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Leonard Bloomfield
These essays were brought together to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949), one of the most outstanding and influential linguists of …
Linguistics and Pseudo-Linguistics
The doctrines of transformational-generative grammar (as promulgated in 1957, with frequent later emendations) have on occasion been criticised, sometimes severely. Such criticism …
Searching for Structure
This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of …
Qualitative-Quantitative Analyses of Dutch and Afrikaans Grammar and Lexicon
Sharing certain assumptions but differing in theory and practice, both Columbia School linguistics (CS) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) have increasingly supported their analyses with …
Zarathustra and the Ethical Ideal
This work defines its course in reference to Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra. The author uses Zarathustra to reflect how our understanding is wedded to affective modes, …
Hospitable Canon
The papers in this book respond to the public debate over literary canons, in the United States, and elsewhere, by placing the political-ideological aspects of the conflict inside …
Pervasive Image
It is tempting to speculate that had Ausias March (1397-1459) written in Spanish instead Catalan, or rather the Valencian form of it which was his native tongue, he would by now …
Lexicographic Description of English
Designed to help lexicographers compile better dictionaries of English, this book provides information about the language that is not available in any other single source. It is …
Carthaginian North: Semitic influence on early Germanic
This book presents a new and innovative theory on the origin of the Germanic languages. This theory presents solutions to four pivotal problems in the history of Germanic with …
Constructing a Productive Other
This book is a description of the process of constructing a productive Other for the purpose of being admitted to Canada as a Convention refugee. The whole claiming procedure is …
Critical Link 2
This volume of selected papers from the second Critical Link conference (Vancouver, 1998) shows a marked evolution in Community Interpreting (CI) since the first Critical Link …
New Studies in Latin Linguistics
The 29 papers in this volume cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from the Glottalic Theory and Lachmann's Law to the hermeneutic analysis of text-structure in Tacitus' …