz and Sijmen Tol

Advisory BoardWillem Adelaar, University of LeidenPeter Austin, SOAS/ELAP, LondonBernard Comrie, MPI EVA, Leipzig, Germany and University of California Santa BarbaraWilliam Croft, University of New Mexico, AlbuquerqueChristian Lehmann, University of Erfurt

• Published since 2009• E-ISSN 1574-129X

Purchase options• Annual subscription• Outright purchase with annual installment fee

The Linguistic Bibliography Online is an essential linguistic reference tool that is unique in its field. It provides nearly 270.000 bibliographical references to scholarly publications in linguistics. It covers all disciplines of theoretical linguistics, both general and language specific, from all geographical areas, including less-known and extinct languages, with particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world. It is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field.

Features and Benefits

- Widely respected as an authoritative source in its field- Cross-searchable linguistic database with nearly 270.000 records- Regularly updated with around 20.000 new records added per year- Contains over 95.000 person names, 2.800 journals and 8.500 publishers- Searchable index of key terms- Titles are given in their original languages, with translations provided- Covers all relevant fields in linguistics, both general and language specific- Includes publications from interdisciplinary fields, such as anthropology, psychology, sociology,

philosophy and computer science- Unique in its extensive coverage of non-Indo-European and lesser known Indo-European languages,

with special attention paid to endangered and extinct languages- All records are classified according to a sophisticated classification scheme (over 500 language classifications

and over 100 subject classifications), refined with an extensive language and subject keyword index- Published on the authority of the Permanent International Committee of Linguistics (CIPL)- Bibliographical description according to the rules of the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) and of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)


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Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of some forty contributing specialists from all over the world. With annually around 20.000 records added, the Linguistic Bibliography remains the standard reference work for every scholar of linguistics.

The Linguistic Bibliography is also available in print, visit brill.nl/lb for more information.

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Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2009 / Bibliographie Linguistique de l’année 2009and Supplement for Previous Year/et complement des années précédentes

Edited by Hella Olbertz and Sijmen Tol

Advisory BoardWillem Adelaar, University of LeidenPeter Austin, SOAS/ELAP, LondonBernard Comrie, MPI EVA, Leipzig, Germany and University of California Santa BarbaraWilliam Croft, University of New Mexico, AlbuquerqueChristian Lehmann, University of Erfurt

The Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique is the annual bibliography of linguistics published by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists under the auspices of the International Council of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies of UNESCO. With a tradition of sixty years, the Linguistic Bibliography is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field. It covers all disciplines of theoretical linguistics, both general and language specific, from all geographical areas, including less known and extinct languages, with particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world. Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of some forty contributing specialists from all over the world. With over 20,000 titles arranged according to a detailed state-of-the-art classification and an exhaustive keyword-system, the Linguistic Bibliography remains the standard reference work for every scholar of language and linguistics. This volume is brought up-to-date and is accompanied by extensive indices, of authors, keywords and languages.

“The merits of the Linguistic Bibliography cannot be underestimated since its reliability and precision and the ample information it provides are unsurpassed”. E.F.K. Koerner, Historiographia Linguistica, 4:2/3 (2007)

• October 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 18387 2• Cloth (1486 pp.)• List price EUR 499.- / US$ 739.-• Linguistic Bibliography, 2009

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New: Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online

• Forthcoming October 2010• E-ISSN 1877-0495

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The Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online (IED Online) reconstructs the lexicon for the most important languages and language branches of Indo-European. It is a rich and voluminous online reference source for historical and general linguists. Dictionaries can be cross-searched, with an advance search for each individual dictionary enabling the user to perform more complex research queries. Each entry is accompanied by grammatical info, meaning(s), etymological commentary, reconstructions, cognates and often extensive bibliographical information. New content will be added on an annual basis.


- Includes 11 dictionaries - Contains over 20,000 entries - Covers over 150 languages - Rich bibliographical references for further research - Export, print and save records - Cross-searchable database, supporting simple and complex queries - Unicode compliant, displaying and searching complex characters and diacritics

The 2010 edition will include the following dictionaries:Latin, Greek, Proto-Germanic, Proto Celtic, Old Frisian, Slavic, Hittite, Luvian, Iranian Verb, Armenianand Proto-Nostratic.

For more information about this product visit brill.nl/iedo

Edited by Alexander Lubotsky

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Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series

Edited by Alexander Lubotsky

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Etymological Dictionary of Persian

Garnik Asatrian

The Etymological Dictionary of Persian is the most comprehensive and up-to-date work in the field of New Persian historical lexicology and etymology, since the publication of P. Horn’s Grundriss (1893) and H. Hübschman’s Persische Studien (1895). It synthesizes the achievements of Iranian, and Indo-European, comparative linguistics over the last century with regard to the study of the inherited lexicon of Persian. The dictionary covers the principal vocabulary of the Persian language attested in sources such as: Classical poetry, historical narratives, early Judaeo-Persian texts, medical treatises, mediaeval dictionaries (“Farhangs”), as well as its use in modern urban vernaculars. Included in the listing, moreover, is a sizable amount of non-Turko-Mongolian and Arabic lexemes, particularly borrowings from Greek, Indian, and Caucasian languages. Copious references are given to the relevant literature, whereby each lemma is supplied with an extensive bibliography. The lemmas are rendered in the original Arabo-Persian script followed by a transcription, and are arranged according to the Arabic alphabet. The indexes, a.o. include, a detailed list of discussed New Persian forms both in their original alphabet and in transcription, as well as the different languages. The Etymological Dictionary of Persian is a basic source for Indo-Europeanists and experts in comparative linguistics, as well as a reference guide for those researching and studying Persian languages.

• December 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 18341 4• Hardback (approx. 1000 pp.)• List price EUR 239.- / US$ 340.-• Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, 12

Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic

Guus Kroonen

Germanic is one of the best studied branches of the Indo-European language family.This new etymological dictionary offers a wealth of material collected from both old and new Germanic languages, ranging from Gothic to Modern Faroese, from Old English to the Swiss dialects. It covers the largest part of the Proto-Germanic lexicon, containing around 7000 lexemes. A large number of words for the first time receive an Indo-European reconstruction, and, as a result, the dictionary offers a full implementation of the laryngeal theory. Special focus is further put on the internal evolution of Germanic morphology and its consequences for the study of Germanic etymology.• November 2010

• ISBN 978 90 04 18340 7• Hardback (approx. 1000 pp.)• List price EUR 239.- / US$ 340.-• Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, 11

The Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series publishes the results of a major Leiden University project identifying and describing the common lexical heritage of the Indo-European languages. Under the supervision of Alexander Lubotsky, an international team of historical linguists has for more than a

decade researched, collected and integrated a growing corpus of linguistic data. The data is published in a series of etymological dictionaries and will be concluded by the publication of a large Indo-European Etymological Dictionary, deemed as a successor of Julius Pokorny’s standard work published in 1959.

