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Book SynopsisFrom Earth to Art presents papers from the ‘Early Medieval Plant Studies’ symposium, a meeting designed to explore the various disciplines which could help to elucidate the plant-names of Anglo-Saxon England, many of which are not understood. The range of disciplines represented includes landscape history, place-name studies, botany, archaeology, art history, Old English literature, the history of food and of medicine, and linguistic approaches such as semantics and morphology. This collection represents a first experimental step in the work of the Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey (ASPNS), a multidisciplinary research project based in the University of Glasgow. ASPNS is dedicated to collecting and reviewing, for the first time, the total multidisciplinary evidence for each plant-name, and establishing new or improved identifications. The results will have implications for various historical studies such as agriculture, pharmacology, nutrition, climate, dialect, and more. Included in the book is the first ASPNS word-study, concerned with the Old English word æspe (the ancestor of ‘aspen’), and it is shown that this tree-name had a broader meaning than has hitherto been suspected. This book will be of interest to historians, botanists, archaeologists, linguists, geographers, gardeners, herbalists, conservationists and anyone interested in the crucial role of plants in history.Trade Review”…a mine of fascinating information on many aspects of plants in Anglo-Saxon England …. a worthwhile investment for anyone with an interest in plants and Anglo-Saxon history or archaeology.” in: Landscape History, Vol. 26, 2004, pp.98-99Table of ContentsIllustrations Abbreviations Preface I LANDSCAPE Della HOOKE: Trees in the Anglo-Saxon Landscape: the Charter Evidence Carole HOUGH: Place-Name Evidence for Anglo-Saxon Plant-Names Ralph S. FORBES: Criteria for Assessing the Native Status of British Plants: Some Case Histories II HUMAN SUSTENANCE AND COMFORT Allan R. HALL: Investigating Anglo-Saxon Plant Life and Plant Use: the Archaeobotanical Angle Debby BANHAM: Be hlafum and wyrtum: Food Plants in Anglo-Saxon Society and Economy Maria Amalia D’ARONCO: Anglo-Saxon Plant Pharmacy and the Latin Medical Tradition III PLANTNAMES: ANALYSIS AND RECORDING Peter BIERBAUMER: Real and Not-So-Real Plant-Names in Old English Glosses Hans SAUER: The Morphology of the Old English Plant-Names Philip G. RUSCHE: Dioscorides’ De materia medica and Late Old English Herbal Glossaries C. P. BIGGAM: The Æspe Tree in Anglo-Saxon England Anthony ESPOSITO: Medieval Plant-Names in the Oxford English Dictionary Mats RYDÉN: William Turner as Botanist and Plant-Name Scholar IV ART AND LITERATURE Jane HAWKES: The Plant-Life of Early Christian Anglo-Saxon Art Jennifer NEVILLE: Leaves of Glass: Plant-Life in Old English Poetry Lexical Indexes

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Book SynopsisThese papers reflect the long and distinguished career of Professor Jane Roberts in the field of medieval English studies, and especially her pioneering work on A Thesaurus of Old English, which provides novel source material for several of the contributions to the volume. Many of the papers deal with aspects of early lexicology and lexicography, while others focus on linguistic and literary features of Old and Middle English texts and their interpretation. They will thus be of interest to researchers in many areas of early English. A special introductory article describes the interlinked development of A Thesaurus of Old English, The Historical Thesaurus of English, and the proposed Thesaurus of Middle English. Contributors include: Rosamund Allen, Janet M. Bately, Carole P. Biggam, Michelle Brown, Julie Coleman, Janet Cowen, Jodi-Ann George, Joyce Hill, Rosemary Huisman, Giovanni Iarmartino, George Kane, Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Michiko Ogura, Peter Orton, Jeremy J. Smith, E.G. Stanley, Paul Szarmach, Ronald Waldron.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Illustrations Louise SYLVESTER, Christian KAY: Jane Roberts: A Personal Tribute A Bibliography of Writings by Jane Roberts R.S. ALLEN: “Where are you, my brave knights!”: Authority and Allegiance in Lazamon’s Brut Janet BATELY: Wase, Torriano and Sherwood: Some Unacknowledged Lexical Debts C.P. BIGGAM: Ualdenegi and the Concept of Strange Eyes Michelle P. BROWN: Female Book-Ownership and Production in Anglo-Saxon England: the Evidence of the Ninth-Century Prayerbooks Julie COLEMAN: Lexicology and Medieval Prostitution Janet COWEN: Woman’s Wit in the Middle English Translation of Boccaccio’s De Mulieribus Claris: British Library MS Additional 10304 J-A. GEORGE: ‘Hwalas ðec herigað: Creation, Closure and the Hapax Legomena of the OE Daniel Joyce HILL: Lexical Choices for Holy Week: Studies in Old English Ecclesiastical Vocabulary Rosemary HUISMAN: Theme in Exodus: Grammatical Meaning and Spoken Syntax in Old English Poetry Giovanni IAMARTINO: Foreign Words in the Kit Bag: James Willson’s The Soldier’s Pocket-Dictionary of 1794. George KANE: Language as Literature Christian J. KAY, Irené A.W. WOTHERSPOON, Louise M. SYLVESTER: One Thesaurus Leads to Another, TOE, THE, TME Éamonn Ó CARRAGÁIN: Cynewulf’s Epilogue to Elene and the Tastes of the Vercelli Compiler: A Paradigm of Meditative Reading Michoko OGURA: Verbs of Emotion with Reflexive Constructions Peter ORTON: To be a Pilgrim: the Old English Seafarer and its Irish Affinities Jeremy J. SMITH: Pronominal Systems in the Auchinleck Manuscript E.G. STANLEY: Linguistic Self-Awareness at Various Times in the History of English from Old English Onwards Paul E. SZARMACH: The Timaeus in Old English Ronald WALDRON: Doublets in the Translation Technique of John Trevisa Tabula Gratulatoria Index

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Book SynopsisThe twenty-one essays collected in this volume offer a broad range of critical views on the intricate interdependence between verbal and visual representation. Drawing on recent research, scholars from Europe, America and Asia approach the topic from a host of different angles, exploring topics such as popular visual cultures in Japan, devotional graffiti in a Piedmontese chapel, textual trompe-l’oeil in Jaques Derrida’s Memoirs of the Blind or the relationship between the landscape paintings of Albert Bierstadt and the representation of landscape in the texts of James Fenimore Cooper. The International Association of Word and Image Studies was founded nearly twenty years ago – 1987 – and is based in Amsterdam. One of the aims of the association is to be a forum for both theoretical debate and innovative research in different disciplines. Over the years, the IAWIS triennial conferences and the IAWIS publications have established themselves as internationally acknowledged sites where literary critics, art historians, architects, art and design specialists, semioticians, artists, psychologists and art critics can meet and engage in a sustained dialogue.Trade Review”…convincing collection which shows how exciting a research field Word and Image Studies is.” in: Anglia, Band 126 (2008) Heft 1

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Book SynopsisEl gerundio no perifrástico es una forma verbal mal comprendida: unos abusan de ella, otros la rehuyen. Lo cierto es que la bibliografía existente -esencialmente normativa- se empeña infructuosamente en clasificar los distintos tipos de gerundios en unas taxonomías semántico-sintácticas bien delimitadas, pasando por alto la especificidad discursiva de la forma. La comunicación humana es una combinación de lo dicho y lo inferido. De ahí que toda expresión lingüística sea un compromiso entre decir demasiado y no decir lo suficiente. El análisis presentado en este libro describe en detalle cómo la construcción gerundiva combina dos funciones: por un lado, deja implícita cierta información relacional, por otro, especifica elementos de información ya presentes en la oración matriz o inferibles de ella. Dicha ambivalencia discursiva -exceso versus déficit de información- confiere a la construcción gerundiva un lugar particular en el sistema sintáctico del español.Table of ContentsAbreviaturas Preliminares Capítulo 1. Enfoque cognoscitivo-funcional Capítulo 2. Aspectos metodológicos Capítulo 3. Hacia un análisis unificador del gerundio: descripción formal y semántica de la construcción gerundiva y de su oración matriz Capítulo 4. Imperfectividad, anaforicidad y punto de vista Capítulo 5. Infradeterminación en varios niveles Capítulo 6. La construcción gerundiva responde a la pregunta ¿cómo? Capítulo 7. Construcción gerundiva vs. estructuras parcialmente equivalentes: una cuestión de imaginería Conclusiones generales Bibliografía Índice de nombres

