Review text: "This monograph is an admirable piece of work."Picus Sizhi Ding in: Linguist List 22.1573 "Insgesamt handelt es sich um einen wertvollen deskriptiven Beitrag zu einer noch immer wenig beschriebenen Gruppe des Bantu. Die vielen exzellent präsentierten Beispiele und d…
Biographical note: Acrisio Pires, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA; Jason Rothman, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.
Main description: This textbook introduces undergraduate students of language and linguistics to the basic ideas, insights, and techniques of contemporary semantic theory. The book starts with everyday observations about word meaning and use primarily and then gradually zooms in…
by Puhvel, Jaan
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Biographical note: William D. Davies, University of Iowa, USA.
Main description: The volume brings together a well-selected collection of twelve articles providing a comprehensive and very informative summary of contemporary work on lexical blending. It combines theoretically informed descriptions of a variety of languages and a number of c…
Main description: How do people use language, gestures and the materialaround themfor interacting in mobile situations? Interaction and Mobility brings together international scholars who use video-recordings from real-life everyday settings to study how people interact in diver…
The book is an empirical study of naturally occurring talk between psychotherapist and clients experiencing various anxieties and traumas that most of us recognize and can relate to. By relying on contemporary theories about sequential, situated discourse as well as drawing on "…
by Kunz, Kerstin, Steiner, Erich, Neumann, Stella, Maksymski, Karin, Hansen-Schirra, Silvia, Čulo, Oliver, Hansen, Sandra, Kast, Marlene, Klein, Yvonne, Vela, Mihaela
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Main description: 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…
Main description: Why do languages change? The proposal that the grammar of negation evolves according to cycles is looked at from the behaviour of negative items and constructions, mainly through the history of English and French. The studies show that the variation within a la…
Main description: The Architecture of Focus offers the most precise and recent characterization of the notion of focus in linguistic theory. The volume contains brand-new and innovative papers that target the nature of focus and topic at the interfaces of the model of grammar. T…
