This is the first volume concerned with the phonological typology of syllable and word languages, based on the model of a complex, multi-layered and hierarchically structured phonological system. The main typological claim is that the phonetic and phonological make-up of a language depends on the relevance of the prosodic categories. In previous research, the syllable and the phonological word have already proved to be typologically important. The contributions in this volume discuss theoretical questions and address issues such as the variable structure of the phonological word, the...
This is the first volume concerned with the phonological typology of syllable and word languages, based on the model of a complex, multi-layered an...
The study of code-switching has been carried out from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives, largely in isolation from each other. This volume attempts to unite these three research strands by placing at the centre of the enquiry the role played by social factors in the occurrence, forms, and outcomes of code-switching. The contributions in this volume are divided into three parts: "code-switching between cognition and socio-pragmatics," "multilingual interaction and identity," and "code-switching and social structure." The case studies represent contact...
The study of code-switching has been carried out from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives, largely in isolation from eac...
Around 1800 European authors became manifestly interested in distant and different cultures, an interest that extended to fictional literature and aesthetics. This volume examines the poetic and aesthetic innovation that emerged from involvement with ethnological and anthropological phenomena, and the extent to which literature and aesthetics, in turn, contributed to the contemporary study of mankind.
Around 1800 European authors became manifestly interested in distant and different cultures, an interest that extended to fictional literature and ...
The interpretation of texts continues to be among the principal activities of literary scholarship. This volume compiles essays from different disciplines that reflect on the interpretation of literary texts from their different theoretical orientations, methodologies, and practices, thereby sounding out how academic research can inform literary criticism.
The interpretation of texts continues to be among the principal activities of literary scholarship. This volume compiles essays from different disc...
The distinction between author and narrator is one of the cornerstones of narrative theory. In the past two decades, however, scope, implications and consequences of this distinction have become the subjects of debate. This volume offers contributions to these debates from different vantage points: literary studies, linguistics, philosophy, and media studies. It thus manifests the status of narrative theory as a transdisciplinary project.
The distinction between author and narrator is one of the cornerstones of narrative theory. In the past two decades, however, scope, implications a...
An Texten zu Diktatur- und Lagererfahrungen aus der europaischen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts untersucht der Band die Frage nach der Transformation von Terror, Gewalt und Schmerz in Literatur: Mit welchen erzahlerischen Mitteln kommunizieren die Texte Grenzerfahrungen am Rande des Sagbaren, wie stellt sich das Spannungsverhaltnis von Faktualitat und Fiktion in ihnen dar, welches Zukunftspotential konnte dieser Erinnerungsliteratur innewohnen?
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An Texten zu Diktatur- und Lagererfahrungen aus der europaischen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts untersucht der Band die Frage nach der Transformat...
Frequency has been identified as one of the most influential factors in language processing, and plays a major role in usage-based models of language learning and language change. The research presented in this volume challenges established models of linguistic representation. Instead of learning and processing language compositionally, larger units and co-occurence relations are at work. The main point taken by the authors is that by studying the effect of distributional patterns and changes in such patterns we can establish a unified framework that explains the dynamics of language systems...
Frequency has been identified as one of the most influential factors in language processing, and plays a major role in usage-based models of language ...
This book, situated within the framework of Comparative Interactional Linguistics, explores a family of fourteen discourse markers across the languages of Europe and beyond (Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, Polish, Romani, Estonian, Finnish, Upper Saxonian and Standard German, Dutch, Icelandic, and Swedish), arguing that they go back to one, possibly two, particles: NU/NA.
Each chapter analyzes the use of one of the NU/NA family members in a particular language, usually on the basis of conversational data, feeding into a comprehensive chapter on the structure, function, and history of...
This book, situated within the framework of Comparative Interactional Linguistics, explores a family of fourteen discourse markers across the langu...
Wie entstehen Bedeutungen im Recht und wie lassen sie sich im Zeitalter der Mediatisierung rechtsstaatlich angemessen analysieren? Diese Frage untersuchen Sprach-, Medien-, Rechts- und IT-WissenschaftlerInnen mit Blick auf Rechtsprechung, Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft. Der Band diskutiert qualitative und computergestutzte Zugange zur Rechtssemantik und versteht sich als reflektierter Beitrag zu juristischer Methodik und Rechtstheorie.
Wie entstehen Bedeutungen im Recht und wie lassen sie sich im Zeitalter der Mediatisierung rechtsstaatlich angemessen analysieren? Diese Frage unte...
Where is the locus of language variation? In the grammar, outside the grammar or somewhere in between? Taking up the debate between system- and usage-based approaches, this volume provides new discussions of fundamental issues of language variation. It includes several highly insightful theoretical contributions as well as innovative empirical studies considering different types of data, the role of priming in language change and rare phenomena.
Where is the locus of language variation? In the grammar, outside the grammar or somewhere in between? Taking up the debate between system- and usa...