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Book SynopsisThe papers brought together in this volume explore, through corpus data, the link between contrastive and interlanguage analysis. Learner corpora are approached from a contrastive perspective, by comparing them with native corpora or corpus data produced by learners from other mother tongue backgrounds, or by combining them with contrastive data from multilingual (translation or comparable) corpora. The integration of these two frameworks, contrastive and learner corpus research, makes it possible to highlight crucial aspects of learner production, such as features of non-nativeness (errors, over- and underuse, unidiomatic expressions), including universal features of interlanguage, or more general issues like the question of transfer. The ten papers of this volume cover topics ranging from methodology to syntax (e.g. adverb placement, postverbal subjects), through lexis (collocations) and discourse (e.g. information packaging, thematic choice). The languages examined include English, Chinese, Dutch, French and Spanish. The book will be of interest to a wide array of readers, especially researchers in second language acquisition and contrastive linguistics, but also professionals working in foreign language teaching, such as language teachers, materials writers and language testers.Trade Review"… the contributions in this collection provide an excellent overview of the developments of learner corpus research" - in: Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 32 (2010)Table of ContentsGaëtanelle GILQUIN, Szilvia PAPP and María Belén DÍEZ-BEDMAR: Introduction I Methodology Gaëtanelle GILQUIN: Combining contrastive and interlanguage analysis to apprehend transfer: detection, explanation, evaluation Annelie ÄDEL: Involvement features in writing: do time and interaction trump register awareness? II Learner lexis John CROSS and Szilvia PAPP: Creativity in the use of verb + noun combinations by Chinese learners of English III Learner syntax Cristóbal LOZANO and Amaya MENDIKOETXEA: Postverbal subjects at the interfaces in Spanish and Italian learners of L2 English: a corpus analysis John OSBORNE: Adverb placement in post-intermediate learner English: a contrastive study of learner corpora María Belén DÍEZ-BEDMAR and Szilvia PAPP: The use of the English article system by Chinese and Spanish learners Christelle COSME: Participle clauses in learner English: the role of transfer IV Learner discourse Marcus CALLIES: Easy to understand but difficult to use? Raising constructions and information packaging in the advanced learner variety Mike HANNAY and Elena MARTÍNEZ CARO: Thematic choice in the written English of advanced Spanish and Dutch learners Annemie DEMOL and Pascale HADERMANN: An exploratory study of discourse organisation in French L1, Dutch L1, French L2 and Dutch L2 written narratives

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Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge collection, born of a belief in the value of approaching ‘translation’ in a wide range of ways, contains essays of interest to students and scholars of translation, literary and textual studies. It provides insights into the relations between translation and comparative literature, contrastive linguistics, cultural studies, painting and other media. Subjects and authors discussed include: the translator as ‘go-between’; the textual editor as translator; Ghirri’s photography and Celati’s fiction; the European lending library; La Bible d’Amiens; the coining of Italian phraseological units; Michèle Roberts’s Impossible Saints; the impact of modern translations for stage on perceptions of ancient Greek drama; and the translation of slang, intensifiers, characterisation, desire, the self, and America in 1990s Italian fiction. The collection closes with David Platzer’s discussion of translating Dacia Maraini’s poetry into English and with his new translations of ‘Ho Sognato una Stazione’ (‘I Dreamed of a Station’) and ‘Le Tue Bugie’ (‘Your Lies’).Table of ContentsEditors’ Preface Manfred PFISTER: Introduction Language as Means Lynne LONG: The European Lending Library: Borrowing, Translating, and Returning Texts Silvia CACCHIANI: Translating Intensifiers: (Non-)Equivalences Across English and Italian Stephen COFFEY: The Coining of Italian Phraseological Units Through the Translation of Analogous English Phrases Elisa MATTIELLO: Difficulty of Slang Translation Monica BORIA: Translating Humour: The Case of Stefano Benni Sonia CUNICO: Translating Characterization: Dario Fo’s Morte accidentale Travels to Britain Kate LITHERLAND: Translating ‘America’ in 90s Italian Fiction Culture as Target Emily EELLS: La Bible d’Amiens: Translation and Transformation Philip SHAW: Translating Desire: Ovid and Three Romantic Poets Luanda STANNARD: ‘She Rises Anew in my Words’: Translating Sainthood in Michèle Roberts’s Impossible Saints Languages of Culture Lorna HARDWICK: Playing Around Cultural Faultlines: The Impact of Modern Translations for the Stage on Perceptions of Ancient Greek Drama Manfred PFISTER: John/Giovanni Florio: The Translator as Go-Between Ashley CHANTLER: ‘Paring His Fingernails’? The Textual Editor as Translator Dave POSTLES: Translating the Self: The Alias, Alas! Marina SPUNTA: The New Italian Landscape: Between Ghirri’s Photography and Celati’s Fiction Appendix David PLATZER: Translating Dacia; Two Poems Bibliography Notes on Contributors

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Table of ContentsFrederik Kortlandt: The Origin of the Vestjysk Stød Harry Perridon: How old is the Vestjysk Stød Wolfgang Beck: Neues zur Runeninschrift auf dem Goldbrakteaten Schonen II C Dietrich Schürr: Zu Z. 50 des Hiltibrantliedes Valentine A. Pakis: The Literary Status of Muspilli in the History of Scholarship: Two Peculiar Trends Kenny Louwen: Zur Lesart und Hybridität der altniederländischen Federprobe Jeremy Bergerson: Observations on a, o in unstressed Syllables in Middle Dutch Ludo Jongen: The Emperor, the Saint and the Poet. For whom did Heinrich von Veldeke write the Sint-Servaaslegende? Martin Baisch: Gahmuret und Belakane. Textkritik und Interpretation Andreas Wutz: Der doppelte Loys - ein Vergleich der Königsgestalt in Wolframs von Eschenbach Willehalm mit der altfranzösischen Vorlage Aliscans Albrecht Classen: Objects of Memory as Hermeneutic Media in Medieval German Literature. Hartmann von Aue’s Gregorius, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival, Thüring von Ringoltingen’s Melusine, and Fortunatus Rasma Lazda-Cazers: Landscape as Other in the Livländische Reimchronik Edward G. Fichtner: The “Trojanerkrieg” and the Composition of Ulrich Füetrer’s Buch der Abenteuer Rianne Mus: ‘Ik han mynen heren sen, des mach ik wol der warheyt gen’. Die ‘Thomasszene’ im Wienhäuser Osterspielfragment Ellen Baßler und Ernst Hellgardt: Die Freckenhorster Heberolle - eine Fälschung? (Verbesserte Fassung)

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents current state-of-the-art discussions in corpus-based linguistic research of the English language. The papers deal with Present-day English, worldwide varieties of English and the history of the English language. A special focus of the volume are studies in the broad field of corpus pragmatics and corpus-based discourse analysis. It includes corpus-based studies of speech acts, conversational routines, referential expressions and thought styles, as well as studies on the lexis, grammar and semantics of English. And it also includes several studies on technical aspects of corpus compilation, fieldwork and parsing.Trade Review”This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in how corpus-based research can contribute to the study of higher-level linguistic phenomena. The breadth of the collected papers is impressive, both in terms of their linguistic objects of study, which vary from high-level categories, such as exhortations, to specific constructions and words, as well as in the range of methodological approaches that are adopted by the authors of the studies. … a remarkable volume, presenting studies that should appeal to newcomers to corpus-based research in pragmatics and discourse as well as those who have already conducted this kind of research and want to stay informed of current approaches.” in: The Linguist List 21.2695Table of ContentsIntroduction Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier and Marianne Hundt: Corpus linguistics, pragmatics and discourse Pragmatics and discourse Thomas Kohnen: Historical corpus pragmatics: Focus on speech acts and texts Irma Taavitsainen: The pragmatics of knowledge and meaning: Corpus linguistic approaches to changing thought-styles in early modern medical discourse Tanja Rütten: A diachronic perspective on changing routines in texts Minna Nevala: Friends will be “friends”? The sociopragmatics of referential terms in early English letters Minna Palander-Collin: Self-reference and mental processes in early English personal correspondence: A corpus approach to changing patterns of interaction Anita Fetzer: Sort of and kind of in political discourse: Hedge, head of NP or contextualization cue? Karin Aijmer: “So er I just sort I dunno I think it’s just because...”: A corpus study of I don’t know and dunno in learners’ spoken English Magnus Levin and Hans Lindquist: On the face of it: How recurrent phrases organize text Karin Axelsson: Research on fiction dialogue: Problems and possible solutions Anna Marchi and Charlotte Taylor: Establishing the EU: The representation of Europe in the press in 1993 and 2005 Lexis, grammar and semantics Stephen Coffey: A nightmare of a trip, a gem of a hotel: The study of an evaluative and descriptive frame Magali Paquot and Yves Bestgen: Distinctive words in academic writing: A comparison of three statistical tests for keyword extraction Naixing Wei: On the phraseology of Chinese learner spoken English: Evidence of lexical chunks from COLSEC Jukka Tyrkkö and Turo Hiltunen: Frequency of nominalization in Early Modern English medical writing Arja Nurmi: May: The social history of an auxiliary Sara Gesuato: GO to V: Literal meaning and metaphorical extensions Carolin Biewer: Passive constructions in Fiji English: A corpus-based study Ingvilt Marcoe: Subordinating conjunctions in Middle English and Early Modern English religious writing Daniël Van Olmen: A contrastive look at English and Dutch (negative) imperatives Corpus compilation, fieldwork and parsing Dagmar Deuber: Caribbean ICE corpora: Some issues for fieldwork and analysis Alpo Honkapohja, Samuli Kaislaniemi and Ville Marttila: Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics: Representing manuscript reality in electronic corpora Hans Martin Lehmann and Gerold Schneider: Parser-based analysis of syntax-lexis interactions Index

