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Grammatical Theory and Metascience
In this book, the author analyses the nature of the science of grammar. After presenting some methodological and historical background, he sets forth a theory of language and of …
Dialects Across Borders
Nonstandard varieties of languages have recently become an object of new interest in scholarly research. This is very much due to the advances in the methods used in data …
Grammar and Philosophy in Late Antiquity
This book examines the various philosophical influences contained in the ancient description of the noun. According to the traditional view, grammar adopted its philosophical …
Beyond 'Khoisan'
Greenberg's (1954) concept of a 'Khoisan' language family, while heartily embraced by non-specialists, has been harshly criticized by linguists working on these languages. Evidence …
Responding to Polar Questions across Languages and Contexts
This book is about one of the most fundamental action sequences found across human societies and socio-cultural contexts: polar questions and their responses. Question-answer …
Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles
The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a …
Argument Realization in Baltic
The third volume in the VARGReB series explores different aspects of varying argument realization in Baltic. It presents original studies on differential marking of both core and …
Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia
The twelve articles in this volume describe Yeniseic, Samoyedic and Siberian Turkic languages as a linguistic complex of great interest to typologists, grammarians, diachronic and …
Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning
This volume represents the first collection of empirical studies focusing on peer interaction for L2 learning. These studies aim to unveil the impact of mediating variables such as …
Learning to Read, Learning Religion
Catechism primers are inconspicuous but telling little books for children combining the teaching of reading skills and religious catechesis. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, …