Lexicography

Foreign language learners often use electronic dictionaries or other information from the Internet to solve language problems. However, they seem ...

The book scrutinizes the language of Polish-origin Highlanders living in CarpathianBukovina. Krasowska has personal, direct knowledge of the life, ...

This book explains the competition in the complementation of Old English aspectual and manipulative verbs that arises between finite and non-finite...

A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishismsfor good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrase...

A handy, affordable Ukrainian to English and English to Ukrainian dictionary for everyday use, including a guide to common everyday expressions in ...

When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary, it is rapidly clear that this is not the usual lexicographical enquiry. ...

The book sets out to describe new developments in terminology from a cognitive perspective. It encompasses a wide range of theoretical and practic...

This volume contains Crimean Tatar folklore texts that had been collected by the noted Hungarian Turkologist Ignác Kúnosduring World War I, specifi...

This book provides a start of defining the uni- and multi-phonational tone systems of geographically-connected dialects under a phonation-pitch ton...

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'KEPT ME READING EAGERLY'Philip Pullman'HUGE FUN AND, AS YOU'D EXPECT, ALSO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN'Gyles Brandreth'A TANTALISING MYSTERY FOR WORD SLEU...

A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dic...

Les recherches sur les marqueurs discursifs ont connu un extraordinaire essor ces dernières décennies. Le présent ouvrage les aborde dans leur dime...

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes geben Auskunft, wie Forschung und Lehre am Institut für Translationswissenschaft (INTRAWI) aufgestellt sind, um mit der ...

Lost origins of words revealed. We like to recount that goodbye started out as god be with you, that whiskey comes from the Gaelic for water of l...

Turkic is one of the world's major language families, comprising a high number of distinct languages and varieties that display remarkable similari...

This book focuses on scientific terminology and phraseology in research papers in the domains of new technologies which remain to be highly special...

This is a systematic study of Matteo Riccis (1552610) enormous impact on the development of modern scientific and intellectual terminology in China...

We must quickly learn how to live well in the world as it is today, including the realm of work. We need to learn a new vocabulary of economics and...

The series Perspectives on the Linguistics of Ancient Languages publishes research papers  presented at the annual meetings of the International Sy...