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Etymological Dictionary of Greek (2 vols)

Robert Beekeswith the assistance of Lucien van Beek

Greek is among the most intensely and widely studied languages known. Since the publication of the last etymological dictionary of Greek, both the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, and our knowledge of the Greek substrate have led to numerous, often surprising new insights into the history and formation of the Greek vocabulary. This dictionary is a treasure trove covering 2000 years of Ancient Greek: from Mycenaean via Homer and the classical period to lexicographers, such as Hesychius (5th century A.D.). It consists of 7500 entries with thoroughly revised etymologies. Each entry gives clear information about the origin of the Greek word and its first date of attestation. It further provides all etymologically relevant variants, dialectal forms, derivatives, compounds, and bibliographical references. This dictionary is a truly indispensable tool for those in search of a deeper knowledge of the Greek vocabulary, its history and, therewith, a better understanding of the language.

• November 2009• ISBN 978 90 04 17418 4• Hardback (xlxiv, 1808 pp. in 2 volumes)• List price EUR 399.- / US$ 590.-• Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, 10

Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon

Hrach K. Martirosyan

As an Indo-European language, Armenian has been the subject of etymological research for over a hundred years. There are many valuable systematic handbooks, studies and surveys on comparative Armenian linguistics. Almost all of these works, with a few exceptions, mostly concentrate on Classical Armenian and touch the dialects only sporadically. Non-literary data taken from Armenian dialects have largely remained outside of the scope of Indo-European etymological considerations. This book provides an up-to-date description of the Indo-European lexical stock of Armenian with systematic inclusion of dialectal data. It incorporates the lexical, phonetic, and morphological material in the Armenian dialects into the etymological treatment of the Indo-European lexicon. In this respect it is completely new.

• November 2009• ISBN 978 90 04 17337 8• Hardback (xvi, 988 pp.)• List price EUR 199.- / US$ 297.-• Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, 8

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- Regularly updated with new content- Over 500 entries- Over 300 contributors- Over 2,1 million words- Full-text searchable and advance search options- Browsable index- Fully Unicode compliant, to facilitate the display of foreign languages- A high-quality linguistic reference work- A unique and widely respected authoritative source in the field- Covers all relevant fields in Arabic linguistics, both general and language specific

Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online

General Editors: Lutz Edzard, Oslo and Rudolf de Jong, Amsterdam

• Published since 2009• E-ISSN 1570-6699

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Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics

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The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics represents a unique collaboration of a few hundred scholars from around the world and covers all relevant aspects of the study of Arabic and deals with all levels of the language (pre-Classical Arabic, Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic vernaculars, mixed varieties of Arabic). No other reference work offers this scale of contributions or depth and breadth of coverage. The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online (EALL Online) contains all content of the print edition and new content is added on a regular basis. New articles are elaborations or updates of themes already discussed in the EALL, or are new entries that are relevant to the field.

Editorial BoardRamzi Baalbaki, BeirutJames Dickins, SalfordMushira Eid, UtahPierre Larcher, Aix-en-ProvenceJanet Watson, Salford

The EALL Online comprehensively covers all aspects of Arabic languages and linguistics. It is interdisciplinary in scope and represents different schools and approaches to be as objective and versatile as possible. The online edition is cross-searchable, cross-referenced and regularly updated. The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics is an essential reference work for students and researchers in the fields of linguistics, Islamic studies, Arabic literature and other related fields.

The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics is also available in print, visit brill.nl/eall for more information.

Advisory BoardElabbas Benmamoun, Urbana, Alaa Elgibali, Cairo, Clive Holes, Oxford, Paul Kiparsky, Stanford, Jérôme Lentin, Paris, Jamal Ouhalla, Dublin, Jan Retsö, Goteborg, Sabah Safi, Jeddah, Kees Versteegh, Nijmegen, Enam al-Wer, Colchester, Manfred Woidich, Amsterdam and Andrej Zaborksi, Cracow

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Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (Set, vols 1-5)

General Editor: Kees VersteeghAssociate Editors: Mushira Eid, Alaa Elgibali, Manfred Woidich, Andrzej Zaborski

The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics is now complete with the publication of the final, very valuable index volume. The encyclopedia represents a unique collaboration of over hundreds of scholars from around the world. It covers all relevant aspects of the study of Arabic and deals with all levels of the language (pre-Classical Arabic, Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic vernaculars, mixed varieties of Arabic). No other reference work offers this scale of contributions or depth and breadth of coverage. The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics has become the essential reference work for students and researchers in the fields of Linguistics, Islamic and Arabic Studies, and other related fields.

• August 2009• ISBN 978 90 04 17702 4• Hardback (3232 pp. in 5 volumes)• List price EUR 850.- / US$ 1258.-

Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and LinguisticsVolume 5 (Index)

• August 2009• ISBN 978 90 04 17484 9• Hardback (iv, 288 pp.)• List price EUR 145.- / US$ 205.-• Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, 5

This volume concludes the publication of the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics in print.

“The mere appearance of the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (EALL) on the scene carries huge importance for linguists working with Arabic, but also for scholars from other disciplines like Islamic studies, Arabic literature, social sciences, as well as general linguists, whose research cross paths with Arabic linguistics.... The strength of the EALL as a reference tool is that it brings together notions and terms from different disciplines (classical grammatical theory, modern linguistic theory), and different eras (pre-classical, classical, modern). By weaving together a wide variety of terms, the end product achieves a degree of disciplinary integration that remains illusive for reference works limited to one theoretical framework.... The EALL lives up to its claim to offering a framework within which data on all varieties of Arabic and different types of analyses can be drawn together from different parts of globe in order to improve the propagation of knowledge regarding one of the world’s key languages.... Incorporated in the EALL are sketches of more than 40 dialects described according to a predetermined format, which allows the user to make quick cross-dialectical comparison.” - The Linguist List, 20 July 2010

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New Series: Brill’s Handbooks in Linguistics Series Editors: Brian D. Joseph, The Ohio State University, Columbus (Managing Editor)Artemis Alexiadou, University of Stuttgart, StuttgartHarald Baayen, University of AlbertaPier Marco Bertinetto, Scuola Normale Superiore, PisaKirk Hazen, West Virginia University, MorgantownMaria Polinsky, Harvard University, Cambridge

For more information: brill.nl/bhl ISSN: 1879-629X

This new handbook series presents state-of-the-art reference volumes in the field of linguistics.

Handbook of the Syllable

Edited by Charles E. Cairns and Eric Raimy

The Handbook of the Syllable approaches the study of the phonology and phonetics of the syllable with theoretical, empirical and methodological heterogeneity as its guiding principle. Since the mid-nineteenth century, scholars in the phonetic and phonological sciences have found it convenient to refer to the syllable, but definitions are scarce and none apply to all areas where the syllable is frequently invoked. The Handbook’s seventeen chapters focus on empirical studies of the syllable by presenting both new data and new kinds of data. The work addresses the syllable in phonology, phonetics, experimental psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, diachronic linguistics, and orthography. It is a seminal reference book for researchers exploring any empirical area where the notion of “the syllable” is invoked.

