The theoretical domain of investigation of this volume is the nature of the syntax-phonology interface. The empirical domain of investigation is cliticization in South Slavic. The volume also examines several phenomena that raise theoretical issues related to those involved in South Slavic cliticization, namely, multiple wh-fronting in Slavic and Romanian, Germanic V-2, object shift and stylistic fronting in Scandinavian, and negation in Romance. The central theoretical questions considered in the volume are how syntax and phonology interact with each other and whether PF can affect word order. It is argued that PF does affect word order, but not through actual PF movement. The volume makes new proposals concerning the structural representation of clitics and the nature of clitic clustering. It also provides an account of the second position effect and teases apart the role of syntax and phonology in cliticization and the second position phenomenon.

Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the level of the phrase, clause, and complex sentence. Until now it has been mainly synchronic. The authors use it to reconceptualize grammaticalization (the process by which verbs like to have lose semantic content and gain grammatical functions, or word order moves from discourse-prominent to syntax-prominent), and lexicalization (in which idioms become fixed and complex words simplified). Basing their argument on the notions that language is made up of language-specific form-meaning pairings and that there is a gradient between lexical and grammatical constructions, Professor Traugott and Dr Trousdale suggest that language change proceeds by micro-steps that involve closely related changes in syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse functions. They illustrate their exposition with numerous English examples drawn from Anglo-Saxon times to the present, many of which they discuss in depth.
The book is organized in six chapters. The first outlines the approach and the questions to be addressed. The second reviews usage-based models of language change. The third considers the relation between grammatical constructionalization and grammaticalization. Chapters 4 and 5 focus respectively on lexical constructionalization and the role of context. The final chapter draws the authors' arguments together and outlines prospects for further research. Constructionalization and Constructional Changes propounds and demonstrates a new and productive approach to historical linguistics.
"[T]he qualitative framework presented in this monograph is without any doubt a most admirable synthesis of current historical analysis within the framework of construction grammar, and will inspire nearly any linguist interested in language change." - Peter Petré, Diachronica
"Constructionalization and Constructional Changes represents a highly inspiring contribution to studies on language change in general and to the budding filed of diachronic construction grammar in particular, in which it will definitely become a standard reference work." - Judith Huber, Functions of Language

Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor. This second edition includes two new chapters-on 'metaphors in discourse' and 'metaphor and emotion'-along with new exercises, responses to criticism and recent developments in the field, and revised student exercises, tables, and figures.

《汉语言文字学前沿丛书：城市语言研究的理论与方法》主要关注的是城市化中的语言问题，是当代语言学的前沿课题。大规模、高速度的城市化是现代化的产物，也是当今世界的重要发展趋势。《汉语言文字学前沿丛书：城市语言研究的理论与方法》在梳理了城市语言研究的理论和方法的基础上，以合肥科学岛、南京和北京等地的调查为切入点，深入研究了城市语言的特征，不同城市语言人口状况及语言生活的变化，城市化带来的公众语言交际的问题等内容。《汉语言文字学前沿丛书：城市语言研究的理论与方法》是在言语社区理论指导下的城市语言研究的典型案例，可以作为解决城市化过程中公众交际、社会整合等问题的重要事实依据，为建立和谐社会作出贡献。

《说文解字》是我国首部按照偏旁部首编排的字典，也是中国古代*部系统分析汉字字形和考究汉语字源的字书。作为两汉文字训诂学之集大成者，在中国语言学史上享有极其重要的地位。
《说文解字今释》即以大徐本为底本，通过每个字条的句读、注音、释文和注释，尽力逐条解说许慎原文的含义，并引用甲骨文、金文等古文字材料加以参证。全书标点精细，校勘详审，注音准确，译文明白通畅，注释部分择善采纳诸家之言，简易明了，而不一味堆砌，参证部分全面吸收古文字学的研究成果，益以作者之独到心裁，或肯定许慎说解文字的严谨科学，或指出许慎因受时代、条件的历史局限而出现的某些谬误，而其所引古文字形亦便于读者了解文字字形之流变。
《今释》一书使一部难认难读、难释难懂的《说文解字》，成为文理科学子皆宜、雅俗共赏之作。自1997年初版以来，广受读者欢迎，至今已重印8次。此次增订，增补了徐铉附于各部之后经籍中常见的新附字四百余字，并利用新材料和研究成果，对全书注释和参证部分进行了大幅修订，而全书2万余个古文字形也一一用更为清晰的图片加以替换，使本书更臻完善。

