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The impressive selection of languages and linguistic topics dealt with in this book underlines the diversity of the Tibeto-Burman languages in Central and South Asia and highlights their place within present-day linguistic research.
Explores the different approaches to the definition and measurement of the sense of humor and its components. This book provides an overview of historic approaches and a compendium of humor inventories and humor traits that have been studied.
Shows that Scandinavian object shift and so-called A-scrambling in the continental Germanic languages are the same. This study intends... Læs mere
Addresses the constructional variability with transitive and causative verbs from the point of view of their... Læs mere
A collection of studies that analyse the noun phrase within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), a version of Functional Grammar as... Læs mere
Offers a comprehensive, primarily descriptive, investigation of important trends in the evolution of Italian object pronouns. This book provides a characterization of... Læs mere
Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? This volume offers a spectrum of ways to elucidate these questions.
Offers a detailed account of the influence of English in German based on a large scale corpus analysis of the newsmagazine... Læs mere
This study argues that the domain traditionally covered by `coordination’ and `subordination’ in English can be neatly subdivided into four distinct construction types which differ in the grammatical encoding of speaker-attitude and speaker-interlocutor interaction.
Through the use of a methodological framework combining typology, comparative linguistics, historical morphology, and quantitative... Læs mere