• October 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 18393 3• Hardback (approx. 525 pp)• List price EUR 170.- / US$ 241.-• Brill’s Handbooks in Linguistics, 1

New Series: Empirical Approaches to Theoretical Linguistics

Series Editors: Brian D. Joseph, The Ohio State University, Columbus (Managing Editor)Artemis Alexiadou, University of Stuttgart, StuttgartHarald Baayen, University of AlbertaPier Marco Bertinetto, Scuola Normale Superiore, PisaKirk Hazen, West Virginia University, MorgantownMaria Polinsky, Harvard University, Cambridge

For more information: brill.nl/ealt ISSN: 2210-6243

Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory (EALT) is a new book series that aims to publish high-quality works that are grounded in empirical data but at the same time advance theoretical goals. The relevant notion of “theory” envisioned here is broad and eclectic, but also rigorous. The contributing empirical data is similarly broadly defined. The new series will include single or co-authored monographs on a single topic or linguistic issue, state-of-the art reports and/or thematically coherent multi-authored volumes. Prospective authors are invited to submit proposals for this series, to be vetted by the series editors, in which the particular theoretical constructs and/or claims to be examined are identified along with the empirical basis for the investigation.

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New Series: Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture

Series Editors: Alexandra Aikhenvald, Cairns Institute, James Cook UniversityR. M. W. Dixon, Cairns Institute, James Cook University N. J. Enfield, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

Editorial Board: Willem Adelaar, University of LeidenCarol Genetti, University of California at Santa BarbaraBernd Heine, University of CologneRosita Henry, James Cook UniversityJohn Lucy, University of ChicagoLev Michael, University of California, BerkeleyTon Otto, Aarhus University/James Cook UniversityBambi Schieffelin, New York UniversityMasayoshi Shibatani, Rice University/Kobe UniversityAnne Storch, University of ColognePeter Trudgill, University of Fribourg/University of East Anglia Anthony Woodbury, University of Texas, Austin

For more information: brill.nl/bslc ISSN: 1879-5412

Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture (BSLC) is a new peer-reviewed book series that offers an international forum for high-quality original studies in languages and cultures. It focuses on the interaction between linguistic categories (and their conceptualization), cultural values, and human cognition. Publications in this series will include interdisciplinary studies on language, its meanings and forms, and possible interactions with cognitive and communicational patterns. The series spans cultural and social anthropology, cognitive science and linguistics. The emphasis is on inductive based cross-linguistic and cross-cultural studies, with special attention to poorly known areas, such as Lowland Amazonia and the Pacific. The series is international in scope and it is envisaged that three – four new volumes will be published each year.

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Brill’s Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Series Editors: David Beck, University of Alberta, Mily Crevels, Radboud University Nijmegen,Hein van der Voort, Radboud University Nijmegen and Roberto Zavala, CIESAS-Sureste

For more information: brill.nl/bsila ISSN: 1876-5580 Brill’s Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas is a peer-reviewed international forum for scholarly studies on the indigenous languages of South, Central and North America.

The target audience of the series consists of Americanists, typologists and theoretical linguists, as well as linguists in general.

Linguistics and Archaeology in the AmericasThe Historization of Language and Society

Edited by Eithne B. Carlin and Simon van de Kerke

The contributors to this volume, an international group of leading specialists, guide us through different aspects of the study of Amerindian languages and societies that lie at the heart of the extensive and multi-facetted work of Willem Adelaar, the forerunning specialist in Native American studies of Meso and South America, and Professor of Amerindian Studies at Leiden University. The contributors focus on three larger regions, the Andes, Amazonia, Meso-America and the Circum-Caribbean region, giving us a state of the art overview of current linguistic and archaeological research trends that illuminate the dynamicity and historicity of the Americas, in migratory movements, contact situations, grouping and re-grouping of identities and the linguistic results thereof. This book is a must-have for all scholars of the American continent.

Salish Applicatives

Kaoru Kiyosawa and Donna B. Gerdts

This book offers a comprehensive view of the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicatives in Salish, a language family of northwestern North America. Applicative constructions, found in many polysynthetic languages, cast a semantically peripheral noun phrase as direct object. Drawing upon primary and secondary data from twenty Salish languages, the authors catalog the relationship between the form and function of seventeen applicative suffixes. The semantic role of the associated noun phrase and the verb class of the base are crucial factors in differentiating applicatives. Salish languages have two types of applicatives: relationals are formed on intransitive bases and redirectives on transitive ones. The historical development and discourse function of Salish applicatives are elucidated and placed in typological perspective.

• May 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 17362 0• Hardback (xxiv, 276 pp.)• List price EUR 108.- / US$ 153.-• Brill’s Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 2

• June 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 18740 5• Hardback (x, 393 pp.)• List price EUR 130.- / US$ 185.-• Brill’s Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 1

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Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics

Series Editors: Craig Melchert, University of California at Los Angeles andOlav Hackstein, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

For more information: brill.nl/bsiel ISSN: 1875-6328 Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics is a peer-reviewed series that publishes high-quality original research in Indo-European Linguistics (also poetics and mythology), with

special emphasis on innovative approaches and application of current linguistic methodologies.

Time, Tense and Aspect in Early Vedic GrammarExploring Inflectional Semantics in the Rigveda

Eystein Dahl

This book takes a fresh look at the relationship between aspect, tense and mood in Early Vedic, the language of the Rigveda. Although numerous studies have examined the functional range of individual verbal categories in this language, this work is the first attempt to approach this problem from an overall, systemic perspective. With insights from formal semantics and linguistic typology, the author demonstrates that aspect represents a grammatically relevant semantic dimension on a par with tense in the Early Vedic verbal system, thereby indicating that the language has preserved an aspectual opposition similar to the one found in Homeric Greek. Apart from these general findings, the book provides a theoretical framework designed for exploring inflectional semantics in dead languages.

• June 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 17814 4• Hardback (xviii, 474 pp.)• List price EUR 130.- / US$ 185.-• Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics, 5

Untersuchungen zu den baltischen Sprachen

Daniel Petit

The Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian, Old Prussian) are well known for their archaic structure, but their contribution to Indo-European linguistics has hitherto often been underestimated. The aim of this book is to give a thorough survey of some of the major issues of Baltic linguistics. It consists of five chapters, devoted, respectively, to the problems of Baltic dialectology, to the development of the Baltic accentual system, to the fate of the neuter gender in Baltic, to the reconstruction of the Baltic verbal system and, finally, to the syntax of clitic forms in Baltic.

• May 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 17836 6• Hardback (viii, 353 pp.)• List price EUR 119.- / US$ 169.-• Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics, 4

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The Tocharian Verbal System

Melanie Malzahn

This book presents a synchronic and diachronic study of all verbal classes and categories of theTocharian branch of Indo-European. It lists all attested Tocharian verbal forms, together withsemantic and etymological information. The material has been subject to careful philologicalevaluation and incorporates unedited or unpublished texts of the Berlin, London, and Pariscollections. In addition, this study consistently takes into account the linguistic variation within the Tocharian B language and the relative chronology of texts. Moreover, Tocharian offers crucial evidence for the reconstruction of the PIE verbal system, and is also of interest to the general linguist for the interaction of voice and valency.• April 2010

• ISBN 978 90 04 18171 7• Hardback (xxviii, 1036 pp.)• List price EUR 150.- / US$ 213.-• Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics, 3

Sociolinguistics of the Luvian Language

Ilya Yakubovich

Luvian is the language of Anatolian hieroglyphic inscriptions and a close relative of Hittite. This book explores the Luvian ethnic history through sociolinguistic methods, with an emphasis on the interpretation of contacts between Luvian and its linguistic neighbors, such as Hittite, Hurrian, and Greek. It is concluded that Luvian was originally spoken in the central part of Anatolia. Subsequent Luvian migrations were connected with the expansion of the Hittite state, where Hittite was the socially dominant language, but the Luvian speakers were more numerous. The unstable balance between the Hittite and the Luvian speakers continued to shift in favor of the second group, to the point that the Hittite elites were fully bilingual in Luvian.• November 2009

