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This volume contains the comedy "Die Bose Catherine" ("Wicked Catherine") (1705) and the Singspiel "Die betrubte und getrostete Galathee" ("Galathee depressed and comforted" (1673). The volume is completed with a complete account of the textual history of the works.
The contributions in this book are a representative cross-section of recent research on verb-particle constructions. The syntactic, semantic, morphological, and... Læs mere
This grammar provides an overall description of Gaagudju, a now nearly extinct language of northern Australia. There is a clear distinction between productive and unproductive... Læs mere
These papers focus on the discussion of the "new" methods of "new" language history and contain historical case studies from the period between 1800 and 1933. The links between the German language and its Slavonic neighbours Polish, Russian and Czech are discussed.
by the 15th century, the descendants of the Judaized Khazars also relexified their Kiev-Polessian (northern... Læs mere
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
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 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.