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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This edition brings together some lesser known grammaticalization paths travelled by 'come' and 'go' in familiar and less familiar languages. No single book volume has been dedicated to the topic of grammatical targets different from tense and aspect so far. This study will increase our insight in grammaticalization processes in general as they force us to rethink certain aspects of grammaticalization. 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Vocatives have rarely been comprehensively discussed in their various facets. With 12 contributions covering the diversity of vocative marking, structures, and functions, as well as the relevance of vocatives for theoretical and methodological reasoning, this volume contributes to closing a significant gap in linguistic research. It provides a detailed picture of the vocative as a structure between 'system' and 'performance'. 332 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Functionalism, as characterized by Allen, (2007:254) 'holds that linguistic structures can only be understood and explained with reference to the semantic and communicative functions of language, whose primary function is to be a vehicle for social interaction among human beings.' Since the 1970s, inspired by the work of Jespersen, Bolinger, Dik, Halliday, and Chafe, functionalism has been attached to a variety of movements and models making major contributions to linguistic theory and to various subfields within linguistics, such as syntax, discourse, language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, typology, and documentary linguistics. Further, functional approaches have had a major impact outside linguistics in fields such as psychology and education, both in terms of theory and application. The main goal of functionalist approaches is to clarify the dynamic relationship between form and function (Thompson 2003:53). Functionalist perspectives have gained more ground over the past decades with more linguists resorting to functional explanations to account for linguistic structure. The authors in this volume present the current state of functional approaches to linguistic inquiry expanding our knowledge of language and linguistics. 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This monograph addresses fundamental syntactic issues of classifier constructions, based on a thorough study of a typical classifier language, Mandarin Chinese. It shows that the contrast between count and mass is not binary. Instead, there are two independently attested features: Numerability, the ability of a noun to combine with a numeral directly, and Delimitability, the ability of a noun to be modified by a delimitive modifier, such as size, shape, or boundary modifier. Although all nouns in Chinese are non-count nouns, there is still a mass/non-mass contrast, with mass nouns selected by individuating classifiers and non-mass nouns selected by individual classifiers. Some languages have the counterparts of Chinese individuating classifiers only, some languages have the counterparts of Chinese individual classifiers only, and some other languages have no counterpart of either individual or individuating classifiers of Chinese. The book also reports that unit plurality can be expressed by reduplicative classifiers in the language. Moreover, for the constituency of a numeral expression, an individual, individuating, or kind classifier combines with the noun first and then the numeral is integrated; but a partitive or collective classifier, like a measure word, combines with the numeral first, before the noun is integrated into the whole nominal structure. Furthermore, the book identifies the syntactic positions of various uses of classifiers in the language. A classifier is at a functional head position that has a dependency with a numeral, or a position that has a dependency with a generic or existential quantifier, or a position that represents the singular-plural contrast, or a position that licenses a delimitive modifier when the classifier occurs in a compound. 