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Deadjectival verb formation in Indo-European and beyond

The lexicalization of property concepts (PCs) - basic adjectival states such as big, small, hard, soft, black, white, fast, quick - has long been a central concern of both typology and linguistic theory. …

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Ben Schott
Schott's Significa

SCHOTT IS BACK - and better than ever.From the mind behind the million-copy bestseller Schott's Original Miscellany comes an indispensable field guide to the hidden lore and secret languages of our modern…

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Marco Wiemann
Tracing the history of pronunciation in nineteenth-century English

Advances in Historical Linguistics 4

A key challenge of studying the historical phonology of any language is how to reconstruct the pronunciation of periods before the availability of sound recording. Many studies of pre-twentieth-century pr…

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Olga Kellert
The (in)transparency of meaning change and variation : A study of the indefinite cualquiera in European and Argentinian Spanish

Advances in Historical Linguistics 2

This book investigates the development of indefinites like cualquiera in European and Argentinian Spanish, tracing their path from modal meanings like free choice and random selection to evaluative and ev…

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Kimete Canaj, Petra Storjohann, Ágústa Þorbergsdóttir, Cristina Zimbroianu
Neology and Discourse: A European Perspective

Literaturhinweise zur Linguistik - Band 16

Neologisms do not emerge by chance; rather, they reflect how societies respond to new challenges and which conceptual tools they require to make complex realities comprehensible. This book offers a compar…

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Linguistic and Cultural Dynamics in a Frontier Society

Empirie und Theorie der Sprachwissenschaft - Band 9

By synthesizing new data and offering novel analyses of the early medieval landscape in a region of shifting political and cultural boundaries, this volume traces how and when interactions developed among…

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Michael Percillier, Yela Schauwecker, Achim Stein, Carola Trips
Carrying Verbs Across the Channel

New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics

This book examines grammatical changes that took place in the medieval language contact situation between English and French from 1066 until 1500. It investigates structural copying phenomena and their co…

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Vanessa Braganza
The Secret Seekers

Coded messages, hidden carvings, ciphered pendants: what if the secrets of the women of Renaissance England are hidden in plain sight?Now celebrated as an artistic and literary golden age, the Renaissance…

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Rebecca Shapiro
Lexicography and the Law

Elements in Applied Linguistics

Legal professionals in the United States increasingly have relied on dictionaries, both current and historical, in court cases. This practice is complicated because originalist jurists are often not well-…

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Rebecca Shapiro
Lexicography and the Law

Elements in Applied Linguistics

Legal professionals in the United States increasingly have relied on dictionaries, both current and historical, in court cases. This practice is complicated because originalist jurists are often not well-…

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Todd S. Frobish
Discourses at Play

Todd Frobish explores a diverse set of historical crises through the lens of "rhetorical gameplay", an approach that serves as the intersection between rhetorical theory and game studies.The fie…

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Jacob Grimm
The Complete Grimms' Fairy Tales

"Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land?" Jacob Grimm (1785 - 1863) was a German philologist, folklorist, and scholar whose work helped shape both modern folklore studies a…

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Jr. William A. Kretzschmar
The Emergence and Development of American English

"Based on copious data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, this book tells the story of American English from a linguistic standpoint, illustrated with real-life examples of language in use. Authorita…

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Jr. William A. Kretzschmar
The Emergence and Development of American English

"Based on copious data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, this book tells the story of American English from a linguistic standpoint, illustrated with real-life examples of language in use. Authorita…

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Pamoja tena 'Together again' : African linguistics after COVID

Contemporary African Linguistics 14

The papers in this volume were selected from those presented at the 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, which was held at the University of Connecticut in June, 2024. The volume contains 22 pap…

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Language Change: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of recent advances in empirical, theoretical, and experimental research on language change, with a focus on semantic evolution. Bridging the gap between histor…

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Mark Faulkner
A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century

A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century offers a new narrative of what happened to English language writing in the long twelfth century, the period that saw the end of the Old English tradition…

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Chiara Ghezzi
The Pragmatics of Queenship in Shakespeare's Drama

This book addresses the characterisation and representation of female authority in Shakespeare's political plays by collecting the linguistic behavioural patterns of the queens of the first tetralogy (Kin…

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Bo Wang, Tianqi Ma, Yuanyi Ma
Introducing Wang Li

Focusing on the life and works of Wang Li, one of the founding figures of modern Chinese linguistics, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to his scholarship. It presents Wang Li as a pioneering …

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Bo Wang, Tianqi Ma, Yuanyi Ma
Introducing Wang Li

Focusing on the life and works of Wang Li, one of the founding figures of modern Chinese linguistics, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to his scholarship. It presents Wang Li as a pioneering …

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