Historical and comparative linguistics

Die Beiträge bieten neue Erkenntnisse über das bisher weitgehend unerforschte Wortbildungssystem des Mittelhochdeutschen.

Explores the similarities and differences of about forty South Asian languages from the four different language families.

The contents of the present volume will enhance our understanding of the diachrony of agreement systems and provide a useful starting point for future studies on this both fascinating and intricate field of research.

Explores theoretical and typological issues surrounding the emergence of creole languages, using a cohesive approach that combines linguistics, legal history and colonial studies.

It is customarily assumed that the Hebrew word BMH denotes a "e;high place,"e; first a topographical elevation and derivatively a cult place elevated either by location or construction.

An interdisciplinary examination of recent research into how children''s language develops over time.

Gordon Jensen's careful analysis of the 1534 Luther Bible uncovers the central truth of Martin Luther's prodigious translation efforts: Luther's commitment to producing this physical object was founded in his desire that receiving the Gospel might become a lived experience.

As the first volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book proposes the verbs-as-nouns theory, corroborated by discussions of the nature and relationship between nouns and verbs in Chinese.

Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't.

This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics.

With step-by-step instructions, this guide shows how to get the best from EDD Online, a freely available English dialect dictionary.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

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Humboldts Begegnung mit der Antike, vor allem mit der griechischen Sprache und Dichtung, ist das erste prägende geistige Erlebnis, das Humboldts Leben von der Tegeler Jugend an durchzieht.

Luther's Catechism will engage and equip you with the truths of God's holy Word: the Bible.

This book is about dynamical, social-interactional aspects of the emergence of complexity in language, explained by linguists, cognitivists, and modelers.

This book examines linguistic nationalism in India.

This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion.

Palmer explores the part that language played in shaping colonial ideology and English national identity.

The volume demonstrates the interdependence of man's language capacity and his other conceptual capacities.

This is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held August 9-13, 1999, at the University of British Columbia.

Few topics of scientific enquiry have attracted more attention in the last decade than the origin and evolution of language.

This study breaks new ground in describing how various linguistic and pragmatic mechanisms affect both the form of the narrative clause and the arrangement of the grammatical elements.

Grammaticalization and lexicalization have been two major issues in the study of diachronic change in the past few decades.

This completely rewritten second edition provides a thorough introduction to corpus research from the point of view of Applied Linguistics.

Parenthesis has recently seen a considerable surge in interest.

This is the first text book to offer a comprehensive approach to Old Frisian.

First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon.

Die Studie "e;Lutherische Identitat"e; ist ein Beitrag des Instituts fur Okumenische Forschung in Strasbourg zur weltweiten Selbstverstandigung der lutherischen Kirchen.

Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt.