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The syntax of V-V resultatives in Mandarin Chinese This book addresses the three fundamental properties of V-V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese: their generation, their syntactic structure, and their alternations. This book is original and…
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Form, meaning and aspect in the German impersonal passive Actional passives are conventionally considered to be the result of a voice analysis conversion process. They are said to derive from semantically identical underlying actives, even…
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Understanding Corpus Linguistics This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of corpus linguistics for students approaching this topic for the first time, putting specific emphasis on the enormous linguistic diversity represented by approximately 7,000…
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In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: Analyzing meaning: An introduction to semantics and pragmatics (3. Auflage) Paul Kroegerhttps://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/359 & https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6855854 This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning…
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Brush conversation in the sinographic cosmopolis: interactional cross-border communication using literary Sinitic in early modern East Asia For hundreds of years until the 1900s, in today’s China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Vietnam, literati…
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Cross-Cultural Pragmatics This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics, a field encompassing the study of language use across linguacultures. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics is relevant for a variety of fields, such as pragmatics, applied linguistics,…
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„Die Geschichte der Worte ist eine der Ermächtigung – denn sie kommen von Gott oder den Göttern. In allen Kulturen hat man so von jeher versucht, mit Zaubersprüchen, Flüchen oder Segen, die Welt und das…
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Imaginary languages: myths, utopias, fantasies, illusions, and linguistic fictions An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics. In Imaginary Languages,…
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Particles in German, English, and beyond Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic…
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The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics The Romance languages and dialects constitute a treasure trove of linguistic data of profound interest and significance. Data from the Romance languages have contributed extensively to our current empirical…