This book contributes to the current research area by achieving an understanding of the organization of our academic activities and by finding evidence for the generic conditioning of texts on the linguistic strata. Drawing on a functional theory, t...Loe edasi...
This volume showcases cutting-edge research in digital terminology, highlighting AI integration, user-centered design, and multilingual resource development to advance accessible, interoperable, and high-quality terminological tools for today’s globa...Loe edasi...
This book serves as accessible reference work on Chinese grammar with a attributive function focus. It explores the nature of fake attributives. Four types of fake attributive are discussed: (1) subject-ori...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198738121)
This Handbook deals with textual criticism of Greek and Latin literature and of ancient documents (inscriptions, papyri), that is the process of trying to establish, on the basis of such evidence as we have, the original state of an ancient text. Thi...Loe edasi...
A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms—for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America—from French fries to Awesome, man!—are destroy...Loe edasi...
The language of American World War II military service began to evolve with the first draftees of 1940. Their emerging vocabulary was irreverent, creative, and often obscene, influenced by the worlds of music, jazz, swing, jive, and the nation...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631907498)
The Scansion of Classical Old English Verse offers the first complete metrical analysis of ASPR vols I-IV. This meticulous index and database, with its statistical tables, provides a quantitative foundation for scholarship, enabling precise analysis...Loe edasi...
This book examines the behavioral and neural bases of morphological processing with evidence from Mandarin Chinese. While the role of morphology in alphabetic language processing has been widely explored, how the human brain encodes morphological in...Loe edasi...
In the Shadow of the Author continues the enduring practice by sharing contemporary approaches to uncovering meaning in historical texts from a linguistic perspective and with special emphasis on translation technique and methods in lexicography and...Loe edasi...
Mapping Applied Linguistics: A Guide for Students and Practitioners, Third Edition, provides a newly updated, wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics. This innovative book maps the diverse and constantly expanding...Loe edasi...
Mapping Applied Linguistics: A Guide for Students and Practitioners, Third Edition, provides a newly updated, wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics. Mapping Applied Linguistics: A Guide for Stu...Loe edasi...
This is a systematic study of Matteo Ricci’s (1552–610) enormous impact on the development of modern scientific and intellectual terminology in China.Taking the Sino-estern cultural exchanges initiated by Western Jesuit missionaries in the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Dec-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009543583)
This Element addresses the challenges and opportunities that arise in the study of sound systems of understudied languages within the context of language documentation. It also discusses how phonological documentation may contribute to the developme...Loe edasi...
This Element addresses the challenges and opportunities that arise in the study of sound systems of understudied languages within the context of language documentation. It also discusses how phonological documentation may contribute to the developme...Loe edasi...
Sari: Publications of the Opland Collection of Xhosa Literature
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Dec-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: James Currey, ISBN-13: 9781847014542)
Articles on Xhosa language and folkloreRobert Godfreys major contribution to Xhosa-language studies is his revised and expanded edition, published in 1915, of Albert Kropfs classic Kafir-English Dictionary (1899). As a member...Loe edasi...
Idalete Dias, Rufus H. Gouws, Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann, Stefan J. Schierholz
Sari: Lexicographica. Series Maior
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Dec-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783119145947)
The contributions build a bridge between traditional European lexicography and the diversity of lexicographic practice in Australia, demonstrating the importance of lexicography in the digital age. Special focus is placed on the socially relevant fu...Loe edasi...
Marking 30 years of contrastive corpus linguistics, this volume provides a state-of-the-art of the field, charting its development over time and expanding the boundaries of the discipline.Focusing on a diversity of methods and appro...Loe edasi...
Sari: Schriften Zur Afrikanistik - Research in African Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631941393)
This book is an attempt at a selective word geography of Maa varities as spoken in East Africa. It describes the distribution of a set of faunal terms: animals, both wild and domestic, as well as fauna-related items. Word geographies contribute to t...Loe edasi...
This book is the first of its kind in providing a lexicon of kinship terms prevalent in the Western dialects of Iran, with a parallel glossary in English. It engages the dialects and their terminology in the English language to bring to purview how...Loe edasi...
Bringing together a collection of conversations with leading lexicographers from around the world, this innovative book explores the role dictionaries have played in history. Covering twenty different languages, it is essential reading for academic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009392419)
Bringing together a collection of conversations with leading lexicographers from around the world, this innovative book explores the role dictionaries have played in history. Covering twenty different languages, it is essential reading for academic...Loe edasi...
