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Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives

Edited by Julia Fuchs-Kreiß

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 33:1 (2026) vi, 229 pp.
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Solitude Speech across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Mitsuko Narita Izutsu and Katsunobu Izutsu

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 12:1 (2025) v, 208 pp.
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New Special Issue

Humans, Machines, and Embedded Translation

Edited by Sandra L. Halverson and Jean Nitzke

Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 8:2 (2025) ca. 160 pp.
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New Special Issue

Questionable Research Practices in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Luke Plonsky

Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 8:2 (2025) vi, 240 pp.
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New Special Issue

Names and Naming

Edited by Philipp Krämer, Eeva M. Sippola and Rachel Selbach

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 41:1 (2026) ca. 200 pp.
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New Course book

Digital and Internet-Based Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Matt Kessler

This edited volume examines topics related to digital and internet-based research methods in the interdisciplinary field of applied linguistics. The book brings together internationally recognized experts with diverse interests from across the field. Covered are key approaches, methods, tools, and… read more
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 15] 2026. xii, 433 pp.
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New Special Issue

Labeling in Language, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Edited by Heiko Motschenbacher

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 15:1 (2026) v, 136 pp.
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New Journal

InContext

Studies in Translation and Interculturalism

Edited by Ho-Jeong Cheong

ISSN 2799-6190 | E‑ISSN 2799‑8592
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From Disruptions to New Beginnings: The evolution of translation (studies) through technologies

Edited by Federico Gaspari and Silvia Bernardini

Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 11:3 (2025) v, 147 pp.
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Quantitative Methods in Multilingual Acquisition and Processing

Edited by Gabrielle Klassen and John W. Schwieter

The growing fields of language acquisition and processing have made great strides in understanding how individuals learn and use more than one language across various stages of life in diverse contexts. This is partly due to the methodological innovations that have been developed and refined in… read more
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 16] 2026. xv, 314 pp.
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New Special Issue

Becoming a Member in Social Worlds

: The interface of learning and socialization in L2 interactions

Edited by Klara Skogmyr Marian and Simona Pekarek Doehler

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 16:1 (2025) v, 198 pp.
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New Special Issue

Multilingualism and Language Contact in Asia-Pacific

Edited by Shobha Satyanath

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 11:1/2 (2025) vi, 222 pp.
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March 2026

Silent Instruments: Syntax, semantics, and acquisition of the instrumental role in Italian

Alice Suozzi

This book offers the first systematic investigation of the instrumental role across syntax, semantics, and language acquisition. Focusing primarily on Italian within a comparative perspective, the book addresses a long-standing puzzle: why Instruments can be syntactically omitted even when they… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 293] 2026. xiv, 217 pp.
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March 2026

Quantitative Methods in Multilingual Acquisition and Processing

Edited by Gabrielle Klassen and John W. Schwieter

The growing fields of language acquisition and processing have made great strides in understanding how individuals learn and use more than one language across various stages of life in diverse contexts. This is partly due to the methodological innovations that have been developed and refined in… read more
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 16] 2026. xv, 314 pp.
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March 2026

Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Dolores González-Álvarez and Esperanza Rama-Martínez

Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics offers a rigorous and engaging exploration of two of the field’s most dynamic areas. Drawing on key frameworks – including Construction Grammar, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies, Speech Act Theory, and Local Grammar – the volume… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 127] 2026. vi, 327 pp.
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March 2026

Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface

Edited by Marco Coniglio, Kalle Müller and Markus Steinbach

Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface offers a comprehensive investigation of two word classes that play a crucial role at the interfaces and have posed challenges for linguistic theory. Drawing on a broad typological range, including Germanic, Romance, Basque, and Heritage Greek,… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 292] 2026. vi, 384 pp.
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March 2026

The New Arabic Lexicon and its Words: Root-based and templatic morphosyntax

Abdelkader Fassi Fehri

Root syntax, with roots as primitive lexical units, is an influential theme in building the lexicon in linguistic theory, typically in Distributed Morphology, and the generative model of minimal computation. Implementing important fragments of the Arabic lexicon, the book presents a comprehensive… read more
[Language Faculty and Beyond, 21] 2026. xi, 285 pp.
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March 2026

