Historical and comparative linguistics

In dieser Festschrift werden anlässlich seines 50-jährigen Bestehens Geschichte, Themen und Herausforderungen des Kirchlichen Entwicklungsdienstes (KED) in den evangelischen Kirchen in Deutschland gewürdigt.

The Grand Tour provides a unique case study of population movement, language change and education in early modern Europe.

A defence of the parametric approach to linguistic variation, set within the framework of the Minimalist Program.

The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages.

Der zentrale Ausgangspunkt des vorliegenden Bandes ist die Frage, was einen realistischen von einem modernistischen Prosatext unterscheidet.

Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixteenth century, through migration to Poland and Prussia, and on to more than two centuries of settlement in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

Questions About Language sets out to answer, in a readable yet insightful format, a series of vital questions about language, some of which language specialists are regularly asked, and some of which are so surprising that only the specialists think about them.

First published in 1993, this book provides clear illustrations of discourse analytic work and empirical critiques of the traditional psychological approaches.

The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history.

Many students and members of the public who follow news reports on science and religion may think that Protestantism and science are in conflict.

This book is a necessary supplement to the theoretical exploration into semantic rhetoric, particularly a breakthrough in the study of the relationship between the source domain and target domain involved in the construction of semantic rhetorical discourse.

The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton argues that local speech became a central facet of English-language poetry in the second half of the twentieth century.

The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation.

1971 erschien der Roman Malina von Ingeborg Bachmann.

This book presents a critical comparison of the two leading theories of linguistic change.

A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the languages of ancient Sicily by an international team of experts.

Taking account of the significant developments in practice and thinking around the emerging church, this book will quickly establish itself as a key text for all interested in pioneer ministry, fresh expressions, church planting, church growth and ecclesiology.

Founded in 1421, the Collegiate Church of Manchester, which became a cathedral in 1847, is of outstanding historical and architectural importance.

Nach der deutschen Teilung war die gemeinsame Ausbildung von ost- und westdeutschen Diakonenschülern in Berlin unmöglich geworden.

This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.

A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles provides a detailed, comprehensive description of the morphology, grammar, and syntax of a selected number of English creoles, including those spoken on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific.

A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles provides a detailed, comprehensive description of the morphology, grammar, and syntax of a selected number of English creoles, including those spoken on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific.

This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology.

The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy.

This book provides an in-depth study of controlled languages used in technical documents from both a theoretical and practical perspective.

This book argues that Middle English - and hence Modern English - is a direct descendent of Anglo Norse, the language of Viking settlers who invaded and ruled the north and east of England (the so-called Danelaw) for about 200 years preceding the Norman conquest.

This book presents an in-depth fieldwork-based study of the Greek language spoken by immigrants in Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia.

This Handbook is an in-depth appraisal of the field of minority languages and communities today.

In the current context of globalization, relocation of cultures, and rampant technologizing of communication, orality has gained renewed interest across disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences.

Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings has become the gold standard for use in seminary and college environments.

In August of 1520, Martin Luther published the first of three incendiary works, Address to the German Nobility, in which he urged secular authorities to take a strong hand in "e;reforming"e; the Roman church.

These papers, deriving from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) in Pavia in 1984, provide an overview of the current status of research in this field.

This book examines the intersection of culture and language in Ireland and Irish contexts.

Appraisal is the way language users express their attitude towards things, people, behaviour or ideas.

As the first single-volume work to present a national picture of Baptist engagement with the fundamentalist movement in Canada in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism fills an important gap in the historiography.