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Word Freak, a vibrant, lively, and illuminating journey through the exotic world of Merriam-Webster, dictionaries, and language, at a time of rapid-fire change in the way we create,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031994340)
This book delves into psycholinguistic and cognitive aspects of lexical activation, availability, and production in English or Spanish as additional languages in classroom settings. Inst...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027228529)
This book aims to provide an overview of the various methods adopted for terminology planning in the languages under examination. Collectively, the authors will attempt to establish an overall understanding of terminology planning in Europe, starting...Loe edasi...
An AZ of intriguing, illuminating and surprising linguistic knowledge, written by the inventor of the bestselling quiz game about words and language, League of the Lexicon....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111581286)
This volume re-examines the manuscript tradition of Pollux’ Onomasticon, the ten-book Atticist lexicon that had the widest circulation in Medieval Byzantium and the Humanistic West. The important reference edition by Erich Bethe (1900–19...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Sep-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, Keel: German, ISBN-13: 9783111041063)
Vorliegende Untersuchung zu August Boeckhs Encyklopädie und Methodologie der philologischen Wissenschaften deckt vor allem den historischen Zusammenhang zwischen Philologie und Hermeneutik auf der einen und den wesentlichen Aspekten der gewählten ......Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674297517)
The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China is the first systematic study of the codification of Manchu and Chinese words for animals and plants in the eighteenth century. Bian and Söderblom Saarela show how Qing le...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496240354)
Geoffrey Kimball offers the first comprehensive dictionary of the Natchez language, a now extinct Native American language originally spoken in the region surrounding Natchez, Mississippi, and finally in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma-- Provided b...Loe edasi...
The volume examines lexical and idiomatic phenomena in various Indo-European languages, covering a wide range of linguistic and interdisciplinary studies while addressing both single-language issues and contrastive perspectives.§§An interdisciplinary...Loe edasi...
Italian Words: A Practical Introduction to the Italian Lexical System offers a detailed description of the Italian lexicon, explaining the organization of Italian words in a system and the function of this system. Italian Words: A P...Loe edasi...
Italian Words: A Practical Introduction to the Italian Lexical System offers a detailed description of the Italian lexicon, explaining the organization of Italian words in a system and the function of this system. Italian Words:...Loe edasi...
Irish names: they’re older than the pyramids. And looking to the future, they’ll probably be mispronounced for another 5000 years! This book contains over 200 Irish names for girls and boys. You’ll find their magical origins, meanings, and most impor...Loe edasi...
Sari: Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027220295)
Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making is a collection of individual contributions by leading terminology scholars from around the globe who describe historical developments of terminology as a discipline and a field of practice....Loe edasi...
A Guide to Practical Online Lexicography provides a step-by-step course on digital lexicography, discussing state of art of theoretical lexicography and offering a guide to practical lexicography, with a focus on monolingual online dictiona...Loe edasi...
A Guide to Practical Online Lexicography provides a step-by-step course on digital lexicography, discussing state of art of theoretical lexicography and offering a guide to practical lexicography, with a focus on monolingual online dictionaries--...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, ISBN-13: 9783034354417)
Multi-word verbs are an essential topic for the English language syllabus. As a characteristic feature of the language with numerous semantic and syntactic peculiarities, the category has been found to challenge even advanced learners. Recent eviden...Loe edasi...
This book sheds new light on chunk in business correspondence in order to promote the advancement of machine translation. By presenting a bilingual chunk table for correspondence and providing basic theoretical and empirical data on the constructi...Loe edasi...
The Anglo-Saxon/Middle English lingua franca that spread from Yorkshire throughout England is the direct ancestor of the modern English now spoken all over the world....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Dec-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111480756)
The book takes its cue from the topics of PhrasaLex, a workshop dedicated to phraseological approaches to learner’s lexicography which took place for the second time in July 2021 and is connected to the lexicographic project PhraseBase. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, ISBN-13: 9783642545320)
In recent years the focus in linguistics research has shifted from the investigation of syntax, phonology and logical semantics supported by intuitions and speculation, to a more hard-nosed analysis of words in text and speech, focusing on how words...Loe edasi...
