Particle verbs (combinations of two words but lexical units) are a notorious problem in linguistics. Is a particle verb like look up one word or two? It has its own entry in dictionaries, as if it is one word, but look and up can be split up in a sentence: we can say He looked the information up and He looked up the information. But why can't we say He looked up it? In English look and up can only be separated by a direct object, but in Dutch the two parts can be separated over a much longer distance. How did such hybrid verbs arise and how do they function? How can we make sense of them in modern theories of language structure? This book sets out to answer these and other questions, explaining how these verbs fit into the grammatical systems of English and Dutch.

This book presents a critical comparison of the two leading theories of linguistic change. After introducing the aims and methods of historical linguistics, Olga Fischer provides an exposition of the main theories used to describe morphosyntactic change and a full account of the causes and mechanisms by which their leading exponents seek to explain it. She measures the effectiveness of rival theories and methods in different contexts and in the process throws fresh light on the balance of factors influencing linguistic change. Professor Fischer emphazises the unity of form and meaning in the linguistic sign and examines the role played by analogy. She looks at how changes in discourse, lexicon, semantics, pragmatics, and sound interact with changes in morphosyntax, and explores the relationship between external and internal causes of change. She considers whether morphosyntactic change is gradual or abrupt and discusses how far rates of change reflect the degree to which grammar is innate or learned. She uses detailed case studies to illustrate different types of morphosyntactic change, and to show how each theory fares when put into practice. The author's clear style and her balanced approach to this fascinating and complex subject combine to make this a book that will be of central interest and value to scholars and students of linguistic change, at graduate level and above.

The study of the prehistory of East Asia is developing very rapidly. In uncovering the story of the flows of human migration that constituted the peopling of East Asia there exists widespread debate about the nature of evidence and the tools for correlating results from different disciplines. Drawing upon the latest evidence in genetics, linguistics and archaeology, this exciting new book examines the history of the peopling of East Asia, and investigates the ways in which we can detect migration, and its different markers in these fields of inquiry. Results from different academic disciplines are compared and reinterpreted in the light of evidence from others to attempt to try and generate consensus on methodology. Taking a broad geographical focus, the book also draws attention to the roles of minority peoples - hitherto underplayed in accounts of the region's prehistory - such as the Austronesian, Tai-Kadai and Altaic speakers, whose contribution to the regional culture is now becoming accepted. Past Human Migrations in East Asia presents a full picture of the latest research on the peopling of East Asia, and will be of interest to scholars of all disciplines working on the reconstruction of the peopling of East and North East Asia.

Peter Trudgill looks at why human societies at different times and places produce different kinds of language. He considers how far social factors influence language structure and compares languages and dialects spoken across the globe, from Vietnam to Nigeria, Polynesia to Scandinavia, and from Canada to Amazonia. Modesty prevents Pennsylvanian Dutch Mennonites using the verb wotte ('want'); stratified society lies behind complicated Japanese honorifics; and a mountainous homeland suggests why speakers of Tibetan-Burmese Lahu have words for up there and down there. But culture and environment don't explain why Amazonian Jarawara needs three past tenses, nor why Nigerian Igbo can make do with eight adjectives, nor why most languages spoken in high altitudes do not exhibit an array of spatial demonstratives. Nor do they account for some languages changing faster than others or why some get more complex while others get simpler. The author looks at these and many other puzzles, exploring the social, linguistic, and other factors that might explain them and in the context of a huge range of languages and societies. Peter Trudgill writes readably, accessibly, and congenially. His book is jargon-free, informed by acute observation, and enlivened by argument: it will appeal to everyone with an interest in the interactions of language with culture, environment, and society.

近畿西部（主として兵庫県）地域の方言表現を対象に、その方言生活者の視点に立って生活語学的研究を行ったのが本書である。特定地域に存立する方言は地域性によって、換言すれば地域に生きる人と生活によって性格づけられている。言うまでもなく、その人も生活も史的事態に他ならない。よって現実の方言表現の世界を問題にするにあたっても、史的観点を重視するのが本研究の立場である。この立場は、方言を、単に他との形式の違いや変相の特殊性に関心を示すだけでなく、拠って立つ人と生活の視点から取りあげ、表現と表現活動の内面に迫ることを重要な目標とする。この目標に沿って、本書は「文末表現法」「敬語表現法」「断定表現法」「接続表現法」「婉曲・間接表現法」「特殊表現法」「生活語の世界」「方言の表現と特性」の八章を立てている。当該地域の生活語の生きた表現の機微と、その史的背景とを問題にするのに有効な視座であろう。

