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De Gruyter Methoden Zur Erforschung Grammatischer Strukturen
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De Gruyter Wiederholung Und Variation Im Gespräch Des
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de Gruyter La Catégorie Du Nombre
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De Gruyter Ancient and Medieval Greek Etymology
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De Gruyter Diversity in Contact
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de Gruyter Zur Grammatikalischen Und Lexikalischen
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de Gruyter Wortstellung Im Ofner Stadtrecht
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De Gruyter Belegstellenverzeichnis Altgriechischer Sozialer
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De Gruyter Das Fortleben Altgriechischer Sozialer
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De Gruyter Untersuchungen
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de Gruyter Beiträge Zum Slawischen Onomastischen Atlas
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De Gruyter Abhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch: Dreizehnter Band.
Book SynopsisMit dem vorliegenden DRW-Band 13 sind nun über 97.000 Wortartikel auf über 20.000 Spalten gedruckt. Sie reichen in alphabetischer Folge von Aachenfahrt bis Stegrecht. Die Artikel enthalten mehr als 500.000 Belegzitate bzw. Belegstellenangaben mit insgesamt über 5,5 Millionen Wörtern. Allein der neue Band enthält über 5600 Wortartikel. Die Stadt mit ihren Komposita prägt den hinteren Teil des Bandes – insgesamt beginnen rund 800 Wortartikel mit Stadt-, womit es sich um eine der umfänglichsten Kompositareihen des ganzen Wörterbuchs handeln dürfte.Table of ContentsVorwort.- Artikel "Schwefel" bis "Stegrecht"
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Complex Words, Causatives, Verbal Periphrases and
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the typological differences among the four most widely spoken Romance languages--French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish--and Czech. Utilizing findings from the Czech National Corpus’ massive language database, the authors analyze a range of linguistic categories to discover the differences and similarities between Czech and the Romance languages. Due to the massive amount of data mined, as well as the high number of languages examined, this book presents general and individual typological features of the four Romance languages and Czech that often exceed what has previously been accepted in the field of comparative linguistics.Table of Contents1. Expressions of potential participation, iterativity, causation, ingressivity and adverbial subordination in the light of parallel corpora Petr Cermak, Dana Kratochvilova, Olga Nadvornikova, Pavel Štichauer 1.1 Investigation project and its history 1.2 Objectives and scope of the present monograph 1.3 Organisation of the monograph 1.4 Terminological remarks 1.4.1 Romance languages under scrutiny and use of the term Romance 1.4.2 Use of the terms counterpart and respondent 2. Corpus design & corpus-based contrastive research methodology Olga Nadvornikova 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Corpus-based contrastive research methodology 2.2 Corpora used in this study 3. Morphologically complex words in romance and their Czech respondents Pavel Štichauer, Jan Hricsina, Jiri Jancik, Jaroslava Jindrova, Zuzana Krinkova, Daniel Petrik 3.0 Introduction 3.1 Word-formation: complex vs simple words 3.2 Romance and Czech: common and different word-formation patterns 3.3 The typology of Czech respondents 3.3.1 Typology of Czech respondents of the adjectives with the suffix -bile/-ble/-vel 3.3.2 Typology of Czech respondents for verbs with the prefix re-/ri- 3.4 The modal suffix -ble/-bile/-vel 3.4.1 Data elaboration and analysis 3.4.2 Quantitative distribution of the types 3.4.3 Discussion of various examples 3.5 The iterative prefix re-/ri- 3.5.1 Data elaboration and analysis 3.5.2 Quantitative distribution of the types 3.5.3 Discussion of various examples 3.6 Concluding remarks 4. Causative constructions in romance and their Czech respondents Petr Cermak, Dana Kratochvilova, Petra Laufkova, Pavel Štichauer 4.0 Introduction 4.1 Definition of causativity and its forms of expression 4.2 Causativity in Romance languages 4.2.1 Analytic type 4.2.2 Synthetic type 4.2.3 Characteristics of the Romance construction hacer/fare/faire/fazer + infinitive 4.3 Causativity in Czech 4.3.1 Word-formatting causativity 4.3.1.1 Verbs derived from another verb 4.3.1.2 Verbs derived from an adjective 4.3.1.3 No change in the lexical basis, expressing causativity through a prefix roz- 4.3.2 Semantic causativity 4.3.2.1 Suppletive types 4.3.2.2 Causative interpretation resulting from syntax 4.3.3 Analytic causativity 4.3.3.1 Causative verbs followed by a subordinate clause 4.3.3.2 Causative verbs followed by a nominal syntagma 4.3.3.3 (Semi-)causative verbs followed by an infinitive 4.4 Our typology of Czech respondents 4.5 Methodology 4.6 Causative constructions in Romance – formal comparison 4.7 Analysis of Czech respondents 4.7.1 Primary Czech respondents 4.7.1.1 Type 3 – shodit type (hacer caer / far cadere / faire tomber / fazer cair) 4.7.1.2 Type 8 – what makes you think that > proc myslite? (‘why do you think that?’) 4.7.1.3 Type 4 – dat vypit type 4.7.2 Secondary Czech respondents 4.7.2.1 Type 5 – dohnat k slzam type 4.7.2.2 Type 9 – other translation 4.7.2.3 Type 7 – zpusobit, že tal type 4.7.2.4 Type 1 – rozplakat type 4.7.2.5 Type 2 – posadit type and type 6 – zpusobit tani type 4.7.2.6 Type 10 – no translation 4.8 Conclusions