332 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Linguists have standardly assumed that grammar is about identifying all and only the 'good' sentences of a language, which implies that there must be other, 'bad' sentences- but in practice most linguists know that it is hard to pin those down. The standard assumption is no more than an assumption. A century ago, grammarians did not think about their subject that way, and our book shows that the older idea was right: linguists can and should dispense with the concept 'starred sentence'. We draw on corpus data in order to support a different model of grammar, in which individuals refine positive grammatical habits to greater or lesser extents in diverse and unpredictable directions, but nothing is ever ruled out. Languages are not merely alternative methods of verbalizing universal logical forms. We use empirical evidence to shed light on the routes by which school-age children gradually expand their battery of grammatical resources, which turn out to be sometimes counter-intuitive. Our rejection of the 'starred sentence' concept has attracted considerable discussion, and we summarize the reactions and respond to our critics. The contrasting models of grammar described in this book entail contrasting pictures of human nature; our closing chapter shows that grammatical theory is not value-neutral but has an ethical dimension. 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax, but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and discuss a range of phenomena such as change in negation markers, indefinite articles, quantifiers, modal verbs, argument structure among others. The papers analyze diachronic evidence in the light of contemporary syntactic and semantic theory, addressing the crucial question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked, and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics. 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Plural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute the main means of quantification marking in the domain of grammar. The contributions in this book focus on the typological correlation between the three different strategies for quantification, as well as on some general issues. A better understanding of the quantification strategies in the languages of China will enrich our comprehension of human language and thought. The book is expected to have an impact on the study of linguistic typology, language contact, and patterns of the evolution. 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The minimalist notion of a phase has often been investigated with a view to the interfaces. ¿Phases¿ provides a strictly syntax-internal perspective.If phases are fundamental, they should provide the grounds for a unifying treatment of different syntactic phenomena. Concentrating on displacement, the book argues that this expectation is borne out: there is an empirical clustering of properties, whereby the phrases that undergo pied-piping are also the phrases that host intermediate traces of cyclic movement. The same phrases also host partial and secondary movement. Finally, the immediate complements within these phrases never strand the embedding heads. The phrases that show this behaviour are the phases (CP, vP, DP, and PP).To account for the cluster of properties, phases are claimed to have two special properties: their complement is inaccessible to operations outside, the Phase Impenetrability Condition; their heads may be endowed with unvalued features that are neither connected to the categorical status of the phase nor interpreted on it. It is shown how the cluster of empirical properties flows naturally from these two assumptions, supporting the idea that phases are indeed a fundamental construct in syntax.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 332 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The structural and semantic properties of adverbials represent a still poorly understood area of sentential syntax and semantics in Germanic languages. In particular, it is an open question which different adverbial usages need to be distinguished, which usages are tied to which syntactic positions, and how these different usage can be formally analyzed. Focussing on adverbial adjectives in German, this study provides detailed answers to these questions. By distinguishing between verb-related adverbials and event-related adverbials, the author provides a new analysis of the large class of adverbials traditionally labelled as manner adverbials. It is shown that the two different classes are linked to different syntactic positions, and formal analyses and derivations for the two different usages are developed. The book is therefore of interest not only to anyone working on the linguistics of German but also to all linguists working on the syntax-semantics interface and the formal analysis of adverbials. 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and im/politeness as social practice is developed that opens up new ways of examining the relationship between them. It constitutes a fresh look at the issues involved that redresses the current imbalance between social and pragmatic accounts of im/politeness. 