Language

Es gibt hervorragende Grammatiken und Syntaxen, die die Wort- und Satzebene beschreiben, sowie bewährte textlinguistische Ansätze für die Modellier...

In dem vorliegenden Band Sprache und Religion Tendenzen und Perspektiven werden aktuelle Forschungsprojekte, empirische und methodologische Weiter...

This volume shines a light on the supposed tension between linguistic norm and variation in the early modern period by looking at early modern for...

This collection of essays in honour of the distinguished linguist Hans Henrich Hock ranges over nearly as many topics as the honorand himself has e...

The book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the cognitive-semiotic interface between language, literature, and the arts, with a special focu...

The book is the first substantial description of Tundra Nenets, a highly endangered Uralic language spoken in Western Siberia and the north of Euro...

A focus on methods can currently be observed in all subfields of linguistics. Rarely, however, is a perspective taken that integrates these individ...

Our understanding of CS Peirce, and his semiotics, is largely influenced by a twentieth century perspective that prioritizes the sign as a cultura...

The contributions gathered in this volume are dedicated to the identification, terminographical description and representation of polylexemic term...

Text patterns can be described in several interwoven dimensions. This volume looks at examples of empirical studies of historical text types to sho...

This work is the first comprehensive description of Sumerian constructions involving a copula. Using around 400 fully glossed examples, it gives a ...

Im Fokus dieses Buches stehen neben der Modalverbsemantik, den pragmatischen Funktionen der Modalverben im politischen Diskurskontext und ihren top...

Leiter setzte Geld in den Sand titelte die Kasseler Lokalzeitung HNA im August 2017 und brachte geleakte Informationen aus dem Aufsichtsrat der doc...

First published in 1990, Language in Popular Fiction was written to provide a comprehensive and illuminating look at the way language is used in th...

In the past decade there has been a surge of interest in the study of language teacher cognition - what language teachers know, think and believe -...

How do speakers of English as an additional language manage their talk and interaction in chat rooms? Christopher J.Jenks thoroughly analyses the i...

Negation is a sine qua non of every human language but is absent from otherwise complex systems of animal communication. In many ways, it is negati...

In spite of the central position that the concept word has among the basic units of language structure, there is no consensus as to the definition ...

Do you want to develop, enhance and refine your Arabic media language, translation and analytical skills? Then this is the book for you. It gives y...

Sign language linguists show here that all questions relevant to the linguistic investigation of spoken languages can be asked about sign languages...

The Handbook of Language Mapping aims to explore the core methodological and theoretical approaches of linguistic cartography. In both empirical an...

Are the dialects of England disappearing in the wake of globalisation and 'Estuary English', or are geographical differences as strong as ever? Joa...

Paulus ist vor allem als theologischer Denker bekannt. Nun behaupten gewichtige Stimmen aus dem englischsprachigen Raum, die Exegese seiner Briefe ...

Appropriate for beginning and advanced students of Biblical Hebrew, this easy-to-use reference provides a concise summary of basic grammar concepts...

Systeme zur Referenz auf Personen sind in den meisten deutschen Dialekten komplexer als im Standard. So werden in gut vernetzten dörflichen Sprechg...

The monograph explores the semantic and morphosyntactic representation of affectedness, i.e., the property of an event participant to undergo chang...

The topic of secondary predication has attracted much attention especially in the generative literature. The present volume distinguishes itself fr...

Over thirty specialists in Indo-European linguistics have contributed this elegant volume in honour of Professor Sasha Lubotsky of Leiden Universit...

This volume honours the Indologist and Indo-Europeanist Jared S. Klein with almost three dozen essays ranging over a wealth of Indo-Iranian and oth...