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• Author(s): Heinrich W. Guggenheimer • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Judaism - TalmudThis volume, the second of a five-volume edition of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud, deals in part I (Soṭah) with the o...

• Author(s): Martin Pütz • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThe present volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held on April 19-22, 2004 at the Universit...

• Author(s): Giselinde Kuipers • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Popular CultureGood Humor, Bad Taste is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. ...

• Author(s): Zygmunt Frajzyngier • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: African Languages (see also Swahili)A Grammar of Mina is a reference grammar of a hitherto undescribed and endangered Central Chadic l...

• Author(s): Katalin É. Kiss • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralPhilologists aiming to reconstruct the grammar of ancient languages face the problem that the available data always u...

• Author(s): Anne Barron • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - PragmaticsIrish English, while having been the focus of investigations on a variety of linguistic levels, reveals a dearth of re...

• Author(s): Kuniya Nasukawa • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis book makes an important contribution to the expanding body of work in generative phonology whi...

• Author(s): Michael Hegarty • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book develops ideas of Minimalist syntax to derive functional categories from the partially-ordered features exp...

• Author(s): Rosario Caballero • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThis book describes and explores the linguistic metaphors used by architects to assess design solutions in ...

• Author(s): Valéria Molnár • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationFrom the Back CoverThe book The Architecture of Focus offers the most precise and most recent characterization of ...

• Author(s): Henriëtte Hendriks • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume brings together ten contributions to the study of untutored (mainly) second but also first language ac...

• Author(s): Kasumi Yamamoto • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe book is about the numeral classifier system and the acquisition of Japanese classifiers by Japanese children. It ...

• Author(s): David Janzen • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Judaism - Rituals & Practice In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu sämtlichen Gebi...

• Author(s): Alexander Bergs • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThe book presents an analysis of selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word...

• Author(s): Jeanette Sakel • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Indigenous Languages in the AmericasMosetén belongs to the small, unclassified language family Mosetenan and is spoken by roughly 800 peopl...

• Author(s): Casper De Groot • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralMorphological and syntactic issues have received relatively little attention in Functional Grammar, due to the fact t...

• Author(s): Yunji Wu • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: ChineseThis is the first book in Chinese linguistics which discusses the grammar of a dialect group, in this case the Xiang dialect spoken in Hun...

• Author(s): Helle V. Dam • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIt is generally agreed that knowledge plays an important role in translation and interpreting and that it should therefo...

• Author(s): Miriam A. Locher • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: GeneralThis study investigates the interface of power and politeness in the realization of disagreements in naturalistic language data. P...

• Author(s): Verena Haser • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe present book provides a detailed criticism of experientialist semantics, focusing both on philosophical issues con...

• Author(s): Bernhard Hurch • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationFor several reasons, mostly inherent to the different developments of generative grammar, an increasing number of ...

• Author(s): Katrin Bromber • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Alphabets & Writing SystemsGlobalisation and African Languages links African language studies to the concept of 'globalisation' which i...

• Author(s): Anne Curzan • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralStudies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations contains selected papers from the SHEL-2 confe...

• Author(s): Timothy L. Face • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: SpanishThis volume contains a collection of papers that address issues in Spanish phonology from the perspective of laboratory phonology. ...

• Author(s): Rui Linhares-Dias • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsHow to Show Things with Words is an interdisciplinary research study at the interface between linguistics and ph...

• Author(s): Delia Bentley • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: ItalianSplit intransitivity has received a great deal of attention in theoretical linguistics since the formulation of the Unaccusative Hypo...

• Author(s): Andrea C. Schalley • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis book presents a unique approach to the semantics of verbs. It develops and specifies a decompositional repr...

• Author(s): Giuliana Fiorentino • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe volume brings together the papers read at the international conference on Romance Objects organized by the Li...

• Author(s): Andreas Gardt • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: GermanIs the world en route to becoming a linguistic colony of the United States? Or is this dramatic view an exaggeration, and there is no ...