• ISBN 978 90 04 17791 8• Hardback (xvi, 456 pp.)• List price EUR 146.- / US$ 216.-• Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics, 2

Language and Ritual in Sabellic ItalyThe Ritual Complex of the Third and Fourth Tabulae Iguvinae

Michael Weiss

The Iguvine Tables (Tabulae Iguvinae) are among the most invaluable documents of Italic linguistics and religion. Seven bronze tablets discovered in 1444 in the Umbrian town of Gubbio (ancient Iguvium), they record the rites and sacral laws of a priestly brotherhood, the Fratres Atiedii, with a degree of detail unparalleled elsewhere in ancient Italy. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that combines philological and linguistic, as well as ritual analysis, Michael Weiss not only addresses the many interpretive cruces that have puzzled scholars for a century and a half, but also constructs a coherent theory of the entire ritual performance described on Tables III and IV. In addition, Weiss sheds light on many questions of Roman ritual practice and places the Iguvine Tables in their broader Italic and Indo-European contexts.

• October 2009• ISBN 978 90 04 17789 5• Hardback (xvi, 516 pp.)• List price EUR 156.- / US$ 231.-• Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics, 1

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New Series: Brill’s Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages

Series Editors: John Peterson, University of Leipzig and Anju Saxena, Uppsala University

For more information: brill.nl/bssal ISSN: 1877-4083

Brill’s Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages (BSSAL) is a new peer-reviewed series that provides a venue for high-quality monograph-length descriptive and theoretical studies on the languages of South and Southwest Asia. In the political sense, South Asia encompasses the seven independent states Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, but linguistically and culturally it also includes some adjacent areas to the east and north, notably Tibet. Southwest Asia is understood here as comprising the Iranian language speaking territory to the west of South Asia, i.e., the states of Afghanistan and Iran and the geocultural transnational

region Kurdistan, consisting of parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. The languages – ancient and modern – of South and Southwest Asia have played a central role in linguistics from the field’s very beginnings as a modern scientific endeavor, and continue to occupy a central position in discussions in many linguistic subdisciplines, such as phonology, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, typology, writing systems, and areal studies, to name just a few. The series seeks high-quality, state-of-the-art contributions on all aspects of the languages of this linguistically diverse and fascinating area.

A Grammar of KhariaA South Munda Language

John Peterson

Kharia, spoken in central-eastern India, is a member of the southern branch of the Munda family, which forms the western branch of the Austro-Asiatic phylum, stretching from central India to Vietnam. The present study provides the most extensive description of Kharia to date and covers all major areas of the grammar. Of particular interest in the variety of Kharia described here, is that there is no evidence for assuming the existence of parts-of-speech, such as noun, adjective and verb. Rather functions such as reference, modification and predication are expressed by one of two syntactic structures, referred to here as “syntagmas”. The volume will be of equal interest to general linguists from the fields of typology, linguistic theory, areal linguistics, Munda linguistics as well as South Asianists in general.

• November 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 18720 7• Hardback (approx. 500 pp.)• List price EUR 152.- / US$ 216.-• Brill’s Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages, 1

Related title: Tracing the Boundaries between Hindi and UrduLost and Added in Translation between 20th Century Short Stories

Christine Everaert

This book sheds light on the complex relationship between Hindi and Urdu. Through a detailed reading of a representative set of 20th century short stories in both languages, the author leads the reader towards a clear definition of the differences between Hindi and Urdu. The full translations of the stories have been extensively annotated to point out the details in which the Hindi and Urdu versions differ. An overview of early and contemporary Hindi/Urdu and Hindustani grammars and language teaching textbooks demonstrates the problems of correctly naming and identifying the two languages. This book now offers a detailed and systematic database of syntactic, morphological and semantic differences between the selected Hindi and Urdu stories. A useful tool for all scholars of modern Hindi/Urdu fiction, (socio-)linguistics, history or social sciences.

• December 2009• ISBN 978 90 04 17731 4• Other (320 pp. plus CD)• List price EUR 114.- / US$ 169.-• Brill’s Indological Library, 32

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Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region

Edited by George van Driem

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A Grammar and Dictionary of Zaiwa (2 vols)

Anton Lustig

Dr. Anton Lustig’s Grammar and Dictionary of Zaiwa is a thorough and unique documentation of this main language of the Jingpo minority in southwest China. Volume I clarifies the precise meanings of numerous grammatical and lexical categories, in a holistic and all-encompassing but also vivid way, offering real insight into the conceptual universe of this typologically highly interesting tonal language, with suprasegmental traits. Volume II contains a dictionary, stories and songs. This work is also a historical monument for and tribute to this endangered language.

• August 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 18489 3• Hardback (1500 pp., 2 vols.)• List price EUR 239.- / US$ 340.-• Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, 5 / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, 11

A Grammar of Tshangla

Erik E. Andvik

A Grammar of Tshangla is the first major linguistic description of Tshangla, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Bhutan, northeast India, and southwest China. Written from a functional-typological perspective, it contains a wealth of illustrative examples both from elicited data and from spontaneously generated texts. It is a truly comprehensive description, including sections on phonology, lexicon, morphophonemics, morphosyntactic structure, clause-concatenating constructions, as well as discourse-pragmatic features. The volume will be of interest to language students, and to linguists and ethnographic scholars seeking to understand the Bhutanese and South Asian linguistic situation. The large amount of raw language data presented here make this Grammar of Tshangla an indispensable tool for students of Tibeto-Burman comparative linguistics and morphosyntactic theory in general.

• May 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 17827 4• Hardback (xviii, 488 pp.)• List price EUR 121.- / US$ 179.-• Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, 5 / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, 10

A Grammar of AnongLanguage Death Under Intense Contact

Hongkai Sun and Guangkun Liu Translated, annotated, and supplemented by Fengxiang Li, Ela Thurgood and Graham Thurgood

A work that will be of interest to those interested in typology, language history, and contact induced change, this book documents the radical restructuring of Anong over the last 40 years under intense contact with Lisu. In the almost fifty years, Sun Hongkai has been documenting the Anong language of Yunnan China, it has undergone radical, contact-induced changes. The language of the less than forty remaining speakers is quite different than the Anong of forty years ago. Under intense contact with Lisu, major change has occurred in the language, much of it documented in this work of Sun’s. The English edition is a reworking of the original Chinese version, providing annotation, an expanded lexicon, and an appendix that contains an instrumental study of the language.

• September 2009• ISBN 978 90 04 17686 7• Hardback (276 pp.)• List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.-• Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, 5 / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, 9

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Related title: Introduction to Altaic PhilologyTurkic, Mongolian, Manchu

Igor de Rachewiltz and Volker Rybatzki.With the collaboration of Hung Chin-fu

There are many excellent books dealing with Old Turkic, Preclassical and Classical Mongolian and Literary Manchu individually, but none providing in a single volume a comprehensive survey of all the three major Altaic languages. The present volume attempts to fill this gap; at the same time it reviews also the much debated Altaic Hypothesis. The book is intended for use by students at university level as well as by general readers with a basic knowledge of linguistics. The 39 language texts analysed in the volume are discussed within their historical and cultural context, thus vastly enlarging the scope of the purely linguistic investigation.