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Book SynopsisThroughout history, linguists and literary scholars have been impelled by curiosity about particular linguistic or literary phenomena to seek to observe them in action in original texts. The fruits of each earlier enquiry in turn nourish the desire to continue to acquire knowledge, through further observation of newer linguistic facts. As time goes by, the corpus linguist operates increasingly in the awareness of what has gone before. Corpus Linguistics, thirty years on, is less an innocent sortie into corpus territory on the basis of a hunch than an informed, critical reassessment of existing analytical orthodoxy, in the light of new data coming on stream. This volume comprises twenty-two articles penned by members of the ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Mediaeval English) association, which together provide a critical and informed reappraisal of the facts, data, methods and tools of Corpus Linguistics which are available today. Authors reconsider the boundaries of the discipline, exploring its areas of commonality with Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Discourse Linguistics, and Lexical Statistics and showing how that commonality is potentially of immense benefit to practitioners in the fields concerned. The volume culminates in the report of a timely and novel expert panel discussion on the role of Corpus Linguistics in the study of English as a global language. This encompasses issues such as English as an international lingua franca, ‘norms’ for global English, and the question of ‘ownership’, or who qualifies as a native speaker.Table of ContentsAntoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe: Introduction 1. Looking more closely at existing boundaries of the discipline Christian Mair: Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics: the role of corpus evidence in the study of sociolinguistic variation and change Joan C. Beal: Creating corpora from spoken legacy materials: variation and change meet corpus linguistics Tuija Virtanen: Discourse linguistics meets corpus linguistics: theoretical and methodological issues in the troubled relationship Turo Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkö: 'Tis well known to barbers and laundresses: Overt references to knowledge in English medical writing from the Middle Ages to the Present Day Tanja Säily and Jukka Suomela: Comparing type counts: The case of women, men and -ity in early English letters 2. Examination of a known language feature from a new point of view Karin Aijmer: Does English have modal particles Julie Van Bogaert: A reassessment of the syntactic classification of pragmatic expressions: the positions of you know and I think with special attention to you know as a marker of metalinguistic awareness Magnus Ljung: The functions of expletive interjections in spoken English 3. Examination of the potential of a new corpus, tool, model or technique to extend linguistic knowledge Geoffrey Leech and Nicholas Smith: Change and constancy in linguistic change: How grammatical usage in written English evolved in the period 1931-1991 Alexander Onysko, Manfred Markus and Reinhard Heuberger: Joseph Wright’s ‘English Dialect Dictionary’ in electronic form: A critical discussion of selected lexicographic parameters and query options Lilo Moessner: How representative are the ‘Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society’ of 17th-century scientific writing? Bertus van Rooy and Lize Terblanche: A multi-dimensional analysis of a learner corpus Andrew Kehoe and Matt Gee: Weaving web data into a diachronic corpus patchwork 4. Re-examination of known linguistic phenomenon in light of further/new data Elisabetta Adami: “To each reader his, their or her pronoun”. Prescribed, proscribed and disregarded uses of generic pronouns in English Anna Belladelli: The interpersonal function of going to in written American English Marta Degani: Re-analysing the semi-modal ought to: an investigation of its use in the LOB, FLOB, Brown and Frown corpora Javier Calle-Martín and Antonio Miranda-García: On the use of split infinitives in English Juhani Rudanko: Exploring change in the system of English predicate complementation, with evidence from corpora of recent English Sara Gesuato: Encoding of goal-directed motion vs resultative aspect in the COME + infinitive construction Georgie Columbus: A corpus-based analysis of invariant tags in five varieties of English Christoph Rühlemann: Discourse presentation in EFL textbooks: a BNC-based study Göran Kjellmer: Awful adjectives: a type of semantic change in present-day corpora 5. Discussion Panel Marianne Hundt: Global English – Global Corpora: Report on a panel discussion at the 28th ICAME conference

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Table of ContentsTette Hofstra: A.D. Kylstra 1920-2010 Elena Afros: Gothic Relative Clauses Introduced by izei and sei revisited Guus Kroonen: Færoese ta and its relevance to the Germanic Auslautsgesetze Frederik Kortlandt: Vestjysk stød again Elżbieta Adamczyk: On Morphological Restructuring in the Old English and Old Saxon Nominal Paradigms Arend Quak: Hintergründe eines altniederländischen Textes Michael P. McGlynn: Bergþór’s Voice: Orality in the Homicide Laws of the Old Icelandic Grágás John M. Jeep: Heinrich von Veldeke’s Eneas and the Tradition of the Alliterating Word-Pair Helmut Beifuss: Wirnts von Gravenberc Wigalois. Ein Artusroman konzipiert als dichterische Auseinandersetzung mit den politischen Wirren seiner Zeit Annelies Roeleveld: The Holy Rood in the Netherlands and North Germany. A comparative study of nine Middle Dutch and two Middle Low German recensions of the legend about the Provenance of the Cross Erika Langbroek: Die Kreuzholzlegende im ‘Hartebok’ und ihre Verwandten Elly Vijfvinkel: Lehrer und Propheten im Luzerner Osterspiel Besprechungen

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Book SynopsisEnglish in academic and professional settings has received great attention over the last 50 years, as its use has become a key asset for anyone interested in improving his/her chances of communicating internationally. However, it still offers rich opportunities for teachers and researchers working on English in specific settings. The aim of English for Professional and Academic Purposes is to offer an overview of several topics within the field of discourse analysis applied to English in academic and professional domains. The book compiles contributions from different origins, ranging from Japan to the USA and several European countries, and covers English as a native, second, foreign and international language. It also deals with various specialities, including academic writing, business discourse or English for medicine, nursing, maritime industry and science and engineering. This volume is divided into three sections: Discourse Analysis of English for Academic Purposes, Professional English and EPAP Pedagogy, since it was conceived as a contribution to the research on how English is analysed as both the discourse of and for effective communication in academic and professional settings, and how it can be applied to teaching. This manuscript offers some fresh insights for those involved or interested in this field of expertise, in an attempt to shed some light on its latest innovations.Trade ReviewThis book was rewarded with the 3rd Edition of the “Enrique Alcaraz Research Award” delivered by AELFE (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos). "Collectively and individually, the articles will interest several groups of readers: researchers, teachers, teacher educators and materials designers. Researchers can exam-ine a range of methods: genre analysis and contrastive rhetoric most frequently, but also corpus linguistics and textual analysis and others. For more depth, references to further sources are scattered throughout the articles. … The volume is recommended both to teachers who are interested in the applications of the research findings and to discourse analysts who could borrow and build on the steps used by researchers to reach their findings." - in: Discourse Studies 13(5) "In conclusion, the volume provides a remarkable collection of EPAP discourse studies in a variety of disciplines and geographical contexts. The readers of the volume will also appreciate that the authors discuss ideas for future EPAP research. The book will be of primary interest to EPAP professionals and discourse analysts. Because of the book’s specific focus on teaching written genres, it will also be of great value to ESL/EFL teachers working with writers in academic and professional settings … The volume’s chapters offer a variety of perspectives on the research and teaching of EPAP by focusing on a range of written genres (e.g., abstracts, essays, and corporate value statements), using different methodological approaches (e.g., corpus linguistics, textual, and rhetorical analyses), and describing successful teaching practices." - in: Journal of English for Academic Purposes 10 (2011) "The topics and approaches covered in the volume, the possibilities of connections and dialogues, and many other rich details in the book have made this volume a very enlightening display of current EPAP research and a helpful resource book for readers to generate their own research and practice on the topics covered in the volume and beyond." - in: English for Specific Purposes 30 (2011) "very inspiring … thought-provoking… very valuable to gain awareness on the role current discourse analysis is having in the disentangling and unlocking of community practices and conventions, in view of a more informed, righteous and effective communication." - in: Ibérica 21 (2011) "In a nutshell, English for Professional and Academic Purposes proves to be a rigorous and comprehensive book that offers new insights and outlooks in ESP recent studies. The range of the questions explored and the suitability of the methods used are very likely to arouse the interest both of ESP practitioners and applied linguists alike." - in: RESLA - Spanish Journal for Applied Linguistics 23 (2010)Table of ContentsMiguel F. Ruiz-Garrido, Juan C. Palmer-Silveira and Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez: Current trends in English for Professional and Academic Purposes Discourse analysis of English for academic purposes Dushyanthi Mendis: Formality in academic writing: The use/non-use of phrasal verbs in two varieties of English Carmen Pérez-Llantada: The ‘dialectics of change’ as a facet of globalisation: Epistemic modality in academic writing Françoise Salager-Meyer, María Ángeles Alcaraz Ariza and Maryelis Pabón Berbesí: Hidden influencers and the scholarly enterprise: A crosscultural/linguistic study of acknowledgements in medical research articles Ana I. Moreno: Researching into English for research publication purposes from an applied intercultural perspective Discourse analysis of professional English Philip Shaw: Research reports in academic and industrial research Ulla M. Connor, Elizabeth M. Goering, Marianne S. Matthias and Robert Mac Neill: Information use and treatment adherence among patients with diabetes Inger Askehave and Karen K. Zethsen: “Check it out” – The construction of patient empowerment in health promotion leaflets Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich: Who “we” are: The construction of American corporate identity in the Corporate Values Statement genre EPAP pedagogy Ana Bocanegra-Valle: Evaluating and designing materials for the ESP classroom John M. Swales and Christine B. Feak: From text to task: Putting research on abstracts to work Ruth Breeze: Approaching the essay genre: A study in comparative pedagogy Julio Gimenez: Academic writing in the disciplines: Practices in nursing, midwifery and social work Thomas Orr: English language education for science and engineering students Notes on contributors

