Publications of the Philological Society

Book Series
4 issues

ISSN Print: 0265-0649
ISSN Digital: 2977-845X

The Philological Society (PhilSoc) is a registered charity and, the oldest learned society in Great Britain devoted to the scholarly study of language and languages. It was established in its present form in 1842 ‘to investigate and promote the study and knowledge of the structure, the affinities, and the history of languages’. In pursuit of its charitable goals, PhilSoc supports research in linguistics and philology by publishing a series of original research monographs and edited volumes under the series Publications of the Philological Society, including those whose specialised topic may fall outside the remit of commercial publishers. Website: https://philsoc.org.uk/Monographs

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Verbal Multi-Word Expressions in Corpus Languages: Data, Methodology, and Analysis

Victoria Beatrix Fendel

FORTHCOMING

This volume brings together a diverse, interdisciplinary cohort of scholars to shed new light on verbal multi-word expressions in corpus languages such as Greek, Latin, and Egyptian. Addressing in particular corpora related to in-groups, which are often overlooked due to entrenched research traditions or limited accessibility, the volume makes these corpora newly visible and methodologically relevant.

American and Latin American Studies
History
Linguistics

Benjamin Franklin, Orthoepist and Phonetician: Vol. 2: Colonial American Voices and London Norms: Franklin’s Quest for an Orthographic Reform

Gary D. German

Benjamin Franklin has been hailed as an inventor, scientist, printer, author, philosopher, diplomat, philanthropist and political activist and, especially, a founding father of the United States, but few are aware he was also a phonetician. This volume offers a groundbreaking exploration of Franklin’s little-studied linguistic legacy—his Reformed Mode of Spelling (1768/1779). In this short treatise, Franklin outlined a plan for a radical, phonetically-based modernization of the English spelling system that would simultaneously serve as a pronunciation guide for what he envisaged to be 'correct' English as well as a practical scheme allowing the unlettered and foreigners to learn to read and write ‘within a week’. The social and sociolinguistic reasons for its inception as well as what that model entailed linguistically are the focus of this book.

American and Latin American Studies
History
Linguistics

Benjamin Franklin, Orthoepist and Phonetician: Vol. 1: Language, Literacy and Social Mobility in Franklin’s World

Gary D. German

This book offers a groundbreaking exploreation of Franklin's little-studied linguistic legacy – his Reformed Mode of Spelling (1768/1779).

African Studies
Linguistics

Grammar of Etulo: A Niger-Congo (Idomoid) Language

Chikelu I. Ezenwafor-Afuecheta

This work provides the first detailed linguistic description of the grammar of Etulo, a language spoken in Nigeria by a minority group in Benue and Taraba states. This description establishes Etulo as a tone language characterised by a predominant SVO word order, non-inflectional morphology, prominent aspectual values, obligatory complement verbs and verb serialization, among other features. This grammar also serves as a foundation for further description of the Etulo grammar and for the development of pedagogical materials needed in Etulo language teaching.