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English complex words: Exercises in construction and translation English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages. It offers today’s broadest available…
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The Spanish and the Portuguese present perfect in discourse This monograph presents a theoretical and empirical study of the Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect (PP). The innovative claim is that the two tense forms…
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Eine Geschichte Russlands Mitreißend, prägnant und menschlich berührend erzählt Orlando Figes die Geschichte Russlands. Dabei entfaltet er das große Panorama der russischen Seele: von unsterblichen Mythen über die großartigen kulturellen Leistungen bis zur Weltmachtpolitik des…
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New Englishes, New Methods There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions in…
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Agentivity in human impersonal constructions in Polish and Russian This book presents a synchronic study on the applicability and the acceptability of the passive and three impersonal constructions in Polish (-no/-to, reflexive, and 3pl) and…
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Constructions in Spanish Constructions in Spanish is the first book-length English-language volume in the field of usage-based and Cognitive Construction Grammar dedicated exclusively to Spanish. The contributions investigate a wide range of constructions from both…
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The Chinese Typewriter: A History How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China’s information technology successes today. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is…
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Hidden and devalued feminized labour in the digital humanities: on the Index Thomisticus project 1965-67 Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities examines the data-driven labour that underpinned the Index Thomisticus–a preeminent project…
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Interdisziplinarität, Kompetenzorientiertheit und Digitalisierung als aktuelle Tendenzen und Herausforderungen in der Germanistik Die universitäre fremdsprachenphilologische Ausbildung befindet sich in Mittelosteuropa seit Jahren im Umbruch. In den einzelnen Beiträgen des Bandes setzen sich die AutorInnen im…
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Statistical universals of language: mathematical chance vs. human choice This volume explores the universal mathematical properties underlying big language data and possible reasons why such properties exist, revealing how we may be unconsciously mathematical in…