Brush conversation in the sinographic cosmopolis: interactional cross-border communication using literary Sinitic in early modern East Asia For hundreds of years until the 1900s, in today’s China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Vietnam, literati of Classical Chinese or Literary … Weiterlesen
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics, a field encompassing the study of language use across linguacultures. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics is relevant for a variety of fields, such as pragmatics, applied linguistics, language learning and teaching, translation, … Weiterlesen
„Die Geschichte der Worte ist eine der Ermächtigung – denn sie kommen von Gott oder den Göttern. In allen Kulturen hat man so von jeher versucht, mit Zaubersprüchen, Flüchen oder Segen, die Welt und das Schicksal zu beeinflussen. Auf dem … Weiterlesen
Imaginary languages: myths, utopias, fantasies, illusions, and linguistic fictions An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics. In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello explores the history … Weiterlesen
Particles in German, English, and beyond Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic properties. After an introductory overview … Weiterlesen
The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics The Romance languages and dialects constitute a treasure trove of linguistic data of profound interest and significance. Data from the Romance languages have contributed extensively to our current empirical and theoretical understanding of phonetics, … Weiterlesen
Interactions of vowel quality and prosody in East Slavic This book develops an Optimality-theoretic model of the interaction of phonological tone with segmental sonority, arguing that tone can interact directly with vowel quality without mediating factors such as syllable structure … Weiterlesen
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
Jewish Languages: Text specimens, grammatical, lexical, and cultural sketchesThis volume on Jewish language varieties not only accords weight to linguistic and cultural analysis but also to extensive text specimens with both interlinear and idiomatic translation. A comprehensive comparative essay by … Weiterlesen
Digital codicology: medieval books and modern labor Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever—thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that widespread digitization has fundamentally transformed how we connect with the medieval … Weiterlesen
Das LEI, wie es kurz genannt wird, ist ein etymologisches Wörterbuch für die italienische Sprache. Die Online-Ausgabe basiert auf der seit 1979 von der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz und der Universität des Saarlandes herausgegebenen gedruckten Fassung. Ziel … Weiterlesen
In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: Die Entwicklung des Definitartikels im Althochdeutschen: Eine kognitiv-linguistische Korpusuntersuchung Johanna Flickhttps://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/230 & https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3932780 Wie in vielen anderen Sprachen der Welt hat sich auch im Deutschen der Definitartikel aus einem … Weiterlesen
„In Mesopotamien, im heutigen Irak, entstand vor rund 5.200 Jahren die erste Schrift. Die Keilschrift war kompliziert und dennoch sehr weit verbreitet. Lesen und Schreiben war der Oberschicht vorbehalten.“ (Bayern 2, Yvonne Maier) Sie können die Sendung aus dem Jahr … Weiterlesen
Broadening the spectrum of corpus linguistics: New approaches to variability and change This volume presents a snapshot of the current state of the art of research in English corpus linguistics. It contains selected papers from the 40th ICAME conference in … Weiterlesen
Speech etiquette in Slavic online communities This edited book focuses on speech etiquette, examining the rules that govern communication in various online communities: professional, female, and ethnospecific. The contributors analyze online communication in the Slavic languages Russian, Slovak, Polish, and … Weiterlesen