The Loss of Primordial Language and the Future of National Languages

Edited by Irene Capdevila and Francesc Feliu

The modern world, to the extent that it disassociates us from the secular traditional world, from the “primordial” jobs and words that support the cultural particularity forged over the centuries, weakens the borders between languages. Neologisms bring languages closer together irreversibly, and… read more
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 47] 2026. vi, 264 pp.
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March 2026

60 Years of Applied Linguistics: Toward more engaged research

Edited by Grégory Miras, Isabel Colón de Carvajal, Nathalie Blanc and Shona Whyte

For sixty years, applied linguistics has stood at the crossroads of language and society, by meeting real-world needs. 60 Years of Applied Linguistics: Toward more engaged research offers a compelling reflection on the field’s evolution while calling for a renewed commitment to socially responsive,… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 22] 2026. xvii, 204 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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March 2026

Pardon my French?: Dutch–French language contact in the Netherlands (1500–1900)

Gijsbert Rutten, Andreas Krogull, Brenda Assendelft and Jill Puttaert

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Dutch–French contact situation in the Early and Late Modern period, when the Dutch language and culture supposedly underwent frenchification in various spheres of life. Bringing together empirical approaches based on a wide range of datasets,… read more
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 15] 2026. ix, 312 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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February 2026

Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology

Edited by Peter Herbeck and Natascha Pomino

Zero elements are used by several theories in morphology and syntax as analytical tool, but the question of whether phonologically empty elements should be structurally present or not has been a controversial issue from the very beginning. In addition to analyses that work with zero, there are also… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 291] 2026. ix, 379 pp.
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February 2026

A (Re)turn to the Source Text

Edited by Malin Carlström and Richard Pleijel

The source text is an unescapable part of any translation or translation process. Without source text, no translation. Yet it is only recently that scholars in the field of translation studies have begun exploring, theorizing, and conceptualizing the source text in a more systematic fashion. The… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 169] 2026. vii, 235 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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February 2026

Multilingual Corpus Research: Advances and challenges

Edited by Noelia Ramón and María Pérez Blanco

Multilingual corpora have been used in cross-linguistic research for 30 years. New technologies have dramatically changed the processes of compilation and exploitation of tailor-made corpora for linguistic research. The studies included in this volume showcase current cross-linguistic research… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 126] 2026. vi, 341 pp.
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February 2026

Cross-linguistic Register Variation

Edited by Sylvi Rørvik and Marlén Izquierdo

A current trend in contrastive corpus linguistics is to take register variation as a point of departure for identifying similarities and differences across languages. This volume looks back at central previous contributions in this area, and adds to our store of knowledge in the form of nine… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 125] 2026. v, 267 pp.
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February 2026

Progress in Colour Studies: Colour Expression and Cognition

Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Domicele Jonauskaite, Mari Uusküla and Dimitris Mylonas

This volume presents recent research in colour studies with a particular focus on language, offering both continuity and innovation within the field. All chapters are developed from papers first presented at the Progress in Colour Studies 2022 (PICS2022) conference, held at Tallinn University,… read more
[Not in series, 244] 2026. viii, 226 pp.
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February 2026

Intralingual Translation: Beyond language and text

Edited by Hilla Karas and Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot

Intralingual Translation: Beyond language and text offers an innovative, wide-ranging exploration of translation within the same language, bringing together leading international scholars from diverse linguistic and disciplinary backgrounds. Spanning theoretical reflections, empirical studies, and… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 168] 2026. vii, 265 pp.
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February 2026

Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context

Edited by Irene Leonardis

After an original foreword from Andreas Musolff setting the stage of the book, Crises We Live By offers a series of case studies that highlight different ways of conceptualizing and speaking about crisis, above all metaphorically. Its title echoes Lakoff and Johnson’s famous Metaphors We Live By… read more
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 20] 2026. xi, 267 pp.
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February 2026

The Development of the Chinese Cleft Construction: A diachronic constructional approach

Fangqiong Zhan

This book explores the development of the Chinese cleft construction through the lens of Diachronic Construction Grammar. Focusing on shi as an invariant copula, it examines the VP de cleft, the V de O cleft, and the bare shi cleft, showing how each signals contrastive and specificational meaning.… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 41] 2026. xviii, 207 pp.
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January 2026

