Recent archaeological and biblical research challenges the traditional view of the history of ancient Israel. This book presents the latest findings of both academic disciplines regarding the United M
The book introduces the reader to the central areas of English linguistics. The main sections are: the English language and linguistics - sounds - meaning-carrying units - sentences: models of grammar
This book is an introduction to statistics for linguists using the open source programming language and environment R in order to conduct quantitative studies. The author explains statistical concepts
Christa Frateantonio follows a new line of research in this study of Pausanias’Periegesis, his historical and geographical description of Greece.Her underlying premise is that it is in fact concealed
The majority of the key research of recent years on agreement restrictions in grammar is scattered in journals, conference proceedings, working papers and dissertation chapters. This text assembles in
The essays in this volume combine the fields of cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics. They demonstrate the manner in which spoken, non-standard language is factored into linguistic studies givin
This book offers a welcome contribution to phonology and morphology, which have been understudied in cognitive linguistics. A detailed account of Russian verbs illustrates the efficacy of Cognitive Gr
Brink (Catholic Theological Union) and Green (U. of Oregon) edit a cross-disciplinary edition on the mortuary practices in the late Roman empire, with contributions from archaeologists, Roman historia
How should librarians determine the extent of customer satisfaction? Originally Poll and te Boekhorst asked this question of academic librarians, but in this edition widens their perspective to includ
The contributors to this volume analyse how ancient technical writers dealt with linguistic and stylistic, in particular terminological, features, but also focus on the pragmatic level of technical te
The study endeavors a detailed and systematic classification of linguistic simultaneity expressions. Further, it aims at a well described survey of how simultaneity is expressed by native speakers in
The book provides an account of English inversion, a construction that displays perplexing idiosyncrasies at the level of semantics, phonology, syntax, and pragmatics. Basing his central argument on t
“Jakobson and Halle’s initial statement of the principles of linguistic organization should be made available to all future generations of linguists. It builds a solid foundation for Saussurean thinki
Kastovsky and Mettinger introduce 16 papers which were originally presented at either the HESCO conference in Tulln or the ESSE conference in Debrecen, Hungary (both September, 1997). The contributio
Volume 2 of this two-volume set considers problems related to the interpretation of early Christian writings transmission; canon; text; form; literary, narrative, and rhetorical criticisms. It then te
By making both causal and process analyses possible, panel data has enjoyed increasing popularity in empirical science. In this compilation, several statistical techniques are presented in the face of
A dozen papers synthesize the rapid development in geometric group theory over the past few years because of the introduction of new geometric and algorithmic techniques. Asynchronous automatic struct
Volume 14 of Reviews in Mineralogy covers a short course about the relations among the microscopic structure of minerals and their macroscopic thermodynamic properties. Understanding the micro-to-macr
Despite an ever-growing scholarly interest in the work of Edmund Husserl and in the history of the phenomenological movement, much of the contemporaneous scholarly context surrounding Husserl's work r
This book brings together 36 case studies illustrating the role of communication in patient safety in nursing. It details basic principles and challenges related to health care quality, patient sa
Alvin Plantinga’s Warranted Christian Belief has very quickly become one of the most influential books in philosophy of religion. In this collection of essays, German philosophers, theologians and a m
The "greening" of industry processes - i.e., making them more sustainable - is a popular and often lucrative trend which has seen increased attention in recent years. Green Chemical Processes, the 2nd
This study proposes a new view of glossing as a universal phenomenon. Starting from the Psalter, a centrepiece of devotion and education in early medieval Europe, it combines historical sociolinguisti
Sustainable Green Chemistry, the 1st volume of Green Chemical Processing, covers several key aspects of modern green processing. The scope of this volume goes beyond bio- and organic chemistry, highli
Ancient letters had formatting and stylistic conventions that were carefully respected by their writers. This book provides the first comprehensive study of these conventions based on a wide corpus of
This monograph is a concise introduction to the stochastic calculus of variations for processes with jumps. It is written for researchers and graduate students who are interested in Malliavin calculus
This volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. On the one hand, manuscript evidence shows their knowledge, expertise and potential to teach, wherea
This study offers a fresh approach to reception historical studies of Scripture, utilizing a methodology introduced by scholars of ancient history and focusing on the four most frequently used Pauline
The author demonstrates how later developments in formal epistemology, philosophy of science, and logic can contribute to solving some of the problems of verificationism in philosophy, arguing for a w
Alvin Plantinga’s Warranted Christian Belief has very quickly become one of the most influential books in philosophy of religion. In this collection of essays, German philosophers, theologians and a m
How does perceptual experience make us knowledgeable? This book argues that the answer lies in the nature of perceptual experience: this experience involves conceptual capacities and is a relation bet
This study investigates adverbial clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective. In line with other recent typological research in the context of complex sentences and clause-linkage, it proceeds from a
Mayfield examines texts that he characterizes as among the highlights of Western literature since the Renaissance and as prime examples of cynicism. He begins by reviewing cynicism in antiquity, then
Why are human rights considered inviolable norms of justice although more than hundred countries around the globe violate them? This paradox seems reducible to the discrepancy between idealism and rea
Contributing to the field of Arabic Christianity and Arabic-Christian interaction with Islam, Awad examines the theological discourse of Abu Qurra, the Melkite bishop of Harran during the ninth-centur
Kilu von Prince presents students, academics, and researchers with a comprehensive examination of the endangered Oceanic language of Daakaka spoken on the Vanuatu island of Ambrym. The author has orga
The book offers a usage-based account of how humans comprehend complex linguistic structures. The author proposes a theory of constructional access, which treats syntactic patterns as complex and abst
Do literary texts provide distinctive access to the history of science? Is the study of literature based on scientific procedures? Is there a connection between scientific processes and literary forms
Seven main papers and six thematic studies document the gathering. Among the topics are the penumbra of the canon: what the Deuterocanonical books represent; the early history of the Deuterocanonici;
Wohrle has collected all known testimonies on the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus originally written in Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Persian with facing pages of English translation. The
