Nicole Delbecque, Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Geeraerts
The significant advances witnessed over the last years in the broad field of linguistic variation testify to a growing convergence between sociolinguistic approaches and the somewhat older historical and comparative research traditions. Particularly within cognitive and functional linguistics, the evolution towards a maximally dynamic approach to language goes hand in hand with a renewed interest in corpus research and quantitative methods of analysis. Many researchers feel that only in this way one can do justice to the complex interaction of forces and factors involved in linguistic...
The significant advances witnessed over the last years in the broad field of linguistic variation testify to a growing convergence between sociolin...
The Germanic Languages provides a survey of 12 Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish. Spoken by more than 450 million native speakers worldwide, the Germanic languages have unrivalled cultural and social significance. This work provides a chapter-length description of each language focusing on the structure of the languages as they are spoken today, but also giving an analysis of language history and development. This book is fully comprehensive, presenting detailed research on both the major Germanic languages and rarely-covered minor languages such as...
The Germanic Languages provides a survey of 12 Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish. Spoken by more than 450 million nati...