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A growing number of studies have begun to examine the influence of language-specific factors... Læs mere
This volume moves the investigation of World Englishes beyond the processes of indigenization and evolution, focusing on the emergence of native speakers and their role in shaping the norms and standards of postcolonial varieties.
Africa is one of the hotspots of linguistic diversity, and most African languages are spoken by multilingual communities. This volume deals with... Læs mere
Describing all the basic phonetic and phonological structures of modern Japanese with main focus on standard Tokyo Japanese. This book presents a summary of interesting questions that remain unsolved in the literature.
Mushin provides the first full grammatical description of Garrwa, a critically endangered language of the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria region in Northern Australia. Garrwa... Læs mere
The still largely mysterious question of how hierarchical linguistic structures are converted into sequentially ordered linear strings is the challenging problem at the heart of this volume.
In pragmatics, it is widely accepted that the overall meaning of an utterance performed as part of a verbal interchange is underdetermined by the meaning of... Læs mere
Examines how people use a range of different modalities to negotiate, influence, and/or project their own or other people's identities. This book... Læs mere
This volume approaches current multilingualism as a new linguistic dispensation, in urgent need of research-led, reflective scrutiny. The book... Læs mere
The Solomon Islands has a rich linguistic heritage of over 60 languages, many of which have not been described in detail. This book contains over 3900 entries, which are typically illustrated with examples of natural language.
Approaches contact languages from two perspectives: an historical linguistic perspective, more specifically from a viewpoint of genealogical linguistics, language... Læs mere