Historiallinen ja vertaileva kielitiede

This ground-breaking volume on early modern inter-Asian translation examines how translation from plain Chinese was situated at the nexus between, on the one hand, the traditional …

Das Buch analysiert die aus heutiger Perspektive redundante Negation in den Nebensatzen negierender Ausdrucke wie abhalten, hindern, verbieten, in Abrede stellen. Diese Negation …

Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. A …

Where is the locus of language variation? In the grammar, outside the grammar or somewhere in between? Taking up the debate between system- and usage-based approaches, this volume …

Frederik Theodor Visser’s An Historical Syntax of the English Language, published in four massive volumes between 1963 and 1973, is certainly one of the cornerstones of research in …

This study deals with the development of Arabic linguistics as a distinct Islamic science. The period covered ranges from the founding father of Arabic grammar, Sibawayh, up …

Applicative constructions are a distinctive grammatical feature of the Austronesian languages of western Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. Applicatives in these languages …

English summary: The Mixtec grammar - Arte en lengua mixteca - by Antonio de los Reyes, first published in Mexico in 1593, is presented in a new edition with linguistic analysis. …