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo The Treatment of Turkic Etymologies in English L
Book SynopsisThe work offers a detailed analysis of Anglo-Turkiccultural and linguistic relations as reflected in Englishvocabulary between the 16th and early 20th centuries.Words attested in historical English texts forwhich a Turkic language acted as an etymologicallink have not yet received a monograph treatmentand the information to be found in etymological dictionariesof English is usually hardly adequate. Theaim of the current book is to rectify this situation.The main part of the study is an etymological dictionaryof 106 lexical items related to material culturethat were adopted from Turkic or via Turkic, whetherdirectly or not. For each entry a chronological list oforthographic variants is provided, followed by a summaryof information on the word's etymology to befound in selected etymological dictionaries of English.A critical survey of these is the point of departure forthe author's own commentary. Through careful analysisof contexts in which the new lexical items cameto be used in English as well as a thorough scrutinyof their formal features the author reconstructs thetransmission routes along which the vocabulary inquestion was transmitted into English.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo The Latin –ies/ia Inflection – Synchronic
Book SynopsisThe monograph concerns the origin of the Latin -iēs/-ia inflection, the topic which to this day has not been explained satisfactorily. The proposal presented in the book allows for the most economic solution to the problem without difficult assumptions which were present in the previous hypotheses. The author explains the origin of the formation as the result of the identification and mutual influence of three former paradigms reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European and subsequent analogical influence of the commonly used Latin noun diēs 'day' from the fifth declension.Apart from the hypothesis itself, the analysis of all the forms of the Latin -iēs/-ia inflection is presented with an etymological commentary and illustrative examples from the original ancient texts. The question on the origin of the Latin fifth declension is also mentioned alongside the modern description of the Proto-Indo-European derivational morphology.Table of ContentsList of abbreviationsIntroductionChapter oneIndo-European derivational morphologyChapter twoThe Latin fifth declensionChapter threeThe -iēs/-ia nouns – synchronic and diachronic evidenceChapter fourThe originBibliographyIndex
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Languages in Contact and Contrast – A Festschrift
Book SynopsisThe Festschrift is a collection of papers written in honour of Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld to mark the occasion of her 70th birthday.Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld is one of the leading authorities in the field of language contact, and has pursued research on the influence of English on Polish and other European languages, Polish-English contrastive studies, as well as various aspects of English grammar. She has authored more than 160 publications, including four books, as well as course books and academic papers. She has also edited and co-edited dictionaries of English borrowings in Polish. The Festschrift volume comprises papers from the world of linguistics which have been authored by eminent scholars from Poland and abroad. The chapters included in the volume focus on various issues, including those from the area of contact linguistics. The topics covered in the research papers comprise, for instance, the influence of English on different languages, such as Polish, Danish, Afrikaans, Swedish, Spanish, German and Japanese, as well as on Asian languages and cultures. The authors investigate Celtic borrowings in Polish, anglicisms in Serbian, or Yiddish borrowings in contemporary American English. The contributions also discuss the phenomenon of Ponglish, i.e., the communication code used by Poles living in the UK, the presence of foreign languages in the linguistic landscape of Kraków, as well as the problem of multilingualism in Europe, the relation between language, culture and identity, and the influence of globalisation on both Polish language and culture. Finally, selected chapters address a range of phenomena related to Karaim, Russenorsk, and Turkish.
