This is the first book on the acquisition of the German case system by foreign language learners. It explores how learners in their interlanguage progress from the total absence to the presence of a case system. This development is characterized by an evolvement from marking the…
Nominalisierte Infinitive werden in der einschlägigen Literatur gerne als bona-fide-Ereignisnomina herangezogen. Das Ableitungsmuster gilt als uneingeschränkt produktiv und auch die Vererbung und Realisierung der Argumente des Basisverbs unterliegt scheinbar keinen Beschränkunge…
This volume contains revised and, in some cases, extended versions of twelve of the fourteen lectures read at the conference on "Early Germanic Languages in Contact" held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense on 22-23 August 2013 - with a paper and a review article add…
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) is the most eminent literary figure of the German Enlightenment and a writer of European significance. His range of interest as dramatist, poet, critic, philosopher, theologian, philologist and much else besides was comparable to that of Volt…
Extraction has traditionally been one of the main topics in generative grammar, and it retains this status in current variants of the theory. German provides a good testing ground for traditional as well as current theories of extraction. The nine contributions to this volume do…
The contributions in Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America advance the ever-expanding research program in formal and theoretical treatments of heritage language grammars through in-depth empirical investigations. The core focus on moribund varieties of heritage G…
Accompanying CD-ROM contains maps.
The "Dictionary of Yiddish Loan-Words in German Dialects" documents contact between the German and Yiddish languages, with special reference to German dialects. The material was taken from German dialect dictionaries, compiled systematically and revised lexicographically and ety…
Das »Wörterbuch zum jiddischen Lehnwortschatz in den deutschen Dialekten« behandelt den jahrhundertelang andauernden Sprachenkontakt zwischen dem Westjiddischen und dem Deutschen, der sich besonders stark in der gesprochenen Sprache niedergeschlagen hat und jetzt der Vergangenhe…
Main description: The>>Dictionary of Yiddish Loan-Words in German Dialects<<documents contact between the German and Yiddish languages, with special reference to German dialects. The material was taken from German dialect dictionaries, compiled systematically and revised lexicog…
"In Preserving German Texan Identity, historians Walter L. Buenger and Walter D. Kamphoefner present a revised and annotated translation of those memoirs as a revealing window into the lives of German Texans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."--Provided by pub…
"Speed Up Your German is a unique and innovative resource that identifies and explains the errors most commonly made by learners of German, enabling students to learn from their mistakes while enhancing their understanding of the German language. Each of the eighteen chapters fo…
With this fun visual guide, just follow the illustrated prompts and read the English words out loud. Soon you & rsquo;ll be speaking simple German words and phrases well enough to be understood by most native speakers. Try asking someone their name: Vee Highs An Zee? Or tell the…
