The book explores the role of age in communication under consideration of various age groups, genres, cultures and languages, and demonstrates the growing potential of age-related research for linguistic and social analyses that is founded on a more comprehensive and systematic basis than has been practiced so far.
The historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire.
This book presents a selection of contributions to the workshop "e;Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages"e;, held at the 30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics in Bamberg (February 27-29, 2008), and additional papers, which have been especially commissioned for this volume.
Wissenschaftliche Texte der vormodernen"e; Welt konfrontieren die modernen Bearbeiter und Rezipienten mit besonderen Problemen: Eine Ubertragung in den zeitgenossischen Wissenschaftsjargon ebnet womoglich die Fremdheit der Konzepte ungebuhrlich ein, wahrend eine die Perspektive der Texte selbst betonende Wiedergabe Gefahr lauft, fachfremde Interessenten an inadaquate, oft veraltete, wenn auch leichter lesbare Ubersetzungen zu verweisen.
The papers in this book describe and analyze rara in individual languages, covering an extraordinarily broad geographic distribution, including papers about languages from all over the globe.
The volume explores the ways in which language change is studied within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory of language production and perception.
Dialekträume werden wahrnehmungsdialektologisch als kognitive Räume gesehen, die sich durch linguistische, geographische und sozio-kulturelle Konzeptualisierungen konstituieren.
Universals of language have been studied extensively for the last four decades, allowing fundamental insight into the principles and general properties of human language.
The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world.
The book is concerned with the interaction of syntax, information structure and prosody in the history of English, demonstrating this with a case study of object topicalization.
The questions as to why most languages appear to have more trouble borrowing verbs than nouns, and as to the possible mechanisms and paths by which verbs can be borrowed or the obstacles for verb borrowing, have been a topic of interest since the late 19th century.
This groundbreaking book highlights a phonological preference, the Principle of Rhythmic Alternation, as a factor in grammatical variation and change in English from the early modern period to the present.
Historical linguistic theory and practice contains a great number of different 'layers' which have been accepted in the course of time and have acquired a permanency of their own.
The Handbook of Historical Pragmatics provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in pragmatics devoted to a diachronic study of language use and human interaction in context.
In South Korea, English is a language of utmost importance, sought with an unprecedented zeal as an indispensable commodity in education, business, popular culture, and national policy.
