Das vorliegende Namenbuch erfasst erstmals die Luxemburger Familiennnamen und beschreibt ausführlich 2.500 Namen hinsichtlich Namentyp, Etymologie, sprachhistorischer Entwicklung und geographischer Verbreitung, auch innerhalb der Grenzregionen mit Deutschland, Frankreich, Belgie…
Das vorliegende Namenbuch erfasst erstmals die Luxemburger Familiennnamen und beschreibt ausführlich 2.500 Namen hinsichtlich Namentyp, Etymologie, sprachhistorischer Entwicklung und geographischer Verbreitung, auch innerhalb der Grenzregionen mit Deutschland, Frankreich, Belgie…
The use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) on a global scale forces a reassessment of our understanding of the relationships between language, culture and identity in intercultural communication. This book outlines how we might conceive of this relationship in the fluid communi…
This book addresses two crucial problems associated with the phenomenon of Remnant Movement: First, what evidence can be brought to bear in favor or, or opposing to Remnant Movement analyses of linguistic phenomena? Secondly, what does the presence or absence of Remnant Movement…
In Semantic and Conceptual Development, Frank Keil presents the first psychological investigation of the developing child's ontological knowledge. Building on previous philosophical work, Keil shows that ontological categories develop in a highly predictable progression. Moreove…
This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighboring languages. This book pay…
For decades, the voicing system of Polish has been at the center of a heated theoretical debate concerning laryngeal phonology as it features a number of phenomena, such as Final Obstruent Devoicing, Regressive Voice Assimilation, Progressive Voice Assimilation, dialectally dist…
