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• Author(s): Ceil Lucas | Clayton Valli • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Sign LanguageStarted in 1986 as a project to simply describe the linguistic and sociolinguistic features of contact signing and to determine if this ty...

• Author(s): Edith Moravcsik | Jessica Wirth • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralNo detailed description available for "Current Approaches to Syntax".

• Author(s): Alexandra Aikhenvald | R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThe volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon, highlighting their exper...

• Author(s): Dieter Hillert • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThe innovative element of this volume is its overview of the fundamental psycholinguistic topics involved in sentence processing. While mo...

• Author(s): Nerida Jarkey • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationIn Serial Verbs in White Hmong Nerida Jarkey investigates verb serialization, a highly productive grammatical strategy in this dynamic Sout...

• Author(s): Susan F. Schmerling • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologySound and Grammar: A Neo-Sapirian Theory of Language by Susan F. Schmerling offers an original overall linguistic theor...

• Author(s): Randall Hendrick • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Celtic LanguagesThis volume, one of the few devoted to Celtic syntax, makes an important contribution to the description of Celtic, focusing on the ordering of m...

• Author(s): Michaël Peyrot • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: MiscellaneousVariation and change in Tocharian B is a systematic and extensive treatment of linguistic variants attested in this most archaic of the two Tocharian ...

• Author(s): Aet Lees • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis corpus study presents a comparative quantitative analysis of the partitive-accusative alternation of object case in five Finnic languages, us...

• Author(s): Martin Zammit • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: ArabicThis work does not aim to be an etymological dictionary of Qur'ānic Arabic, nor does it attempt to suggest some new genetic classification of the Semitic lang...

• Author(s): Giuseppe Veltri | Gerold Necker • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: HebrewThe study of the Hebrew language in Protestant Europe initiated the development of modern philology. Christian theology and Jewish tradition...

• Author(s): Klaas Bentein | Mark Janse | Jorie Soltic • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationIn this collective volume edited by Klaas Bentein, Mark Janse, and Jorie Soltic, some of the leading experts in...

• Author(s): Toshiko Yamaguchi | David Deterding • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralEnglish in Malaysia: Current Use and Status offers an account of the English language used in present-day West and East M...

• Author(s): Raoul Zamponi • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book provides a detailed grammatical and lexical description of Mak� (M�ku), a language isolate formerly spoken in a remote region of ...

• Author(s): Saartje Verbeke • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyArgument structure of Kashmiri is a study of the grammatical patterns one finds in the Indo-Aryan language Kashmiri. Kashmiri shows several...

• Author(s): Ronald Langacker • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralThese lectures provide a basic introduction to the linguistic theory known as Cognitive Grammar. It is argued that a con...

• Author(s): Peter Cole | Gabriella Hermon | C. -T James Huang • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis new volume serves to focus and clarify the debate surrounding long-distance reflexives by examinin...

• Author(s): Luc Van Doorslaer | Ton Naaijkens • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralIn The Situatedness of Translation Studies, Luc van Doorslaer and Ton Naaijkens critically reassess som...

• Author(s): Olga Borik | Berit Gehrke • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis volume brings together recent research on the semantics and syntax of pseudo-incorporation (PI), which is a construction o...

• Author(s): Alan Cienki • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsCognitive linguistics is purported to be a usage-based approach, yet only recently has research in some of its subfields turned to spontaneous ...

• Author(s): Robert I. Binnick • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn the Modern Mongolian language there are four verb forms which have traditionally been labelled as past tense markers, differing primaril...

• Author(s): Pieter Cornelis Verhagen • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient Languages - GeneralThe first comprehensive survey of the important corpus of Indic literature on Sanskrit grammar, extant in Tibetan translation ...

• Author(s): Damián Vergara Wilson • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: SpanishIn Categorization and Constructional Change Damián Vergara Wilson uses the Spanish change-of-state construction quedar(se) + ADJ to analyze the impac...

• Author(s): Christopher Beedham • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis volume contains 37 papers selected from the proceedings of the XXXIst Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea held at ...

• Author(s): Peter Behnstedt | Manfred Woidich • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: ArabicThe Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte / Word Atlas of Arabic Dialects (WAD) intends to provide an unprecedented survey of the lexical rich...

• Author(s): Zóltan Kövecses • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe present book contains a transcribed version of the lectures given by Professor Zoltán Kövecses in November 2010 as one of the three for...

• Author(s): George Lakoff • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationTen Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics presents ten lectures, in both audio and transcribed text, given by George Lakoff in Beijing in April...

• Author(s): Gregory Thompson | Edwin Lamboy • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: SpanishThis handbook is unique in its focus on bilingual theories, issues on the teaching of bilinguals, bilingual policies abroad, and current re...

• Author(s): Christine Everaert • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: MiscellaneousThis book sheds light on the complex relationship between Hindi and Urdu. Through a detailed reading of a representative set of 20th century short...

• Author(s): Benjamin Suchard • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThe Development of the Biblical Hebrew Vowels investigates the sound changes affecting the Proto-Northwest-Semitic vocalic phonemes and th...

• Author(s): Riccardo Giomi • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyIn this volume, long-standing assumptions about the formal changes involved in grammaticalization are evaluated in the light of the striking...

• Author(s): Eladio Mateo Toledo • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - General

• Author(s): Joanna Lozinska • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - PragmaticsThis book presents a contrastive analysis of the lexicalization of motion events in Polish in comparison with Russian. The study, set in t...

• Author(s): Eithne B. Carlin | Simon van de Kerke • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThe contributors to this volume, an international group of leading specialists, guide us through different aspects of...

• Author(s): Parkvall Mikael • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationFran�ais-Tirailleur (FT) was a French-lexicon pidgin spoken in the French African army between 1860 and 1960, and by civilians in contact...

• Author(s): Beke Hansen • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyIn Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, Beke Hansen analyses variation and change in the modal systems of three second-language varieties o...