El volumen incluye contribuciones sobre los aspectos ideológicos de la traducción: las políticas de traducción, edición y cultura; las reescrituras y lecturas de textos antiguos; la traducción de documentos oficiales; el proceso y las estrategias de traducción y la recepción de …
Let's Learn Maori comprises a textbook and self-help guide to the study of the Maori language. It is also a complete grammar reference, covering parts of speech, the structure of each type of phrase and the combinations of phrases that form simple sentences. Each aspect of the g…
K. Ackermann proposes a new systematic account of the paradigmatic organization of the Proto-Slavic finite verb revealing development parallels with other Indo-European languages. Designed as a reference book, the volume comprises a nearly complete attestation of OCS aorists and…
Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced is a vibrant and modern course designed to help students achieve advanced proficiency in Russian. Offering a flexible modular approach structured around contemporary themes, the course further develops reading, listening, speaking, and writ…
This book provides original fieldwork data, uniquely generating all Malagasy deverbal nominals from a single structure-building mechanism, allowing variable syntactic attachment heights for different nominalizers and tracing the derivation of participant nominals to a relative c…
A comprehensive synchronic and diachronic overview of the syntax of old Romanian, targeted at a non-Romanian readership. It draws on an extensive new corpus analysis of the period between the beginning of the 16th century and the end of the 18th century.
"The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity provides an introduction and survey of the wide range of perspectives on the relationship between language and creativity. Divided into four sections, this handbook covers the dimensions of language and creativity, literary crea…
Based on recent research in formal linguistics, this volume provides a thorough description of the whole system of Romanian Noun Phrases, understood in an extended sense, that is, in addition to nouns, pronouns and determiners, it examines all the adnominal phrases: genitive-mar…
This study presents a unified, economic account of the intricate relationship between form, meaning and interpretation in the Norwegian nominal system - without reference to polysemy. It covers all kinds of nominal signs, i.e. nouns, adjectives, pronouns and determiners, as well…
"Persian: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to the grammar system for intermediate to advanced learners of Persian. It presents an accessible and systematic description of the language, focusing on real patterns of use in contemporary Persian. The book is org…
The historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary texts, this …
"This volume presents a cross-section of research addressing the interaction of two prominent areas in linguistic theory: parenthesis and ellipsis. The contributions address various theoretical questions raised by 'incomplete' parenthetical constituents, covering a diverse empir…
The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With …
Over the last decades, it has been hotly debated whether and how compounds, i.e. word-formations, and phrases differ from each other. The book discusses this issue by investigating compounds and phrases from a structural, semantic-functional and, crucially, cognitive perspective…
by Mayrhofer, Manfred, Meier-Brügger, Michael, Fritz, Matthias
This Textbook on Indo-European Linguistics is designed as an introduction to the field. It presents current topics and questions in Indo-European linguistics in a clear and informative manner. This is the English translation of the eight edition of the work first published by Ha…
The book is a study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs with the prefix "be-" in prose texts. "Before, beyond, behind, beneath, between" and "betwixt" are analysed for the semantics, textual and dialectal distribution and frequency, synchronic and diachronic. The study dr…
Old Irish is the language of Ireland in the period from the 8th to the 10th century AD, and is the oldest Celtic language well enough attested for adequate grammatical study. The book provides the only available detailed linguistic analysis of the syntactic structure of the Old …