372 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The claim that crosslinguistic disparities foster differences in nonlinguistic thought, often referred to as 'linguistic relativity', has for some time been the subject of intense debate. For much of that time the debate was not informed by much experimental work. Recently, however, there has been an explosion of research on linguistic relativity, carried out by numerous scholars interested in the interaction between language and nonlinguistic cognition. This book surveys the rapidly accruing research on this topic, much of it carried out in the last decade. Structured so as to be accessible to students and scholars in linguistics, psychology, and anthropology, it first introduces crucial concepts in the study of language and cognition. It then explores the relevant experimentally oriented research, focusing independently on the evidence for relativistic effects in spatial orientation, temporal perception, number recognition, color discrimination, object/substance categorization, gender construal, as well as other facets of cognition. This is the only book to extensively survey the recent work on linguistic relativity, and should serve as a critical resource for those concerned with the topic. 308 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The papers compiled in the present volume aim at investigating the many fruitful manners in which cognitive linguistics can expand further on cognitive translation studies. Some papers (e.g. Halverson, Muñoz-Martín, Martín de León) take a theoretical stand, since the epistemological and ontological bases of both areas (cognitive linguistics and translation studies) should be known before specific contributions of cognitive linguistic to translation are tackled. Several works in the volume attempt to illustrate how some of the notions imported from cognitive linguistics may contribute to enrich our understanding of the translation process in a general translation problem such as metaphor (e.g. Samaniego), the relationship between form and meaning (e.g. Tabakowska, Rojo and Valenzuela) or cultural aspects (e.g. Bernárdez, Sharifian/Jamarani). Others use translation as an empirical field to test some of the basic assumptions of cognitive linguistics such as frames (e.g. Boas), metonymy (e.g. Brdar/Brdar-Szabó), and lexicalisation patterns (e.g. Ibarretxe-Antuñano/Filipovi ). Finally, another set of papers (e.g. Feist, Hatzidaki) opens up new lines of investigation for experimental research, a very promising area still underdeveloped.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 432 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The present volume collects contributions addressing different aspects of the measurement of linguistic differences, a topic which probably is as old as language itself but at the same time has acquired renewed interest over the last decade or so, reflecting a rapid development of data-intensive computing in all fields of research, including linguistics.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 556 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Forschungen zu Deutsch als Zweitsprache und Mehrsprachigkeit umfassen ein weites Spektrum an Themen und Fragestellungen, die von unterschiedlichen Disziplinen untersucht werden. Forschungsmethodische Entscheidungen sind dabei abhängig von Forschungsfragen und theoretischen Rahmenbedingungen. Entsprechend der Vielfalt der Fragestellungen und Ansätze ergibt sich für Untersuchungen zum Zweitspracherwerb ein weites Feld an methodischen Verfahren. Der vorliegende Band thematisiert sehr unterschiedliche empirische Methoden, deren Vorteile und Grenzen von den Autoren in Zusammenhang mit konkreten Forschungsprojekten dargestellt werden. Der Band will so Einblicke in Untersuchungen zum Zweitspracherwerb in einer mehrsprachigen Gesellschaft geben und Anregungen für weitere Forschungsprojekte bieten. 384 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Das Frame-Modell ist eine der wichtigsten Neuentwicklungen in der Sprachtheorie der letzten Jahrzehnte und zu einem Bindeglied zwischen Linguistik, Kognitionspsychologie, allgemeiner Kognitionswissenschaft und KI-Forschung geworden. In dieser handbuchartigen Einführung werden die wichtigsten theoretischen Grundlagen der Frame-Semantik erstmals aus linguistischer Perspektive umfassend dargestellt, diskutiert und weiterentwickelt. Neben Begründern wie Fillmore, Minsky, Schank/Abelson und wichtigen theoretischen Vorläufer wie Bartlett werden neuere Konzeptionen (wie Barsalou) ebenso behandelt wie Weiterentwicklungen in der angewandten linguistischen Forschung. Im Anschluss an die einführende Darstellung und Diskussion frame-theoretischer Ansätze und Forschungspraktiken wird ein umfassendes integratives Arbeitsmodell zur Frame-Semantik vorgestellt und werden die verschiedenen linguistischen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten einer Frame-Analyse demonstriert. Das Buch schließt eine empfindliche Lücke auf dem Buchmarkt, da bis jetzt weder im deutschsprachigen Bereich noch in der internationalen Literatur eine zusammenfassende Darstellung und Einführung in diese Forschungsrichtung und theoretische Perspektive der Semantik existiert.