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Book SynopsisCet ouvrage propose de jeter un nouveau regard sur des questions qui sont au cœur des problématiques de linguistique française étudiés dans les Cahiers Chronos. Plusieurs auteurs étudient des questions de temps et d’aspect (Apothéloz & Nowakowska, Haas & Huyghe, Lauze, Lebas-Fraczak, Moline, Provôt ; Deslés & Vinzerich) ou des emplois modaux (Engel ; Forsgren & Sullet-Nylander, Lansari, Morency, Patard & Vermeulen). D’autres étudient la temporalité dans le discours (Bres, de Saussure), adoptent une perspective diachronique (De Mulder, Vetters) ou abordent la temporalité du point de vue de l’enseignement du FLE (Barbazan). La diversité des approches réunies dans ce volume fera avancer les débats et sera une source pour de nouvelles contributions.Trade Review"La richesse et la finesse de ces analyses intéresseront d’emblée les linguistes, soucieux de décrire et de modéliser les phénomènes langagiers, mais aussi les enseignants de FLE, qui s’évertuent à transmettre un savoir linguistique." – in: New Zealand Journal of French Studies 32/2 (2011) "Dennoch ist der Band eine Bereicherung der Forschungen zur Temporalität, Aspektualität und Modalität im Französischen. Gerade durch die Vielfalt der Ansätze wird die Forschungslage gut sichtbar. Die Autoren vertreten ihre Ansichten dezidiert, wodurch ein guter Überblick über die derzeit praktizierten Methoden möglich wird. … Insgesamt verdeutlichen die Beiträge dieses Bandes, dass die Temporalität, Aspektualität und Modalität wichtige Forschungsgegenstände sind, die weiterhin aktuell bleiben." – in: Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur 122/2 (2012)Table of ContentsEstelle Moline et Carl Vetters: Avant-propos Denis Apothéloz et Małgorzata Nowakowska: La résultativité et la valeur de parfait en français et en polonais Muriel Barbazan: Modèles explicatifs, modèles prédictifs : pour une interaction effective entre linguistique et cognition Jacques Bres: De l’interaction avant toute chose… Temps verbaux et relation de progression narrative Walter De Mulder: La métaphore espace / temps à l’épreuve : l’évolution de venir de Hugues Engel, Mats Forsgren et Françoise Sullet-Nylander: Emploi modal de proposer que p en contexte non-volitif Pauline Haas et Richard Huyghe: Les propriétés aspectuelles des noms d’activités Laure Lansari: On va dire: Vers un emploi modalisant d’aller + infinitif Audrey Lauze: Pour un traitement unitaire des formes composées du mode indicatif en français Lidia Lebas-Fraczak: La forme être en train de comme éclairage de la fonction de l’imparfait Estelle Moline: Mode d’action et interprétation des adverbiaux de manière qu- Patrick Morency: Enrichissement épistémique du futur Adeline Patard et Céline Vermeulen: Essai de représentation de la phrase hypothétique de forme [Si P (IMP), Q (COND)] Agnès Provôt, Jean-Pierre Desclés et Aude Vinzerich: Invariant sémantique du présent de l’indicatif en français Louis de Saussure: L’étrange cas de puis en usages discursif et argumentatif Carl Vetters: Développement et évolution des temps du passé en français : passé simple, passé composé et venir de + infinitif

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Book SynopsisArchitecture and Philosophy: New Perspectives on the Work of Arakawa and Madeline Gins is a collection of essays on the work of artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins and in particular their book Architectural Body (2000). The essays approach their cutting edge and ambitious project to design 'an architecture against death' from various angles and disciplines including aesthetics, architecture, linguistics, philosophy. The papers retrace the place of Architectural Body in the aesthetic landscape of art at the turn of the 21st century and assess the utopian stance of their work.Table of ContentsJean-Jacques Lecercle and Françoise Kral: Preface Jean-Jacques Lecercle: Gins and Arakawa, or The Passage to Materialism Jed Rasula: Endless House—Architectural Body Alan Prohm: Architecture and Poetic Efficacy: Architectural Poetics Fionn C. Bennett: “Autopoietic Event Matrices” in Architecture and in Literature: Wordsworth Talks to Arakawa and Gins Joshua Schuster: How Architecture Became Biotopian: From Meta-Biology to Causal Networks in Arakawa and Gins’ Architectural Body Françoise Kral: Architectural Body as Generative Utopia? Chris L. Smith: Preceding an Architectural Body Jondi Keane: A Bioscleave Report: Constructing the Perceiver Ronald Shusterman: Leafing Through a Universe: Architectural Bodies and Fictional Worlds Simone Rinzler: Arakawa and Gins’s Architectural Body: a Transgeneric Manifesto Linda Pillière: “No Mere Play on Words.” A stylistic Analysis of Architectural Body Authors Appendix

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Table of ContentsDie Herausgeber - Vorwort The editors - Preface Tabula Gratulatoria Runen/Runes Michael P. Barnes: On the status and transliteration of the additional characters of medieval Scandinavian runic writing Alessia Bauer und Peter Pieper: Die S-Fibel von Aschheim: Ein Beitrag zur Sprachgeschichte des Althochdeutschen Lena Peterson: Mansnamnet (ACK.) nuka I U 768 och U 1165 – ett ortografiskt dilemma Michael Schulte: Die sprachliche Deutung der Hogganvik-Inschrift – Ergänzungen zum vorläufigen Bericht Gaby Waxenberger: The Old English Runic Inscription of the Whitby Comb and Modern Technology Henrik Williams: Det inledande personnamnet på en av runstenarna i Danderyds kyrka, U 129 Linguistik, Etymologie/Linguistics, Etymology Wolfgang Beck: donerdutigo. Zur historiola des Zauberspruchs Contra caducum morbum Luc de Grauwe: Altgermanisch, besonders gotisch wilja ‘Gesinnung’ und die umstrittene Interpretation von Lk 2:14 (Vulg. pax hominibus bonae voluntatis) Tette Hofstra: Zum niederländischen Wort zeep und seinen Verwandten Frederik Kortlandt: Where have all the aorists gone? Guus Kroonen: Neuniederländisch zeug ‚Sau‘ und spugen ‚speien’: zwei Beispiele der westgermanischen Velarisierung? Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen: Was sind vindæðar? Muriel Norde: A few notes on the history of Swedish particle verbs Harry Perridon: Long ū in Germanic Marlies Philippa: Over de etymologie van zwichten Wil Pijnenburg: Oudgermanistiek, wat een vak! Over vak, vaak en veken en hun onderlinge relatie Annelies Roeleveld: Verrassend? Toponiemen in het Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands Tanneke Schoonheim: Lat. mare of onl. marc, een nieuwe Oudnederlandse Orosiusglosse? Patrick V. Stiles: The 2.sg. pret. indic. of strong verbs in Frisian: old and new facts and views (with a discussion of Codex Unia thest) Heinrich Tiefenbach: Nordalbingisches Michiel de Vaan: West-Germanic *ai in Frisian Oebele Vries: Toe aer heer ende aegh syoen (‘Zu Ohrenhör und Augensicht’). Eine altfriesische alliterierende Paarformel im Sinnbereich des Zeugenbeweises Sonstig/Other Carla Dauven-van Knippenberg: Das Ostergeschehen im Alsfelder Passionsspiel: ein transgenerischer Analyseversuch Hans Fix: Eine Freundschaft in Briefen. Hugo Gering und Barend Sijmons 1880-1925 Maria Bonner: „Manches ist ansprechend, fast alles scharfsinnig, kaum etwas überzeugend.“ Bewertungen wissenschaftlicher Leistung in den Briefen von Barend Sijmons an Hugo Gering Erika Langbroek: „Vnser leuen frowen rozenkrantz“; ein Mariengebet im Hartebok Henk van der Liet: Iceland: a Postcolonial Literary Landscape? Johan H. Winkelman: Want grote list behort ter minnen (Florisroman, v. 1430). Listmotieven in de Middelnederlandse Floris ende Blancefloer van Diederic van Assenede Mitarbeiter/Contributors Arend Quak - Schriftenverzeichnis/List of Publications

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Book SynopsisThis volume consists of selected papers from the 2009 meeting of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics. The chapters cover aspects of language use (usage-based accounts of morphology/syntax of English and Tok Pisin), language learning (corpus-based learning of English, syntactic development observable in a Learner Corpus of English, “core” vocabulary items for learners of English) and language documentation (a new and innovative usage-based frequency dictionary of English, proposals to broaden the traditional understanding of a corpus in various directions, e.g., constructing a corpus of the content of Japanese manga comics). Taken together, the thirteen chapters represent a good cross-section of strands of new work in corpus linguistics, as practised by international scholars working on English and other languages.Table of ContentsJohn Newman, Sally Rice and Harald Baayen: Introduction Language Use Kristina Geeraert and John Newman: I haven’t drank in weeks: the use of past tense forms as past participles in English corpora Conor Snoek: Irregular –im suffixation in Tok Pisin: exploratory methods in multivariate analysis Gunnar Bergh: Complex extractions in a diachronic perspective Laura Teddiman: Subject ellipsis by text type: an investigation using ICE-GB Language Learning Li-Shih Huang: Language learners as language researchers: the acquisition of English grammar through corpus-aided discovery learning approach mediated by intra- and interpersonal dialogues Laurence Anthony, Kiyomi Chujo and Kathryn Oghigian: A novel, web-based, parallel concordancer for use in the ESL/EFL classroom Christine Johansson and Christer Geisler: Syntactic aspects of the writing of Swedish L2 learners of English Hanhong Li and Alex C. Fang: Age tagging and word frequency for learners’ dictionaries Language Documentation Brian MacWhinney: The expanding horizons of corpus analysis Giancarla Unser-Schutz: Developing a text-based corpus of the language of Japanese comics (manga) Christopher Cox: Corpus linguistics and language documentation: challenges for collaboration Steven H. Weinberger and Stephen A. Kunath: The Speech Accent Archive: towards a typology of English accents Mark Davies and Dee Gardner: Creating and using A frequency dictionary of Contemporary American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists

