Believing that the field of second-language phonology is positioned to advance a more holistic agenda that focuses on the context for language learning and use, specialists in acquiring a second langu
The first title in a new series, this collection of ten essays works off of four genealogies of world literature. Topics and genres include Auerbach's Dante, moving beyond spatiality, formation of lit
Meyer describes and discusses evidence for poetic organization within a corpus of texts corresponding to an early date of recitation in the Tahitian language. His findings might serve as a stylistic b
This work offers an updated commentary of Triphiodorus Sack of Troy, furnished with a thorough introduction. The reliable and long-lasting companion fills a gap in the scholarship on Imperial epic, gi
In a substantial revision of his 2011 doctoral dissertation at Bar Ilan University, On the Semantics of Classifiers in Chinese, Li discusses both the syntax and the semantics of classifiers. He covers
These previously scattered texts by Michael Pye are landmarks in the development of the study of religions, presented here as an international enterprise with roots in both European and East Asian cul
The author applies the fields of gender studies, psychoanalysis, and literature to Talmudic texts. In opposition to the perception of Judaism as a legal system, he argues that the Talmud demands inner
In this second and final volume of the set, medical researchers review findings on the clinical utility of various kallikrein-related peptidases in various types of solid malignant tumors. Among the t
This is the first comprehensive account of prolonged hearing loss and its impact on a language that was once spoken fluently. The reader is introduced to a significant deaf population Yoruba speakers
Siemund, Julia Davydova, and Georg Maier (all U. of Hamburg, Germany) present a textbook for a high school or undergraduate course exploring the varieties of the English language spoken around the wor
This textbook provides an introduction to German Arthurian poetry in the High and Late Middle Ages. The main focus is on Arthurian romances in rhyming couplets produced between about 1180 (Hartmann vo
A team of four astronomers present an overview of the observations and theory of dark energy. They do not suppose advanced knowledge of astronomy, so present basic mathematical concepts used on modern
This collection of over a dozen essays aims to fulfill a gap in Immanuel Kant scholarship on the place of the unconscious in his writing, philosophical and anthropological. The essays introduce their
Information literacy has been identified as a necessary skill for life, work and citizenship - as well as for academic study - for all of us living in today's information society. This international c
Errors of many kinds abound in Akkadian writings, but this fact's far-reaching implications have never been unraveled and systematized. To attempt this is the aim of this book. Drawing on scholarship
Academics go to conferences for two main reasons: first, to discuss their research; second, and just as importantly, to negotiate their own standing in the scientific community. This book shows how ac
This volume contains contributions to the systematic study of knowledge. They suggest both an extension and a new path for classical epistemology. The topics in the second volume are the following: va
This introduction deals with the adoption of one or more Romance languages in institutions; the objective is a critical reflection taking into account teaching methods as well as the planning and orga
This volume contains contributions to the "systematic study of knowledge." They suggest both an extension and a new path for classical epistemology. The topics in the first volume are the following: c
Why do languages change? The proposal that the grammar of negation evolves according to cycles is looked at from the behaviour of negative items and constructions, mainly through the history of Englis
This volume collects medieval Latin texts from the 8th to the 14th centuries that shape a pseudo-historical image of the Prophet Muhammad. The texts, from critical editions, manuscripts and early prin
The Wisdom of Solomon 10 is a unique passage among Jewish wisdom texts since it both presents personified divine Wisdom (i.e., Lady Wisdom) as acting directly in early Israelite history and explicitly
Despite their marginal existence in research, Utopian novels written in the Hellenistic period were very popular in Antiquity and inspired a number of authors in the modern period (Th. Morus, T. Campa
The German language is not uniform, but rather has prominent national and regional differences. This book focuses on how much this so-called pluricentricism is reflected in the lexicography, how it pr
This Grammar of Vaeakau-Taumako is the most comprehensive grammar of any Polynesian Outlier to date, and the first full-length grammar of any language of Temotu Province. Based on extensive fieldwork,
Inspired by but not drawing from her own life, she says, Isurin explores the experience of Russians, particularly Jewish Russians, in the US, Israel, and Germany. She uses an adapted acculturation fra
The conflict about the fragments of "Apologia or Defense for the Rational Reverers of God" by the Hamburg scholar Hermann Samuel Reimarus and theCounter-propositions by Gotthold Ephr
Control is a relation of co-identity between a pronounced subject (or object) in a matrix clause and a usually unpronounced subject in a subordinate, non-finite clause. The volume investigates Adjunct
This overview is the result of about 30 years of investigations conducted in the Arctic and Antarctic by scientists from throughout the world. The intent of editor Weincke (seaweed biology, Wegener In
Russian-born Trubetzkoy (1890-1938)is acknowledged as founder of the subject, and Scheer (linguistics, U. of Nice, France) picks up where the great linguist left off by distilling various interface th
The book examines the relationship between cult and ethics in the book of Isaiah. Part I challenges the common assumption that the prophets were anti-cult by suggesting that the principles supporting
During the persecution of the Christians under Emperor Maximinus Thrax in 235, Origen directed an urgent call to his friends Ambrosius and Protoctetus to hold fast to the Christian faith.The work prov
Until quite recently, there was no clear distinction between history and cultural memory, which led to a great deal of misunderstanding about the nature of both. In this multi-disciplinary book, Erll
This work provides the key to one of the most enigmatic Jewish Hellenistic texts preserved in Greek and Slavonic.3 Baruch, properly read, significantly enriches our understanding of the history of the
This study examines the significance of Nietzsche’s references to his own life. They are related to the objective intentions of Nietzsche’s philosophy, and are interpreted as being a part of them. The
The Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR) is a “Who’s Who” of Imperial Rome, containing the personal data and biographies of Roman office-bearers. Its objective is to bring together the whole elite from
As instructors of a course on linguistic aspects of intercultural communication, Danesi (U. of Toronto) and Rocci (U. of Lugano) always had to prepare their own handouts, because there was no suitable
Wolf and Polzenhagen, who seem to be German but went to Hong Kong to write this book, aspire to help establish cognitive sociolinguistics as a subspecialty of cognitive linguistics. In particular, the
Berkovich (retired, mathematics, U. of Haifa, Israel) continues his exposition of the theory of finite prime power order groups (p-groups), moving on to more complex materials and adding material on 2
Mjaaland (no affiliation given) investigates the relation between self and other, with the "other" taken at first in its most general sense (conceptual other, ethical other) as well as its most radica