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 888 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Transatlantic literary studies have provided important new perspectives on North American, British and Irish literature. They have led to a revision of literary history and the idea of a national literature. They have changed the perception of the Anglo-American literary market and its many processes of transatlantic production, distribution, reception and criticism. Rather than dwelling on comparisons or engaging with the notion of ¿influence,¿ transatlantic literary studies seek to understand North American, British and Irish literature as linked with each other by virtue of multi-layered historical and cultural ties and pay special attention to the many refractions and mutual interferences that have characterized these traditions since colonial times.This handbook brings together articles that summarize some of the crucial transatlantic concepts, debates and topics. The contributions contained in this volume examine periods in literary and cultural history, literary movements, individual authors as well as genres from a transatlantic perspective, combining theoretical insight with textual analysis.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 632 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Tra le più note realtà linguistiche italiane all¿estero spicca quella italoamericana, risultato dell¿emigrazione degli italiani negli USA, contraddistinta da una durata di oltre 400 anni e da un dinamismo particolare. La monografia è incentrata sulla descrizione diacronica delle dinamiche e del cambio linguistico nel contatto italoamericano, laddove l¿inglese è in contatto con l¿italiano e/o con i dialetti italo-romanzi. L¿analisi si basa, a grandi linee, sulla triplice percezione della lingua in quanto sapere, attività e prodotto e si svolge sistematicamente per ciascuna delle singole fasi del contatto.L¿intensità e l¿estensione del contatto nel tempo e nello spazio si rispecchiano nella composizione del corpus dei dati empirici. Essi coprono un arco temporale di quasi quattro secoli e consistono in 47 interviste, circa 1.300 lettere di migranti e numerosi altri documenti.Questo tipo di analisi linguistica, diacronica variazionale e migrazionale, rappresenta una novità metodologica nella ricerca contrattuale e va inoltre a completare la storiografia linguistica dell¿italiano, nel cui ambito, alle varietà italo-romanze parlate al di fuori dell¿Italia, solo sporadicamente è stata prestata attenzione.La prefazione è di Tullio De Mauro.Insignito del Premio Kurt-Ringger 2013 dall¿Accademia delle Scienze e della Letteratura di Magonza.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 476 pp. Italienisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Die Reihe DaZ-Forschung stellt aktuelle Forschungen zum Deutsch-als-Zweitsprache-Erwerb sowie zu Bildungschancen im Kontext von Migration und Mehrsprachigkeit in Form von Monographien oder Sammelbänden vor. Die Bandbreite reicht von empirischen und theoriebildenden Studien bis hin zu anwendungsbezogenen Arbeiten aus dem Kontext der Zweitspracherwerbsforschung, angewandten Linguistik, Bildungsforschung, Sprachdidaktik und Sprachförderung.Thematisch umfasst die Reihe Arbeiten zu sozio- und psycholinguistischen Aspekten, zur Struktur und Dynamik von Lernersprachen, zu Sprachproduktion und Sprachverstehen ebenso wie Interventionsstudien und Unterrichtsforschung zu Sprachförderung und Bedingungen des Spracherwerbs. DaZ-Forschung ist der erste Teil eines dreiteiligen Reihenclusters, das durch die Reihen DaZ-Handbücher und DaZ-Studienbücher ergänzt wird. Herausgegeben von Wissenschaftler/innen im Bereich Deutsch als Zweitsprache mit verschiedenen Perspektiven auf das FeldBreites Spektrum: Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung, Psycholinguistik, interkulturelle Kommunikation und SprachdidaktikProfessor Dr. Bernt Ahrenholz, Universität JenaIm November 2019 ist Bernt Ahrenholz verstorben. Wir trauern um den Menschen, den Wissenschaftler und den Mitbegründer der Deutsch-als-Zweitsprache-Forschung.Bernt Ahrenholz gründete im Verlag 2010 zusammen mit Martina Rost-Roth, Beate Lütke und Christine Dimroth die ersten eigenständigen Reihen zu Deutsch als Zweitsprache, Mehrsprachigkeit und Migration.Die rasch wachsende Reihe DaZ-Forschung wurde unter seiner Herausgabe zu einem gefragten Publikationsort des Feldes, ebenso die Reihe DaZ-Handbücher.Bis zuletzt arbeitete Bernt Ahrenholz an einem auch persönlichen Rückblick auf die Forschung und die zweitsprachbezogene Sprachdidaktik der 1970er und 1980er Jahre unter dem Titel 'Ein Blick zurück nach vorn'.Sein Anliegen war, 'nicht nur die damalige Zeit der Geschichtsvergessenheit zu entreißen, sondern zu fragen, was ein Rückblick für unsere heutige wissenschaftliche Befassung mit einer von Mehrsprachigkeit und Migration geprägten Gesellschaft bedeuten kann.'Die Reihenherausgeberinnen und der Verlag werden den Band in seinem Sinne fertigstellen und die Reihen dankbar und in Gedenken an ihn fortführen. Er fehlt uns.