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Book SynopsisThis book showcases sixteen papers from the landmark 30th conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) held at Lancaster University in May 2009. The theme of the book ‘looking back, moving forward’ follows that of the conference where participants reflected on the extraordinary growth of corpus linguistics over three decades as well as looking ahead to yet further developments in the future. A separate volume, appearing as an e-publication in the VARIENG series from the University of Helsinki focuses on the methodological and historical dimensions of corpus linguistics. This volume features papers on present-day English and the recent history of English via the increasing availability of corpora covering the last hundred years or so of the language. Contributors to the volume study numerous topics and datasets including recent diachronic change, regional and new Englishes, learner corpora, Academic written English, parallel and translation corpora, corpora of popular music pop lyrics and computer-mediated communication. Overall the volume represents the state of the art in English corpus linguistics and a peek into the future directions for the field.Table of ContentsSebastian Hoffmann, Paul Rayson and Geoffrey Leech: Introduction: English corpus linguistics – looking back, moving forward Marcus Callies: The grammaticalization and pragmaticalization of cleft constructions in Present-Day English Signe Oksefjell Ebeling and Paul Wickens: Interpersonal themes and author stance in student writing Thomas Egan: Through seen through the looking glass of translation equivalence: A proposed method for determining closeness of word senses Sara Gesuato: Semantic patterns of HAVE been to V: Corpus data and elicited data Marianne Hundt and Stefanie Dose: Differential change in British and American English: Comparing pre- and post-war data Rolf Kreyer: “Love is like a stove – it burns you when it’s hot”: A corpus-linguistic view on the (non-)creative use of love-related metaphors in pop songs Susan Nacey: Scare quotes in Norwegian L2 English and British English Soili Nokkonen: NEED TO and the domain of Business in spoken British English Svetla Rogatcheva: Perfect problems: A corpus-based comparison of the perfect in Bulgarian and German EFL writing Sylvi Rørvik: Thematic progression in learner language Juhani Rudanko: The transitive into –ing construction in early twentieth-century American English, with evidence from the TIME Corpus Anke Schulz and Elke Teich: The secret life of the negative: An investigation of polarity and modality in a corpus of newsgroup texts Paula Suoniemi: Variation in the progressive in World Englishes: Some preliminary findings Turo Vartiainen: Telicity and the premodifying ing-participle in English Elaine W. Vine and Paul Warren: Corpus, coursebook and psycholinguistic evidence on use and concept: The case of category ambiguity Janina Werner and Joybrato Mukherjee: Highly polysemous verbs in New Englishes: A corpus-based pilot study of Sri Lankan and Indian English

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Book SynopsisDie ostseefinnischen Sprachen enthalten viele alte, d.h. vor etwa 500 A.D. übernommene Wörter germanischer Herkunft. Die germanische Lehnwortschicht reicht teilweise bis in die Jahrhunderte vor unserer Zeitrechnung zurück. Im dreibändigen Werk werden fast 1400 Stichwörter behandelt. Die Autoren stellen nicht nur sichere Lehnwörter vor, sondern auch solche Wörter, die in der Forschungsliteratur zu Unrecht für germanische Lehnwörter gehalten worden sind oder deren germanische Herkunft zweifelhaft ist.Trade Review“Die Auswahl des Materials sowie dessen Bewertung erfolgen auf äußerst sorgfältige und logische Weise, ebenso die Darstellung der Schlussfolgerungen und deren Begründungen […] Alle Erklärungen werden einer eingehenden Prüfung unterzogen, wobei nach ausführlicher Begründung ein Teil verworfen wird. Problempunkte werden direkt und ohne Umschweife zur Sprache gebracht, auch solche Punkte, die nicht endgültig geklärt werden konnten Die Quellenangaben verweisen auf zusätzliche Informationsquellen […] Dieses Buch kann man wärmstens empfehlen.” – Prof. Kaisa Häkkinen, in: Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 61 (2012), 224-225Table of ContentsVorwort Abkürzungen Literaturverzeichnis Wörterbuch

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Book SynopsisThe present volume includes a selection of 20 papers from the 31st Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), held in Giessen (Germany) in May 2010. The conference topic was “Corpus linguistics and variation in English”. All the papers included in the present Conference Proceedings capture aspects of variation in language use on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive insights, and/or new methods of utilising corpora for the description of language variation. Of particular interest are the five plenary papers that are included in the present volume, focusing on corpus-based approaches to variation in language from different disciplinary perspectives: Stefan Th. Gries (quantitative-statistical descriptions of variation and corpora), Michaela Mahlberg (stylistic variation and corpora), Miriam Meyerhoff (variational sociolinguistics and corpora), Edgar W. Schneider (regional variation and corpora) and Elizabeth C. Traugott (historical variation/grammaticalization and corpora).Table of ContentsJoybrato Mukherjee and Magnus Huber: Introduction: Corpus linguistics and variation in English Gisle Andersen: Listenership in polylogic discourse Marina Bondi and Corrado Seidenari: and now I’m finally of the mind to say i hope the whole ship goes down…: Markers of subjectivity and evaluative phraseology in blogs Doris R. Dant: Using COCA to evaluate The Chicago Manual of Style’s usage prescriptions Stefan Th. Gries: Corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and cognitive/psycholinguistics: Towards more and more fruitful exchanges Hans Martin Lehmann and Gerold Schneider: Syntactic variation and lexical preference in the dative-shift alternation Michaela Mahlberg: The corpus stylistic analysis of fiction – or the fiction of corpus stylistics? Manfred Markus: How can Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary be used as a corpus? Miriam Meyerhoff: Uncovering hidden constraints in micro-corpora of contact Englishes Hagen Peukert: Hidden structures in English corpora Thomas Proisl: Automatically exploring lexical tendencies in English Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras: Exemplifying constructions with for example and for instance as markers: A historical account Patricia Ronan: Modal would as a pragmatic softener in ICE Ireland Juhani Rudanko: “Talked the council out of adopting any resolution”: On the transitive out of –ing construction in American English Edgar W. Schneider: Tracking the evolution of vernaculars: Corpus linguistics and earlier Southern US Englishes Stefania Spina: Methodological issues in a television news corpus: Discourse and annotation Michael Stubbs: Corpora and texts: Lexis and text structure Elizabeth Closs Traugott: On the persistence of ambiguous linguistic contexts over time: Implications for corpus research on micro-changes Turo Vartiainen and Jefrey Lijffijt: Premodifying -ing participles in the parsed BNC

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Book SynopsisThe fruits of Anglo-Saxon learning continue to captivate Anglo-Saxonists and scholars of natural science and medicine, witness recent publications such as Martin Blake’s edition of Ælfric's De temporibus anni (2009), and the proceedings of the Storehouses of Wholesome Learning and Leornungcræft projects. In 1992, Stephanie Hollis and Michael Wright took stock of secular learning in the vernacular, in their monumental annotated bibliography Old English Prose of Secular Learning. The present volume surveys and evaluates advances in the study of Anglo-Saxon secular learning from the past two decades. It also consolidates an ongoing interest in scholarship by Anglo-Saxons by presenting nine original essays that focus on the disciplines of law, encyclopaedic notes, computus, medicine, charms, and prognostication, with a focus on learning in the vernacular, or the relationship between Latin and the vernacular. This volume is of interest for Anglo-Saxonists who work with vernacular sources of learning, and for historians of law, natural science, medicine, divination and magic.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Works Cited in Abbreviated Form László Sándor Chardonnens and Bryan Carella: Introducing Old English Secular Learning Stephanie Hollis: Anglo-Saxon Secular Learning and the Vernacular: an Overview Stefan Jurasinski: Slavery, Learning and the Law of Marriage in Alfred’s Mosaic Prologue Kees Dekker: The Vernacularization of Encyclopaedic Notes in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts Sarah Harlan-Haughey: The Burning Sun: Landscape and Knowledge in Exodus Kazutomo Karasawa: The Prose and the Verse Menologium in the Tradition of Elementary Computistical Education in Late Anglo-Saxon England Anne Russcher and Rolf H. Bremmer Jr: ‘For a Broken Limb’: Fracture Treatment in Anglo-Saxon England B. R. Hutcheson: Wið dweorh: an Anglo-Saxon Remedy for Fever in its Cultural and Manuscript Setting Rosanne Hebing: The Textual Tradition of Heavenly Letter Charms in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts László Sándor Chardonnens: The Old English Alphabet Prognostic as a Prototype for Mantic Alphabets Contributors Index of Manuscripts

