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Repertoires and Choices in African Languages
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 140.00Africa is one of the hotspots of linguistic diversity, and most African languages are spoken by multilingual communities. The persistence of multilingualism and the linguistic creativity are striking, especially against the backdrop of "language death" and expanding monolingualism elsewhere in the world. This volume deals with multilingualism as a... more...
The Sound Structure of Modern Irish
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 140.00The Sound Structure of Modern Irish contains essential information about the phonology of modern Irish along with many analyses of general linguistic issues. A major focus of the book is on a typological comparison between Irish and a number of other languages which have functionalised such phenomena as palatalisation and/or initial mutation. more...
Creativity and the Agile Mind
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 140.00Creativity is a highly-prized quality in almost any domain of human endeavor, whether one is crafting tangible objects from physical materials, or mental objects from concepts, words, pictures and musical notes. It is a diverse, multi-faceted phenomenon that demands a diverse, multi-disciplinary perspective. By bringing together a wide range of creative... more...
Research in Chinese as a Second Language
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 140.00The rapidly growing interest in Chinese language teaching has not resultedin the development of a strong research framework for the discipline. Thebook addresses this gap by drawing together research from international scholars working in the field of Chinese as a second language research. The volume is organized in three sections: Research Base for... more...
Erfolgreich recherchieren - Linguistik
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 279.00The volume Erfolgreich recherchieren ? Linguistik [Successful Research Strategies: Linguistics] provides a comprehensive overview of information resources in all sectors of linguistics. The work not only presents key research tools such as library catalogues, specialized bibliographies, Internet search engines, article databases, and reference works,... more...
Nag Hammadi Deutsch
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 560.00This student edition provides a complete German translation of the approx. 50 manuscript texts discovered in Nag Hammadi as well as the text of the Codex Berolinensis 8502. For this third edition, the volume was corrected and updated, and it has also been expanded by the inclusion of two texts from the Codex Tchacos first published in 2007. These texts,... more...
Modelling Language
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 135.00In response to the need for reliable results from natural language processing, this book presents an original way of decomposing a language(s) in a microscopic manner by means of intra/inter‑language norms and divergences, going progressively from languages as systems to the linguistic, mathematical and computational models, which being based... more...
Silence and Concealment in Political Discourse
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 135.00This book constitutes a significant contribution to political discourse analysis and to the study of silence, both from the point of view of discourse analysis as well as pragmatics, and it is also relevant for those interested in politics and media studies. It promotes the empirical study of silence by analysing metadiscourse about politicians? silence... more...
The Macregol Gospels or The Rushworth Gospels
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 120.00This work is composed of two parts. The first or introductory part, contains a palaeographical discussion about Bodleian Library, MS Auctarium D.2.19, that is to say, the MacRegol Gospels or the Rushworth Gospels, edited by Kenichi Tamoto, and which forms the second and main part of this book. The provenience of the MS, the Latin text, the use of the... more...
The Riddle of the Labyrinth
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 21.99In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated... more...