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De Gruyter Indices
Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- A. SUBJECT INDEX -- B. INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND OF TERMS DERIVED FROM PROPER NAMES -- C. INDEX OF AUTHORS AND PASSAGES -- D. INDEX OF WORDS AND FORMS DISCUSSED OR MENTIONED
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Unknown A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South Indian Family of Languages
Book SynopsisIt also studies its grammar rules, and numerical system, and draws its comparisons with North Indian languages including Sanskrit, Indo-European languages, and Semitic languages. In the domain of Dravidian linguistics, this book remains a respected work today.
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Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project Grammatical Variation in Neo-Assyrian
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Sunway University Press Voices in Texts and Contexts
Book SynopsisVoices in Texts and Contexts presents different perspectives of 'voice', a concept emerging from language choices, social and cultural phenomena, and psychology. In weaving a tapestry of linguistic experiences, from analyses of language phenomena including localised English to explanations of human behaviour, this book offers insights into how we use language, construct discourse, and express ourselves in light of selected texts and specific contexts.Voice is a fundamental instrument to interpret human behaviour and the mind. In this book, readers will learn about uses of language, or perceptions of uses, and a wide range of messages enshrined therein.This book grew out of the 6th and 7th International Conferences on Discourse and Society organised by the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. It contains chapters that give special focus to Malaysia at the macro level - such as the naming of disabled people, mastery of the Malay language by migrants, loanwords of Sanskrit origin in Malaysian - as well contributions by invited scholars whose academic interests intersect with the theme of the volume. It is suitable for scholars, educators, researchers, and the interested general public.Table of Contents About the Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction - Toshiko Yamaguchi Voices of Migrant Workers in a Community of Practice: A Study of Bangladeshi Migrants' Use of the Malay Language in Malaysia - Tanzeel Chowdhury & Lee Luan Ng Voices of Concern Amongst Teachers on the Academic Performance of Foster Children - Cherish How & Jariah Mohd Jan Understanding and Applying the Critical Academic Voice: Bridging Theory and Practice - Stephen J. Hall Multi-Ethnic Voices of Loanwords in the Malaysian Dailies - Manjit Kaur Balwant Singh Voices in the Naming of Disabled Persons in Print Media - Pei Soo Ang & Siang Lee Yeo Voices of Fear: Nightmare Landscapes in Western Fantasy Literature and Fantastic Painting - El?bieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska Translating English Political Discourse into Arabic: Roles of Translator, Context, and Voice - Kais Amir Kadhim Investigating the Shift in Voice and Rhetoric of United States Administrations Regarding the Middle East 2001–2016 - Mourhaf Kazzaz Critically Negotiating British and American Englishes: Voices from Indonesia - Ribut Wahyudi Index
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NUS Press One or Two Words: Language and Politics in the
Book SynopsisThe expression "one or two words" is used by the Toraja highlanders of Indonesia to refer euphemistically to their highly elaborate form of political speechmaking. Moving from this understatement, which denotes the meaningfulness of transient acts of speech, One or Two Words offers an analysis of the shifting power relations between centers and peripheries in one of the world's most linguistically diverse countries. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, this book explores how people forge forms of collective belonging to a distinctive locality through the exchange of spoken words, WhatsApp messages, ritual gifts of pigs and buffaloes, and the performance of elaborate political speeches and ritual chants. Aurora Donzelli describes the complex forms of cosmopolitan indigeneity that have emerged in the Toraja highlands during several decades of encounters with a variety of local and international interlocutors. By engaging wider debates on the dynamics of cultural and linguistic change vis-à-vis globalizing influences, the book sheds light onto a hitherto neglected dimension of post-Suharto Indonesia: the recalibration of power relations between national and local languages prompted by recent institutional transformations and the re-articulation of the relations between the central state and its peripheries through acts of speech.Trade Review"Alongside its rich historical and ethnographic accounts of relevance to Indonesianists–for example, of Toraja landholding disputes and post-Suharto regional autonomy reforms–One or Two Words is a valuable contribution to the linguistic anthropological study of sociality constituted through a politics of representation.” * Discourse and Society *Table of Contents List of Maps List of Photographs List of Tables Acknowledgements A Note on Orthography and Transcriptions Introduction Part I: The Politics of Language 1. Subjects of Discourse 2. Narratives of Distinction 3. Grammars of Exchange Part II: The Language of Politics 4. Hierarchies of Language 5. Modes of Power 6. Global Frictions and Local Crossovers Bibliography Index
