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The German word "Mauscheln" is derived from the Yiddish language. It's original meaning is, "to talk like a Jewish trader". The verb has developed a negative connotation and... Læs mere
Based on a 500,000 word corpus of early sources collected from ex-slave narratives, ex-slave recordings, and interviews with hoodoo priests, this book reconstructs the English spoken by African Americans between 1830 and 1920.
Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of... Læs mere
This volume contributes to the debates about the social aspects of bilingualism, focusing on the various opportunities and challenges bilingualism presents to today's society.
Using texts by Albrecht Durer, Veit Dietrich and Heinrich Deichsler, the book examines adjective formation in the Nuremberg language region around 1500. It includes a discussion of the methodological aspects in adjective derivation.
This introductory work aims to provide a general insight into the phenomenon of language by introducing all aspects of linguistics and therefore encouraging the readers to continue their studies of languages from a scientific standpoint on their own initiative.
This book shows that the notions developed within the Cognitive Linguistics movement afford an insightful perspective on several important areas of second language acquisition and pedagogy.
This book focuses on formulaic expressions called Situation-Bound Utterances (SBU). The unique feature of the book is that it discusses SBUs in a cognitive-pragmatic theoretical framework, focusing on four opposing perspectives: monolingual versus multilingual approach;
Written by experts in the field of typology and/or second language acquisition, this volume addresses theoretical and empirical issues on structural domains such... Læs mere
This book is a reference grammar of Fongbe, a language which is part of the Gbe dialect cluster. This book is of particular interest to Africanists, scholars interested in... Læs mere
The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics.
This monograph is an empirical study of a particular type of grammatical variation - genitive variation in English. It compares the results of a Modern English experimental study with historical evidence for the development of genitive variations.