Like its prequel, this book examines the nature/nurture debate in language, while also asking how language came to be part of our human nature in the course of evolution. Considering the multidisciplinary context of these debates, this book is ess...Loe edasi...
The Hidden Politics of Grammar is a thorough investigation into a corpus of historical American grammar texts, revealing how their linguistic choices decisively contributed to the creation and maintenance of an explicitly American identity....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645677)
Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, Jennifer Manoukian studies the evolution of an ever-chang...Loe edasi...
The Greek Language after Antiquity offers an in-depth look at the diachrony of the Greek language, focusing on a period relatively neglected by modern scholarship: the more than 1,000 years between the end of Antiquity and the early modern period....Loe edasi...
This handbook provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of the current state of research in Celtic Language Studies, covering both existing and emerging scholarship and debate in the field, as well as containing new, cutting-edge research and...Loe edasi...
This volume introduces Alikyi, an Iranian language spoken on the southern fringe of the Alborz Mountains south of the Caspian Sea. The book offers a fresh perspective on Caspian linguistics. Highlighting the languages most significant featuressuch a...Loe edasi...
This is the first detailed overall account of Neo-Aramaic. The book includes not only diachronic and synchronic linguistic information, but also presents details of the minority communities (Jews, Christians and Mandaeans) who speak (or until recentl...Loe edasi...
During World War I in Urmia, Russian consul Basil Nikitin and Kurdish Mullah Sa’id of Shamdinan collaborated to document Kurdish language and culture. This volume presents 62 texts in English translation, with context, glossary, map, and indices, cap...Loe edasi...
This book conducts an in-depth exploration of the dissemination of Chinese characters in East Asia and the formation and development of Chinese character-based writing systems, emphasizing the unique contributions of various ethnic groups within the...Loe edasi...
The current book is the first systematic exposition and analysis of the structure and meaning aspects of the Chinese topic-comment structure. While early analyses of the Chinese topic (and topicalization) phenomena abound, in terms of its theoreti...Loe edasi...
Pointing is a fundamental gesture that connects individuals to their social and physical worlds, opening our eyes to important questions about language, cognition, and child development. Spanning psychology, anthropology, and animal behavior, this b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009445733)
Pointing is a fundamental gesture that connects individuals to their social and physical worlds, opening our eyes to important questions about language, cognition, and child development. Spanning psychology, anthropology, and animal behavior, this b...Loe edasi...
Chinese Idioms provides a theoretical framework for understanding idioms in the Chinese language, tracing their origins and analyzing their linguistic evolution.This work broadens the definition of idioms to encompass fixed phrases c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192863881)
This handbook brings together leading experts in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of the principal historical and contemporary aspects of the Portuguese language from a wide range of perspectives. The chapters explore all facets of the l...Loe edasi...
How did the rise of polite society change the language of literature? What was the effect of Romanticism on poetic word order? How does knowing the answers to these questions alter the meaning of a text for us?Reading literature is a quest...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009728171)
Through an analysis of written texts and speeches of prominent American intellectuals and political leaders of the Americanization era, this book reveals how American identity is constructed. It is essential reading for researchers and students of l...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009676052)
Higher education faculty differ in age from their students, and these age differences may relate to social and cultural differences. As an aspect of culture, different social groups adopt different slang vocabularies. This Element explores the natur...Loe edasi...
Higher education faculty differ in age from their students, and these age differences may relate to social and cultural differences. As an aspect of culture, different social groups adopt different slang vocabularies. This Element explores the natur...Loe edasi...
For poet and spiritual teacher Mark Nepo, words have always been more than tools for communication-they are vessels of meaning, portals to the sacred, and medicine for the soul. In The Language of the Soul, Nepo explores the deep, often forgotten ro...Loe edasi...
This book guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whole range of theories and contexts, and right up to the modern technological age. With key questions, exercises and further reading to guide readers at the end...Loe edasi...
This book guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whole range of theories and contexts, and right up to the modern technological age. With key questions, exercises and further reading to guide readers at the end...Loe edasi...
This collection provides a broad account of variationist sociolinguistic research on varieties of German, with the goals to encourage greater geolinguistic diversity in the field and to expand our understanding of language variation and change....Loe edasi...
Zhangs book focuses on the analysis of the socio-historical context, linguistic patterns of discursive construction, and media representations of the Chinese Dream in Mainland China, Hong Kong and the United States....Loe edasi...
The archaeologist, philologist, and Linguistics theoretician Nikolai Marr has attracted increasing scholarly attention as a pivotal figure of early Soviet cultural politics and an early anticolonial theorist. This volume offers a representative se...Loe edasi...
This book delves into Benjamin Franklin’s English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation of the potentiality of English. Utilizing corpus methodologies, it offers researchers in historical...Loe edasi...