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The Chinese University Press Cantonese: Since the Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisThanks to dedicated efforts of early missionaries, pedagogues, and linguists, we can trace back the evolution of modern Cantonese-one of the most spoken dialects in China, Southeast Asia, and globally-while differences in sounds, words, and grammar distinguish the old from contemporary speech today.Not much was recorded in official documents or gazetteers about the early history of Hong Kong where Cantonese is its most popular dialect. The knowledge of Cantonese is likewise quite limited except for occasional mentions of its culture and customs in writings here and there. For a long time, Cantonese was deemed a local dialect enjoying little prestige among the intellectuals. Its language and its origin remained much of a mystery until the mid-twentieth century when scholars started to accord it with increasing attention.In Cantonese: Since the 19th Century, Cheung offers profound insights to some thirty firsthand century-old materials, with findings that will be useful for ongoing efforts to trace the development of a language that has gone through many rounds of incredible and, at times dramatic, changes during the last two hundred years.
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HardPress Publishing Etymology Made Easy by F.E. Bunnett
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Martino Fine Books Language Thought and Reality
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La suerte de los nombres propios léxico y
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Editorial Club Universitario La lengua Vasca originalidad y riqueza de una lengua diferente
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Oxford University Press Inc Beyond Yellow English
Book SynopsisBeyond Yellow English is the first edited volume to examine issues of language, identity, and culture among the rapidly growing Asian Pacific American (APA) population. The distinguished contributors-who represent a broad range of perspectives from anthropology, sociolinguistics, English, and education-focus on the analysis of spoken interaction and explore multiple facets of the APA experience. Authors cover topics such as media representations of APAs; codeswitching and language crossing; and narratives of ethnic identity. The collection examines the experiences of Asian Pacific Americans of different ethnicities, generations, ages, and geographic locations across home, school, community, and performance sites.Trade ReviewThis volume is a valuable collection of scholarly work that moves linguistic anthropological and sociolinguistic approaches to Asian Pacific America beyond the stereotype of the inscrutable, closed off, and unapproachable Asian. This book is a significant move "beyond" the restrictive stereotype of "Yellow English." * The Journal of Language in Society, Volume 39-2010 *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; Contributors ; Part I: Interactional Positionings of Selves and Identities ; Part II: Discursive Constitutions of Groups and Communities ; Part III: Languages in Contact ; Part V: Educational Institutions and Language Acquisition ; Index
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Oxford University Press Ok
Book SynopsisIt is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant''s first word ma or the ever-present beverage Coke. It was even the first word spoken on the moon. It is OK - the most ubiquitous and invisible of American expressions, one used countless times every day. Yet few of us know the secret history of OK - how it was coined, what it stood for, and the amazing extent of its influence.Allan Metcalf here traces the evolution of America''s most popular word, writing with brevity and wit, and ranging across American history with colourful portraits of the nooks and crannies in which OK survived and prospered. He describes how OK was born as a lame joke in a newspaper article in 1839, used as a supposedly humorous abbreviation for oll korrect (i.e, all correct), but should have died a quick death, as most clever coinages do.However OK was swept along in a nineteenth-century fad for abbreviations, was appropriated by a presidential campaign (one ofTrade Reviewwonderfully crafted biography of the world's hardest working word. * Sunday Telegraph *Ok provides a beguiling perspective upon linguistic serendipity * The Independent *intriguing. * Mail on Sunday 2 *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Oddity of OK Chapter 1: The Joke Chapter 2: Old Kinderhook Chapter 3: The Jackson Myth Chapter 4: Telegraphic OK Chapter 5: The Business of OK Chapter 6: OK in Literature Chapter 7: Presidential "okeh" Chapter 8: Okey-Dokey Chapter 9: The Practical OK Chapter 10: The Philosophical OK: Twentieth Century Chapter 11: The Psychological OK Chapter 12: The Philosophical OK: Twenty-first Century Epilogue: OK Around the World
