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Consequences of Antisymmetry: Headed Relative Clauses (Studies in Generative Grammar) מאת Valentina Bianchi This text elaborates an antisymmetric approach to headed relative clauses. All the major aspects of their syntax are reduced to the basic properties of the proposed constituent structure....

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Global Linguistics: An Introduction (Approaches to Applied Semiotics) מאת Marcel Danesi Why do people from different cultural backgrounds often misunderstand each other even when they use a common language to interact? Why do arguments that we find reasonable not seem so to members of other cultural groups? Global Linguistics: An Introduction addresses these and other basic questions a...

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Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics (2nd Edition) (Mouton Textbook) מאת Hans Henrich Hock Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and Eng...

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Cognitive Poetics: Goals, Gains and Gaps (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics) מאת Geert Brône This volume offers a state-of-the-art collection of studies in the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of cognitive poetics. In coupling cognitive linguistics and poetics, cognitive poeticians aim to offer cognitive readings of literary texts. By bringing together key players and critics in a se...

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Language and Social Cognition: Expression of the Social Mind (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs) מאת Hanna Pishwa This interdisciplinary volume provides a novel perspective on social aspects of language. It views ways of how the acquisition and management of knowledge of ourselves and others is reflected in language. Hence, by combining the two disciplines social cognition and linguistics, it proceeds beyond co...

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Multilingual Europe: Facts and Policies (Contributions to the Sociology of Language) מאת Extra This book offers an inclusive perspective on the constellation of languages in Europe by taking into account official state languages, regional minority languages and immigrant minority languages as constituent parts of Europe's identity. Both facts and policies on multilingualism and plurilingual e...

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Corpus Linguistics: An International Handbook (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science) מאת Lüdeling This handbook provides an up-to-date survey of corpus linguistics. Spoken, written, or multimodal corpora serve as the basis for quantitative and qualitative research on many questions of linguistic interest. The volume comprises 61 articles by internationally renowned experts. They sketch the histo...

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Multimodal Metaphor (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics) מאת Charles J. Forceville Metaphor pervades discourse and may govern how we think and act. But most studies only discuss its verbal varieties. This book examines metaphors drawing on combinations of visuals, language, gestures, sound, and music. Investigated texts include advertising, political cartoons, comics, film, songs,...

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Mapping Linguistic Diversity in Multicultural Contexts (Contributions to the Sociology of Language) מאת Extra This comprehensive book offers insightful crossnational and crosscontinental perspectives on mapping linguistic diversity in a variety of multicultural contexts, both in Europe and abroad, and in both the private and public domain, particularly in terms of spoken languages at home and visual languag...

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Agreement Restrictions (Interface Explorations) מאת D'Alessandro This book brings together scholars who have been working on agreement restrictions within the generative framework. The articles range from syntactic to morphological approaches, investigating different domains of agreement restrictions, such as the Person Case Constraint, nominative objects, and Qu...

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Syntax of the Sentence (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs) מאת Philip Baldi New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax is a methodologically uniform multi-authored work that traces main currents in the syntactic history of Latin. Relying primarily on a functional-typological methodology, in which structural considerations of the traditional type are combined in a complem...

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Modality and Ellipsis: Diachronic and Synchronic Evidence (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs) מאת Gergel The book offers a detailed analysis of modal syntax and examines its grammatical interaction with the process of ellipsis. The author approaches the connection between the two areas by drawing on developments in the history of English and on effects obtaining in modern grammars. In addition, the vol...