Presenting new approaches and results previously inaccessible in English, the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics provides an insight into the language and society of contemporary Japan from a fresh perspective.
In John McWhorter's Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense.
Vom (Wort-)Witz der WienerArik Brauer is a echts Weana Kind – aufgewachsen in Ottakring, hat er den Wiener Dialekt von klein auf mitbekommen und gelernt zu reden, wia eam da Schnåbe gwåksn is.
Twenty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are still undergoing numerous transitions.
This monograph aims to close the gap in our knowledge of the nature and pace of grammatical change during the formative period of today’s Indo-Aryan languages.
This collection of glosses, which stems from materials originally uncovered by the eminent Latin paleographer, Bernhard Bischoff, may well be the last major addition to the corpus of Old High German glosses.
Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves the way for future research in this rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field.
Dieses Standardwerk der deutschen Sprachgeschichte stellt die wichtigsten historischen Umbrüche der deutschen Sprache bis in die heutige Zeit dar und leistet deren Begründung, theoretische Fundierung und typologische Einordnung.
