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""The unsurpassed heuristic work of medieval German studies - indispensable for all medieval disciplines including even the history of medicine. The work not only extensively documents the current state of research within the defined framework, the changes in the articles between Vol. 1 and Vol. 11 reveal how research and presentation methods have become more precise. That is why this lexicon also has high historical value for the discipline, which would be worth investigating - and this will surely occur one day."
Prof. Dr. Johannes Janota

"This basic, comprehensive reference...

The maps and commentary of this third volume portray detailed variation in those features of Yiddish language and culture for which data are available from the entire historical Yiddish language area, in both the eastern and the western dialect regions; 180 maps reflect regional variation in numerous linguistic features, and in ethnographic features pertaining to life cycle, calendric cycle, traditional Jewish cuisine, and other thematic aspects.

It will be of great value to food scientists, medical researchers, analytical and synthetic organic chemists, chefs, and all those involved with, and interested in, food and food flavours in general.

Die Theaterperiodika bieten hervorragendes Quellenmaterial zur Kulturgeschichte des 18. Jahrhunderts sowie fur die Sozial- und Mentalitatsgeschichte der beginnenden burgerlichen Gesellschaft. Das in drei Verzeichniszeitraume unterteilte Werk stellt die in seiner Art erstmalige bibliographische und inhaltliche Erfassung der deutschsprachigen Theaterperiodika des 18. Jahrhunderts dar. Berucksichtigt werden Theaterzeitschriften, -kalender und -taschenbucher; daruber hinaus Periodika, deren theaterbezogener Textteil mehr als die Halfte betragt. Inhaltlich wird sowohl nach Arten von Periodika...

The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (WAVE) presents grammatical variation in spontaneous spoken English, mapping 235 features in 48 varieties of English (traditional dialects, high-contact mother tongue Englishes, and indiginized second-language Englishes) and 26 English-based Pidgins and Creoles in eight Anglophone world regions (Africa, Asia, Australia, British Isles, the Caribbean, North America, the Pacific, and the South Atlantic). The analyses of the 74 varieties are based on descriptive materials, naturalistic corpus data, and native speaker knowledge.