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Wörterbuch Zum Jiddischen Lehnwortschatz in Den Deutschen Dialekten
The -Dictionary of Yiddish Loan-Words in German Dialects- documents contact between the German and Yiddish languages, with special reference to German dialects. The material was …
Language Attitudes and Language Use in Pitmedden (Aberdeenshire)
Pitmedden is a village of approximately 1,000 inhabitants on the outskirts of Aberdeen city. The oil boom and the subsequent influx of people from all over the world have changed …
Infinitival complement constructions in Early New High German
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of …
Languages and Dialects in the U.S.
Languages and Dialects in the U.S. is a concise introduction to linguistic diversity in the U.S. for students with little to no background in linguistics. The goal of the editors …
Speaking and Social Identity
This monograph is an anthropological study of the social significance of English among Kru residents of Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia. The volume contributes to our …
Language Change and Functional Explanations
This collection of articles offers insights into language change as a function of communicative use. The multiple factors underlying change are described and possible explanations …
Conversations with Strangers
This Element documents the evolution of a research program that began in the early 1960s with the author's first investigation of language change on Martha's Vineyard. It traces …
Arabic in the City
Filling a gap in the literature currently available on the topic, this edited collection is the first examination of the interplay between urbanization, language variation and …
Listening to the Past
Audio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and thus complement the written data sources for the recent history of the language. This …
Regionalitaet in Johann Jakob Bodmers Uebersetzungen von Miltons «Paradise Lost»
From «Beowulf» to Caxton
Senshu University has hosted many international conferences on medieval English literature – primarily on Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland – as well as in the related fields …
Mexican Spanish in the Twentieth Century
Mexican Spanish in the Twentieth Century explores the trends and patterns of sociolinguistic stratification and variation, providing a clearer understanding of linguistic variation …