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Pacific Pidgins and Creoles discusses the complex and fascinating history of English-based pidgins in the Pacific, especially the three closely related Melanesian pidgins: Tok Pisin, Pijin, and Bislama.
Although there is still no general agreement on the exact functions of linguistic pragmatics and the fields of activity it covers, it can be understood... Læs mere
The contributions to this volume reflect the state of the art in the renewed discussion on the origin of language. Some of the most important specialists in the... Læs mere
An impressive array of papers situated within a feminist poststructuralist framework demonstrates how this framework allows for a deeper understanding of second language learning, a number of language contact phenomena, intercultural communication, and critical language pedagogy.
The papers in this book are all written within a cognitive linguistics framework, concentrated around different linguistic aspects of the verb. The two keynote papers serve as an introduction to this main theme, providing a broad perspective and a general, theoretical background.
The Kalevala, or runic, songs is a tradition at least a few thousand years old. This book offers a combined perspective of a musicologist and a linguist to... Læs mere
This volume consists of nine articles dealing with topics in distinctive feature theory in various typologically diverse languages, including Acehnese, Afrikaans, Basque,... Læs mere
The central theme of this collection is the epistemological status of constraints and preferences in linguistics. The contributions focus mainly on phonology; The approaches... Læs mere
The book analyzes and evaluates what major linguistic models say on the interaction of lexicon and syntax in language performance. Moreover, reformulations, situations of... Læs mere