Press Releases
January 13, 2012
Georgetown University Press Content Now Available on Project MUSE
Selected Georgetown University Press content is now available as part of Project MUSE’s University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) Book Collections. The newly launched UPCC Book Collections provide libraries, researchers, and students with access to a wealth of high quality book-length scholarship, fully integrated with MUSE’s electronic journal collections. . . .read more
December 7, 2011
Columbia
Sales Consortium to Represent Georgetown University Press
Starting January 1, 2012, Columbia Sales Consortium will handle sales representation of Georgetown University Press to booksellers in the United States. Columbia Sales Consortium is a division of Columbia University Press and represents a number of academic and university presses to booksellers throughout the United States. . . .Read More
October 25, 2011
David G. Nicholls Joins
Georgetown University Press as Georgetown Languages Acquisitions
Editor
Georgetown University Press is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. David G. Nicholls as acquisitions editor for its Georgetown Languages division. Dr. Nicholls brings many years of publishing experience to Georgetown and will work closely with the Georgetown Languages team to acquire multimedia foreign language learning materials, linguistics texts, and reference materials. “We are delighted and honored that David Nicholls is joining our publishing program,” said Richard Brown, director of Georgetown University Press. . . .Read More
March 10, 2009
It, Well, The, Is, My, Of, An: What’s the Big Deal with Little Words?
We use little words in our speech all the time. They are used across the globe in a variety of languages, but we rarely discuss their grammatical purpose, how they are used, and how they shape our relationship with language. The new book, Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Acquisition, integrates the views and findings of different research in little words into one professional source to be used within and across disciplines.... Read More
May 2009
Spanish, Sounds, and Syllables
Georgetown University Press’s newest book in its Spanish Linguistics series—Spanish Phonology: A Syllabic Perspective—offers a comprehensive analysis of a variety of crucial issues in the phonology and morphophonology of various dialects of Spanish. The analysis includes syllable types, syllabification algorithms, syllable repair mechanisms, syllable mergers, nasal assimilation, obstruent vocalization and spirantization, obstruent neutralization, . . . Read More
July 20, 2009
New Textbooks for Learning Tajiki from Georgetown University Press and CeLCAR
Georgetown University Press has partnered with Indiana University’s Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR) to publish textbooks for the languages of Central Asia. Georgetown University Press is committed to producing learning materials for strategic languages and is pleased to have worked with CeLCAR, . . . Read More
December 4, 2009
Arabic Sociolinguistics: Topics in Diglossia, Gender, Identity, and Politics
This introduction to major topics in the field of Arabic sociolinguistics examines key issues in diglossia, code-switching, gendered discourse, language variation and change, and language policies. Arabic Sociolinguistics introduces and evaluates various theoretical approaches and models, and it illustrates the usefulness and limitations of these approaches to Arabic with empirical data. Reem Bassiouney explores how current sociolinguistic theories can be applied to Arabic and, conversely, what the study of Arabic can contribute to our understanding of the function of language in society.... Read More
