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• Author(s): Mark H. Gelber • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanThis volume is comprised of 14 contributions, which are revised and expanded versions of lectures held at an international conference on...

• Author(s): Mark H. Gelber • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralIn 2004 the one-hundredth anniversary of Theodor Herzl's death was commemorated throughout the world. The myth of Herzl, as it has develo...

• Author(s): Ruth Ginsburg • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Jewish - General"New Perspectives on Freud's Moses and Monotheism" presents some of the most important current scholarship on 'Moses and Monotheism'. The ...

• Author(s): Mary Cosgrove • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanDie erste englischsprachige Untersuchung der Prosa von Albert Drach (1902-1995) arbeitet die Originalität von Drachs Autobiografie im Kon...

• Author(s): Elisabeth Albanis • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanBy illustrating the quintessentially different self-perceptions of three German writers of Jewish background, all born in or around 1...

• Author(s): Michael Mack • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - German This essay is offered particularly as a contribution to the relationship between theological and literary writings on the Holocaust. Fran...

• Author(s): Mark H. Gelber • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Europe - GermanyThis study focuses on the emergence of a modern Jewish national literature and culture within the parameters of Zionism in Vienna and Ber...

• Author(s): Hans-Jürgen Schrader • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralThe articles in this collection originated from an international symposium at the University of Haifa and centre around a major top...

• Author(s): Leah Hadomi • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: General"Yet the dark places are the centre" claims George Steiner in "The Bluebird's Castle". Any attempt to analyze rationally the predominating barbaric p...

• Author(s): Adrian Hsia • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanOur perception of the Others is based on our conception of ourselves. In theory the Others should be different. If necessary, we alter thei...

• Author(s): Stefanie Lethbridge • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: American - GeneralThis study presents a contextual and intertextual reading of James Thomson's (1700--1748) poem The Seasons , taking into considera...

• Author(s): Renata Szczepaniak • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe book takes up the subject of dictionary use from the perspective of advanced learners. The study aims to explore the effects...

• Author(s): Anna Dziemianko • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe study examines the user-friendliness of sources of verb syntax in monolingual English learners' dictionaries. It is both theore...

• Author(s): Julie Coleman • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume is a collection of papers from the 1st International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology at the Universi...

• Author(s): Ladislav Zgusta • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralProfessor Zgusta's work in lexicography and linguistics proper is built upon a multilingual command of linguistic theory, literary ...

• Author(s): Chan Sin-Wai • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIs the bilingual dictionary really the translator's best friend? Or is it the case that all translators hate all dictionaries? The tru...

• Author(s): Yukio Tono • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe purpose of this book is to conceptualise the research on dictionary use within a more general overview of language learning. It brin...

• Author(s): Éva Knapp • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: GeneralThe main aim of the work is to present emblematics in Hungary in its European context, and to show the reciprocal influence between that phenomenon and...

• Author(s): Herbert Ernst Wiegand • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume is a compilation of nine articles, translated from German. They deal with those lexicographic texts or text excer...

• Author(s): Maurizio Gotti • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe object of the volume is the analysis of the main dictionaries and glossaries of the canting language (the particular jargon spok...

• Author(s): Frank Kügler • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThe study employs an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation to propose an intonational grammar of Swabian and Up...

• Author(s): Stefan Baumann • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book addresses students and researchers of both phonetics and phonology, and the semantics and pragmatics of discourse. It empl...

• Author(s): Claudia Maienborn • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsSince entering the stage, Davidsonian event arguments have taken on a central role in linguistic theorizing. Recent years have ...

• Author(s): Christian Uffmann • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyWhile it is commonly assumed that languages epenthesize context-free default vowels, this book shows that in lo...

• Author(s): Parth Bhatt • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: GeneralThis volume brings together articles that are focused on segmental, syllabic and morphological aspects of creole words, thus contributing to the ongo...

• Author(s): Britta Mondorf • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsWhat factors govern women's and men's use of syntactic alternatives? This is the central issue explored in the present volu...

• Author(s): Petra Schulz • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralChallenging existing lexical-semantic accounts, this book presents a compositional approach to the concept of factivity and its acquis...

• Author(s): Lukas Pietsch • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe northern dialects of Britain and Ireland have verbal agreement patterns that differ radically from those of Standard English: the...

