Contributors from China, Europe, and the US offer synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives on quantification in a number of languages spoken in China. Looking in turn at correlations betwe
European and North American linguists intended to present the anthology to colleague and former teacher Norval Smith when he retired from the University of Amsterdam in September 2011; a year past dea
The acquisition of Mandarin Chinese, one of the most important and widely spoken languages in the world today, is the focus of this innovative study. It describes the rise of Chinese as a global langu
Scholars of literature and culture explore how catastrophes and crises become embedded in cultural memory. Their topics include how metaphors and narratives shape the cultural life of crises and catas
European chemists and other scientists explore some of the possibilities for biological matter to be substituted for petroleum as building blocks for chemicals and fuel, and for sustainability to be i
This is the first of two volumes compiling papers from sessions at a conference on corpus linguistics in Liverpool, and another on cognitive linguistics in Berkeley, both in the summer of 2009. They c
Changing little but to add new bibliographical data, Hasegawa presents his 2010 doctoral dissertation at Tel Aviv University, which integrates biblical studies, Assyriology, and archaeology to examine
Presented by Wiemer (Institut fur Slavistik, Germany), Walchli (Institutionen for Lingvistik, Sweden), and Hansen (Institut fur Slavistik), 15 articles examine two key theoretical issues that have bee
For graduate students and researchers with a basic knowledge of general topology, functional analysis, and Lebesgue integration, Florescu ("Alexandru Ioan Cuza" U., Romania) and Godet-Thobie (U. de Br
Most historical Jesus and Gospel scholars have supposed that the Jesus and Gospel traditions were unidirectionally transmitted from Judaeo-Palestinian into Hellenistic, from oral into written and from
This is the first volume of a new series, De Gruyter Studies in Mathematical Physics, which will consist of monographs and high-level texts and will emphasize didactical presentation. The two authors
Media is now an integral constituent of any educational context. In particular, computer and internet media can have significant bearing on foreign language learning processes and outcomes. Such highl
This book studies discourses and linguistic choices in both ex-colonized and ex-colonizer communities as each copes with the outcomes of colonialism. The construction of identities, the translation of
This volume presents mayor contributions of Applied Linguistics to the understanding of communications in the professions. The first two parts of this book deal with the theoretical and methodological
As libraries change from warehouses of books to learning spaces, librarians are reducing the number of books to make room for reading, conversation, and other activities. Therefore, it is more crucial
Private associations organized around a common cult, profession, ethnic identity, neighbourhood or family were common throughout the Greco-Roman antiquity, offering opportunities for sociability, cult
Knapp (applied linguistics, U. of Erfurt, Germany) and Seidlhofer (English and applied linguistics, U. of Vienna, Austria) present the sixth volume in the Handbooks of Applied Linguistics series, whic
Balla presents a revision of her 2008 doctoral dissertation Attitudes Toward Sexuality in the Book of Ben Sira at Murdock University, Australia. She identifies and analyzes all the passages in the lon
The book explores the role of age in communication under consideration of various age groups (the elderly, middle-aged, teenagers, children), genres, cultures and languages. The social skewing of the
Though there are a number of definitions, the term grey literature is widely applied to conference proceedings, reports, and doctoral theses that are often printed in small numbers and are typically o
Revising her PhD dissertation for the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (no date noted), Lamari inquires whether drama can be seen as an integral narrative, and so can be examined using narrative t
In biblical as well as in non-biblical texts war is a widespread theme often embedded in a narrative framework. In this volume that contains the proceedings of a conference in Kerkrade (Netherlands) i
Recent interpreters of Kant's philosophy and contemporary advocates of broadly neo-Kantian views generally minimize the importance of Kant's metaphysical beliefs. This volume re-evaluates these minimi
The image of the body has become a popular theme in academic studies. In the case of Greco-Roman studies, it is particularly apt. Representations of and by bodies were signals that placed a being with
Dyson has gathered what he believes is a nearly comprehensive collection of relevant texts on prolepsis and conception in Hellenistic philosophy and arranged them chronologically by source. He then us
Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of th
Phase Theory is the latest model of modern syntactic theorizing in the generative tradition, the larger research enterprise known as the ‘Minimalist Program.’ This volume collects current research of
The papers in this volume deal with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings. The authors investiga
The papers in this volume revolve around the history of the influence exerted by the person of Moses and the traditions associated with him. They deal not only with the function of the figure of Moses
The renaissance of corpus linguistics and promising developments in experimental linguistic techniques in recent years have led to a remarkable revival of interest in issues of the empirical base of l
This anthology presents the results of the Second International Colloquium of the Narratology Research Group (Hamburg University). It engages in the exploration of approaches that broaden Narratology'
This book explores the overlapping area of study that discourse linguists and cognitive linguists are interested in. It procedes from considerations of information structuring, coherence and foregroun
Bonfiglio's (U. of Richmond) study centers on phonemes with high cultural visibility, which can be focused upon as diagnostic markers of the migration and legitimation of accent. The author deconstru
The aim of each volume of this series Guides to Information Sources is to reduce the time which needs to be spent on patient searching and to recommend the best starting point and sources most likely
Approaching the problem from a broad generative perspective, 13 papers look at aspects of Hispanic syntax and semantics. The papers, presented by GutiTrrez-Rexach (Ohio State U.) and Silva-Villar (Mes
Presents a systematic study of conformal geometry of n -manifolds, as well as its Riemannian counterparts (in particular, hyperbolic geometry). A unifying theme is the discrete holonomy groups of th
Reviews the premises and research practices of twelve widely popular theoretical orientations in psychology, and tests their applicability to issues of child development in urban environments. Include
A substantially annotated bibliography of books written by Japanese scholars in English from 1950 to 1995 and two dozen essays illuminate a field that has been flourishing for decades but is little kn
Die Reihe Patristische Texte und Studien publiziert seit 1963 Forschungsergebnisse, die durch die Patristische Kommission, heute ein Gemeinschaftsunternehmen aller deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaft
