De Gruyter Mouton

Roman Jakobson stands alone in his semiotic theory of poetic analysis which combines semiotics, linguistics and structuralist poetics. This groundbreaking book proposes methods for developing...

As one of the basic clause types, copular clauses have been, and continue to be, a fruitful topic for linguistic research. This book focuses on two of the main subtypes: specificational and...

Expressing negation is a universal property of all human languages. There is considerable variation, however, in the exact ways negation materializes cross-linguistically. Strict Negative Concord...

The dispersal of the Indo-European language family dramatically altered the linguistic landscape in Europe, resulting in the loss of many of the preexisting languages. This volume brings together...

The study of language contact in the New Englishes has long been regarded as an object of sociolinguistic investigation, though there have been some excursions into the territory of creolistics. Much...

The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asia's North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adjacent portions of Inner Eurasia. It provides...

The book offers a cognitively realistic account of morphosyntactic alternations through a combination of corpus-based analysis and (psycho)linguistic experiments. The central thesis of the book is...

This book offers a new angle on long-standing and unresolved questions about the categorial status of English V-ing forms such as participles and gerunds. Beyond its compelling analysis of -ing...

No detailed description available for "The methodology of field investigations in linguistics".Author: A. E. KibrikPublisher: De Gruyter MoutonPublication Date: Apr 01, 1977Number of Pages: 152...

This book places Peirce in the broad frame of Hegelian philosophy and his account of concept formation. This new perspective helps us to understand Peirce's semiotics as an attempt to establish...

In this volume, Rong Chen proposes a motivation model of pragmatics, a coherent framework to account for language use. At a time when theories that seek deeper explanations are frowned upon, Chen's...