From pseudo-relatives to causative constructions Scandinavian languages as a case study This volume proposes a novel structural analysis for causative constructions, offering a solution for the long-standing mono/bi-clausal dualism. Causatives are claimed to instantiate a ‘complex object’ construction, insofar as … Weiterlesen
Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed? Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed? provides an in-depth examination of public discussions on lexical borrowing in the Japanese language. The main objective of this book is to explore the relationship between … Weiterlesen
The ditransitive alternation in present-day German. A corpus-based analysisThe ditransitive (or “dative”) alternation is a much-studied phenomenon in contemporary linguistics. This monograph is the first to address the alternation in present-day written German from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. … Weiterlesen
200 years of national philologies: from romanticism to globalization The 17 contributions in this volume pursue a positioning of the philologies, which – based on the ‚Volksgeist‘ (popular spirit) of the 19th century and the cultural studies of the 20th … Weiterlesen
English complex words: Exercises in construction and translation English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages. It offers today’s broadest available coverage of English prefixation, suffixation … Weiterlesen
Eine Geschichte Russlands Mitreißend, prägnant und menschlich berührend erzählt Orlando Figes die Geschichte Russlands. Dabei entfaltet er das große Panorama der russischen Seele: von unsterblichen Mythen über die großartigen kulturellen Leistungen bis zur Weltmachtpolitik des 20. Jahrhunderts und unserer Gegenwart. … Weiterlesen
The Spanish and the Portuguese present perfect in discourse This monograph presents a theoretical and empirical study of the Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect (PP). The innovative claim is that the two tense forms operate in the field of … Weiterlesen
New Englishes, New Methods There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions in this volume critically explore the … Weiterlesen
Agentivity in human impersonal constructions in Polish and Russian This book presents a synchronic study on the applicability and the acceptability of the passive and three impersonal constructions in Polish (-no/-to, reflexive, and 3pl) and Russian (3pl construction) that were … Weiterlesen
Constructions in Spanish Constructions in Spanish is the first book-length English-language volume in the field of usage-based and Cognitive Construction Grammar dedicated exclusively to Spanish. The contributions investigate a wide range of constructions from both a synchronic and a diachronic … Weiterlesen
The Chinese Typewriter: A History How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China’s information technology successes today. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through … Weiterlesen
Hidden and devalued feminized labour in the digital humanities: on the Index Thomisticus project 1965–67 Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities examines the data-driven labour that underpinned the Index Thomisticus–a preeminent project of the incunabular digital humanities–and … Weiterlesen
Interdisziplinarität, Kompetenzorientiertheit und Digitalisierung als aktuelle Tendenzen und Herausforderungen in der Germanistik Die universitäre fremdsprachenphilologische Ausbildung befindet sich in Mittelosteuropa seit Jahren im Umbruch. In den einzelnen Beiträgen des Bandes setzen sich die AutorInnen im Kontext dieses Prozesses mit folgenden … Weiterlesen
Statistical universals of language: mathematical chance vs. human choice This volume explores the universal mathematical properties underlying big language data and possible reasons why such properties exist, revealing how we may be unconsciously mathematical in our language use. These properties … Weiterlesen
Opera aperta: Italian electronic literature from the 1960s to the present In 1962, Umberto Eco published Opera aperta, setting the ground for a new wave of creative experimentation across the arts and media. The concept of «open work» – informed … Weiterlesen