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• 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...

• 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...