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Book SynopsisThis volume is the 10th issue of Variants. In keeping with the mission of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, the articles are richly interdisciplinary and transnational. They bring to bear a wide range of topics and disciplines on the field of textual scholarship: historical linguistics, digital scholarly editing, classical philology, Dutch, English, Finnish and Swedish Literature, publishing traditions in Japan, book history, cultural history and folklore. The questions that are explored — what texts are worth editing? what is the nature of the relationship between text, work, document and book? what is a critical digital edition? — all return to fundamental issues that have been at the heart of the editorial discipline for decades. With refreshing insight they assess the increasingly hybrid nature of the theoretical considerations and practical methodologies employed by textual scholars, while reasserting the relevance and need for producing scholarly editions, whether in print or digital, and continuing advanced research in bibliographical codes, textual transmissions, genetic dossiers, the fluidity of texts and other such subjects that connect textual scholarship with broader investigations into our nations’ literary culture and written heritage.Table of ContentsEditor's Preface Notification and Corrigendum Essays Teresa Marqués-Aguado: Editions of Middle English Texts and Linguistic Research: Desiderata regarding Palaeography and Editorial Practices Pietro G. Beltrami: Textual Criticism and Historical Dictionaries Tara L. Andrews: The Third Way: Philology and Critical Edition in the Digital Age Franz Fischer: All texts are equal, but... Textual Plurality and the Critical Text in Digital Scholarly Editions Annemarie Kets: Texts Worth Editing: Polyperspectival Corpora of Letters Peter Robinson: Towards a Theory of Digital Editions Wim Van Mierlo: Reflections on Textual Editing in the Time of the History of the Book Veijo Pulkkinen: A Genetic and Semiotic Approach to the Bibliographical Code Exemplified by the Typography of Aaro Hellaakoski’s “Dolce far Niente” Jon Viklund: Gunnar Ekelöf and the Rustle of Language: Genetic Readings of a Modernist Poetic OEuvre Giedrė Jankevičiūtė and Mikas Vaicekauskas: An Omnipotent Tradition: The Illustrations of Kristijonas Donelaitis’s Poem Metai and the Creation of a Visual Canon David Atkinson: Are Broadside Ballads Worth Editing? Kiyoko Myojo: The Functions of Zenshū in Japanese Book Culture: Practices and Problems of Modern Textual Editing in Japan Work in Progress Arianna Antonielli and Mark Nixon: Towards an Edition of Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats’s The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical Book Reviews Sarah Laseke: Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath, Authorship and First-Person Allegory in Late Medieval France and England Orietta Da Rold: Michael Calabrese, Hoyt N. Duggan, and Thorlac Turville- Petre, eds., The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, 6: San Marino, Huntington Library Hm 128 (Hm. Hm2): William Langland, SEENET, A.9 Sandra Clark: Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works. Eds. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino Wim Van Mierlo: Charles Dickens, The Manuscript of Great Expectations: From the Townshend Collection, Wisbech Geert Lernout: David Butterfield and Christopher Stray, eds., A. E. Housman: Classical Scholar Pim Verhulst: Mark Nixon, ed., Publishing Samuel Beckett Iain Bailey: Dirk Van Hulle, The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Stirrings Still/Sou¬bresauts and Comment dire/What is the Word and Samuel Beckett. Stirrings Still/Soubresauts and Comment dire/What is the Word. Eds. Dirk Van Hulle and Vincent Neyt Adam Smyth: Sukanta Chaudhuri, The Metaphysics of Text Geert Lernout: Joseph A. Dane, Out of Sorts: On Typography and Print Culture Notes on the Contributors

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Table of ContentsPaul Peterson: An Old Problem in Etymology Revisited: The Origin of Germanic Nouns with the Suffix –ster Roland Schuhmann: Eine Miszelle zum Giessener gotisch-lateinischen Bibelfragment Luca Panieri: Überlegungen zur nordischen Entwicklung von germ. */ē1/ in Endsilbe Martin Hannes Graf und Michelle Waldispühl: Neues zu den Runeninschriften von Eichstetten, Schwangau, Steindorf und Neudingen-Baar II Diether Schürr: Sunufatarunga und die Erfindung des Hiltibrantliedes Marco Mostert: Communicating the Faith: the Circle of Boniface, Germanic Vernaculars, and Frisian and Saxon Converts Bernard Mees: Weaving Words. Law and Performance in Early Nordic Tradition Riemer Reinsma: French (or would-be French) Toponyms in the Netherlands Special Issue Section: Sovereigns and Saints. Narrative Modes of Constructing Rulership and Sainthood in Latin and German (Rhyme) Chronicles of the High and The Late Middle Ages Uta Goerlitz: Introduction: Cultural Integrative Figures at the Intersection of Rulership and Sainthood in Medieval Chronicles Andreas Hammer: Interferences between Hagiography and Historiography: Bishop Ulrich of Augsburg and Emperor Henry II Uta Goerlitz: Karl was ain wârer gotes wîgant. Problems of Interpreting the Figure of Charlemagne in the Early Middle High German Kaiserchronik Annette Güntzel: Godfrey of Bouillon: the Stylization of an Ideal Ruler in Universal Chronicles of the 12th and 13th Centuries Stephanie Seidl: Beyond all Logic? Narrative Relations between Secular Rule and Divine Grace in the Constantine Episode of Jans’s Weltchronik Besprechungen

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Book SynopsisQu’il s’agisse de temps verbaux, d’auxiliaires, d’adverbes ou de conjonctions, la plupart des marqueurs temporels et modaux font preuve d’une grande flexibilité sémantique, qui se manifeste à travers leurs emplois dans des contextes différents. Les contributions réunies dans ce volume s’intéressent en majorité aux emplois d’une série de marqueurs du français (« hexagonal » ou non), mais aussi au fonctionnement de marqueurs d’autres langues (par exemple de l’espagnol ou du birman). Elles s’efforcent de décrire d’une façon détaillée les différentes interprétations de ces marqueurs, en privilégiant souvent des usages moins fréquents ou atypiques (le présent « prototypisant », les emplois postmodaux de pouvoir, etc.) et des contextes d’emploi moins fréquemment analysés dans la littérature (rubriques nécrologiques, reportages sportifs, articles législatifs, etc.). Les auteurs apportent ainsi des mises au point éclairantes sur la relation existant entre les emplois temporels, modaux ou évidentiels des temps verbaux (comme le futur simple ou le conditionnel), mais aussi sur la relation entre emplois temporels et emplois discursifs ou argumentatifs d’adverbes dits « temporels ». Le volume contribue de cette façon à une meilleure compréhension de la polyvalence sémantique en général et en particulier à celle des marqueurs temporels et modaux étudiés dans ce volume.Table of ContentsWalter De Mulder: Introduction Temps de l’indicatif Jacques Bres: Les plus dèsaccordés sont les temps les plus beaux… De la production des différents effets de sens en discours Christian Surcouf: L’imparfait nuit-il gravement à la santé? Une analyse de l’inférence dans « Qui est-ce ? C’était ton fils » Guy Achard-Bayle: De si à l’imparfait, l’hypothèse polyphonique: modus & dictum, fiction & diction Cyrille Granget: L’encodage de la valeur mirative dans l’acquisition du français langue seconde Yvon Keromnes: Le plus-que-parfait dans le récit, une étude trilingue: sens, morphologie et contexte Emmanuelle Labeau: Regrets éternels: le PS disparaîtrait-il de la rubrique nécrologique? Emmanuelle Labeau et Carl Vetters: Le passé simple est-il toujours en course? Enquête sur la position du PS dans le peloton des temps du reportage cycliste Marcel Vuillaume: Le présent de reportage dans la presse écrite Rose-Marie Gerbe: Du substantif déverbal au présent de l’indicatif: quand la prototypie s’en mêle Mikhail Kissine: Modalité et marquage du futur Viara Bourova et Patrick Dendale: Serait-ce un conditionnel de conjecture? Datation, évolution et mise en relation des deux conditionnels à valeur évidentielle Emplois « atypiques » dans les variétés du français à l’étranger Charlotte Lindgren: Emploi des temps du passé dans des récits d’enfants francophones en Suède, à partir de livres illustrés Kogh Pascal Somé: Français écrit du Burkina Faso et potentialités du système des temps du français « Polyfonctionnalité » des lexèmes verbaux dans des langues étrangères José Amenós-Pons: Pretérito indefinido vs passé simple: l’inversion temporelle en espagnol (et en français) Luis García Fernández: Une analyse statique du progressif Alice Vittrant: Modalité et temporalité en birman vernaculaire: l’exemple du développement modal du morphème spatio-temporel /Khε1/ Différents emplois des verbes « modaux » Alexandra Kratschmer: Catégorisation vs comparaison : une question de quantification épistémique. Modèle interprétatif sémantico-pragmatique modulaire des constructions italiennes avec sembrare/parere Cécile Barbet et Carl Vetters: Pour une étude diachronique du verbe modal pouvoir en français : les emplois « postmodaux » « Adverbiaux » et conjonctions temporels Louis de Saussure et Patrick Morency: Adverbiaux temporels et sériels en usage discursif Denis Apothéloz et Małgorzata Nowakowska: « Déjà » et le sens des énoncés Andrée Borillo et Anne Le Draoulec: Jusqu’ici/jusque-là entre espace et temps Christopher Piñón: Soudain Christophe Benzitoun: Faut-il remettre les pendules de la subordination temporelle à l’heure? Description de deux fonctionnements de quand et avant que/de

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Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive study of the Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic. It includes an investigation of all Germanic words that were borrowed into Proto-Slavic until its disintegration in the early ninth century. Research into the phonology, morphology and semantics of the loanwords serves as the basis of an investigation into the Germanic donor languages of the individual loanwords. The loanwords can be shown to be mainly of Gothic, High German and Low German origin. One of the aims of the present study is to clarify the accentuation of Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic and to explain how they were adapted to the Proto-Slavic accentual system. This volume is of special interest to scholars and students of Slavic and Germanic historical linguistics, contact linguistics and Slavic accentology.Trade Review"the book under review could hardly have been more welcome. ... GLPS [The Germanic Loanwords in Proto-Slavic] will finally supplant Kiparsky's 80-year-old PhD thesis as the standard work on Germanic-Slavic contacts" Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen Bd. 62, Heft 1–3 "Aufs Ganze gesehen bietet die Untersuchung eine solide und umfassende Betrachtung des Themas, für die man der Verfasserin zu Dank verpflichtet ist." Die Welt der Slaven - Internationale Halbjahresschrift für Slavistik ”ein wichtiger und unumgänglicher Beitrag zur historischen Erforschung des slavischen Wortschatzes” in: Slavia CentralisTable of ContentsPreface List of abbreviations Introduction Aim and structure Linguistic sources and terminology Monographs on Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic The Proto-Slavic prosodic system Introduction AP (a) AP (b) AP (c) AP (d)? Research history on the accentuation of Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic Meillet (1909), Lehr-Spławiński (1929) Stender-Petersen (1927), Kiparsky (1934) Kuryłowicz (1951, 1952) Reception of Kuryłowicz (1951, 1952) Language contact between Proto-Slavic and Germanic tribes The Germanic and Slavic homelands Slavic expansion towards the Roman Empire Slavic expansion towards the west and the later Frankish Empire Proto-Slavic loanwords in Germanic Conclusion Excursus I: Loanwords from and into Latin and early Romance Excursus II: ‘Temematic’ substrate in Proto-Slavic The main corpus: Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic Introduction Loanwords with AP (a) Loanwords with AP (b) and a heavy syllabic nucleus Loanwords with AP (b) and a light syllabic nucleus Loanwords with AP (c) Loanwords with an unknown AP Words that cannot be regarded as certain Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic Introduction Later loanwords from Germanic (a selection) Loanwords of Latin or Germanic origin Words of indeterminable origin Words that cannot be regarded as Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic The origin of the loanwords Introduction Phonological adaptation of the loanwords Morphological adaptation of the loanwords Semantic layering of the loanwords Accentological analysis of the material Summary and introduction Presentation of the material according to their Germanic origin Discussion of the material Bibliography Bibliographic abbreviations References Index