• May 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 18528 9• Hardback (540 pp.)• List price EUR 158.- / US$ 225.-• Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies, 20

Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Series Editors: T. Muraoka, A.D. Rubin and C.H.M. Versteegh For more information: brill.nl/ssl ISSN: 0081-8461

The distinct traits shared by the Semitic languages determine the essential unity of research in these languages. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics has been a prominent forum for linguistic publications concerning the Semitic languages ever since its foundation in 1967. The series includes both books written in the philological tradition of research and ones

applying modern linguistic theories. Such sub-disciplines as descriptive linguistics, comparative linguistics, socio-linguistics et cetera all fall within the scope of the series. While studies of individual aspects of individual languages are accepted on a selective basis, the series specifically includes monographs, collaborative volumes, and reference works of a wider scope.

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Amәdiya

Jared Greenblatt

This work is a linguistic description of an obsolescent dialect of Neo-Aramaic. The dialect was originally spoken by Jews residing in the village of Amǝdya (a.k.a Amadiya) in modern-day northern Iraq. Included are edited transcriptions and translations of a selection of texts recorded in the dialect on a variety of topics and in a variety of genres, including folk-tales and oral history.

• November 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 18257 8 • Hardback, (approx. 650 pp.)• List price EUR 187.- / US$ 286.-• Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 61

The Ecology of ArabicA Study of Arabicization

Muhammad al-Sharkawi

This book offers a comprehensive account of Arabicization in the Middle East and Egypt in the early period of the Arab conquests. Drawing on material from ancient Arabic grammarians as well as modern studies in second language acquisition, it analyzes the linguistic and non-linguistic ecological factors that contributed to the development of Arabic during the early period after the Arab conquests. It describes the pre-Islamic linguistic and sociolinguistic situation and traces the development in this period. The sociological, cultural, and sociolinguistic context is sketched to determine the nature and quality of the process of learning Arabic in the early period. The work further discusses the process of learning Arabic as a second language and the input provided by the native speakers, which both affected the structure of the emerging dialects.

• October 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 18606 4 • Hardback (approx. 300 pp.)• List price EUR 118.- / US$ 168.-• Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 60

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Grammaticalization of Arabic Prepositions and SubordinatorsA Corpus-Based Study

Mohssen Esseesy

Previous scholarship on Arabic prepositions typically has presented these as a static closed class of words. Inevitably, such a treatment does not take into account the diachronic development of prepositions into new functions in syntax, semantics and discourse. The present study applies grammaticalization theory to the analysis of prepositions and subordinators across varieties of Arabic. It goes beyond the traditional single-word focus and treats prepositions as parts of multiword complexes. Drawing upon a sizeable base of authentic historical and present-day Arabic data, it presents a rigorously descriptive and quantitative analysis of evolutionary processes involving prepositional forms and subordinators.

• August 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 18587 6• Hardback (xxiv, 392 pp.)• List price EUR 168.- / US$ 239.-• Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 59

The Mehri Language of Oman

Aaron D. Rubin

This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the Omani dialect of Mehri, an unwritten Semitic language of the Modern South Arabian group. It is the first complete grammar of any Modern South Arabian language in a hundred years, and the first ever Mehri grammar based on the Omani dialect, making it an important contribution to the field of Semitic studies in general. Topics in phonology, all aspects of morphology, and a variety of syntactic features are covered in this volume. The grammar is based on texts collected by T.M. Johnstone, and published by H. Stroomer.

• May 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 18263 9• Hardback (xx, 364 pp.)• List price EUR 108.- / US$ 153.-• Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 58

Arabic and the MediaLinguistic Analyses and Applications

Edited by Reem Bassiouney

This volume is the first of its kind to deal with a variety of topics by leading scholars related to the use of Arabic in the media. The contributors examine patterns of language use in traditional as well as ‘new’ media types, in order to further our understanding of the mechanism at work in the development of modern Arabic, both in its standard and colloquial varieties. The first part of this volume is devoted to a close analysis of various aspects of media Arabic (code-switching, language variation, orthography and constructions of identity); the second part builds on the first, as it asks, to what extent does the Arabic used in the media reflect social and linguistic realities of Arabic speaking audiences (‘clichéd’ dialects, code-switching and socialects)? How can our knowledge of the linguistic reality of the media in the Arab world contribute to teaching the media to foreign students learning Arabic?

• March 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 18258 5• Hardback (vi, 310 pp.)• List price EUR 119.- / US$ 169.-• Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 57

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Kitāb SībawayhiSyntax and Pragmatics

Amal Marogy

This book presents a comprehensive portrait of the Kitāb Sībawayhi. It offers new insights into its historical and linguistic arguments and underlines their strong correlation. The decisive historical argument highlights al-Ḥīra’s role, not only as the centre of pre-Islamic Arabic culture, but also as the matrix within which early Arab linguistics grew and developed. The Kitāb’s value as a communicative grammar forms the crux of the linguistic argument. The complementarity of syntax and pragmatics is established as a condition sine qua non for Sībawayhi’s analysis of language. The benefits of a complementary approach are reflected in the analysis of nominal sentences and related notions of ibtidā’ and definiteness. The pragmatic principle of identifiability is uncovered as the ultimate determiner of word order.

• December 2009• ISBN 978 90 04 17816 8• Hardback (xviii, 238 pp.)• List price EUR 108.- / US$ 160.-• Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 56

Related title: Wortatlas der arabischen DialekteBand I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora

Peter Behnstedt and Manfred Woidich

The Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte / Word Atlas of Arabic Dialects (WAD) intends to provide an unprecedented survey of the lexical richness and diversity of the Arabic dialects as spoken from Uzbekistan to Mauretania and Nigeria, from Malta to Sudan, and including the Ki-Nubi Creole as spoken in Uganda and Kenya. The multilingual word atlas will consist of three volumes in total with some 500 onomasiological maps in full colour. Each map presents a topic or notion and its equivalents in Arabic as collected from the dialectological literature (dictionaries, grammars, text collections, ethnographic reports, etc.), from the editors’ own field work, from questionnaires filled out by native speakers or by experts for a certain dialect region, and also from the internet. Polyglot legends in German, English, French, Spanish, Italian accompany the maps to facilitate further access. Each map is followed by a commentary in German, providing more details about the sources and the individual forms, and discussing semantic and etymological issues. All quotations are in their original language. The maps mainly show lexical types, detailed and concrete forms are given in the commentaries. An introduction is provided in both German and English and an index of all lexemes in the atlas will be available. The first volume Band I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora / Volume 1: Mankind, Nature, Fauna and Flora will contain subjects such as ‘family members’, ‘professions’, ‘human qualities’. The second volume will deal with material culture (‘house’, ‘utensils’, ‘food’, ‘clothing’, ‘vehicles’, etc.) and the third and final volume will focus on verbs, adjectives and function words. The atlas will be indispensable for everyone interested in the modern spoken Arabic language, as well as for dialectologists and for semanticists.

