The current volume is a collection of papers representing the most recent developments in linguistics, specifically in the fields of language, discourse and translation studies.
With the approach of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s inauguration of the Protestant Reformation and the burgeoning dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans opened under Pope Francis, this new edition of Walter Altmann’s Luther and Liberation is timely and relevant.
In a time when Charles Wesley's hymns, and even his name, are slowly fading from the purview of many Christians, this book is intended to recover the precious heritage of our past, and to bring to the reader's attention a sample of the massive body of Christian verse which that genius composed throughout his life.
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.
The earliest use of the term "e;grammaticalization"e; was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in "e;he keeps bees"e;) become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in "e;he keeps looking at me"e;).
An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ancient sense of time as a correspondence between earthly change and eternal order.
Rick Joyner brilliantly relays a panoramic vision of the ultimate battle between the forces of good and evil, taking place just beyond the veil of this world.
i "e;Jakobson and Halle's initial statement of the principles of linguistic organization should be made available to all future generations of linguists.
The future has exercised students of Modern Greek language developments for many years, and no satisfactory set of arguments for the development of the modern form from the ancient usages has ever been produced.
This accessible and engaging textbook offers a practical approach to understanding the complexity of language by exploring language use and language learning in a wide variety of contexts.
This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe: why do we find large language families distributed over a wide area in some regions, while elsewhere we find clusters of very small families or language isolates?
This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of work of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk on the study of sound structure and speech.
La excepción (anomalía o irregularidad frente a analogía o regla) en la gramática (y, específicamente, en la española) se constituye como un aspecto esencial y constitutivo de cualquier sistema lingüístico sometido a norma y codificación.
«Wie Sternschnuppen fallen fromme Sätze von einem Himmel, der demnach nicht leer sein kann, aber doch leer sein soll – wenn man Bonhoeffer beim Wort nimmt.
Obwohl die Bedeutung von Benennungspraktiken bei der Aneignung kolonialer Räume unumstritten ist, liegen sprach- oder literaturwissenschaftliche Detailanalysen dieser Prozesse bisher nur verstreut vor.
This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society.
Der Bedeutung der reformatorischen Theologie für die GegenwartDie Reformation ist mehr als Luther, aber ohne Martin Luther hätte es keine Reformation gegeben.
Will der Protestantismus in einer zunehmend säkularen Gesellschaft anschlussfähig bleiben, so tut er gut daran, sich auf seine liberalen Traditionen zu besinnen und die darin enthaltenen theologischen Einsichten, wissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen und methodischen Ansätze für unsere Zeit fruchtbar zu machen.
