Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Historical & Comparative

This volume, first published in 1988, represents in its papers the wide-ranging yet coherent linguistic interests of the late Barbara Strang (1925-1982). For her, the history of English and its current state were two sides of the same coin, and the principle theme of this collection is that neither one may be properly understood without invoking the other. It is a real-data collection, in that its contributors share the view that the facts of language, patiently gathered, recorded and collated, must govern the theory within which they are described, and not vice versa. This philosophy may...

Zur Adjektivderivation im Deutschen gibt es zum einen diachrone Studien einzelner Suffixe, zum anderen synchrone Studien des Gesamtsystems. Auf der Basis eines funf Jahrhunderte umfassenden Korpus zeichnet diese Studie nun die langfristige Entwicklung der adjektivischen Suffixderivation nach. Gegliedert nach den Domanen der wichtigsten Suffixe (-lich, -ig, -isch) zeigt der empirische Teil erstmals die genauen Produktivitatsverlaufe auf und analysiert sie in ihrer gegenseitigen Bedingtheit. Dabei werden die Parameter herausgearbeitet, die im Konkurrenzgefuge den Aufstieg oder Fall der...

(Post)Koloniale Linguistik ist ein sich etablierendes Forschungsparadigma, das sich erstmalig der systematischen Erfassung, Ordnung und Deutung aller linguistisch relevanten Phanomene widmet, welche in Zusammenhang mit Kolonialismus stehen. Dabei wird besonderer Wert auf die multidisziplinare Perspektivierung des Gegenstandsbereichs gelegt, wie die Beitrage von Sprach- und GeschichtswissenschaftlerInnen in diesem Sammelband dokumentieren.

The Romanistische Arbeitshefte (Romance Studies Workbooks), edited by Georgia Veldre-Gerner and Volker Noll since 2004, have been constant and reliable companions for students of Romance Studies for over forty years. In their conception, they are designed as a reflection of the present state of research with an orientation towards application and the specific needs and difficulties of students. Thus they provide a reliable instrument for getting to grips with various areas of Romance linguistic studies and encourage students to utilise their newly-acquired knowledge with...

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.

This book deals with shared verb morphology in Japanese and other languages that have been identified as Transeurasian (traditionally: Altaic ) in previous research. It analyzes shared etymologies and reconstructed grammaticalizations with the goal to provide evidence for the genealogical relatedness of these languages.

Since 1987 when the first English explanatory dictionary fully based on corpus evidence was published, considerable changes related to the choice of lexicographic evidence have affected the field of lexicography. On this background (even though the volume of the lexicographic material is ample) the English-Latvian lexicographic tradition looks rather traditional and even somewhat stagnant. Thus, there is an urgent need for a detailed analytical inventory of English-Latvian dictionaries in order to facilitate new dictionary projects.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the...

Parenthesis has recently seen a considerable surge in interest. This volume presents the - often contrasting - theoretical positions on parenthetical verbs and examines them from different analytical perspectives. The initial theoretical section contains, among others, two contributions presenting diametrically opposed analyses of the syntax of parenthetical verbs. Although (synchronic) syntax pervades the volume, other analytical levels and approaches are also given weight: The second section provides insights into the historical and ontogenetic development of parenthetical verbs, while...