• Author(s): Holden Härtl • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralResearchers with backgrounds in theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and psychology ha...

• Author(s): Martin Krämer • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationVowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory covers the major issues in the generative analysis of vowel harmony and vow...

• Author(s): Minglang Zhou • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsMinglang Zhou's highly erudite and well-researched volume on the policies concerning writing reforms for China...

• Author(s): Niels O. Schiller • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis edited volume investigates the role of phonetics and phonology in psycholinguistics. Speakin...

• Author(s): R. Harald Baayen • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis volume brings together a series of studies of morphological processing in Germanic (English, German, Dutch)...

• Author(s): Brigitte L. M. Bauer • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe honoree of this Festschrift has for many years now marked modern trends in diachronic and synchronic lingu...

• Author(s): Susanne Wurmbrand • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxInfinitives: Restructuring and Clause Structure offers a detailed study of the clausal architecture of infinitival c...

• Author(s): Tobias Scheer • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis book presents a development of Jean Lowenstamm's idea that phonological constituent structure ca...

• Author(s): Adam Jaworski • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsMetalanguage brings together new, original contributions on people's knowledge about language and representati...

• Author(s): Thomas Pechmann • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume comprises contributions from different disciplines (cognitive psychology, linguistics, computer science, ...

• Author(s): Anju Saxena • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)With its many and diverse languages, including some with very long documented histories, its cu...

• Author(s): Tuija Virtanen • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe purpose of this book is to explore the overlapping area of study that discourse linguists and cognitive linguists ...

• Author(s): Regine Eckardt • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsMeanings of words are constantly changing, and the forces driving these changes are varied and diverse. Linguistic a...

• Author(s): Marina Vigário • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThe book investigates the diagnostics for the prosodic word in European Portuguese, the prosodic org...

• Author(s): Donald N. Tuten • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: SpanishHow and why do changes happen when and where they do? Is it possible to explain changes that occurred centuries ago? These are the ...

• Author(s): Uwe Junghanns • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThe book contains ten papers discussing issues of the relation between syntax and morphology from the perspective o...

• Author(s): Betteke Van Ruler • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Public RelationsThe book challenges the notion that public relations in Europe is no more than a copy of the Anglo-American approach. It...

• Author(s): Stefan Ploch • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis collection of papers by an international group of authors honors Jonathan Kaye's contributions to phonology by ...

• Author(s): Astrid Kraehenmann • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: GermanThe comprehensive analysis of the segmental and metrical system of the Swiss German dialect of Thurgovian provides a significant ...

• Author(s): Günter Rohdenburg • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeWhat factors influence the choice between alternative grammatical structures such as the follo...

• Author(s): Roberta Facchinetti • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning modality in...

• Author(s): Mirjana N. Dedaic • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsIn a new era of global conflict involving non-state actors, At War with Words offers a provocative perspec...

• Author(s): Brigitte Nerlich • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsAbout fifty years ago, Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy is 'the pivot of semantic analysis'. Fifty years on, po...

• Author(s): Alexander Kautzsch • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeBased on a 500,000 word corpus of early sources collected from ex-slave narratives, ex-slave ...

• Author(s): Elmer H. Antonsen • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: GermanThe older runic inscriptions (ca. AD 150 - 450) represent the earliest attestation of any Germanic language. The close relationshi...

• Author(s): David Restle • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThe integration of traditional and modern linguistics as well as diachrony and synchrony is the hallma...

• Author(s): Angelika Wittek • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsCausative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of gra...

• Author(s): Donka Minkova • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThe 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the ...

• Author(s): Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe common aim of the contributions to this volume is to shed light on the communication of conceptual st...

• Author(s): Istvan Kecskes • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - PragmaticsThis book focuses on a particular type of formulaic expressions called Situation-Bound Utterances (SBUs). Since the...

• Author(s): Li Wei • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Bilingual EducationThis volume contributes to the debates about the social aspects of bilingualism, focusing on the various opportunities and chall...