At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Anna Rogos-Hebda and Heli Tissari

This volume explores the synergy between historical and cognitive linguistics, demonstrating how the two can jointly shed light on patterns of language change. Focusing on figurative language, particularly metaphor and metonymy, it features a range of case studies that zoom in on the emergence and… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 21] 2026. vii, 288 pp.
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January 2026

Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach

Edited by Rita Brdar-Szabó and Mario Brdar

The last two decades have seen a series of publications focused on time. So, why another book? It now appears that a kairos moment has arrived to reconsider from a more holistic point of view the manifold ways in which we think about time and talk about it. The book is divided into four major… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 81] 2026. viii, 477 pp.
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January 2026

Speaking of Writing Romani: Language attitudes, text editing, and variability

Melanie Schippling

As a traditionally oral language spoken in areas with a literacy-based culture, Romani provides a unique case for the study of orality and literacy. In a mixed-methods approach, this work investigates attitudes of Romani speakers towards the modalities, their communicative functions and use, and… read more
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 56] 2026. xix, 432 pp.
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January 2026

Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse

Anders Pettersson

Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse presents a general perspective on the art of literature, starting from the questions of what literature is, how it works, and what it is for. It is a main theme in the book that what we typically call literature is written to be read and freely… read more
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 22] 2026. xv, 186 pp.
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January 2026

New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang

Edited by Andrew Simpson

This book brings together some of the most prominent linguists working in the field of East and Southeast Asian syntax to create a special collection of papers which highlight new developments in the analysis of the syntax of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian languages. read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 290] 2026. viii, 489 pp.
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January 2026

A Linguistic Comparison of Chinese and English: Structural, functional, and typological perspectives

Chao Li

The book examines similarities and differences between Chinese and English from structural, functional, and typological perspectives. The linguistic comparison undertaken covers various aspects of the two languages, including, for example, typological features, the phonological system, the writing… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 239] 2026. xv, 399 pp.
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January 2026

A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions

Edited by Sune Gregersen and Kees Hengeveld

Habitual constructions, such as those based on English used to and Spanish soler, are linguistic expressions denoting situations that typically occur. This volume proposes a novel approach to such expressions, arguing that habituality is not a unified semantic category, but rather a family of… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 136] 2026. vii, 389 pp.
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January 2026

Digital and Internet-Based Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Matt Kessler

This edited volume examines topics related to digital and internet-based research methods in the interdisciplinary field of applied linguistics. The book brings together internationally recognized experts with diverse interests from across the field. Covered are key approaches, methods, tools, and… read more
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 15] 2026. xii, 433 pp.
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January 2026

This is the Thing: A cognitive/typological investigation into the concept of ‘thinghood’

Michael Fortescue

This monograph investigates for the first time words like ‘thing’ of maximal semantic generality across languages. Not all languages have exact equivalents of English ‘thing’ – in some, for instance, the nearest equivalent is an interrogative stem (‘what?’). Few languages extend their ‘thing’ words… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 79] 2026. ix, 220 pp.
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December 2025

Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”

Edited by Yoko Fujii, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft and Kishiko Ueno

Emancipatory Pragmatics represents a unique contribution to the field of pragmatics. Most research in the field has focused on English and other Western languages, but the study of Japanese and other non-Western languages, as is done in this volume, has led to a broader understanding of language… read more
[Culture and Language Use, 24] 2025. xiv, 384 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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November 2025

Morphology by Serial Optimization

Edited by Gereon Müller

Harmonic Serialism is a derivational version of Optimality Theory that has widely been pursued for phonology and syntax but so far much less for morphology. The harmonic serialist approach to inflectional morphology underlying the contributions to the present volume is virtually unique in that it… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 289] 2025. v, 348 pp.
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November 2025

Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel

Edited by B. Richard Page and Michael T. Putnam

This volume pays homage to the legacy of William D. Keel and the significant impact of his research on German in contact settings from myriad perspectives and traditions. It includes structural and sociolinguistic studies focusing on varieties of German spoken throughout the world, including… read more
[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 10] 2025. vi, 275 pp.
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November 2025

