This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosody from a phonological perspective, for advanced students and researchers in phonology.
An argument that what is usually dismissed as the “mystical shell” of Hegel''s thought—the concept of absolute knowledge—is actually its most “rational kernel.
This book offers a linguistic-semantic analysis of the expression 'Eastern Europe' in international English-language media discourse and academic discourse.
Die Beiträge des Bandes befassen sich aus synchroner und diachroner Perspektive mit Reanalyse-Prozessen, die unter dem Schlagwort sprachliche Remotivierung zusammengefasst werden können.
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.
Antonyms in Mind and Brain presents a multi-method empirical investigation of opposition with a particular focus on the processing of opposite pairs and their representation in the mental lexicon.
This volume looks at the process of enlargment which the European Union is currently undertaking, focusing on both the economic and political dimensions of the subject.
This book presents a case study on lexical error analysis in the translation products of Arab English majors at the university level with important implications for Arabic-speaking countries.
This book describes an approach to lexis and grammar based on the concept of phraseology and of language patterning arising from work on large corpora.
A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishismsfor good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from Americafrom French fries to Awesome, man!
