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Verbal aspect in Old Church Slavonic: A corpus-based approachIn Verbal Aspect in Old Church Slavonic Jaap Kamphuis demonstrates that the aspect system of Old Church Slavonic can best be described if one divides the verbs…
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Monsters in society: alterity, transgression, and the use of the past in Medieval IcelandDragons, giants, and the monsters of learned discourse are rarely encountered in the Sagas of Icelanders, and therefore, the general teratological focus…
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Ancient Egyptian phonologyIn Ancient Egyptian Phonology. James Allen studies the sounds of the language spoken by the ancient Egyptians through application of the most recent methodological advances for phonological reconstruction. Using the internal evidence of…
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ComicanalyseDie wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit Comics in all ihren vielfältigen Formen hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren auch in Deutschland zu einem lebhaften interdisziplinären Forschungsfeld entwickelt, dem zudem ein steigendes Interesse an der Comicanalyse in universitären…
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Romantic climates: literature and science in an age of catastropheThis book seeks to uncover how today’s ideas about climate and catastrophe have been formed by the thinking of Romantic poets, novelists and scientists, and how…
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Namenschöpfung und Namenrezeption im PolnischenWährend die Namengebung bei Personen- oder Ortsnamen durch mehr oder weniger stark ausgeprägte Regeln und Traditionen bestimmt wird, gibt es weitere Bereiche, in denen zahlreiche neue Namen mit hohem kreativem Potenzial…
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The making of Catalan linguistic identity in medieval and early modern timesThe historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and…
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The Oxford handbook of Egyptian epigraphy and palaeographyThe unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient culture’s records. All hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale…
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Passives and Middles in Mainland Scandinavian: Microvariation Through ExponencyThis monograph explores the properties of passive and middle voice constructions in Norwegian and Swedish, concentrating on the linguistic variation related to these two constructions in Mainland…
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Ideophones, mimetics and expressivesThis volume explores new frontiers in the linguistic study of iconic lexemes known as ideophones, mimetics, and expressives. A large part of the literature on this long-neglected word class has been dedicated…