"Principles of Historical Linguistics" von Hans Henrich Hock ist ein umfassendes Werk, das sich mit den grundlegenden Konzepten und Methoden der historischen Linguistik befasst. Das Buch bietet eine detaillierte Einführung in die...

Language acquisition research is challenging―the intricate behavioral and cognitive foundations of speech are difficult to measure objectively. The audible components of speech, however, are quantifiable and thus provide crucial data....

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Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times in recent decades. However, previous translations have either been broadly popular in nature...

This book discusses the constructions used in Belarusian and Lithuanian to express predicative Possession. The work is written within a typological frame: the Belarusian and Lithuanian constructions are analyzed in the light of the...

Generative analyses of comparatives traditionally include two construction specific ellipsis operations, Comparative Deletion and Comparative Ellipsis. Drawing from a wide array of new data, the present monograph develops a novel,...

"Media in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning" von Titima Suthiwan ist ein Fachbuch, das sich mit der Rolle von Medien im Fremdsprachenunterricht beschäftigt. Es gehört zur Reihe "Studies in Second and Foreign Language Education". Das...

This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors present a number of new vistas on language contact which represent new...

This grammar provides the first modern, comprehensive description of Coastal Marind. It is a Papuan language spoken by the coastal-dwelling Marind-Anim, formerly expansionistic head-hunters of the Southern New Guinea lowlands. Like the...

"**Mediensprache: Eine Einführung in Sprache und Kommunikationsformen der Massenmedien**" von Harald Burger bietet eine umfassende Einführung in die sprachlichen und kommunikativen Besonderheiten der Massenmedien. Das Buch analysiert,...

Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have additional functions. Some of these functions are semantic in...

The impact of the ecclesiastical languages Greek, Latin and Church Slavonic on the Slavic standard languages still lacks a systematic analysis in the theoretical framework of contact linguistics. Based on corpus data, this volume offers...