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Sascha Alexeyenko
Manner Modification at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Interface Explorations - Band 37

The book develops a theory of manner modification with both manner adjectives and manner adverbs in its scope. It proposes an analysis that keeps the semantics uniform across all of its uses, but remains …

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Jóhanna Barðdal
Oblique Subjects in Germanic

Pulling together the threads of forty years of research on oblique subjects in the Germanic languages, this book introduces a novel approach to grammatical relations, based on a definition of subject as t…

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Dominik Besier
Grammar Competition in Second Language Acquisition

Anybody with the chance of teaching English to Indonesian speakers should have experienced difficulties when it comes to non-verbal predicates and the placement of be . This volume looks at this matter fr…

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Katharina Beuter
English as a Lingua Franca among Adolescents

This book explores the interplay between language, culture and identity in adolescents' interactions in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). It investigates the communicative strategies of secondary school s…

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Ilse Depraetere, Thierry Hamon, Clemens Hufeld, Benoît Leclercq
Models of Modals

Modal verbs in English communicate delicate shades of meaning, there being a large range of verbs both on the necessity side (must , have to , should , ought to , need , need to ) and the possibility side…

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Sarah Dessì Schmid
Einführung in die Morphologie des Italienischen

Romanistische Arbeitshefte - Band 61

Diese Einführung in die Morphologie des Italienischen ist auf die Bedürfnisse der neuen modularisierten Studiengänge zugeschnitten. Sie führt in die Grundkonzepte der Morphologie ein und zeigt Abgrenzungs…

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Christa Dürscheid, Dimitrios Meletis
Writing Systems and Their Use

Grapholinguistics, the multifaceted study of writing systems, is growing increasingly popular, yet to date no coherent account covering and connecting its major branches exists. This book now gives an ove…

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Carol Genetti
A Grammar of Dolakha Newar

A Grammar of Dolakha Newar is the first fully comprehensive reference grammar of a Newar variety. Dolakha Newar is of particular interest as it is member of the mutually unintelligible eastern branch of t…

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Kristin Enola Gilbert, Gregory Matoesian
Practicing Linguistics Without a License

This book analyzes the complex interplay between gesture, speech and other modal resources (e.g., gaze, facial expression, motion) during the presentation of evidence and interpretation of testimony in co…

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Victoria Guillén-Nieto
Hate Speech

Hate speech has been extensively studied by disciplines such as social psychology, sociology, history, politics and law. Some significant areas of study have been the origins of hate speech in past and mo…

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Elisabeth Huber
Tri-Constituent Compounds

This book provides a usage-based perspective to the study of multi-word compounding, analyzing the structural, functional and cognitive aspects of tripartite compounds (e.g. day care center , football gam…

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Andreas Kehl
Adjunct Islands in English

Island phenomena are a central topic in generative grammar, especially because of principled exceptions to these general extraction constraints. This volume investigates exceptional extractions from phras…

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John Kupchik
Azuma Old Japanese

Azuma Old Japanese is an areal term for the two major dialects of Eastern ('Azuma') Japan during the eighth century: Eastern Old Japanese and Töpo-Suruga Old Japanese. This volume is an exhaustive, compar…

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Shanshan Lü
A Reference Grammar of Caijia

Caijia, [me¿²¹ni³³¿ö³³] ¿Caijia speech¿, is an endangered language in the Sino-Tibetan family with less than 1000 speakers in Hezhang and Weining counties in northwest in Guizhou Province in Southwest Chi…

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Anna Mauranen
Reflexively Speaking

Reflexive language is unique to human languages; yet little is known of its use in actual dialogue. Fundamental features of language are manifest in dialogic speech and in lingua francas. Reflexivity, or …

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Masoud Mohammadirad, Geoffrey Khan
Language Contact in Sanandaj

This book is a detailed study of contact-induced change in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Jews of Sanandaj, a town in western Iran. Since its foundation in early 17^th^ century, the city has been home to …

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F. Daniel Morales Hernández
Latin Americans in London

This book explores the life stories of Latin American immigrants living in London. Through a critical analysis of their discourses in various contexts, this book provides insights into representations of …

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Julia Nintemann, Thomas Stolz
Special Onymic Grammar in Typological Perspective

For the first time, proper names are made the topic of a cross-linguistic account of morphosyntactic properties which formally distinguish place names, personal names, and common nouns. It is shown that t…

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Daniela Pettersson-Traba
The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English

The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy. In particular, recent distributional corpus-based approaches used for semantic analysis have successfully uncovered subtle distinctions…

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Virginia Pulcini
The Influence of English on Italian

The volume explores the history of language contact between Italy and Anglophone countries and illustrates the phenomenon of lexical borrowing. Types of English-induced borrowings are presented on the bas…

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