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• Author(s): Michele Bianconi • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis volume contains a new and up-to date selection of case studies which offer new insights on various topics in Indo-European linguistic...

• Author(s): Daniele Baglioni • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThe book deals with the concept of fragmentation as applied to languages and their documentation and the consequent theoretical and method...

• Author(s): David Elias • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyIn The Tigre Language of Gindaˁ, Eritrea, David L. Elias documents the dialect of the Tigre language that is spoken in the town of Gindaˁ in ea...

• Author(s): Daniel Petit • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis book provides an introduction to the historical syntax of the Indo-European languages. It aims to provide an overview of the main issues ...

• Author(s): Daniel Petit • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis book provides an introduction to the historical syntax of the Indo-European languages. It aims to provide an overview of the main issues ...

• Author(s): Redouane Djamouri | Christine Lamarre | Julie Lefort • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralWhat happens when Chinese is shaped by centuries of contact with Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic, and Tibetic languages? Th...

• Author(s): Zygmunt Frajzyngier • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLanguages formed by adults without formal instruction, a product of language contact, likely replicate the emergence of grammars in hered...

• Author(s): Alisa Van de Haar • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralIn The Golden Mean of Languages, Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low...

• Author(s): Laura Minervini | Frank Savelsberg • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyAt the intersection of Jewish studies and linguistic research, the essays assembled in this book approach the topic of t...

• Author(s): Nikolaos Lavidas • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThe volume brings together contributions by scholars working in different theoretical frameworks interested in systematic explanation of l...

• Author(s): J. H. Hospers • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: ArabicNo detailed description available for "General Linguistics and the Teaching of Dead Hamito-Semitic Languages".

• Author(s): Ken Turner • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis is a collection of invited papers that honours Professor Jacob Mey on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Professor Mey is, and has for...

• Author(s): Anne Storch • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralThis volume explores different ideas of what language does and what is done with language, considering different ways in whic...

• Author(s): Lily Kahn • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyA Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale provides the first detailed linguistic analysis of the Hebrew narrative literature composed...

• Author(s): Nathan Hill • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhile providing unique and detailed information on early Tibeto-Burman languages and their contact and relationship to other languages, this book...

• Author(s): Alexandra Aikhenvald | Anne Storch • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyEvery language has a way of talking about seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. In about a quarter of the wor...

• Author(s): Mark Turin | Bettina Zeisler • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralHimalayan Languages and Linguistics gathers together nine outstanding and original contributions on the Tibeto-Burman and Indo-A...

• Author(s): Mark W. Post • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyTangam is a critically endangered Trans-Himalayan language spoken by 150 hilltribespeople in the Far Eastern Himalaya. This work presents a cu...

• Author(s): Marta Falkowska | Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralThis book explores how language is used to create division and discrimination in diverse Eur...

• Author(s): Markian Prokopovych | Carl Bethke | Tamara Scheer • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThe Habsburg Empire often features in scholarship as a historical example of how language diversity and l...

• Author(s): Nikolaos Lavidas • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis book adds a diachronic dimension to the study of written language contact. It examines in a contrastive way aspects of the history of...

• Author(s): Ramazan Korkmaz • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyEndangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond offers the readers a diversity of articles by 19 prominent scholars who address the problem...

• Author(s): Matthias Brenzinger | Iwona Kraska-Szlenk • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThe Body in Language: Comparative studies of Linguistic Embodiment provides new insights into the theory of lingu...

• Author(s): Dagmar Divjak • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralIn this book Divjak and Milin introduce the new paradigm of computational cognitive linguistics. Going beyond corpus-based ...

• Author(s): Kate Beeching | Ulrich Detges • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsA basic property of human language is that it unfolds in time; the left and right margin of discourse units do not behave in ...

• Author(s): Roy Harris | George Wolf • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection of readings is complementary to Introduction to Integrational Linguistics (Language & Communication Library, Vol...

• Author(s): Kees de Bot | Charlotta Plejert | Hanne Gram Simonsen • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralMultilingualism and Ageing provides an overview of research on a large range of topics relating to lang...

• Author(s): Kelsie Pattillo • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis comparative volume explores how speakers across languages use the concept of the 'face' to describe emotions, human interaction, and d...

• Author(s): Judit Baranyiné Kóczy • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis book offers novel insights into the figurative meanings of the 'heart' across 19 languages, including endangered and extensively...

• Author(s): Maria Manoliu-Manea • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection of readings is complementary to Introduction to Integrational Linguistics (Language & Communication Library, Vol.17),...

• Author(s): Manwel Mifsud • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: ArabicSevered from its parent language and from the other vernaculars, as well as from the Islamic culture and religion, the peripheral Arabic dialect of Malta has ...

• Author(s): Eva Alcón Soler | Maria-Pilar Safont-Jordà • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralStudies on discourse and language learning originated in the field of general education and they focused on first ...

• Author(s): Anvita Abbi • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationWinner of the 2015 Kenneth L. Hale Award! A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language is the first-ever detailed and exhaustive account of Gre...

• Author(s): John Newman | Harald Baayen | Sally Rice • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - Syntax

• Author(s): Egbert Fortuin • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Slavic Languages (Other)This volume, Dutch Contributions to the Fifteenth International Congress of Slavists (Minsk, 2013) presents a comprehensive overview of cur...

• Author(s): Heli Paulasto | Lea Meriläinen | Samuli Kaislaniemi • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralDigitalization has profoundly transformed our communicative and linguistic environment, and the language ...