Linguistics

By consequence of the Karabakh War in 2020 and due to Azerbaijanian revisionism concerning the history, culture and cultural monuments of the regio...

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

This monograph addresses fundamental syntactic issues of classifier constructions, based on a thorough study of a typical classifier language, Mand...

The UNESCO atlas on endangered languages recognizes the Ryukyuan languages as constituting languages in their own right. This represents a dramatic...

In this linguistic ethnography of bilingual science learning in a South African high school, the author connects microanalyses of classroom discour...

In this linguistic ethnography of bilingual science learning in a South African high school, the author connects microanalyses of classroom discour...

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

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

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers...

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

Professor Michael Meier-Brugger's distinguished and productive career in Greek and Indo-European historical linguistics finds fitting tribute in th...

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 -...

Heute werden für den Bereich Deutsch als Zweitsprache Fragen aufgeworfen, deren Diskussion in der BRD in den 1970er Jahren einsetzt. Dies gilt für ...

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 ...

In this volume, nearly forty internationally recognized researchers have come together to celebrate the work of the famous Anatolianist and Indo-Eu...

Sociolinguistics provides a powerful instrument by which we can interpret the contemporary and near-contemporary use of language in relation to the...