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Just published "Pamoja tena 'Together again': African linguistics after COVID" edited by Vicki Carstens, Katherine R. Russell, Olawale Akingbade, Deborah Morton & Michael Diercks #cal #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Just published "Life and death on Karas: Ten Uruangnirin texts" by Eline Visser #otc #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Just published "Indigenous languages of the Americas and their structures: Sounds" edited by The Saguaro Group #tbls #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Books: Apprehensional Constructions in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective: Faller, Vuillermet, and Schultze-Berndt (eds.) (2026)

Books: Pamoja tena 'Together again': Carstens, Russell, Akingbade, Morton, and Diercks (eds.) (2026)

The functional domain of apprehensionality encompasses grammatical markers or constructions which conventionally encode or pragmatically implicate that the situation described by the clause is an undesirable possibility. Its main manifestations discussed in this volume are (i) apprehensives, which are modal markers which can occur in main clauses, and thus could serve to translate English might in Don't go near this dog, it might bite (but also add a component of undesirability), and (ii) precau

The papers in this volume were selected from those presented at the 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, which was held at the University of Connecticut in June, 2024. The volume contains 22 papers with diverse topics within phonology, morphology, syntax, language acquisition, and historical linguistics. The African languages that are investigated in this volume include Kom, Igbo, Dagaare, Igala, Kalenjin, Rɨ̀kpá, Ekhwa Adara, Hausa, Nduga, Maa, Lugwere, Emai, Seenku, Kirundi, Chichew

This collection of ten texts in Uruangnirin offers insights into the language and culture of the inhabitants of the Karas Islands in eastern Indonesia. All stories relate to life and death. They range from narratives about important life events such as circumcision, engagement and burial to accounts of natural and supernatural threats to the environment of the Uruangnirin speakers. The presentation of the texts are as follows: first, the complete text in Uruangnirin with a free translation in

What do people mean when they talk about the sound pattern of a language—what linguists call phonology? This book explores that question in a hands-on way, with a focus on applying the knowledge in language revitalization and community language work. The book introduces basic ideas and analytic strategies using examples from Indigenous languages across North and South America. Short comprehension checks invite you to test your understanding, and language explorations encourage you to apply what

Despite decades of scholarship on lexical borrowing in post-Conquest England, the vocabulary of the medieval countryside has remained largely outside the lens of contact linguistics — an oversight shaped by the long-standing assumption that French influence was confined to elite domains. At the same time, the multilingual reality of medieval England has made monolingual lexicography an increasingly inadequate tool: the Anglo-French, Medieval Latin, and Middle English lexicons of the period canno

This monograph provides the first large-scale comparative study of how verbal morphology encodes directionality across Chadic languages. Drawing on a database of 91 languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad, the book analyzes ventive, itive, vertical, and boundary-crossing extensions. The quantitative study examines where directional extensions occur and what meanings they can co-express, highlighting issues of multifunctionality and efficiency in grammar, as well as providing initial insi