Language is a uniquely human trait, but we rarely stop to examine its workings in everyday life. This lively and readable book introduces readers to the study of language in a scientific, objective way. It demonstrates the nuts and bolts of how hu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009658294)
Language is a uniquely human trait, but we rarely stop to examine its workings in everyday life. This lively and readable book introduces readers to the study of language in a scientific, objective way. It demonstrates the nuts and bolts of how hu...Loe edasi...
This book is a linguistic, comparative, and contextualised analysis of one of the most challenging issues in the study of Biblical Hebrew: the so-called ‘prophetic perfect’ or ‘prophetic’ use of qa al....Loe edasi...
This book challenges the long-held theory that the English pronouns they, their, them are loanwords from Old Norse, arguing instead that the pronouns ultimately derive from the Old English demonstratives þa – þara – þ...Loe edasi...
This book proposes a step-by-step process by which the early evolution of human language originated. Starting from an ape-like communication system, pre-human ancestors were “pumped” out of the rainforest by cyclic climate changes between 10 and 6 M...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783112247822)
This monograph responds to all the publications about Rumis poetry that have appeared in recent years. Many of those are non-academic, devotional works that present Rumis wisdom as an answer to a modern societys contemporary malaise. However, this d...Loe edasi...
The Hidden Politics of Grammar is a thorough investigation into a corpus of historical American grammar texts, revealing how their linguistic choices decisively contributed to the creation and maintenance of an explicitly American identity....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645677)
Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, Jennifer Manoukian studies the evolution of an ever-chang...Loe edasi...
The Greek Language after Antiquity offers an in-depth look at the diachrony of the Greek language, focusing on a period relatively neglected by modern scholarship: the more than 1,000 years between the end of Antiquity and the early modern period....Loe edasi...
Sari: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111471556)
The Romance languages are primarily described in terms of their existence in Europe and America. French and Portuguese, in particular, are also widely spoken in Africa, where Spanish and faint traces of Italian can be found as well. This book exp...Loe edasi...
This handbook provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of the current state of research in Celtic Language Studies, covering both existing and emerging scholarship and debate in the field, as well as containing new, cutting-edge research and...Loe edasi...
This volume introduces Alikyi, an Iranian language spoken on the southern fringe of the Alborz Mountains south of the Caspian Sea. The book offers a fresh perspective on Caspian linguistics. Highlighting the languages most significant featuressuch a...Loe edasi...
This is the first detailed overall account of Neo-Aramaic. The book includes not only diachronic and synchronic linguistic information, but also presents details of the minority communities (Jews, Christians and Mandaeans) who speak (or until recentl...Loe edasi...
During World War I in Urmia, Russian consul Basil Nikitin and Kurdish Mullah Sa’id of Shamdinan collaborated to document Kurdish language and culture. This volume presents 62 texts in English translation, with context, glossary, map, and indices, cap...Loe edasi...
This book conducts an in-depth exploration of the dissemination of Chinese characters in East Asia and the formation and development of Chinese character-based writing systems, emphasizing the unique contributions of various ethnic groups within the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027232007)
Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals. This book delves into this very topic, analysing similarities and contrasts between Polish and English groupi...Loe edasi...
The current book is the first systematic exposition and analysis of the structure and meaning aspects of the Chinese topic-comment structure. While early analyses of the Chinese topic (and topicalization) phenomena abound, in terms of its theoreti...Loe edasi...
Pointing is a fundamental gesture that connects individuals to their social and physical worlds, opening our eyes to important questions about language, cognition, and child development. Spanning psychology, anthropology, and animal behavior, this b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009445733)
Pointing is a fundamental gesture that connects individuals to their social and physical worlds, opening our eyes to important questions about language, cognition, and child development. Spanning psychology, anthropology, and animal behavior, this b...Loe edasi...
Chinese Idioms provides a theoretical framework for understanding idioms in the Chinese language, tracing their origins and analyzing their linguistic evolution.This work broadens the definition of idioms to encompass fixed phrases c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192863881)
This handbook brings together leading experts in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of the principal historical and contemporary aspects of the Portuguese language from a wide range of perspectives. The chapters explore all facets of the l...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783111211725)
The volume represents a cohesive yet multifaceted approach to themes, issues, and controversies concerning the role that Latin and Greek played in providing a template for the structural patterns and lexicon of the modern-day European languages. The...Loe edasi...
How did the rise of polite society change the language of literature? What was the effect of Romanticism on poetic word order? How does knowing the answers to these questions alter the meaning of a text for us?Reading literature is a quest...Loe edasi...
This Language, A River is an introduction to the history of English that recognizes multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. The book aims to enable students to both grasp traditional histories of Englis...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009728171)
Through an analysis of written texts and speeches of prominent American intellectuals and political leaders of the Americanization era, this book reveals how American identity is constructed. It is essential reading for researchers and students of l...Loe edasi...
