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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…
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Interactions of vowel quality and prosody in East Slavic This book develops an Optimality-theoretic model of the interaction of phonological tone with segmental sonority, arguing that tone can interact directly with vowel quality without mediating…
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From pseudo-relatives to causative constructions: Scandinavian languages as a case study This volume proposes a novel structural analysis for causative constructions, offering a solution for the long-standing mono/bi-clausal dualism. Causatives are claimed to instantiate a…
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Jewish Languages: Text specimens, grammatical, lexical, and cultural sketchesThis volume on Jewish language varieties not only accords weight to linguistic and cultural analysis but also to extensive text specimens with both interlinear and idiomatic translation.…
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Digital codicology: medieval books and modern labor Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever—thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that widespread digitization has fundamentally transformed how…