This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951-1996) brings together contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three primary areas: Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development; Attitudes and Education, and Creole Discourse and Literature.
This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics.
This book challenges the dominant tendency in world Englishes scholarship to rely on the 'nation' as a static spatial entity and reliable analytic category.
Beginning with the anthropological linguistic tradition associated primarily with the names of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and their students and concluding with the work of Noam Chomsky and William Labov at the end of the century.
The broad arc of islands north of Australia that extends from Indonesia east towards the central Pacific is home to a set of human populations whose concentration of diversity is unequaled elsewhere.
This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities.
This textbook provides a clear and concise overview of the main schools of linguistic thought and scholarship from the late 18th century to the present day, examining the key tenets and leading figures of each approach and assessing their impact on the field.
The linker introduces ("e;links"e;) a variety of expressions into the verb phrase, including locatives, the second object of a double object construction, the second object of a causative, instruments, subject matter arguments, and adverbs.
Die Buchreihe ‚Patronymica Romanica’ ist das Publikationsorgan des Forschungsprojekts ‚Dictionnaire historique de l’anthroponymie romane’, als dessen Ergebnis sukzessive das gleichnamige Wörterbuch in 6 Bänden erscheint.
Dieser letzte Textband von Notkers Schriften enthält nicht nur die herkömmlichen Titel: "De partibus logicae" (Nl), "De syllogismis" (Ns), "De definitione" (Ndef), "De arte rhetoricae" (Nr), "Computus" (Ncom), "De musica" (Nm) und Notkers Brief an Bischof Hugo von Sitten, sondern auch drei weitere, lateinisch geschriebene Texte, die jetzt offiziell dem notkerschen Kanon hinzugefügt werden: den sog.
In this book, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonization, westernization and modernization.
This book provides a detailed linguistic analysis of the nationalist discourses of the German Second Reich, which most effectively demonstrate the contrasting images of the German Self and its various Others, such as Jews, native Africans, gypsies and the enemy Other during the First World War.
Research in Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics has experienced a significant increase in contributions from varying fields of language studies, gaining the attention of scholars from all over the world.
Linguistik-Professor Simon Meier-Vieracker vermittelt uns die faszinierende Vielfalt der deutschen SpracheWir sprechen, also sind wirIn verschiedenen Gegenden Deutschlands wird unterschiedlich gesprochen.
Es war kein Zufall, daß das achte Fachkolloquium der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft (1981) in Freiburg im Breisgau stattfand, – es war, wie dieser Band, dem Kollegen, Freund und Lehrer Oswald Szemerényi gewidmet, der das letzte Jahr seiner Amtszeit als Hochschullehrer angetreten hatte.
As the most widely documented language in human history, English holds a unique key to unlocking some of the mysteries of the uniquely human endowment of language.
The Great Patriotic War (GPW) of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known in the West as the Eastern Front of WWII, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world.