• Author(s): Martin Neef • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume grew out of the workshop Writing Language, held at the Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen. The papers represent several lines o...

• Author(s): Klaus P. Schneider • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThat English has no diminutives is a common myth. The present study shows, however, that English does possess diminutives, and n...

• Author(s): Ulf Brosziewski • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - MorphologyThis study investigates a model of syntactic derivations that is based on a new concept of dislocation, i.e., of 'movement' phen...

• Author(s): Dany Adone • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis volume provides the reader with an update on the ongoing research in creole studies. The papers represent seve...

• Author(s): Annette Hohenberger • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis study investigates the acquisition of Functional Categories (e.g., INFL (AGR, TNS), DET, COMP) from the perspective of self...

• Author(s): Beatrice Primus • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book is concerned with the mapping of thematic roles, such as agent and patient, onto syntactic cases, such as nominative ...

• Author(s): Christiane Bongartz • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis monograph examines the effects of first language typology on the interlanguage of learners of English as a second language....

• Author(s): Regine Eckardt • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Grammar & Punctuation"Adverbs, Events, and Other Things" treats issues in the semantics of manner adverbs. Part I takes up the Davidsonian claim that...

• Author(s): Stepehn J. Hannahs • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis study is an examination of morphophonology in terms of the interaction between morphological structure an...

• Author(s): Hanna Pulaczewska • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Waves & Wave MechanicsWith reference to copious case studies, this book attempts to give a broad and comprehensive view of the multiplicity of for...

• Author(s): Hero Janßen • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis collection of articles examines lexical and grammatical aspects of verbal elements and phrases in the context of recent generati...

• Author(s): Paul Westney • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsEnglish has a number of periphrastic verbal forms that are semantically close to particular modal verbs and perform suppletive funct...

• Author(s): Tatiana Ewa Kamin]ska • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book presents an account of phonological data related to the study of sonorants in Scottish Standard English (SSE), as c...

• Author(s): Birgit Wesche • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationHitherto, the three symmetric coordination types Phrasal Coordination, Right Node Raising, and Gapping have been mostly treated i...

• Author(s): Elly Van Gelderen • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book is about what the 'lack' of agreement indicates about the structure of language. Rather than assuming that mistakes...

• Author(s): Rolf Thieroff • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralOver the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a signi...

• Author(s): Dagmar Haumann • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis study is concerned with the categorial status of subordinating conjunctions and the internal and external structure of subo...

• Author(s): Wiebke Brockhaus • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis book deals with the phonological event of final devoicing in a theoretical framework based on principles an...

• Author(s): Bernhard Fulda • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Movements - ModernismThe series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersectio...

• Author(s): Marcel Danesi • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThe book provides an introduction to an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that can be called "global linguist...

• Author(s): Jean-Christophe Verstraete • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationFrom the Back CoverThis study argues that the domain traditionally covered by 'coordination' and 'subo...

• Author(s): Roland Bielmeier • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe approximately 250 languages of the Tibeto-Burman family are spoken by 65 million speakers in ten different count...

• Author(s): Barbara Pfeiler • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book includes six studies on the acquisition of single Mesoamerican indigenous languages, (Huichol, Zapotec, and...

• Author(s): Eduardo Neiva • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back Cover

• Author(s): Heinrich W. Guggenheimer • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Biblical Studies - GeneralDer Traktat Ketubot ("Eheverträge") bespricht u.a. die schon bei Eheschlie ung für den Fall der Scheidung oder des To...

• Author(s): Hans-Martin Gärtner • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxFrom the Back CoverClause Structure and Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages is a collection of papers devoted to th...

• Author(s): Gregory D. S. Anderson • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)The Munda Verb is a unique book on the typology of the verb in the Munda language f...

• Author(s): Samantha Joo • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old TestamentThis book examines the problem of theodicy arising from the fall of Jerusalem (587 B.C.E.) in the bo...

• Author(s): Hanna Pishwa • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe functions of linguistic structures and expressions reflect knowledge patterns stored in diverse p...

• Author(s): Cliff Goddard • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Pragmatics The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in term...

• Author(s): Riitta Välimaa-Blum • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & Phonology This textbook is an accessible introduction to both English phonology and phonology in general...

• Author(s): Hans Broekhuis • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationFrom the Back CoverHenk van Riemsdijk has long been known as one of Europe's most important linguists. His seminal...