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• Author(s): John H. McWhorter • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeIn John McWhorter's Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the fol...

• Author(s): Caterina Bonan • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralClefts are intricate objects which, starting with Jespersen (1937), have motivated much work in descriptive and formal...

• Author(s): Laura J. Downing | Annie Rialland • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis volume brings together two under-investigated areas of intonation typology. ...

• Author(s): Silvia Ballarè • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeLinguistic variation, loosely defined as the wholesale processes whereby patterns of language str...

• Author(s): Urszula Clark • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeAlthough there are many studies on linguistic variation as it relates to both "traditional" and "n...

• Author(s): Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul | Elena Tribushinina • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAlthough usage-based approaches have been successfully applied to the study of both fir...

• Author(s): Enoch Aboh | Eric Haeberli | Genoveva Puskás • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis volume brings together a selection of articles illustrating the multifaceted nature ...

• Author(s): Hiwa Asadpour • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn the Iranic-Semitic-Turkic contact area, where many languages are described as verb-final, 'Targets' (Goals, Recipien...

• Author(s): Jeff Siegel • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - MorphologyNama is a Papuan language spoken by around 1200 people in the Morehead district of southern New Guinea. It is a member...

• Author(s): Daniela E. Casartelli • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Communication StudiesSentence (1) represents the phenomenon of reported thought, (2) that of reported speech: (1) Sasha thought: "T...

• Author(s): Anna Pompei • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe notion of light verb constructions has been traditionally related to the 'insignificance' of the verb, which is descr...

• Author(s): Till Woerfel • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralChildren who grow up as second- or third-generation immigrants typically acquire and speak the minority language at home...

• Author(s): Kenneth Hyltenstam • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhile the literature on second language acquisition and use is overwhelmingly rich with respect to initial and int...

• Author(s): Terry Janzen • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume represents the first time that researchers on signed language and gesture have come together with a coherent...

• Author(s): Jozina Vander Klok • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsCurrent semantic fieldwork research has shown that the study of modality cannot be conducted via translation alo...

• Author(s): Hans-Jörg Schmid • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn recent years, linguists have increasingly turned to the cognitive sciences to broaden their investigation into th...

• Author(s): No Contributor • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralHow is grammaticalization theory to accommodate the external factors that drive change and the competition that inevit...

• Author(s): Anna-Maria Sonnemann • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe book provides an encyclopaedic overview of the language contact between Slavic languages ...

• Author(s): Denyze Toffoli • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe study of informal involvement with additional languages has recently emerged as a dynamic research field in SLA. W...

• Author(s): Peter O. Müller | Susan Olsen | Franz Rainer • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - MorphologyThis reader is part of a five-volume-edition and comprises an in-depth presentation o...

• Author(s): Olivier Duplâtre • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsAdverbs seem to raise unsolvable issues for theories of word-classes, both crosslinguistically and language-intern...

• Author(s): Kisha C. Bryan • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Sociolinguistics In this edited volume, language weaponization -- or the weaponization of language -- is used to describe the...

• Author(s): Katharina Beuter • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & Comparative This volume is not only the first book-length investigation into adolescents' use of English a...

• Author(s): Jóhanna Barðdal • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxPulling together the threads of forty years of research on oblique subjects in the Germanic languages, this book intro...

• Author(s): Elena Nicoladis | Simona Montanari • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book pioneers the study of bilingualism across the lifespan and in all its diverse forms. In ...

• Author(s): Ubiratã Kickhöfel Alves • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyIn the field of second language (L2) acquisition, the number of studies focusing on L2 pron...

• Author(s): Gudrun Erickson • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - General Language education at all levels benefits from research in a multitude of ways. Conversely, educational practices an...

• Author(s): Wen • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - General This book presents comprehensive, thorough and updated analyses of key cognitive individual difference factors (e.g., age, intel...

• Author(s): Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeEvery society thrives on stories, legends and myths. This volume explores the linguisti...