The book introduces the reader to the central areas of English linguistics. The main sections are: the English language and linguistics - sounds - meaning-carrying units - sentences: models of grammar - meaning - utterances - variation....

The volume advances our understanding of the role of scales and hierarchies across the linguistic sciences. Although scales and hierarchies are widely assumed to play a role in the modelling of linguistic phenomena, their status remains...

Wordplay can be seen as a genuine interface phenomenon. It can be found both in everyday communication and in literary texts, and it can fulfil a range of functions - it may be entertaining and comical, it may be used to conceal taboo,...

In spite of the day-to-day relevance of business communication, it remains underrepresented in standard handbooks and textbooks on applied linguistics. The present volume introduces readers to a wide variety of linguistic studies of...

This book explores the many disciplinary and theoretical links between language, linguistics, and mathematics. It examines trends in linguistics, such as structuralism, conceptual metaphor theory, and other relevant theories,to show that...

As you are reading this, you are finding yourself in the ubiquitous public sphere that is the Web. Ubiquitous, and yet not universally accessible. This volume addresses this dilemma of the public sphere, which is by definition open to...

Das Sprecherzieherische Elementarbuch zählt seit über drei Jahrzehnten zu den national und international anerkannten Standardwerken der deutschen Sprecherziehung. Grundlage ist eine dialogorientierte Sprecherziehung. Jegliche...

¿This collection of nine original articles deals with the expression of possession at various levels of grammar, morphological, phrasal, and syntactic, and from a typologically diverse range of languages (including Germanic, Oceanic,...

This book is about the close historical and linguistic relationship between the languages of Surinam and Benin, a relationship which can be viewed in terms of a Trans Atlantic Sprachbund or linguistic area. It consists of a detailed...

This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of the Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian and Latgalian), which have only marginally featured in the discourse of theoretical linguistics and linguistic typology. The...

Seit den 1990er Jahren hat sich die Diskurslinguistik in der Germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft als neue Teildisziplin zur Analyse textübergreifender Muster fest etablieren können. Die ständig wachsende Zahl diskurstheoretischer Arbeiten...

Dieses Lehrbuch zu Flexion und Wortbildung des Deutschen orientiert sich gezielt an den Studiengängen Bachelor und Master mit jeweils getrennten Kapiteln für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene. Der Stoff ist in Module strukturiert, die den...