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"And he knew our language"
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 158.00This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible... more...
"Ars corrigendi" in der frühen Neuzeit
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 182.00Under the maxim Ars corrigendi, it was discussed in the Early Modern period how authentic versions of texts could be extracted from ancient literature, as the texts in the manuscripts had been affected by many slips of the pen and other editorial revisions which they had endured on their long journey of tradition during the Middle Ages. The current... more...
"Deonomastik". Ableitungen auf der Basis von Eigennamen im Französischen
De Gruyter 1992; US$ 154.00Deonomastik : Ableitungen auf der Basis von Eigennamen im Französischen : unter vergleichender Berücksichtigung des Italienischen, Rumänischen und Spanischen more...
'Dialect' and 'Accent' in Industrial West Yorkshire
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1985; US$ 158.00This volume is concerned with one of the few thorough-going Labovian studies carried out in Britain. Based on a survey of over hundred randomly selected informants from the towns of Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield, it deals first with the methodology employed, and then sketches some aspects of the ?traditional? dialects of the area before describing... more...
"Haben" als Vollverb
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00This monograph on the verb have in the function of a full verb asserts that have-constructions in the syntactic analysis are to be placed in relationship with absolute with-constructions (cf. Mit den Füßen auf dem Tisch erwarte ich meine Schwiegereltern [Literal translation: With my feet on the table I expect my parents-in-law]). Furthermore, the study... more...
"I Undertook Great Works"
Mohr Siebeck 2010; US$ 79.80Hauptbeschreibung Traditionally, scholars study ancient Near Eastern royal inscriptions to reconstruct the events they narrate. In recent decades, however, a new approach has analyzed these inscriptions as products of royal ideology and has delineated the way that ideology has shaped their narration of historical events. This ideologically-sensitive... more...
"Ich kann ja Deutsch!"
De Gruyter 1988; US$ 133.00"Ich kann ja Deutsch!" Studien zum "fortgeschrittenen" Zweitspracherwerb von Kindern ausländischer Arbeiter more...
"Kleine Leute" und große Helden in Homers Odyssee und Kallimachos' Hekale
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 182.00Callimachus? Hekale is one of the most famous short epics of Greek literature and was highly regarded as such in antiquity. This study addresses the question of whether and to what extent the Hekale is related to the Homeric epics, and especially the Odyssey. The ensuing conclusions show that the Odyssey exerted a strong influence on the diction, character... more...
"Kommunikation" als Problem der Sprachdidaktik
De Gruyter 1981; US$ 133.00Untersuchungen zur Integration kommunikationstheoretischer Modelle in einige neuere Theorien des Sprachunterrichts more...









