"English Linguistics: A Coursebook for Students of English" von Thomas Herbst ist ein umfassendes Lehrbuch, das sich an Studierende der Anglistik richtet. Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in die wesentlichen Themen und Konzepte der...

No detailed description available for "Lectures on Government and Binding".

This book is a comprehensive study of the evidential system in German. It presents a systematic description of the encoding of evidentiality in present-day German, as well as a diachronic reconstruction of the relevant sources and paths...

Das "Handbook of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication" von Li Wei ist ein umfassendes Werk, das sich mit den vielfältigen Aspekten des Multilingualismus und der mehrsprachigen Kommunikation beschäftigt. Es gehört zur Reihe der...

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"The Semantics of Prepositions: From Mental Processing to Natural Language Processing" von Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt untersucht die komplexe Rolle von Präpositionen in der Sprache. Das Buch verbindet Erkenntnisse aus der...

The book provides a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of...

Given that we lack sensory-motor experience for abstract concepts, how do we find out what they mean? How far can we get by tracking frequency distributions in input? The volume tackles the question of what language has to offer the...

Universals of language have been studied extensively for the last four decades, allowing fundamental insight into the principles and general properties of human language. Only incidentally have researchers looked at the other end of the...

“This is the latest version of the 1956 book which began the modern study of universals, and provides the foundation for many inquiries that followed. The hypotheses are cast at a moderate level of abstraction, and so are likely to...