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Oxford University Press PROT INDO EUR TO PROT GERM 2E HOENG C 1 A
Book SynopsisThis book describes the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English, focusing specifically on linguistic structure. It outlines the grammar of Proto-Indo-European, considers the changes by which one dialect of that prehistoric language developed into Proto-Germanic, and provides a detailed account of the grammar of Proto-Germanic. In the course of his exposition Don Ringe draws on a long tradition of work on many languages, including Hittite, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Slavic, Gothic, and Old Norse. This second edition has been significantly revised to provide a more in-depth account of Proto-Indo-European, with further exploration of disputed points; it has also been updated to include new developments in the field, particularly in the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European verb and nominal inflection. The author also reconsiders some of his original approaches to specific linguistic changes and their relative chronology based on his recent research. This new edition Trade ReviewReview from previous edition This is without any doubt a major work in the field of Indo-European linguistics and will be of utmost relevance in English linguistics. We have a large number of Histories of the English Language, but in none of them is the pre-history of English dealt with in comparable depth. * Professor Alfred Bammesberger, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt *A highly welcome and useful book for scholars and advanced students of comparative Indo-European and Germanic linguistics and the history of English. * David Stifter, Linguist List *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of abbreviations Note on transcription 1: Introduction 2: Proto-Indo-European 3: The development of Proto-Germanic 4: Proto-Germanic References Index
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Oxford University Press LANG SCRIP CHIN TEXTS EAST ASIA C
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Taylor & Francis The Discourse of Desperation Late 18th and Early 19th Century Letters by Paupers Prisoners and Rogues Routledge Studies in Linguistics
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Taylor & Francis The UnTranslatability of Qurâanic Idiomatic Phrasal Verbs
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Formal Grammar
Book SynopsisThis volume draws together fourteen previously published papers which explore the nature of mental grammar through a formal, generative approach. The book begins by outlining the development of formal grammar in the last fifty years, with a particular focus on the work of Noam Chomsky, and moves into an examination of a diverse set of phenomena in various languages that shed light on theory and model construction. Many of the papers focus on comparisons between English and Norwegian, highlighting the importance of comparative approaches to the study of language. With a comprehensive collection of papers that demonstrate the richness of formal approaches, this volume is key reading for students and scholars interested in the study of grammar.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part A: Transformational constraints1 Brief Overview of the History of Generative Grammar 2 Noam Chomsky: A selected annotated bibliography 3 Comp-t Effects: Variation in the Position and Features of C 4 Freezing Effects and Objects 5 Medial-wh Phenomena, Parallel Movement, and Parameters 6 Sentential subjects in English and Norwegian 7 Be careful how you use the left periphery Part B: The syntax-semantics interface8 Negative Concord and (Multiple) Agree: A Case Study of West Flemish 9 Medial adjunct PPs in English: Implications for the syntax of sentential negation 10 Neodavidsonianism in semantics and syntax 11 Interrogatives, Instructions, and I-languages: An I-Semantics for Questions Part C: Multilingualism and formal grammar12 Generative grammar and language mixing 13 Language mixing and exoskeletal theory: A case study of word-internal mixing in American Norwegian14 Grammatical Gender in American Norwegian Heritage Language: Stability or attrition?
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Taylor & Francis Creoles Revisited Language Contact Language Change and Postcolonial Linguistics
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