¿Verlag De GruyterBirgit Sievert, Julie Miess und KollegInnenWalter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 356 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Den Untersuchungsgegenstand der Arbeit stellt eine bisher noch unerforschte und kaum bekannte randständige Form der deutschen Grammatik dar, das komplexe Partizipialattribut (= komplexes PA). Komplexe PA sind nicht aus einem Verb, sondern aus einem Verbalkomplex gebildet. Durch eine systematische korpuslinguistische Recherche werden die Typen dieser Struktur erschlossen, ihre Gebrauchsfrequenz ermittelt und dadurch ihre Marginalität aufgezeigt. Im Mittelpunkt des Buches steht die Frage, ob das komplexe PA trotz des marginalen Status als Teil des deutschen grammatischen Systems betrachtet werden kann. Hierzu wird ein theoretisches Konzept zur Bewertung des Systemstatus grammatischer Strukturen erarbeitet, das exemplarisch auf einen komplexen PA-Typ, PII+habend, angewendet wird. Das entwickelte Konzept bietet auch eine fundierte theoretische Grundlage für künftige Auseinandersetzungen mit grammatischen Randphänomenen. Darüber hinaus leistet das Buch einen Beitrag zur vollständigen Erschließung des Systems des Partizipialattributs im Deutschen.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 260 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Abschiede sind ein universelles Element der menschlichen Erfahrung, ihre situativen Ausprägungen und ihre kommunikative Gestaltung variieren jedoch stark. Die historisch-pragmatische und kulturanalytische Studie von Juliane Schröter ist dem Wandel des Abschiednehmens im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert gewidmet. Dargestellt werden die Geschichte des Abschiedsbegriffs, die Geschichte von Abschiedsgrüßen und umfangreicheren dialogischen Verabschiedungen, von Briefschlüssen und von ,Populärpoesie¿ zum Abschied. Dabei zeichnen sich in den detaillierten Analysen von Wörterbüchern, literarischen Abschiedsszenen, Anstandsbüchern, Originalbriefen, Briefstellern, Abschiedsgedichten etc. weitreichende übergreifende Wandeltendenzen ab. Diese deuten darauf hin, dass die kommunikative Kultur des Abschiednehmens nicht nur zutiefst von den Bedingungen menschlicher Kontakte geprägt ist, sondern sich auch selbst nachhaltig auf soziale Relationen und Strukturen auswirkt. Die Geschichte des Abschiednehmens erweist sich damit als essentieller Teil der Geschichte menschlicher Beziehungen.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 484 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Unter dem Thema Wörterbuchforschung und Lexikographie' versammelt dieser Band 17 Beiträge von Experten und Expertinnen aus 5 Ländern, die sich mit Fragen der Präsentation und Kommentierung von lexikographischen Ergebnissen, dem Verhältnis von Lexikographie und Linguistik, lexikographischen Konzepten und übergreifenden Fragestellungen sowie dem Status quo und Perspektiven der Metalexikographie beschäftigen.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 344 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Die erst seit 1987 der Forschung offen stehenden Bittschriften von Männern und Frauen aller Stände und jeden Alters an den Papst in Rom erschließen eine ganz neue Quelle für unsere Kenntnisse vom Spätmittelalter und der Renaissance: Hier kommen Menschen zu Wort, von denen in ihrer Heimat fast nie eine Spur geblieben ist, deren Sorgen und Nöte uns die römische Überlieferung indes erhalten hat. Die Suppliken (in Latein) erzählen Episoden aus ihrem Leben, ja ganze Lebensgeschichten: wahre Kurzgeschichten aus dem späten Mittelalter' (Arnold Esch). Der Historiker findet hier einen bisher verborgenen Zugang zu den rechtlichen, sozialen und kulturellen Zuständen und Problemen von Menschen während des Pontifikats Leos X. (1513 1521).Der vorliegende Band präsentiert insgesamt 2430 solcher Bittschriften an Papst Leo X. (1513 1521) von Menschen deutscher Zunge.