The interrelationship between three major quantity changes in the history of the Germanic languages: gemination, lenition, and open syllable lengthening.
Explores two important phenomena in natural language - recursion and embedding - integrating current linguistic theory, cross-linguistic fieldwork, and specific acquisition and experimental techniques.
Discusses a special case of syntax-morphology mismatch that puzzles current traditional morphological theories – the case of relational adjectives across languages.
This book takes the reader on a journey through the structure of everyday spoken English, providing a fresh look at the relation between language and the mind.
The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
This book argues that ideophones provide the ''missing link'' in our knowledge of how communication has evolved to become the spoken language of today.
Analysis of bilinguals'' use of two languages reveals highly adept code-switching: alternating between languages while keeping intact the separate grammars.
Illustrates the latest trends in politeness research from a multilingual and multicultural perspective, through the application of diverse methodologies.
This book provides pre-service Caribbean teachers and educators with contextually tested, robust strategies and ways of thinking about writing instruction which will improve their students' writing proficiency.
This resource helps teachers prepare ESL students for the demands of academic writing that they will encounter in tertiary institutions when they undertake study in English.
Dieses Buch beschreibt die modernen multidimensionalen-quantitativen Verfahren in der Stimmdiagnostik, auf der Basis wissenschaftlicher Evidenz und schlägt einen evidenzbasierten Minimalstandard in der Stimmdiagnostik vor.
This book promotes a novel and nuanced understanding of how the practices of comparative literature have engaged with the politics of nation-building in postcolonial Southeast Asia.
This book promotes a novel and nuanced understanding of how the practices of comparative literature have engaged with the politics of nation-building in postcolonial Southeast Asia.
Die internationale Nachwuchstagung Deutsch als Fremdsprache, die im Januar 2024 an der Technischen Universität Berlin stattfand, bot jungen Forschenden eine Plattform zur Präsentation ihrer Arbeiten sowie zur Vernetzung.