• September 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 18664 4• Hardback (approx. 240 pp., 184 maps)• List price EUR 150.- / US$ 213.-• Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, 100/1

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Translating ReligionLinguistic Analysis of Judeo-Arabic Sacred Texts from Egypt

Benjamin H. Hary

Translations of Hebrew and Aramaic sacred texts into Jewish languages, religiolects, and varieties have been widespread throughout the Jewish world. This volume is a study of the genre of these translations, known as the šarḥ, into Judeo-Arabic in Egypt in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The study places Judeo-Arabic along the Jewish linguistic spectrum, traces its history and offers insights to the spoken variety of Egyptian Judeo-Arabic, which set it apart from other Arabic dialects. The book also provides a linguistic model of the translation of the sacred texts. Rather than viewing the translation as only verbatim, the study traces in great detail the literal/interpretive linguistic tension with which the translators struggled in their work.

• March 2009• ISBN 978 90 04 17382 8• Hardback (iv, 384 pp.)• List price EUR 135.- / US$ 205.-• Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval, 38

Linguistic Variety of Judaeo-Arabic in Letters from the Cairo Genizah

Esther-Miriam Wagner

The Cairo Genizah has preserved a vast number of medieval and post-medieval letters written in the Jewish variety of Arabic. The linguistic peculiarities of these letters provide an invaluable source for the understanding of the history of the Arabic language and the development of Arabic dialects. This work compares and contrasts various linguistic features of Judaeo-Arabic letters from different periods, and is one of the first studies to present a comprehensive linguistic investigation into non-literary Judaeo-Arabic. Its main focus is to provide an extensive diachronic linguistic description, while distinguishing between features of epistolary Arabic and vernacular phenomena. This study should be of interest to anyone working on the Arabic language, sociolinguistics, general historical linguistics and language typology.

• September 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 18776 4• Hardback (cclxviii, 8 pp.)• List price EUR 103.- / US$ 146.-• Études sur le Judaïsme Médiéval, 41

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Studia Semitica Neerlandica

Editor-in-Chief: K.A.D. Smelik Editorial Board: P.C. Beentjes, W.J. van Bekkum, W.C. Delsman, H. Gzella, J. Hoftijzer, J. Van Steenbergen, E. Talstra and M. Tanret

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Studia Semitica Neerlandica comprises of studies on the linguistics and literature of one the Semitic languages or the Semitic languages as a whole. Studies on texts written in one of the

Semitic languages or texts that deal with the history and culture of groups speaking a Semitic language also fall within the scope of this series.

From Linguistics to HermeneuticsA Functional and Cognitive Approach to Job 12-14

Pierre Van Hecke

Linguistics and hermeneutics are often regarded as two mutually exclusive scholarly disciplines. Recent decades, however, have witnessed the rise of linguistic approaches that take meaning back to the heart of their inquiry and can be fruitful for textual interpretation. This book applies the insights of two such approaches, i.e. functional grammar and cognitive semantics, to the study of Biblical Hebrew with a specific focus on Job 12-14. The result is two-fold. The study offers a detailed linguistic analysis, providing many new insights in the linguistic peculiarities of the text and Biblical Hebrew in general. Moreover, it proposes a fresh exegetical reading of Job’s longest and central speech in the book.

• November 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 18835 8• Hardback (approx. 550 pp.)• List price EUR 158.- / US$ 224.-• Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 55

The Lexical Field of the Substantives of “Gift” in Ancient Hebrew

Francesco Zanella

This monograph exhaustively investigates the semantic domain of ‘gift’ in Ancient Hebrew, which comprises 28 substantives. The investigation firstly focuses on the syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations that determine the meanings of each individual lexeme and subsequently provides an overall picture of the developments and extensions of the whole lexical field across the different layers of Ancient Hebrew. The investigation sheds new light on the debated issue of the so-called “sectarian” Qumran writings, by demonstrating that they attest to distinctive patterns of lexical organisation that are not found elsewhere in Ancient Hebrew. The appendix finally discusses the feasibility of drawing concept related conclusions on the basis of linguistic data, thus sketching a possible map of the concept of ‘gift’.

• July 2010• ISBN 978 90 04 17873 1• Hardback (xviii, 473 pp.)• List price EUR 140.- / US$ 199.-• Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 54

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Collective and Individual ResponsibilityA Description of Corporate Personality in Ezekiel 18 and 20

Jurrien Mol

A long discussed theme concerning Ezekiel 18 and 20 is the relationship between collective and individual responsibility. In the first half of the twentieth century the discussion appeared to end as a result of the introduction of the corporate personality by Henry Wheeler Robinson (1872-1945). This concept became heavily discussed and was dismissed on the grounds of its superseded theoretical basis. The continuing use of the concept requires a redefinition and a new theoretical basis which is provided by the multimodal framework by Geoffrey Samuel from the field of cultural anthropology. Before applying the concept, Ezekiel 18 and 20 are studied extensively relative to textual criticism, philology, grammar, and structural analysis.

• August 2009• ISBN 978 90 04 17043 8• Hardback (xvi, 290 pp.)• List price EUR 108.- / US$ 154.-• Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 53

New Series: Linguistic Biblical Studies

Edited by Stanley E. Porter

For more information: brill.nl/lbs ISSN: 1877-7554 This series, Linguistic Biblical Studies, is dedicated to the development and promotion of linguistically informed study of the Bible in its original languages. Biblical studies has greatly benefited from modern theoretical and applied linguistics, but stands poised to benefit from further integration of the two fields of study. Most linguistics has studied contemporary languages, and attempts to apply linguistic methods to study of ancient languages requires systematic re-assessment of their approaches. This series is designed to address such challenges, by providing a venue for linguistically based analysis of the

languages of the Bible. As a result, monograph-length studies and collections of essays in the major areas of linguistics, such as syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and text linguistics, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, comparative linguistics, and the like, will be encouraged, and any theoretical linguistic approach will be considered, both formal and functional. Primary consideration is given to the Greek of the New and Old Testaments and of other relevant ancient authors, but studies in Hebrew, Coptic, and other related languages will be entertained as appropriate.

Mark’s Memory Resources and the Controversy Stories (Mark 2:1-3:6)An Application of the Frame Theory of Cognitive Science to the Markan Oral-Aural Narrative

Yoon-Man Park

This book is a study of the New Testament using the insights of modern linguistics. Its principal concern, above all, is to examine how the Gospel of Mark, produced in an oral-aural culture, may be illuminated by frame theory from cognitive linguistics, a linguistic theory in which the meaning of a word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph and thematic unit can only be properly understood against the background of a particular body of knowledge and assumptions. The reason this theory is particulary useful for understanding Mark’s ancient text is because as an oral-aural narrative it heavily relies on human memory (cognitive) resources; and so the cognitive theory leads us into a better understanding of ways in which the text is communicated in terms of cognitive processing.

• December 2009• ISBN 978 90 04 17962 2• Hardback (xx, 344 pp.)• List price EUR 114.- / US$ 169.-• Linguistic Biblical Studies, 2

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Biblical Translation in Chinese and GreekVerbal Aspect in Theory and Practice

Toshikazu Foley

This study integrates three independent subjects—translation theory, Mandarin aspect, and Greek aspect—for the purpose of formulating a working theory applicable to translating the Bible. The primary objectives are defined in terms of grammatical translation of Greek aspect into Mandarin aspect at the discourse level. A historical overview of the Chinese Bible is provided as a way of introducing major translation issues related to linguistic, conceptual, and logistical challenges. The proposed theory provides the translator with a powerful tool, which is tested in two sample passages from John 18–19 and 1 Corinthians 15. Provided, also, are critical reviews of over sixty Chinese Bible versions, Nestorian, Manichaean, Catholic documents, and a translation written according to the proposed theory.