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Book SynopsisFinancial disclosure has become a crucial component of corporate communication. Through this process, companies aim to provide information and project an image of trustworthiness in response to on-going ethical concerns in the world of finance. Rhetoric in financial discourse provides new insights into how companies communicate with key stakeholders, not only to boost transparency, but also to attract investment. The book offers an in-depth linguistic analysis of the rhetorical dimension of financial communication. It focuses on two technology-mediated genres which are widely used, yet remain largely unexplored from a rhetorical perspective: earnings presentations and earnings releases. Using an innovative methodological approach, the book shows how corporate speakers and writers use distinctive rhetorical strategies to achieve their professional goals. It includes a practical discussion of how the findings can be exploited to develop state-of-the-art corporate communication courses and to improve the effectiveness of financial disclosure in professional settings. The book contributes to an enhanced understanding of the language of finance, representing a discourse community that involves and impacts the lives of many people around the world. It will be of interest to several communities of practice, including language researchers, discourse analysts, corpus linguists, finance and communication academics, students of business and finance, and professionals of financial communication.Table of ContentsList of tables and figures Acknowledgements Introduction Financial disclosure The three-pronged analytical approach Evaluation as a rhetorical strategy Methodology Structural analysis Attitude: evaluative adjectives Engagement: concessive connectives Graduation: intensifiers and mitigators Final considerations References Appendix 1: Keyness scores in the EP corpus Appendix 2: Keyness scores in the ER corpus Appendix 3: Evaluative adjectives in the EP corpus Appendix 4: Evaluative adjectives in the ER corpus

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Table of ContentsElvira Glaser & Marja Clement: Vorwort zu diesem Band Stefan Sonderegger: Niederländisch-schweizerische Berührungen um die Anfänge einer germanischen Philologie im 16. Jahrhundert Jelle Stegeman: Niederländische Sprache als Gegenstand der Geschichtsschreibung Ludwig Rübekeil: Frühgeschichte und Sprachgeschichte in den Niederlanden Luzius Thöny: Zum diachronen Verhalten von Diphthongen in einigen germanischen Sprachen Alexander Schwager: Methodisches zur graphematischen Erschließung des Leidener Willeram im Hinblick auf das Altniederländische Chris de Wulf: Van af naar van Elvira Glaser & Marja Clement: Deutsche Syntax im Lichte des Niederländischen: bekommen-Periphrasen Arend Quak: Niederlandismen bei Oswald von Wolkenstein Besprechungen Peter Seidensticker: Aisthesis, Wahrnehmung der Farben in den Pflanzenbeschreibungen der frühen deutschen Kräuterbücher (Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik (ZDL). Beiheft 139), Stuttgart 2010 (Luc de Grauwe) Nadine Krolla: Erzählen in der Bewährungsprobe. Studien zur Interpretation und Kontextualisierung der Karlsdichtung „Morant und Galie“ (Philologische Studien und Quellen. Herausgegeben von Jürgen Schiewe, Hartmut Steinecke und Horst Wenzel in Zusammenarbeit mit Jens Pfeiffer, Heft 239). - Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2012 (Cobie Kuné)

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Book SynopsisThis book is a study of the relatively unknown field of Baltic linguistic historiography associated with the 16th century. This has been the saeculum mirabile of Baltic philology, not only on account of the first books having appeared during that period, but also due to the diverse linguistic ideas about the Baltic languages which were circulating during Renaissance Palaeocomparativism: the Slavic and the closely connected Illyrian theory, the Latin theory (with its variants: the semi-Latin, the neo-Latin, and the Wallachian), also the Quadripartite theory. Minor but significant linguistic ideas are also discussed here, for example the emergence of a Hebrew theory and the Greek theory about Old Prussian. The synoptic juxtaposition of the different ideas shows very well the state of knowledge in Europe about the languages which later would be called ‘Baltic’ and the modernity of those ideas within European Renaissance linguistic debate leading to the rise of comparative linguistic genealogy.Trade Review"provides interesting background information for the scholar of Baltic linguistics, and can indeed serve as a “prelude” to the field." - Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 59, Nr. 4 (Winter 2015)Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Palaeocomparativism and Earliest Baltic Linguistics Chapter 2: The Slav Theory and Polyglossia in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Chapter 3: An Illyrian Theory of the Baltic Languages Chapter 4: The Latin Theory and the Vilnius Latinizers Chapter 5: Polyglossia and Linguistic Variations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Quadripartite Theory Chapter 6: The Idea that Prussian derives from Greek Chapter 7: The Emergence of a Hebrew Theory Chapter 8: Marcin Bielski’s ideas on the Lithuanian Chapter 9: The Disappearance of the Baltic languages in Edward Brerewood’s Enqvireies (1614) Chapter 10: Concluding Remarks: Was there a Baltistics before Baltistics? Notes Sources References

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores a number of key dimensions of EFL teacher education. The sixteen chapters discuss a wide variety of issues related to second language pedagogy and SLTE (Second Language Teacher Education). It will be of interest to teachers-in-training, teachers, teacher educators and to those educational researchers interested in how L2 teaching is actually learned in professional preparation programmes.Table of ContentsJack C. Richards: Foreword Preface Section I: Theoretical perspectives and approaches to L2 teacher education Juana Mª Liceras: Incorporating second language acquisition research into teacher education Daniel Madrid Fernández: Integrating the European Portfolio in a competency-based teacher education approach Mª del Pilar Montijano Cabrera and Dawn Leggott: Action research in English as a foreign language teacher training in Spain: Trainees’ perception of their development of competencies for effective teaching and a comparison with language teacher competency development in the UK Marie-Christine Deyrich and Kari Stunnel: Language teacher education models: New issues and challenges Muriel Grosbois: Practicum experience in teacher education: Is experience the best teacher? Nicos C. Sifakis: Teaching pronunciation in the post-EFL area: Lessons from ELF and implications for teacher education Sophia Papaefthymiou-Lytra: The importance of developing multicultural awareness in EFL teacher education Section II: Teacher identity construction: Emotional and cognitive dimensions of teaching Paul A. Schutz and Mikyoung Lee: Teacher emotion, emotional labor and teacher identity María E. Torres-Guzmán and Patricia Martínez Álvarez: NNS imagining a future self as teachers in bilingual education Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo: Beliefs in learning to teach: EFL student teachers’ beliefs about corrective feedback Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo and Ian Robinson: Native or non-native? The nativeness factor from the student teachers’ perspective Section III: Lesson plans and classroom materials and resources Mª Sagrario Salaberri Ramiro, Nazmi Abdul-Salam Al-Masri and Mª del Mar Sánchez Pérez: Teaching and learning how to plan lessons for EFL classrooms: Implementation of classroom techniques and activities Mª del Pilar Montijano Cabrera: Textbook use training in EFL teacher education Gabriele Azzaro: Human drive and humanistic technologies in ELT training Section IV: Focus on CLIL and ESP teacher education Christina Brüning and Maja-Svea Purrmann: CLIL pedagogy in Europe: CLIL teacher education in Germany Eduarda Melo Cabrita, Isabel Ferro Mealha and Rita Queiroz de Barros: Challenges facing pre-service ESP teacher education: Legal and medical English Notes on contributors

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Book SynopsisThis volume, Dutch Contributions to the Fifteenth International Congress of Slavists (Minsk, 2013) presents a comprehensive overview of current Slavic linguistic research in the Netherlands, and covers its various linguistic disciplines (both synchronic and diachronic linguistics, language acquisition, history of linguistics) and subdomains (phonology, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, text). The different chapters in this peer-reviewed volume show the strong data-oriented tradition of Dutch linguistics and focus on various topics: the use of imperative subjects in birchbark letters (Dekker), the existential construction in Russian (Fortuin), Jakovlev’s formula for designing an alphabet with an optimal number of graphemes (Van Helden), frequency effects on the acquisition of Polish and Russian nominal flexion paradigms (Janssen), Macedonian verbal aspect (Kamphuis), the concept of ‘communicatively heterogeneous texts’ in connection with three birchbark letters from medieval Rus’ (Schaeken), a philological analysis of the authorship of some Cyrillic manuscripts (Veder), a reconstruction of the evolution of the Slavic system of obstruents: the motivation of mergers and the rise of dialect differences (Vermeer), and a contrastive analysis of Russian delat’ and Dutch doen (Honselaar and Podgaevskaja). With a well-known cast of contributors, this reference work will be of interest to researchers in both Slavic and general linguistics.Table of ContentsSimeon Dekker: Communicative Heterogeneity in Novgorod Birchbark Letters: A Case Study into the Use of Imperative Subjects Egbert Fortuin: The Existential Construction in Russian: A Semantic-Syntactic Approach Andries van Helden: Jakovlev’s Magic Formula and the Linotype Bibi Janssen: Frequency Effects on the Acquisition of Polish and Russian Gender Morphology Jaap Kamphuis: Macedonian Verbal Aspect: East or West? Jos Schaeken: Don’t Shoot the Messenger: Part Two Pragmaphilological Notes on Birchbark Letters Nos. 497 and 771 from Novgorod and No. 2 from Zvenyhorod William Veder: Recoding: The Eight Homilies Attributed to Cyril of Turov Willem Vermeer: Early Slavic Dialect Differences Involving the Consonant System Wim Honselaar & Alla Peeters-Podgaevskaja: Glagoly doen i delat’: brat’ja-bliznecy ili dal’nie rodstvenniki?

