This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.

For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints,...

Volume 2 treats, in great detail and, at times quite innovatively, the individual stages of development of the study of language as an autonomous discipline, from the growing awareness in 17th and 18th century Europe of genetic relationships among a host of languages to the establishment of comparative-historical Indo-European linguistics in the 19th century, from the generation of the Schlegels, Bopp, Rask, and Grimm to the Neogrammarians and the application of the comparative method to non-Indo-European languages from all over the globe. Typological linguistic interests, first...

Die Romanistik verfugt im Bereich der Historischen Sprachwissenschaft uber die privilegierte Situation, da sie - unter der Einbeziehung der Vorgangersprache Latein - auf eine fast dreitausendjahrige Dokumentation zuruckgreifen kann. Eine solche Quellenlage gestattet es, fast jeder sprachhistorischen Fragestellung nachzugehen und unter weitgehendem Verzicht auf Spekulationen Methoden zu entwickeln und Thesen zu uberprufen. Diese Sondersituation nutzend setzt sich die Romanische Sprachgeschichte zum Ziel, einerseits die Systemhaftigkeit von Sprechen und Schreiben in der Romania...

This book deals with systems of verb classification in Australian Aboriginal languages, with particular focus on languages of the north-west. It proposes a typology of the systems according to their main formal and semantic characteristics. It also makes some proposals concerning the historical origins and grammaticisation of these systems, and suggestions regarding the grammatical relations involved. In addition, an attempt is made to situate the phenomenon of verb classification within the context of related verbal phenomena such as serial verb constructions, nominal incorporation, and...

Globalization has many faces. One of them is the transformation of language regimes caused by the spread of English. This book provides an in-depth account of how two highly developed all-purpose national languages, Japanese and German, are affected by this process. In the international arena, they no longer compete with English, but their status as foreign languages in third countries as well as in their home countries is in flux. Original empirical and theoretical contributions are presented in this up-to-date study of language regime change.

Die naturwissenschaftlichen Schriften Georg Buchners (1813-1837), seine zwischen Oktober 1835 und Marz 1836 entstandene, nach umfangreichen Um- und Uberarbeitungen im Juli 1836 gedruckte Dissertation Memoire sur le systeme nerveux du barbeau und die im November desselben Jahres gehaltene Zuricher Probevorlesung Uber Schadelnerven, offerieren eine genuin romantischen Traditionslinien verhaftete Konzeption des Organischen. Buchner propagiert in deutlicher Abgrenzung zu der (neo)physikotheologischen Naturbetrachtung englischer Provenienz und der ausschlielich empirisch-deskriptiven...

Das deutsche "Barocklied" unterscheidet sich vom "Volkslied" durch den unverzichtbaren Generalba und durch die speziellen Anspruche von Text- und Melodieverfassern, die den ungeregelten Gebrauch ihrer Arbeiten verabscheuten. Auerdem verlief das neue weltliche und geistliche Lied keineswegs immer einstimmig. Das ad libitum-Verfahren erlaubte wechselnde Satzdichten. Die "Canzonette" steht als Strophenmadrigal gewissermaen "rechts" am Rande des Liedbereichs, der "Thon" oder die anonyme Modellweise "links." Dazwischen erstreckte sich eine Fulle von Formen und Stilen. Der derbe...

This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source texts dealing with German-Jewish literary and cultural history, in particular from the period covering the 18th to 20th centuries.

The closer definition of the term German-Jewish applied to literature and culture is an integral part of its historical development. Primarily, the decisive factor is that from the middle of the 18th century German gradually became the language of choice for Jews,...

Methods in current instructed second language acquisition research range from laboratory experiments to ethnography using non-obtrusive participant observation, from cross-sectional designs to longitudinal case studies. Many different types of data serve as the basis for analysis, including reaction times measurements, global test scores, paper and pencil measures, introspective comments, grammaticality judgements, as well as textual data (elicited or naturalistic, oral or written, relating to comprehension or production). Some studies rely on extensive quantification of data, while others...