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This is the first book devoted to the phoronym, a largely overlooked grammatical category that includes measures such as cup in a cup of tea , classifiers such as head in ten …
Inheritance, which has its origins in the field of artificial intelligence, is a framework focusing on shared properties. When applied to inflectional morphology, it enables useful …
Why were runes invented? What did the Germanic peoples of southern Scandinavia speak during the first centuries CE? Can the earliest runic inscriptions be used to learn something …
It is very common in Indo-European languages to derive new, compound verb forms from verb bases by adding prefixes to them. These prefixes, or preverbs, are originally derived from …
Applicative Arguments: A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English presents formal semantic and syntactic analyses of German and English applicative arguments. …
Glocal English compares the usage patterns and stylistic conventions of the world’s two dominant native varieties of English (British and American English) with Nigerian English, …
The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern Italian Dialects offers an explanation of the disparate outcomes of similar consonant clusters within several …
One of the most interesting changes in Proto-Germanic was the alternation of "y" and "w" after short syllables with "i" and "u" after long, respectively - an alternation with …
For decades, linguists have treated code-switching as a -special- language of its own, and devised many constraints accounting for code-switching patterns in various language …
Versatility in Versification grew out of an international conference organized by the University of Iceland and the Nordic Society for Metrical Studies and held at Reykholt, …