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Songs of the Women Troubadours
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 37.95This work offers an edition and translation of some 30 poems by the trobairitz, a remarkable group of women poets from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, who composed in the style and language of the troubadours. Introductory essays and notes by specialists in the field place the poems in literary, linguistic, historical, social and cultural contexts.... more...
A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 37.00This book explores the interlinked history of Parisian speech and its speakers during various phases of in-migration, dialect-mixing and social stratification from the middle ages to the present. It tracks the emergence of specifically urban modes of speech, including the working-class vernacular of recent times. more...
Prostate Cancer
Elsevier Science 2003; US$ 260.00An important translational book bridging the gap between science and clinical medicine, Prostate Cancer reviews the biological processes that can be implicated in the disease, reviews current treatments, highlighting the pitfalls where relevant and examines the scientific developments that might result in novel treatments in the future. Key Features... more...
Ernst, Gerhard; Gleßgen, Martin-Dietrich; Schmitt, Christian; Schweickard, Wolfgang: Romanische Sprachgeschichte / Histoire linguistique de la Romania. 1. Teilband
De Gruyter 2003; US$ 783.00This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action... more...
Romanistisches Jahrbuch 2008
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 223.00The Romanistisches Jahrbuch (RJb) is the only scholarly journal to regularly provide information about the representation of Romance languages, literature and cultural studies at German and Austrian universities. It systematically compiles accepted doctoral dissertations and postdoctoral theses, as well as projects currently in progress at German-speaking... more...
Français du Canada - Français de France VIII
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 147.00The book contains papers presented at an international colloquium which has taken place at regular intervals (since 1985) and which is devoted to the contrasting study of the French language in Europe and Canada. In 2007 the focus was on the different varieties of French that can be observed in France and in Canada. Here specialists from Canada, France... more...
The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 44.95The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French reveals the hidden cultural dimension of contemporary French, as used in the press, going beyond the limited and purely lexical approach of traditional bilingual dictionaries. Even foreign learners of French who possess a good level of French often have difficulty in fully understanding... more...
Gesprochene Sprache in der Romania
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 420.00This standard introduction to the spoken romance languages, which has long been out of print, is now being released in an up-to-date and revised new edition. The topic ?spoken language? has developed into one of the most interesting fields of research ? and not only in linguistics. From linguistic theory-based preliminary observations on speech and... more...
Dictionnaire onomasiologique de l?ancien gascon (DAG). Fasicule 14
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 63.00This dictionary of the Old Gascon language used in official documents deals with the lexis of South-Western France from the beginnings of written Gascon in the 11th century up to about 1300. The DAG is an onomasiological dictionary organising the vocabulary by subject groups. The emphasis is placed on the expressive means of medieval Gascon by bringing... more...
Atlas des formes et des constructions des chartes françaises du 13e siècle
De Gruyter 1980; US$ 154.00Atlas des formes et des constructions des chartes françaises du 13e siècle. more...