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Book SynopsisThe ways in which we represent animals say much about who we are, who we strive to be, and our often conflicting ideas about our relationships with nonhuman species. Whether the animal is seen as someone with whom we can relate and feel kinship or conceived of as the radical other, popular cultural descriptions of animals are often – if not always – indirect descriptions of ourselves. The contributions to this volume offer a unique panorama of academic and literary approaches, demonstrating that an analysis of cultural representations and constructions of animals is indispensable for a better understanding of the interface of human culture and the so-called animal world.Table of ContentsMorten Tønnessen and Kadri Tüür: The semiotics of animal representations Part I: From Shepherding To Colonisation Louise Westling: The zoosemiotics of sheep herding with dogs David Rothenberg: Avian aesthetics: The representation of bird song from music to science Christos Lynteris: Speaking marmots, deaf hunters: Animal–human semiotic breakdown as the imagined cause of the Manchurian pneumonic plague of 1910–11 Part II: From Illustration To Show Adam Dodd: Entomological rhetoric and the fabrication of the insect world Larissa Budde: “Back on the menu”: Humans, insectoid aliens and the creation of ecophobia in science fiction Graham Huggan: Attenborough’s natural history films: The evolutionary epic Part III: From Life Writing To Nature Writing Taija Kaarlenkaski: Communicating with the cow: Human–animal interaction in written narratives Maki Eguchi: The representation of sheep in modern Japanese literature from Natsume Sōseki to Murakami Haruki Sandra Mänty: Animal representation in the Harry Potter series Kadri Tüür: Like a fish out of water: Literary representations of fish Part IV: From Mind To Value Wendy Wheeler: Thought without concepts in Angels and Insects: A.S. Byatt as crypto-biosemiotician W. John Coletta: A Peircean semiotic model for describing the anti-Oedipal structure of “humanimal” selves Ralph R. Acampora: The (proto-)ethical significance of semiosis: When and how does one become somebody who matters? List of contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis study explores the history of the language of Tönnies Fonne’s Russian-German phrasebook by careful textological analysis and by comparing the text with the earlier phrasebook of Thomas Schroue, this study lays bare the modus operandi of the scribe and shows how the scribe acted as an agent of change when a phrasebook was handed down from one generation to the other.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of abbreviations Legend and editorial remarks Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The scribe and his work Chapter 3: The phrasebook as a copy Chapter 4: Exploring textual depth Chapter 5: Spelling and sounds Chapter 6: Nominal and pronominal forms Chapter 7: Verbal forms Chapter 8: Russian and German Chapter 9: Conclusions References Appendix A. Tables of Contents (F, S, A) Appendix B. Concordance (F, S, A) Appendix C. List of numbered phrases from F Appendix D. Electronic text edition (e-book)

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Table of ContentsMichiel de Vaan: West Germanic *þþ and *þm in Dutch Arjen Versloot: The Runic Frisian Vowel System. The earliest history of Frisian and Proto-Insular North Frisian Diether Schürr: Luttila im Hiltibrantlied Katerina Somers: The Intersection between Syntax and Meter in the Old Saxon Hêliand Haukur Þorgeirsson: The Origin of Faroese ta Reinhard Bleck: Walther von der Vogelweide: Ich wil nu teilen, ê ich var (L 60,34/183,1) Adam Oberlin: The Face of Minnesang: Kinnegrams, Corporeal Phraseology, and Emotional Expressions Friedrich Michael Dimpel: ‚des muoz ich ûf genâde lônes bîten‘ (MF 194,33). Ambivalenzen der Lohn-Metapher bei Reinmar und im ‚Mauritius von Craun‘ Lorenzo Lozzi Gallo: Thomasin von Zirklære and German-Hungarian Relations in Thirteenth-Century German Literature Nicola Zotz: The Changing (Con)Text of a MHG Märe: Interpreting scribal readings in the ‘Almosen Manuscripts’ Albrecht Classen: Anticlericalism and Criticism of Clerics in Medieval and Early-Modern German Literature Besprechungen Joseph Salmons. A History of German. What the past reveals about today's language, Oxford 2012 (Arend Quak) Martin van Schaik. Der musikalische Wortschatz von Notker Labeo. Wortkonkordanz und musikbezogener Kommentar (Varia Musicologica. Hg. v. Peter Maria Krakauer), Bern-Berlin-Bruxelles-Frankfurt am Main-New York-Oxford-Wien 2012 (Arend Quak) Angelika O’Sullivan. Waffenbezeichnungen in althochdeutschen Glossen. Sprach- und kulturhistorische Analysen und Wörterbuch (Lingua Historica Germanica. Studien und Quellen zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, Band 5), Berlin 2013 (Arend Quak) Approaching the Viking Age. Proceedings of the international conference on Old Norse literature, mythology, culture, social life and language 11-13 October 2007, Vilnius, Lithuania (Centre of Scandinavian Studies Vilnius University). Edited by Erika Sausverde and Ieva Steponavičiute, Vilnius 2009 (Arend Quak) Quellen zur Geschichte des Reisens im Spätmittelalter. Ausgewählt und übersetzt von Folker Reichert unter Mitarbeit von Margit Stolberg-Vowinckel (Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters. Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe Bd. 46). Darmstadt 2009 (Arend Quak) Klaus von See, Beatrice la Farge, Eve Picard, Katja Schulz, Matthias Teichert. Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda. Bd. VI: Heldenlieder, Heidelberg 2009; Klaus von See, Beatrice la Farge, Simone Horst, Katja Schulz, Kommentar zu den Liedern der Edda. Bd. VII: Heldenlieder, Heidelberg 2012 (Kees Samplonius) Matthias Egeler. Celtic Influences in Germanic Religion. A survey (Münchner Nordistische Studien 15), München 2013 (Lauran Torians)

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Book SynopsisThis book is a selection of studies presented at the 33rd International Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), hosted by the University of Leuven (30 May - 3 June 2012). The strictly refereed and extensively revised contributions collected here represent recent advances in corpus linguistics, both in the development of specialist corpora and in ways of exploiting them for specific purposes. The first part focuses on “Corpus development and corpus interrogation” and features papers on the compilation of new, highly specialized corpora which aim to fill gaps in historical databases, and on new ways of extracting relevant patterns automatically from computerized datasets. The second part, devoted to “Specialist corpora”, presents detailed descriptive studies on grammatical patterns in World Englishes, on neology, and – using a contrastive approach – on prepositions and cohesive conjunctions. The third and final part on “Second language acquisition” groups together studies situated at the intersection of corpus linguistics and educational linguistics and dealing with markers of relevance and lesser relevance in lectures, deceptive cognates, the automatic annotation of native and non-native uses of demonstrative this and that, and measuring learners’ progress in speech and in writing. Each contribution in its own way reports on novel ways of getting mileage out of specialist corpora, and collectively the contributions attest to the rude health of computerized corpus linguistic studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Kristin Davidse, Caroline Gentens, Ditte Kimps and Lieven Vandelanotte: Introduction Part 1. Corpus development and corpus interrogation Anita Auer, Mikko Laitinen, Moragh Gordon and Tony Fairman: An electronic corpus of Letters of Artisans and the Labouring Poor (England, c. 1750-1835): compilation principles and coding conventions Joan C. Beal and Ranjan Sen: Towards a corpus of eighteenth-century English phonology Gregory Garretson and Henrik Kaatari: The computer as research assistant: a new approach to variable patterns in corpus data Marco Schilk: Using currency annotated part of speech tag profiles for the study of linguistic variation – a data exploration of the International Corpus of English Franck Zumstein: Are word-stress variants in lexicophonetic corpora exceptional cases or regular forms? Part 2. Specialist corpora Peter Collins, Xinyue Yao and Ariane Borlongan: Relative clauses in Philippine English: a diachronic perspective Marco Schilk and Marc Hammel: The progressive in South Asian and Southeast Asian varieties of English – mapping areal homogeneity and heterogeneity Antoinette Renouf: Neology: from word to register Thomas Egan and Gudrun Rawoens: English amid(st) and among(st): a contrastive approach based on Norwegian and Swedish translation Kerstin Kunz and Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski: Cohesive conjunctions in English and German: systemic contrasts and textual differences Part 3. Second language acquisition Katrien L. B. Deroey: “Anyway, the point I’m making is”: lexicogrammatical relevance marking in lectures M. Luisa Roca-Valera: Faux amis in speech and writing: a corpus-based study of English false friends in the production of Spanish students Thomas Gaillat, Pascale Sébillot and Nicolas Ballier: Automated classification of unexpected uses of this and that in a learner corpus of English †Monique van der Haagen, Pieter de Haan and Rina de Vries: Crude contours: a pilot study into the feasibility of charting student speakers’ proficiency Pieter de Haan and †Monique van der Haagen: A longitudinal study of the syntactic development of very advanced Dutch EFL writing

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