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Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Cultures, Epochs, Ideas, Styles : A Festschrift for Aza Takho-Godi's 100th Birthday

The volume contains essays on ancient Greek literature, philosophy and history and their reception in the West and in Russia; essays on Alexei Losev's work and its translations into English.Author: Henrieke StahlPublisher: Peter Lang Gmbh,...

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Explorations Into Language, Culture and Literature : Studies in Honour of Martin Pütz

Over the past 25 years, previously separate fields of linguistic research have moved closer together, resulting in constructive collaborations: . Cognitive Sociolinguistics draws on the framework of Cognitive Linguistics to investigate social factors in...

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de Gruyter

Tense, Aspect and Discourse Structure

Tense and aspect are crucial devices of sentence meaning. They interact with Aktionsart, but also with verb types and adverbs when indicating temporal relations and building temporal discourse structure. On the discourse level, they are co-determined by...

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de Gruyter

Moral und Moralisierung : Neue Zugänge

Die Suche nach einem angemessenen Umgang mit Moral und ihrem rhetorisch-strategischen Einsatz in Diskursen führt unweigerlich zu der Frage, welche Perspektiven verschiedene Wissenschaftsdisziplinen aufmachen, wenn sie sich mit Moral und Moralisierung...

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de Gruyter

Sprachprestige Und Glaubwürdigkeitsattribution : Zum Einfluss Bildungssprachlicher Merkmale Auf Die Aussagenbeurteilung Bei Der Vernehmung Auf Dem Schriftweg

Einem Zeugen, der von einem "Unfallfahrzeug" berichtet, wird mehr Glauben geschenkt als einem Zeugen, der selbiges Fahrzeug als "Auto" bezeichnet - dies legen die Ergebnisse der vorliegenden Studie zum Einfluss bildungssprachlicher Merkmale auf die...

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de Gruyter

NKomposita Mit Identischen Konstituenten Im Deutschen : Theorie Und Empirie Zu Reduplikativer Komposition

In German, there are nominal compounds with identical constituents (ICCs). This study is the first to provide comprehensive data on the formal and functional properties of ICCs and, building on this, a theoretical discussion in which these formations are...

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de Gruyter

Stile extremistischer Tatschreiben : Charakteristika rechter und linker inkriminierter Texte

Obwohl viele inkriminierte Texte schnell bestimmten Textsorten zugeordnet werden können, beruht diese Zuordnung oftmals nicht auf linguistischen, sondern auf strafrechtlich relevanten Faktoren. Solche Klassifikationen sind für die forensische Praxis...

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de Gruyter

Hochdeutsch : Eine Framesemantische Analyse Historischer Spracheinstellungen Zum Deutschen Im 16. Bis 18. Jahrhundert

The question What is good (High) German? occupies people today just as it did 500 years ago. This study examines discourses surrounding historical attitudes to language and language standardization from the sixteenth to eighteenth century and shows what...

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de Gruyter

Diacronía de Las perífrasis Fasales : Origen, Evolución y Vigencia

Este libro ofrece un panorama detallado de la evolución de las perífrasis fasales desde el latín hasta el español. El estudio parte de una reflexión acerca del estatus gramatical de estas construcciones (en muchas estructuras, el proceso de...

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Walter de Gruyter

Auslandsdeutsche Pressesprache in Europa, Asien Und Nordamerika

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Auslandsdeutsche Pressesprache in Europa, Asien und Nordamerika" verfügbar.Author: Csaba FöldesPublisher: Walter de GruyterPublication Date: May 20, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: GermanBinding:...

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Reassessing Alleged Runic Forgeries : Constructing an Analysis Scaffold Using the Example of the Runic Inscription in the 'Kleines Schulerloch'

One of the most well-known potential forgeries is SG-65 Kleines Schulerloch, which has provoked controversies and debates among scientists of various disciplines since its discovery. In this study an interdisciplinary grid of methods was developed and...

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Postcolonial Semantics : Meaning and Metalanguage in a Multipolar World

Global knowledge production increasingly happens through one particular language: modern Anglo English. What does the Anglocentric reliance of English words and phrases mean for the way we make claims, formulate research questions, and develop theories?...

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Lexington Books

Women and the Codification of the Amazigh Language

Using a multi-disciplinary approach to the Amazigh art of weaving, the author argues that women's ancestral rug designs inspired the Amazigh alphabet Tifinagh. In doing so, the book sheds new light on the active role women played in the process of...

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Cambridge University Press

Modern Linguistics in Ancient India

An accessible introduction to ancient Indian linguistics, this book assesses the impact of Indian linguistic thought on Western linguistics.Author: John J. LowePublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date: Mar 21, 2024Number of Pages: 281...

