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Linguistic Comparison of Chinese and English
The book examines similarities and differences between Chinese and English from structural, functional, and typological perspectives. The linguistic comparison undertaken covers …
Thinking and Speaking About Time
The last two decades have seen a series of publications focused on time. So, why another book? It now appears that a kairos moment has arrived to reconsider from a more holistic …
Silent Instruments
This book offers the first systematic investigation of the instrumental role across syntax, semantics, and language acquisition. Focusing primarily on Italian within a comparative …
Speaking of Writing Romani
As a traditionally oral language spoken in areas with a literacy-based culture, Romani provides a unique case for the study of orality and literacy. In a mixed-methods approach, …
Multilingual Corpus Research
Multilingual corpora have been used in cross-linguistic research for 30 years. New technologies have dramatically changed the processes of compilation and exploitation of …
New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition
This volume contains a representative sample of studies presented at the 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference (GASLA-17). The …
Crises We Live By
After an original foreword from Andreas Musolff setting the stage of the book, Crises We Live By offers a series of case studies that highlight different ways of conceptualizing …
Pardon my French?
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Dutch-French contact situation in the Early and Late Modern period, when the Dutch language and culture supposedly …
New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages
This book brings together some of the most prominent linguists working in the field of East and Southeast Asian syntax to create a special collection of papers which highlight new …
Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse
Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse presents a general perspective on the art of literature, starting from the questions of what literature is, how it works, and what it is …
(Re)turn to the Source Text
The source text is an unescapable part of any translation or translation process. Without source text, no translation. Yet it is only recently that scholars in the field of …
New Arabic Lexicon and its Words
Root syntax, with roots as primitive lexical units, is an influential theme in building the lexicon in linguistic theory, typically in Distributed Morphology, and the generative …