• September 2009• ISBN 978 90 04 17865 6• Hardback (xxiv, 449 pp.)• List price EUR 152.- / US$ 216.-• Linguistic Biblical Studies, 1

New Series: Scholarly Communication Past, present and future of knowledge inscription

Series Editors: Adriaan van der Weel, University of Leiden, Ernst D. Thoutenhoofd, University of Groningen and Ray Siemens, University of Victoria

Editorial Board: Marco Beretta, University of Bologna, Amy Friedlander, Washington, DC, Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, Chuck Henry, Council on Library and Information Resources, Willard McCarty, King’s College London /University of Western Sydney, Mariya Mitova, Leiden, Patrick Svensson, Umeå University, Melissa Terras, University College London, John Willisky, Stanford University and Paul Wouters, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences

For more information: brill.nl/sc ISSN: 1879-9027

Brill’s Scholarly Communication offers a new venue for original studies into the mutual shaping of reading, writing and scholarship in the past, present and future. It also welcomes manuscripts that interrogate this mutual shaping with respect to science. The series aims to bring together insights into the literate nature of scholarship and scholarly activity from

across the entire spectrum of social sciences and humanities disciplines, emphasizing work aimed at understanding change in reading, writing and scholarship. The focus in this series is less on disciplinary specificities than it is on topical and imaginative contributions to scholarly literacy in the widest sense.

Text Comparison and Digital CreativityThe Production of Presence and Meaning in Digital Text Scholarship

Edited by Wido van Peursen, Ernst D. Thoutenhoofd and Adriaan van der Weel

The spread of digital technology across philology, linguistics and literary studies suggests that text scholarship is taking on a more laboratory-like image. The ability to sort, quantify, reproduce and report text through computation would seem to facilitate the exploration of text as another type of quantitative scientific data. However, developing this potential also highlights text analysis and text interpretation as two increasingly separated sub-tasks in the study of texts. The implied dual nature of interpretation as the traditional, valued mode of scholarly text comparison, combined with an increasingly widespread reliance on digital text analysis as scientific mode of inquiry raises the question as to whether the reflexive concepts that are central to interpretation – individualism, subjectivity – are affected by the anonymised, normative assumptions implied by formal categorisations of text as digital data.

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Related title: The Idea of WritingPlay and Complexity

Edited by Alex de Voogt and Irving L. Finkel

The Idea of Writing is an exploration of the versatility of writing systems. From ancient Egyptian, Cuneiform and Meroitic writing to Chinese, Maya and Maldivian script, the authors examine the problems and possibilities of polysemy, representing loanwords and the problems of adapting a writing system to another language. The playful and artistic use of writing, including a contribution on writing dance, further illustrates the intricacies of the systems. This collection of articles aims to highlight the complexity of writing systems rather than to provide a first introduction. The different academic traditions in which these writing systems have been studied use linguistic, socio-historical and philological approaches that give complementary insights into the complex phenomena.

• December 2009• ISBN 978 90 04 17446 7• Hardback (xii, 396 pp.)• List price EUR 114.- / US$ 169.-

Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology

Edited by Albert Rijksbaron, Irene J.F. de Jong and Caroline Kroon

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Discourse Cohesion in Ancient Greek

Edited by S.J. Bakker and G.C. Wakker

Central in this volume of the 6th International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics is the question how cohesion is created in Ancient Greek texts. The contributions to the volume either discuss the various cohesive devices that occur in a specific text or focus on the use and function of a particular cohesion device in a larger corpus. Apart from the use of pronomina and particles, less standard cohesive devices, like the use of tense and the grammatical form of complements, are taken into consideration. The result is a volume that gives a good impression of recent research in the field of Greek linguistics, not only of interest for classical scholars, but also for general linguists interested in discourse coherence and cohesion.• September 2009

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The Noun Phrase in Ancient GreekA Functional Analysis of the Order and Articulation of NP Constituents in Herodotus

Stéphanie J. Bakker

The structure of the noun phrase in Ancient Greek is extremely flexible: the various constituents may occur in almost every possible order and each constituent may or may not be preceded by an article. However, the use and function of the various options have received very little attention. This book tries to fill that gap. A functional analysis of the structure of the NP in Herodotus illucidateswhich arguments lead a native speaker in his choice to select one of the various possible NP patterns. The results do not only increase our knowledge of the NP, but also lead to a better interpretation of Ancient Greek texts.

• June 2009• ISBN 978 90 04 17722 2• Hardback (xii, 324 pp.)• List price EUR 114.- / US$ 169.-• Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology, 15

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Editor: Adriaan van der Weel, Leiden University

• 2011: Volume 22 (4 issues, 225 pp.)• ISSN 0957-9656 / E-ISSN 1878-4712• Institutional subscription rates Electronic only: EUR 224.- / US$ 305.- Print only: EUR 246.- / US$ 336.- Electronic + Print: EUR 269.- / US$ 366.-• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 82.- / US$ 112.-

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New at Brill: Journal of Language Contact Evolution of Languages, Contact and Discourse

Editor-in-Chief: Robert Nicolaï, University of NiceAssociate Editor: Alexandra Aikhenvald, Cairns Institute, James Cook UniversityConsulting Editor: Henning Schreiber, University of Hamburg

Editorial Board:Tucker Childs, PortlandFrançoise Gadet, ParisMaarten Kossmann, LeidenIsabelle Léglise, ParisGeorges Lüdi, BaselYaron Matras, ManchesterMarianne Mithun, Santa BarbaraAnnie Montaut, ParisMaarten Mous, LeidenSalikoko Mufwene, ChicagoMartine Vanhove, ParisRainer Vossen, FrankfurtDonald Winford, OhioGhil`ad Zuckermann, Brisbane


The Journal of Language Contact (JCL) is a peer-reviewed journal. It focuses on the study of language contact, language use and language change in accordance with a view of language contact whereby both empirical data (the precise description of languages and how they are used) and the resulting theoretical elaborations (hence the statement and analysis of new problems) become the primary engines for advancing our understanding of the nature of language. This involves linguistic, anthropological, historical, and cognitive factors. Such an approach makes a major new contribution to understanding language change at a time when there is a notable increase of interest and activity in this field.

