Currently, one of the methodological debates in linguistics focuses on the question of what kinds of data are allowed in different linguistic theories and what subtypes of data can work as evidence for or against particular hypotheses. The first part of the volume puts forward a…
This chapter provides a survey about the most frequent methods of inconsistency resolution in Optimality Theory. With the help of the p-model, inconsistencies in OT are divided into two main groups. The first group includes conflicts that are deemed to be fatal and are solved us…
This text presents a comprehensive, accessible introduction to discourse analysis. It examines different approaches to discourse, looking at discourse and society, discourse and pragmatics, discourse and conversation, discourse and genre, discourse grammar, corpus-based approach…
This text presents a comprehensive, accessible introduction to discourse analysis. It examines different approaches to discourse, looking at discourse and society, discourse and pragmatics, discourse and conversation, discourse and genre, discourse grammar, corpus-based approach…
This book focuses on binomials (word pairs such as heart and soul, rich and poor, or if and when), and in particular on the degree of reversibility that English binomials demonstrate. Detailed and innovative corpus linguistic analyses investigate the correlates of the degree of …
This book is a contribution to the study of translation as a contact variety, and - more generally - to language comparison and language contact with a focus on English and German. Methodologically, the contributors implement an empirical research strategy with further applicati…