Scholars from the U.S. and Germany discuss recent research in Germanic linguistics. Thirteen contributions cover such topics as the distribution of restrictive and nonrestrictive adjectives, the North
In this second volume based on a 1998 Berkeley German Linguistics Roundtable, international contributors to 14 papers divide their interests between historical and contemporary language data. Phonolog
Reiner (composer, music producer, performer and writer) investigates the link between musical time and the world of signs and symbols. In the seven chapters, he discusses the extent to which musical t
Drawing on her work as an anthropologist, Portis-Winner proposes cultural semiotics as a new paradigm or world view unified by broad themes and yet divided by wide differences and interpretations, and
De Benedictis (classical and modern languages, literature, and cultures; Wayne State U., Michigan) analyzes how words, when combined in a particular manner, contribute to the making of certain codes,
This analysis of the 9th-century Old Saxon epic Heiland is drawn from Augustyn's dissertation written at the U. of California at Berkeley. The myth is the basis for Augustyn's examination of the ro
Drawing on his research in 2007-08 for a PhD in linguistics at the University of Georgia, Bucsko, now a Spanish teacher at a Georgia high school, explores preverbs, which are added to the front of ove
Studies the nature and extent of code-mixing in Hong Kong the mixing of Cantonese, modern standard Chinese, and English drawing on written data obtained from the local Chinese press over a period of t
The collection groups similar proverbs on various subject matter in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin, demonstrating a proverbial universality. Divided into 17 categories, some of the them
Kperogi offers a comparative study of English and Nigerian English. The author has organized the twenty-two chapters that make up the main body of his text in five parts devoted to conceptual issues i
Volume 81 of this series deconstructs the use of language in depictions of Korean migration in Germany. Roberts (modern languages, Indiana U., Purdue U.) considers newspaper latices, autobiographical
Although the Franco-American communities of Southbridge, Massachusetts, and Woonsocket, Rhode Island, have much in common historically, the shift from French to English has advanced to differing degre
Kilpatrick (Italian, U. of Georgia) examines consonant clusters and their propagation through northern Italian dialects including Piemontese, Piacentino, Genovese, Milanese, Bolognese and Standard Ita
Inheritance, which has its origins in the field of artificial intelligence, is a framework focusing on shared properties. When applied to inflectional morphology, it enables useful generalizations wit
Kambarov proposes eight uniform rules for the use of definite, indefinite and zero articles in English and German built from his views of the concept of definiteness and its relation to mental spaces
In a detailed formal semantic and syntactic analysis of applicative arguments in German and English, Bosse surveys the different types of applicative arguments found in the two languages and provides
O'Rourke's addition to the study of American slavery is his focus on choice and the context of choices made by English and Spanish settlers to transform the limited European practice of coerced labor
This book by David K. O’Rourke presents a study of language and linguistic forms and the roles they played in the initial imagining, developing, and maintaining of a society based on coerced labor. It