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Cambridge University Press

Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition of Chinese : Theories and Applications

An introduction to the key cognitive linguistics concepts that aid analysis of Chinese and inform L2 Chinese teaching and learning.Author: Shu-Ling Wu, Lihong Huang, Carl PolleyPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date: Feb 08, 2024Number of...

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Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Sprachliche Variation Und Vielfalt / Linguistic Variation and Diversity : Ausgewaehlte Beitraege Des 53. Linguistisches Kolloquiums in Odense, Daenemark (2018) / Selected Papers of the 53rd Linguistics Colloquium in Odense, Denmark (2018)

Im vorliegenden Band werden die Voraussetzungen, Mechanismen und Ergebnisse sprachlicher Variation und Vielfalt vorgestellt und diskutiert. Dies beginnt bei sprachlichen und kulturellen Kontakten und erstreckt sich über historische und geographische...

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Peter Lang

Predications in Competition and the Rise of Serial Verb Constructions in English : The Verbal and Nominal Complementation of Old English Aspectual and Manipulative Verbs

This book explains the competition in the complementation of Old English aspectual and manipulative verbs that arises between finite and non-finite clauses on the one hand and between clauses and noun phrases on the other hand. The book combines textual...

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de Gruyter

Determiner Sharing in German : An Argument for Movement-Based Approaches to Ellipsis

This monograph presents the first in-depth empirical and theoretical study of determiner sharing in German, addressing both its language-specific properties and its comparative syntax. Determiner sharing poses an interesting problem for syntactic theory...

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Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

An Etymological Dictionary of English Imitative Words

The present Dictionary is the first dictionary of English words imitative by origin. These include words perceived as imitative in Present-day English (bow-wow, peep) as well as words derived from imitative roots (cliché, cicada). The Dictionary reveals...

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Walter de Gruyter

Nominalization in Western Austronesian : Not-at-issueness in Totoli and Beyond

This book explores the form and functions of nominalizations in Totoli (Sulawesi, Indonesia) within the context of western Austronesian symmetrical voice languages. It is the first study that investigates the role of nominalization in information...

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Walter de Gruyter

Proto-Australian : Reconstruction of a Common Ancestor Language

This book is the first full evaluation of the Proto-Australian hypothesis, which proposes that most Australian languages have a common ancestor: Proto-Australian [PA]. Using the standard methodologies of historical linguistics, the authors show that...

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De Gruyter Mouton

Sub-Indo-European Europe : Problems, Methods, Results

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 contributions focusing on the evidence for...

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Articulating Difference : Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century

Enriches contemporary debates about gender and language by probing the histories of the philosophy and sciences of language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, from understudied ethnographic and scientific works to canonical literature and philosophy,...

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Bloomsbury Publishing

The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII : Three Papal Poets from Baroque to Risorgimento

A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in the 15th century, this book offers translations of and commentaries on the major poems of the three popes (all Italians): Urban VIII...

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Bloomsbury Publishing

The Poems of Optatian : Puzzling Out the Past in the Time of Constantine the Great

For the first time, the poems and accompanying letters of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (Optatian) are published here with a translation and detailed commentary, along with a full introduction to Optatian's work during this period.Optatian was sent into...

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Palgrave Macmillan

Urban Wolof across Borders : Translanguaging while Transmigrating

This book takes urban Wolof beyond Senegal to consider the effects of mobility on language and examine how the diasporans engage in their daily language practices as transmigrants. The parallel between languaging and migrating underpins the author's...

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Walter de Gruyter

English Nouns Since 1150 : A Typological Study

Morphological typology is usually limited to the realm of grammar. Accordingly, English is considered an analytic language due to its poor grammatical morphology - but what about the lexicon? Taking a twofold approach, this study investigates the...

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Walter de Gruyter

Diglossic Translanguaging : The Multilingual Repertoire of German-Speaking Jews in Berlin

This book investigates, for the first time, the multilingual resources contemporary Jewish speakers in Berlin use when speaking German. The focus of this explorative study is on lexical variation and its social meaning from the speakers' perspectiAuthor:...

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De Gruyter Mouton

Linguistic Counter-Standardization : Exploring Liberatory Language Practices Around "Japanese"

Language standardization is problematic because it imposes a dominant group's linguistic variety as the only correct one and promotes unit thinking, i.e., the view of language as a bounded, internally homogeneous unit. This book examines intentionAuthor:...

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Cambridge University Press

The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek

In 1952 Michael Ventris deciphered the script found on the Linear B tablets from Crete and the Greek mainland, therefore revealing the earliest known form of Greek. In 1956 he and John Chadwick published Documents in Mycenaean Greek, which gave an...

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