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 696 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Das Handbuch Laut, Gebärde, Buchstabe bietet vielseitiges, auf aktueller theoretischer und experimenteller Forschung basierendes Wissen über die Einheiten der deutschen Lautsprache, vom Merkmal über die Silbe bis zum Wort und darüber hinaus, wobei im Sinne einer modalitätsübergreifenden Phonologie auch die entsprechenden Einheiten der deutschen Schrift- und Gebärdensprache systematisch behandelt werden. Damit wird der Medialität der deutschen Sprache, die gesprochen, geschrieben und gebärdet in Erscheinung tritt, Rechnung getragen. In engem Bezug zu den systembezogenen Eigenschaften sprachlicher Einheiten werden experimentell gewonnene Befunde zum Spracherwerb und zur gestörten und ungestörten Sprachproduktion und Sprachwahrnehmung präsentiert. Dabei wird das Deutsche in das Spektrum der typologischen, soziolektalen, regionalen und historischen Sprachvariation eingeordnet. Dieses Handbuch richtet sich an Wissenschaftler, die sich über Bereiche außerhalb ihres Spezialgebiets informieren wollen, und an linguistisch interessierte Studierende.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 536 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects. It also approaches contact languages from two perspectives: an historical linguistic perspective, more specifically from a viewpoint of genealogical linguistics, language descent and linguistic family tree models; and a sociolinguistic perspective, identifying specific social contexts in which contact languages emerge. 452 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The use of resumptive pronouns is quite productive in Mandarin Chinese; however, their distribution has rarely been studied in a systematic way. This book not only gives a thorough description of the general distribution of resumptive pronouns in different contexts but also offers a theoretical account in the framework of the Minimalist Program. Different types of A'-dependencies, mediated by gaps and by resumptive pronouns, are derived by different minimalist mechanisms, such as Agree, Match and Move. These mechanisms only apply at Narrow Syntax and do not uniformly obey locality constraints. Importantly, interpretative properties of an A'-bound element, such as reconstruction effects, is only related to its internal structure irrespective of how the A'-chain concerned is derived. From this perspective, resumptivity is an exclusively syntactic-related phenomenon and is thus not subject to any interface condition. Adopting a comparative approach, this study improves the general understanding of resumptivity crosslinguistically. 324 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume presents current work on a topic in Romance linguistics that still informs linguistic theory to this day: metaphony in the languages of Italy. Papers discuss fundamental research topics such as phonological opacity in the light of chain shifts, post-tonic harmony and consonant transparency, the role of morphosyntax in the typology of metaphony, the explanatory adequacy of feature-based versus element-based analyses, and the locus of metaphony in grammar. Other chapters present new experimental data, thus building a more accurate empirical foundation for the study of metaphony. We envision the volume to become a reference book not only for an updated descriptive survey of metaphonic patterns in Italy but also a thorough discussion of the challenges that metaphony poses for different (morpho)phonological theories. The book bridges the gap between descriptive works and theoretical thinking in the study of metaphony. 382 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book pioneers the study of bilingualism across the lifespan and in all its diverse forms. In framing the newest research within a lifespan perspective, the editors highlight the importance of considering an individual's age in researching how bilingualism affects language acquisition and cognitive development. A key theme is the variability among bilinguals, which may be due to a host of individual and sociocultural factors, including the degree to which bilingualism is valued within a particular context.Thus, this book is a call for language researchers, psychologists, and educators to pursue a better understanding of bilingualism in our increasingly global society. 362 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores the many disciplinary and theoretical links between language, linguistics, and mathematics. It examines trends in linguistics, such as structuralism, conceptual metaphor theory, and other relevant theories, to show that language and mathematics have a similar structure, but differential functions, even though one without the other would not exist. 344 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -There is no survey study to date that would have analyzed the history of spatial relations in Castilian Spanish, i.e. the prepositions, transitive adverbs as well as prepositional and adverbial locutions used for the spatial localization of entities. Based on an extensive corpus, this book offers a complete diasystematic characterization of these aspects and discusses new hypotheses with regard to their correlations.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 262 pp. Spanisch.