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Fabulosa! The story of Polari, Britain’s secret gay languagePolari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. At a time when being gay could result…
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Sexuality, iconography, and fiction in French: queering the martyrThis book explores the modern cultural history of the queer martyr in France and Belgium. By analyzing how popular writers in French responded to Catholic doctrine and…
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On the periphery of Europe, 1762-1825: the self-invention of the Russian eliteThroughout the eighteenth century, the Russian elite assimilated the ideas, emotions, and practices of the aristocracy in Western countries to various degrees, while retaining…
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Germanenbilder: „Germanische“ Stoffe und Motive in der skandinavisch-, deutsch- und niederländischsprachigen Literatur von der Vorromantik bis 2013Als ‚germanisch‘ wahrgenommene Stoffe und Motive sind in vielfältigen Formen und Gestalten in Politik, Kunst und Literatur anzutreffen. Man…
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Mouse vs. cat in Chinese literature: tales and commentaryIn literatures worldwide, animal fables have been analyzed for their revealingly anthropomorphic views, but until now little attention has been given to the animal tales of China.…
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Prepositions, case and verbal prefixes: the case of SlavicThis monograph is concerned with prepositional elements in Slavic languages, prepositions, verbal prefixes and functional elements of prepositional nature. It argues that verbal prefixes are incorporated prepositions…
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Rhapsodie: a prosodic and syntactic treebank for spoken French This monograph describes the development of Rhapsodie, a 33,000-word syntactic and prosodic treebank of spoken French created with the aim of modeling the interface between prosody,…
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Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese ScriptIn the more than 3,000 years since its invention, the Chinese script has been adapted many times to write languages other than Chinese, including Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese,…
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The syntax of mainland ScandinavianThis book explores the syntactic structures of Mainland Scandinavian, a term that covers the Northern Germanic languages spoken in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and parts of Finland. The continuum of mutually intelligible…
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Visualisierung sprachlicher Daten: Visual Linguistics – Praxis – ToolsVisualisierungen spielen in den Wissenschaften eine wichtige Rolle im Forschungsprozess. Sie dienen der Illustration von gewonnener Erkenntnis, aber auch als eigenständiges Mittel der Erkenntnisgewinnung.Auch in der Linguistik…