Transmedia in Translation and Transculturation

Edited by Vasso Giannakopoulou and Elin Sütiste

A prominent keyword of the 21st century humanities, the concept of transmedia describes, in essence, an age-old phenomenon: texts tend to spread in a fragmented fashion, in various media, and be appropriated and further developed by multiple agents. However, the concept of transmedia and the… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 167] 2025. xi, 242 pp.
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November 2025

The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky

Edited by Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins

What is the extent to which various grammatical levels – from features through subjecthood through cleft layers – reuse and reemploy certain structure-building operations? In this volume, organized in terms of successively expanding domains, leading contributors report research into the complex… read more
[Language Faculty and Beyond, 20] 2025. xv, 577 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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November 2025

The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries

Edited by Tanja Ackermann and Christian Zimmer

Word classes of a language are usually not homogeneous groups of lexemes that share the same morphological and syntactic properties completely. Rather, lexemes are usually grouped together that have some basic commonalities but may differ in detail, e.g., regarding their inflectional behaviour. In… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 238] 2025. v, 252 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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November 2025

Variation in Language Acquisition: Unity in diversity

Edited by Laura Rosseel and Eline Zenner

This volume, resulting from the fifth edition of the conference series Variation in Language Acquisition (ViLA), brings together research at the intersection of language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Work within the ViLA tradition explores how learners—from preschoolers to adult second-language… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 34] 2025. vi, 262 pp.
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November 2025

Possibility and Necessity: Concepts and expressions of modality

Edited by Jean Albrespit, Christelle Lacassain and Tracey Simpson

Researchers in the fields of logic, philosophy and linguistics have for many years been pondering over the elusive nature of modality and grappled with ways of capturing it. This book provides a broad overview of issues relevant to the study of modality and reflects the diversity of theoretical… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 237] 2025. vi, 370 pp.
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October 2025

Framing in Interaction: Pragmatic approaches to framing analysis

Edited by Simon Borchmann, Anne H. Fabricius and Ida Klitgård

This volume invites its readers to rethink the linguistic basis for framing analysis by problematizing the existing foundation and presenting eight new pragmatically based framing analyses.The book challenges the assumption that there is a unilateral, one-to-one relationship between words and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 354] 2025. v, 279 pp.
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October 2025

Technology and Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Connecting research and pedagogy

Edited by Shawn Loewen, Frederick J. Poole, Hyun-Bin Hwang and Matthew D. Coss

This book brings together a team of leading international scholars to explore the rich inter-section of technology and second language (L2) learning and teaching. This innovative volume offers a unique blend of cutting-edge empirical research, pedagogy-informed perspectives, and practical… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 63] 2025. x, 365 pp.
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October 2025

The Making of Multi-Unit Turns: A spring-loaded door

Rod Gardner, Joe Blythe, Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear and Francesco Possemato

The Making of Multi-Unit Turns is the first book-length treatment to comprehensively describe extended turns produced by a single speaker. It draws on multiparty everyday conversations in English, using the methods of Conversation Analysis. It brings together the currently scattered literature on… read more
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 38] 2025. xix, 378 pp.
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October 2025

The Grammar of Interaction: Epistemicity, information management and discourse in language use

Edited by Susana Rodríguez Rosique and Jordi M. Antolí Martínez

This volume deals with the relations between grammar and interaction from different perspectives, with the aim of unraveling the way in which a language — through the different forms of discourse from which it emerges — reflects certain social and community-based schemas; that is, how language… read more
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 46] 2025. xix, 348 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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October 2025

First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages

Edited by Minna Kirjavainen, Ágnes Lukács and Virve-Anneli Vihman

This book is the first comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the first language acquisition of four Finno-Ugric languages: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, and North Saami. Ten chapters review research on phonological, lexical, and grammatical development, bringing the research within the… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 33] 2025. vii, 349 pp.
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October 2025

Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact

Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder

Over the last decade, Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. Indeed, constructional approaches, including Diasystematic Construction Grammar, not only offer a useful theoretical framework for empirical studies, but also provide a… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 40] 2025. viii, 325 pp.
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Aspects in Corpus Linguistics

General Editor: Ute Römer-Barron

ISSN 3117-7646 | E‑ISSN 3117‑7654
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