This collection highlights a range of perspectives on the emerging body of research on evolutionary pragmatics, expanding the borders of language evolution research and indicating exciting new directions for the future of the field.
This book investigates the interaction between new English lexis and metaphor/metonymy - figures meticulously defined and contrasted in terms of similarity/contiguity.
This book investigates the interaction between new English lexis and metaphor/metonymy - figures meticulously defined and contrasted in terms of similarity/contiguity.
This monograph presents the first in-depth empirical and theoretical study of determiner sharing in German, addressing both its language-specific properties and its comparative syntax.
This book investigates selected aspects of the grammatical development of Emirati Arabic, the variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates and closely related to the varieties spoken in the rest of the Gulf States.
"Wie du in 3 Monaten eine neue Sprache lernst" ist ein äußerst praktischer Leitfaden, der dem Leser hilft, sein Sprachlernziel in kürzester Zeit zu erreichen.
The present study is the first to apply a syntactic approach to the grammaticalization of Chinese modals, based on hypotheses on cross-linguistic diachronic developments of modals from lexical to functional categories as upward movement on a functional spine.
As fans of Just a Minute know, the key to the game is knowing your way around the English language: how it works, how it s evolved, and how words connect, often in surprising ways.
Dieses Buch bietet eine praktische Anleitung zur Analyse der Syntax des gesprochenen Deutsch, wie es in Alltagsgesprächen verwendet wird (talk-in-interaction).
This book is the first full evaluation of the Proto-Australian hypothesis, which proposes that most Australian languages have a common ancestor: Proto-Australian [PA].
Based on the quantitative analysis of a large corpus of Old and Middle High German prose texts, this volume provides a first extensive overview on the syntactic properties of coordination structures featuring the coordinators inti/und and joh in Old and Middle High German and discusses potential analyses in a generative framework.
Grammar Toolkit Lesson Plans for Middle School: Mentor Text-Based Grammar Lessons for the Middle School English Classroom contains detailed grammar lesson plans for teachers in grades six, seven, and eight.
Genderbezogene Personenreferenzen sind seit Jahrzehnten Gegenstand kontroverser Diskurse, die sich auch an innovativen Formen genderinklusiver Sprache entzünden.
The Manual of Galician Linguistics provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the current situation of the Galician language and introduces its readers to the most important topics of current linguistic research on Galician.
Gramatica espanola: Variacion social presenta conceptos gramaticales claves de la lengua espanola a los alumnos intermedios y avanzados de una manera que enfatiza las conexiones entre lo social y lo linguistico.
Originally published in 1991, this book examines the process whereby a modern colloquial style of written Japanese was developed in the context of the overall modernization of Japan.
Grammar Toolkit Lesson Plans for Middle School: Mentor Text-Based Grammar Lessons for the Middle School English Classroom contains detailed grammar lesson plans for teachers in grades six, seven, and eight.
