This book is concerned with the notions of “pidginization” and “creolization” and the role of these processes of language learning in the history of the Arabic language.
This unique collection of essays, edited by and for students of linguistics, offers insights into the personal and professional journeys of some of the key thinkers in language studies.
This second volume on the Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman (DÉRom) contains forty new lexicographical articles as well as an extensive theoretical section which discusses various questions pertaining to the methods, problems and implications of comparative reconstruction in Romance linguistics (phonology, semantics, grammar, geolinguistics and cartography).
This monograph takes up recent advances in social network methods in sociology, together with data on economic segregation, in order to build a quantitative analysis of the class and network effects implicated in vowel change in a Southern American city.
An essential biography of the most important book of the Protestant ReformationJohn Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion is a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology.
Over the last few decades, the widespread diffusion of digital technology has increased availability of primary textual sources, radically changing the everyday life of scholars in the humanities, who are now able to access, query and process a wealth of empirical evidence in ways not possible before.
Heidegger characterizes the relationship between language and Being as "e;language is the house of Being"e;, negating the idea that language is merely a tool ready to be used at hand.
This book is the second volume of a two-volume set that synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect of Northern Shaanxi Province in China, with a focus on six grammatical features of the dialect.
Dialekträume werden wahrnehmungsdialektologisch als kognitive Räume gesehen, die sich durch linguistische, geographische und sozio-kulturelle Konzeptualisierungen konstituieren.
This volume contains selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-27), which was held at the University of California, Irvine, on February 20-22, 1997.
When, in October 1517, Martin Luther pinned his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg he shattered the foundations of western Christendom.
A journey through the fault lines of contemporary religious warsUS-born Protestant evangelicalism has gone global to an extent of which many of us might be unaware.
Die von Bourdieus Grundlagenwerk Die Regeln der Kunst ausgelöste Debatte um Nutzen und Nachteil der Literatursoziologie hat sich hierzulande meist auf abstrakter Ebene abgespielt.
The study takes 17 phonetic and 9 morphological variables as the basis for determining the degree of dialectality displayed by 84 informants from the Italian capital.
As a complement to Pharies’s 2002 Diccionario etimológico de los sufijos españoles (Madrid: Gredos), this book completes the urgent task of providing historical and etymological information for the affixes of the Spanish language.