《纳西东巴文研究丛稿(第2辑)》所收论文，大部分曾公开发表，因此除订正个别讹误外，未作实质性的修改。各文音系等也不强求统一。有新的材料或看法，以“编按”的形式补于注中。《俄亚纪行》一文不是学术论文，但记叙了我们一次难忘的东巴文化考察，亦予收入。

本书收录纳西东巴文研究论文23篇。即《东巴文化研究断想》、《纳西东巴文象形字研究》、《纳西东巴文本有其字假借原因初探》等。

《高僧传时间副词研究》主要内容：佛教典籍是汉语文献资料的有机组成部分，并且在汉语史研究中占有相当重要和独特的地位。系统、完整的汉语史研究应该包括对佛教典籍的研究。魏晋南北朝时期的史书以僧人传记最为发达，梁代释慧皎撰写的属于传记体例的《高僧传》是目前保留下来的最早的一部代表作品。对《高僧传》的语法现象进行深入研究和发掘，有着重要的意义和价值。
首先，汉魏六朝时期的文献语言是汉语发展历史上的过渡阶段，它起着承前启后的桥梁作用——承前表现在它保留和继承了先秦的许多语言现象，并有所发展；启后主要是近现代汉语的许多语言现象的源头可以上溯到这个时期。《高僧传》在这方面表现得尤为突出，比如，该书中出现的66个双音节时间副词中，其中有37个成词于魏晋时期，特别是“已经、始终、终始”等在《高僧传时间副词研究》里的出现，为它们成词时间的判定起到了重要的参照作用。可见，汉魏六朝时期的语言研究在汉语史研究中占有重要而不可或缺的地位。

This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction. Alexandra Aikhenvald, one of the world's leading experts on the region, provides an account of the more than 300 languages, comparing their common and unique features, setting out their main characteristics, and describing the histories and cultures of the people who speak them. The languages abound in rare features and in most cases have been in contact with each other for generations, giving rise to complex patterns of linguistic influence. The author draws on her own extensive field research to tease out and analyse the patterns of their genetic and structural diversity. In the process she shows how they reflect the interrelations of language and culture: different kinship systems, for example, produce different linguistic outcomes. She also explains the roles and workings of their unusual features including evidentials, tones and whistles, and elaborate positional verbs. The book ends with a glossary of terms, and a comprehensive list of references for those interested in following up a language or linguistic phenomenon. Alexandra Aikhenvald's fascinating book is aimed at a wide readership, including linguists and anthropologists. It is unburdened by esoteric terminology, written in her characteristically straightforward style, and brought vividly to life with numerous anaecdotes of her experience in the region. It may be used as reference for research and as an introduction for courses in Latin American studies, Amazonian studies, linguistic typology, and general linguistics.

1998年刊「五経正義の研究」以後に発表した「五経正義」・「十三経注疏」に関する論考に加筆修正を施し、「五経正義を読み解く」「五経正義の語彙語法」「春秋正義の版本」など、5篇に編成して一書にまとめたもの。

开展中国民族学田野调查，是中国早期民族学研究的一项重要工作。凌纯声是中国当代著名的民族学家、人类学家，在民族学中国化的前进道路上，他迈开的第一步就是进行松花江下游的民族调查，其成果《松花江下游的赫哲族》为中国民族学树立了一块具有开创性的历史丰碑，堪称中国民族学田野工作的起点。为中国民族学调查研究树立了模范的样板。

IN SEARCH OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS is essential reading for those interested in the people who spoke the ancestor of most tongues of Europe and western Asia. While scholars have carefully reconstructed a proto-language, the identity of its speakers and their geographical origin remain a mystery, and J.P. Mallory shows what is currently thought in the field.

This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese. The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on semantic and grammatical change in a linguistic area, as well as representing theoretical advances in cognitive semantics. Gricean pragmatics, semantic change, grammaticalization, language contact, and areal linguistics. The book also examines how changes in the speech of individuals actually become changes in large-scale public convention, 'language contact' is reconsidered, and traditional distinctions such as that between 'internal' and 'external' linguistic mechanisms are challenged. This groundbreaking new book is for specialists in Southeast Asian linguistics as well as scholars of descriptive semantics and pragmatics, grammaticalisation, linguistic change and evolution, areal linguistics and language contact, history and linguistic anthropology.

本书为土耳其语资深学者根据长期教学经验所编写的一部语法教材。全书分为导论、词类、短语、句子结构和类型四章。值得注意的是，作者在书中引入了语言学概念，对土耳其语语法进行了精讲，且每一部分都有取自语料库的大量例句，使读者可以更加深入地了解和掌握土耳其语语法，便于自学。对土耳其语的历史的简介，则使读者对土耳其语的前世今生有一个大致的了解。