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Neverver is an Oceanic language spoken by just over 500 people on the high island of Malekula in Vanuatu. Drawing on an extensive corpus of field recordings collected between 2004 and 2008, the analysis reveals a very interesting phonological system with six prenasalized segments, rich systems of possession, tense/aspect/mood marking, valence change, and verb serialization. The grammaris of interest to specialists in Oceanic and Austronesian linguistics, as well as to general linguists, especially those interested in linguistic typology.

After Sovereignty addresses the vexed question of sovereignty in contemporary social, political, and legal theory. The emergence, and now apparent implosion, of international capital exceeding the borders of known political entities, the continued expansion of a potentially endless 'War on Terror', the often predicted, but still uncertain, establishment of either a new international American Empire or a new era of International Law, the proliferation of social and political struggles among stateless refugees, migrant workers, and partial citizens, the resurgence of religion as a...

Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on secrecy, four chapters each look at a separate problematic: society and the oath, literature and testimony, philosophy and deception, and time and death.

Barbour shows that secrecy is not a negation of our relations with others, but a necessary condition of those...

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Die Autoren stellen die soziolinguistische Problematik der Gegenwartssprache in ihrer vollen Komplexitat anschaulich dar. Daruber hinaus nehmen sie die Forschungsansatze kritisch unter die Lupe. Themenschwerpunkte sind die historischen Grundlagen der Entwicklung einer deutschen Standardsprache, die regionale und soziale Verteilung der verschiedenen Sprachformen im gegenwartigen Deutsch, die Herausbildung eines sprachlichen Kontinuums zwischen Dialekt und Standardsprache, Mehrsprachigkeit in Deutschland und der Schweiz und Sprachkontakt. Barbour und Stevenson fassen die wichtigsten...