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The functions of “general nouns”: theory and corpus analysisThe author critically discusses the concept of ‹general nouns›, which Halliday/Hasan introduced in their approach to lexical cohesion (1976), and she provides a comprehensive overview of these…
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The persona of Czeslaw Milosz: authorial poetics, critical debates, reception gamesThe Persona of Czeslaw Milosz considers the poetry of Milosz in the innovative light of world literature and comparative literary studies. The author employs critical…
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Verb second in medieval romance This volume provides the first book-length study of the controversial topic of Verb Second and related properties in a range of Medieval Romance varieties. It presents an examination and analysis…
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Author, scribe, and book in late medieval English literatureThe works of four major fifteenth-century writers re-examined, showing their innovative reconceptualization of Middle English authorship and the manuscript book. Thomas Hoccleve, Margery Kempe, John Audelay and…
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Old Russian birchbark letters: a pragmatic approachThis study is devoted to a corpus of Old Russian letters, written on pieces of birchbark. These unique texts from Novgorod and surroundings give us an exceptional impression of…
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Indefinites between Latin and romanceThis book investigates the syntactic and semantic development of a selection of indefinite pronouns and determiners (such as aliquis ‘some’, nullus ‘no’, and nemo ‘no one’) between Latin and the Romance…
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Modern Arabic literature: a theoretical frameworkThe study of Arabic literature is blossoming. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to help research this highly prolific and diverse production of contemporary literary texts. Based on the…
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Anglizismen – Sprachwandel in deutschen und norwegischen Texten der InformationstechnologieSprachkontakt bedeutet Sprachwandel. Ein zentraler Aspekt sind dabei Entlehnungen, die heutzutage leichter denn je aufgegriffen und in die Muttersprache integriert werden. Auch innerhalb einer Sprachfamilie entwickeln…
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Linguistics of TemperatureThe volume is the first comprehensive typological study of the conceptualisation of temperature in languages as reflected in their systems of central temperature terms (hot, cold, to freeze, etc.). The key issues addressed…
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Machen Normen Sprache komplexer? Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von Normativität und morphosyntaktischer Komplexität im DeutschenAlle natürlichen Sprachen sind gleich komplex – von diesem Axiom ging die linguistische Forschung lange aus, ohne es zu hinterfragen. Jüngere Untersuchungen…