本书是由法兰西学院词典委员会编著。书中共选取了190组最为常见的易错易混淆法语词、乱造新词和滥用的英语外来词。法兰西学院通过追溯词源的意义，辨析语义在发展中的变化，并精心挑选合适的句子作为例证来给读者答疑解惑。书中设置了“应该说”和“不应该说”板块，读者可以一目了然正误用法。译者也给书中援引的人物、典故或语法知识点讲解等做了必要的注释。

This book is a detailed survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No genetic relationship has been established between them, and structurally they differ significantly. Professor Shibatani has therefore divided his study into two independent parts. The first is a most comprehensive study of the polysynthetic Ainu language. The second part deals extensively with Japanese. It discusses topics from the evolution of the writing system and the differences between men's and women's speech, to issues of greater theoretical complexity, such as phonology, the lexicon and word-formation, and the syntax of agglutinative morphology. As an American-trained scholar in Japan, the author is in an unique postion that affords him a dual perspective on language deriving from Western linguistic scholarship and the Japanese grammatical tradition.

This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia and the Americas, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The volume brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for scholars and students of linguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language.

《德语简史》主要内容：最近几年，有些院校开始重视这一问题，先后为学生开设了这方面的课程，介绍一些简单的德语史知识。编写《德语简史》的目的就是为了加强我国日耳曼语言文学专业教学中的薄弱环节，使学习使语的学生和年轻的德语工作者通过阅读《德语简史》，能对德语语言的演变过程、目前的研究状况以及发展趋势有一个初步的了解；另一方面也是为了“抛砖引玉”，希望有更多的学者能投身到这一研究领域，推动我国日耳曼语言文学教学和研究工作的全面发展。

本书结合作者40多年田野语音学和实验语音学研究经验，介绍了语音数据的获取、分析的程序和方法，包括寻找合适的发音人，在不同环境中录音，确定调音部位和空气动力机制，获取音高、响度、时长的声学数据，运用实验技术描写元音、辅音和发声态的声学特征。作者还以轻松的笔触，向读者介绍自己田野调查的经验和教训，并提出中肯实用的建议。
本书语言浅显，条理清晰，内容丰富，是语音学学生必备的入门参考书。

This book is a comprehensive guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet, widely used for over a century to transcribe the sounds of languages. The Handbook is in three parts: Part I contains an introduction to phonetic description and exemplification of the use of phonetic symbols; Part II consists of twenty-nine "Illustrations" of the application of the International Phonetic Alphabet to a range of languages; and Part III covers speech pathology, computer codings, and the history of the IPA. This is an essential reference work for phoneticians and linguists more generally.

“本书作为深入研究二语心理词汇的专著，内容充实，文献综述与实证研究结合，引证前人观点与作者批盼分析结合，是一本不可多得的好书。适合语言学专业和心理学专业的研究生，学者和教师以及其他对词汇习得感兴趣的人阅读。”

本书收录巴特的两种著作，前者约14万字，后者2万余字。1952年巴特进入国家科学研究中心从事词汇学和社会学研究，在其后的七年间在《新文艺》杂志上发表了许多揭露大众文化迷思的文章，后来集结成《神话修辞术》(Mythologies, 1957)。从此，巴特被公认是关于我们怎样通过语言、服饰、手势相互交流的最有独创性的评论家之一。60年代初期，巴特在社会科学高等学院研究符号学和结构主义，他对传统学院文学理论观点以及大众文学形态作了论述，其独特的观点被称为新批评，引起其他思想家的不满，认为他漠视和不尊重文化中的文学根源。巴特则发表《批评与真实》（Critique et verite, 1966）与其对抗，控诉那种陈旧的、布尔乔亚式的不重视语言细节、刻意忽视其他理论概念（如马克思主义）挑战的批评方式；他热情地呼吁读者要摆脱既成观念，按照现代思想看待文学作品，而文学作品总是先由一种语言与其自身的冲突组成的。

This book develops a formal computational theory of writing systems. It offers specific proposals about the linguistic objects that are represented by orthographic elements; what levels of linguistic representation are involved and how they may differ across writing systems; and what formal constraints hold of the mapping relation between linguistic and orthographic elements. Based on the insights gained, Sproat then proposes a taxonomy of writing systems. The treatment of theoretical linguistic issues and their computational implementation is complemented with discussion of empirical psycholinguistic work on reading and its relevance for the computational model developed here. Throughout, the model is illustrated with a number of detailed case studies of writing systems around the world. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in a variety of fields, including theoretical and computational linguistics, the psycholinguistics of reading and writing, and speech technology.