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• Author(s): Maria Mazzoli • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeFrom the Back CoverThis volume examines the current state of the theoretical and empirical debate ...

• Author(s): M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralInformation structure and the organization of oral texts have been rarely studied crosslinguistically. ...

• Author(s): Henry Widdowson • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe globalized use of language calls into question conventional ways of thinking in linguistics, applied linguistics ...

• Author(s): Chiara Gianollo • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeBringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal s...

• Author(s): Peter Bakker • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and m...

• Author(s): N. J. Enfield • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics ...

• Author(s): Martine Robbeets • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis book deals with shared verb morphology in Japanese and other languages that have been iden...

• Author(s): Rajendra Singh • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Morphology

• Author(s): Wolfgang Klein • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe volume presents an essential selection collected from the essays of Wolfgang Klein. In addition to journal and boo...

• Author(s): Bernard Comrie • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe volume is relevant to the current regional and international discussion on endangered languages, language contact,...

• Author(s): Alberto Hijazo-Gascón • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe book analyzes the complex relationship between languages in the bilingual mind with a focus on motion event...

• Author(s): Hans Henrich Hock • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhy does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why ...

• Author(s): Dan Xu • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - MorphologyPlural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute the main means of quantification marking in the domain of ...

• Author(s): Svenja Völkel • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary fiel...

• Author(s): Stephen C. Levinson • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guin...

• Author(s): Shannon Bischoff • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFunctionalism, as characterized by Allen, (2007:254) "holds that linguistic structures can only be understood and ex...

• Author(s): Benjamin Hary • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book offers sociological and structural descriptions of language varieties used in over 2 dozen Jewish communities...

• Author(s): Giuditta Caliendo • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeFrom the Back CoverToday's growing mobility in European urban regions results in a more widesp...

• Author(s): Lourens De Vries • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis book is a comprehensive and authoritative description of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan...

• Author(s): Lívia Körtvélyessy • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis pioneering research brings a new insight into derivational processes in terms of theory, method and typolog...

• Author(s): Dik Bakker • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book is dedicated to Anna Siewierska, who died, far too young, in 2011. It contains 15 contributions by 20 linguists ...

• Author(s): Piotr Romanowski • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralMultilingualism has become an increasingly common global phenomenon especially in the last two decades. Therefore, m...

• Author(s): Alexandra Grey • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFrom the Back CoverChina has had constitutional minority language rights for decades, but how are they put into practi...

• Author(s): Lian Malai Madsen • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book contributes to current theory building within applied linguistics and sociolinguistics by lookin...

• Author(s): Beatrix Busse • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralDespite its importance for language and cognition, the theoretical concept of pattern has received little attention i...

• Author(s): Leketi Makalela • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeDynamic language practices of African multilingual speakers have not been cogently described in ...

• Author(s): Martin Guardado • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe book examines the development and maintenance of a minority language, engaging on both micro and macro levels to ...

• Author(s): Ursula Stephany • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis volume is a collection of studies focusing on the early developmental stages of deontic/dynam...

• Author(s): Gerrit J. Dimmendaal • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to...

• Author(s): Cynthia Groff • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeFrom the Back CoverApproaching youth language via a global framework, this volume extends and brid...

• Author(s): No Contributor • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book is an innovative contribution to contact linguistics as it presents a rarely studied but sizeable d...

• Author(s): Javier E. Diaz-Vera • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: RhetoricThis volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case stu...

• Author(s): Andrey N. Sobolev • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsFrom the Back Cover The book deals in detail with previously understudied language contact settings in the...

• Author(s): No Contributor • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralThrough constant exposure to adult input in interaction, children's language gradually develops in...

• Author(s): Jacques Moeschler • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - PragmaticsThere is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it ...

• Author(s): Eva Codo • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis original study looks at language practices in a government agency responsible for granting or denying legal status to t...