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Phraseology includes the whole area of language phenomena called set phrases, proverbs and fixed expressions and formulaicity in everyday parlance. The Handbook offers a critical view of research on the linguistic properties and uses of formulaicity in various types of discourse as well as in numerous languages, considering research results from the cultural sciences, language psychology, computational linguistics, and corpus linguistics.

This volume is the first comprehensive handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology describing all the basic phonetic and phonological structures of modern Japanese with main focus on standard Tokyo Japanese. While reviewing important studies in the fields over the past century, it also presents a summary of interesting questions that remain unsolved in the literature. This book serves as a comprehensive guide to Japanese phonetics and phonology for all interested in linguistics and speech sciences including phonetic processing, speech perception and speech production.

This reference work provides an alphabetical listing of the opening lines of some 20,000 Byzantine poems - profane and religious, edited and unprinted, in the literary and the colloquial language - from the beginning of the 4^th to the 15^th century. Each opening line is accompanied by all the necessary information on the author, subject, place of issue and length of the poem

With nearly a quarter of the world's population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or general linguistic theory.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic research on the languages of South Asia, with contributions by well-known experts. Focus is both on what has been accomplished so far and on what remains unresolved or controversial and hence offers...

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Location problems, or space, have to be considered seriously by economic theorists, as space can mould competition between firms. The purpose of this collection of papers is to show that location theorists of different disciplinary origins have made significant advances in recent years.

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,...

Analyzing the process of change that occurs within and between regions, this two volume set includes important articles on the causes and consequences of regional change resulting from human activity. Special attention is given to economics and social behaviour.