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New Journal: Language Dynamics and Change

General Editors: Søren Wichmann, MPI EVA, Leipzigand Jeff Good, University at Buffalo Editorial Board:Peter Bakker, Aarhus UniversityMorten Christiansen, Cornell UniversityNick Enfield, MPI Nijmegen / Radboud UniversityRamon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Technical University of CataloniaAndrew Garrett, University of California, BerkeleyJean-Marie Hombert, University of Lyon / CNRSPatrick McConvell, Australian National UniversityRajend Mesthrie, University of Cape TownJohanna Nichols, University of California, BerkeleyMalcolm Ross, Australian National UniversityMark Stoneking, MPI EVA, LeipzigJohn Whitman, Cornell University,


Language Dynamics and Change (LDC) covers both new and traditional aspects of the study of language change. Work on any language or language family is welcomed, as long as it bears on topics that are also of theoretical interest. A particular focus is on new developments in the field arising from the accumulation of extensive databases of dialect variation and typological distributions, spoken corpora, parallel texts, and comparative lexicons, which allow for the application of new types of quantitative approaches to diachronic linguistics. Moreover, the journal will serve as an outlet for increasingly important interdisciplinary work on such topics as the evolution of language, archaeology and linguistics (‘archaeolinguistics’), human genetic and linguistic prehistory, and the computational modeling of language dynamics.

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New Online Submission: International Review of Pragmatics

Managing Editor: Piotr Cap, University of Łodz Associate Editors: Bruce Fraser, Boston UniversityRobert M. Harnish, University of ArizonaMarina Terkourafi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignand Ken Turner, University of Brighton


International Review of Pragmatics (IRP) is a peer-reviewed international journal committed to publishing excellent research in the area of pragmatics and related disciplines pertaining to all aspects of human communication, verbal and non-verbal. It aims to provide a comprehensive and authoritative picture of the field, encouraging submissions rooted in different conceptions and perspectives originating in geographically diverse areas. IRP publishes full-length original articles, review articles and discussion notes.

For more information or to submit an article see: brill.nl/irpOnline submission now available at: editorialmanager.com/irp

Brill’s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics

Editors: Sabrina Bendjaballah, Jean Lowenstamm and Chris Reintges, CNRS & University Paris Diderot

• 2011: Volume 3 (300 pp.)• ISSN 1876-6633 / E-ISSN 1877-6930• Institutional subscription rates Electronic only: EUR 118.- / US$ 160.- Print only: EUR 130.- / US$ 176.- Electronic + Print: EUR 141.- / US$ 192.-• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 43.- / US$ 58.-

Brill’s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics is a new peer-reviewed international forum devoted to the descriptive and theoretical study of Afroasiatic languages. The territory of the Afroasiatic family spans a vast area to the South of the Mediterranean, extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Middle East and reaching deep into the heart of Africa. Some of the Afroasiatic languages have been studied for centuries, while others still remain partially or entirely undocumented. In the course of the second half of the 20th century, the constantly increasing qualitative and quantitative contribution of Afroasiatic languages to the elaboration of linguistic theory has met with considerable attention from the linguistic community. The Annual will seek top-level contributions in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, comparative and historical linguistics. Its target audience comprises specialists in Afroasiatic languages and general linguists.

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Journal of Greek Linguistics

Editors: Gaberell Drachman, University of SalzburgBrian D. Joseph, The Ohio State Universityand Anna Roussou, University of Patras


The Journal of Greek Linguistics (JGL) is a newly-established peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to the descriptive and theoretical study of the Greek language from its roots in Ancient Greek down to present-day dialects and varieties, including those spoken in Asia Minor, Cyprus, Tsakonia, and the Greek diaspora. It aims to offer a focused outlet for publication of first-class research in Greek Linguistics, broadly construed. JGL’s goal is not only to reach linguists interested in the Greek language but also to engage the linguistics community and Hellenists more generally. The input to JGL will thus comprise any topic relevant to Greek linguistics, in the broadest sense, but with some preference given to material with wider relevance to specific subfields within linguistics proper. The intention is therefore on the one hand to encourage discussions and research that illuminate different aspects --- theoretical, historical, and descriptive -- of general linguistics using Greek data, and on the other hand to offer innovative solutions to problems and issues specific to the description and analysis of the Greek language. Greek has played a central role in linguistics and the study of language for centuries. JGL will bring the language into a key position in current debate within Linguistics and related fields.

For more information or to submit an article see: brill.nl/jgl

Indo-Iranian Journal

Editors-in-Chief: Hans Bakker, University of Groningen and Jonathan Silk, Leiden University

Editorial Board: H.W. Bodewitz, LeidenO. von Hinüber, Freiburg J. Kellens, Paris R. Salomon, Seattle A. Yuyama, Tokyo


Founded in 1957, the Indo-Iranian Journal publishes papers on ancient and medieval Indian languages, literature, philosophy, and religion; ancient and medieval Iran, and papers on Tibet. Recent issues have included linguistic articles on Sanskrit, Middel Indian (Prakrit), New-Indo-Aryan, on Munda linguistics (including the results of field-work), old and modern Dravidian languages (including new material on little-known Central Dravidian languages). The Indo-Iranian Journal also presents numerous reviews of new publications, and lists the many more publications received.

For more information or to submit an article see: brill.nl/iij

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Iran and the Caucasus

Editor-in-Chief : Garnik S. Asatrian, Yerevan Associate Editors : Victoria Arakelova, Yerevan, Uwe Bläsing, Leiden and Giusto Traina, Lecce • 2011: Volume 15 (in 2 issues)• ISSN 1609-8498 / E-ISSN 1573-384X• Institutional subscription rates Electronic only: EUR 110.- / US$ 150.- Print only: EUR 121.- / US$ 165.- Electronic + Print: EUR 132.- / US$ 180.-• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 40.- / US$ 54.-

Iran and the Caucasus is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal. It promotes original, innovative, and meticulous research on the anthropology, archaeology, culture, economics, folklore, history (ancient, mediaeval and modern), linguistics, literature (textology), philology, politics, and social sciences of the region. Accepting articles in English, French, and German, Iran and the Caucasus publishes lengthy monographic essays on path-breaking research, synoptic essays that inform about the field and region, as well as book reviews that highlight and analyse important new publications. Iran and the Caucasus is edited under the guidance of an editorial board consisting of scholars from the region itself, as well as from Europe and the United States. It is therefore unique in being a scholarly forum in the truest sense of the word on a region of growing importance, and a treasure-trove of information otherwise hard to get at. Iran and the Caucasus is supported by the Caucasian Center for Iranian Studies in Yerevan, Armenia.

For more information or to submit an article see: brill.nl/ic

Journal of Arabic Literature

Executive Editor: Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi, Columbia University

Editorial Board: Federico Corriente, University of Saragossa, James T. Monroe, University of California, Berkeley andSuzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Indiana University, Bloomington

• 2011: Volume 42 (in 3 issues)• ISSN 0085-2376 / E-ISSN 1570-064X• Institutional subscription rates Electronic only: EUR 206.- / US$ 280.- Print only: EUR 227.- / US$ 308.- Electronic + Print: EUR 247.- / US$ 336.-• Individual subscription rates Print only: EUR 76.- / US$ 103.-

Since its inception in 1970 the Journal of Arabic Literature has provided an international scholarly forum for the discussion of Arabic literature and has secured its position at the forefront of critical and methodological debate. The journal publishes literary, critical and historical studies, as well as review and bibliographies, on a broad range of Arabic materials – classical and modern, written and oral, poetry and prose, literary and colloquial. Studies that seek to integrate Arabic literature into the broader discourses of the humanities and social sciences take their place alongside technical work of a more specialized nature. The journal thus addresses itself to a readership in comparative literature and literary theory and method, in addition to specialists in Arabic and Middle Eastern literatures and Middle East studies generally.

For more information or to submit an article see: brill.nl/jal

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