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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 …
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, …
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 …
Progress in Colour Studies
This volume presents recent research in colour studies with a particular focus on language, offering both continuity and innovation within the field. All chapters are developed …
Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions
Habitual constructions, such as those based on English used to and Spanish soler, are linguistic expressions denoting situations that typically occur. This volume proposes a novel …
60 Years of Applied Linguistics
For sixty years, applied linguistics has stood at the crossroads of language and society, by meeting real-world needs. 60 Years of Applied Linguistics: Toward more engaged research …
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 …
Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics
Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics offers a rigorous and engaging exploration of two of the field's most dynamic areas. Drawing on key frameworks - …
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 …
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 …