The book deals in detail with previously understudied language contact settings in the Balkans (South East Europe) that present a continuum between ethnic and linguistic separation and symbiosis among groups of people.
Methods and Skills for Philosophy introduces students to methodologies, strategies, heuristics and formal tools which are typically employed in contemporary analytic philosophy.
Recommended and award-winning works of young adult literature featuring youth athletesprotagonists who are entangled not only in athletic competition but in the complications of life beyond the arenaoffer secure footholds that students can use to explore contemporary sociopolitical issues.
The study of language contact in the new"e; English varieties is frequently influenced by sociolinguistic approaches and reference to substrate languages but much less often to functionally-based contact linguistic theory.
This book tells the story of the language of the Bounty mutineers and their Polynesian consorts that developed on remote Pitcairn Island in the late 18th century.
Das Standardwerk zur deutschen Sprachgeschichte präsentiert sich in umfassend aktualisierter und überarbeiteter Auflage, unter anderem mit einem neuen Kapitel zur Sprachgeschichte im digitalen Zeitalter und thematischen Ergänzungen.
This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages.
This book presents the first systematic quantitative study of null subjects not only in British English, but also in the contact varieties Indian, Hong Kong and Singapore English.
Dieses studienbegleitende Handbuch legt einen umfassenden Begriff von Sprache zugrunde und bietet eine systematische, verbindende Einführung in die Betrachtung der drei großen sprachlichen Ebenen: Sprache im Allgemeinen, Einzelsprache und Diskurs.
Dieses studienbegleitende Handbuch legt einen umfassenden Begriff von Sprache zugrunde und bietet eine systematische, verbindende Einführung in die Betrachtung der drei großen sprachlichen Ebenen: Sprache im Allgemeinen, Einzelsprache und Diskurs.
This book presents the first systematic quantitative study of null subjects not only in British English, but also in the contact varieties Indian, Hong Kong and Singapore English.
Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture demonstrates the potential of corpus linguistic methods for investigating language patterns across a range of contexts.
This book explores language ideologies in China, which encounters the unprecedented global spread of English as a lingua franca, against the backdrop of globalisation where China emerges as a rapidly developing economy with vigorous promotion of Chinese around the world.
This book tells the story of the language of the Bounty mutineers and their Polynesian consorts that developed on remote Pitcairn Island in the late 18th century.
This volume explores the emergent process of developing translanguaging repertoires among teacher educators, pre- and in-service teachers in different U.
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.
English in Kenya is a stable post-colonial variety that is used as an inter-ethnic lingua franca in private domains, is the medium of instruction as well as the language spoken in parliament and court rooms.
Italian Words: A Practical Introduction to the Italian Lexical System offers a detailed description of the Italian lexicon, explaining the organization of Italian words in a system and the function of this system.
This volume will be the first full-length exploration in any language of the details of the history of the Japanese language written by experts in the different subfields of linguistics.
This book explores language ideologies in China, which encounters the unprecedented global spread of English as a lingua franca, against the backdrop of globalisation where China emerges as a rapidly developing economy with vigorous promotion of Chinese around the world.