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The Emergence of Protolanguage
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 128.00Somewhere and somehow, in the 5 to 7 million years since the last common ancestors of humans and the great apes, our ancestors ?got? language. The authors of this volume all agree that there was no single mutation or cultural innovation that took our ancestors directly from a limited system of a few vocalizations (primarily innate) and gestures (some... more...
Onomastik und Lexikographie, Deonomastik
De Gruyter 2002; US$ 273.00Der Wörterbuchcharakter vieler namenkundlichen Arbeiten ist ein deutliches Indiz für die Berührungspunkte zwischen Onomastik und Lexikographie. Umgekehrt sieht sich die Lexikographie (und mit ihr die Lexikologie) in mancherlei Hinsicht mit der Frage der Behandlung der Eigennamen konfrontiert. Die Sektionsarbeit ging auf eine Reihe dieser Fragestellungen... more...
Eichler, Ernst; Hilty, Gerold; Löffler, Heinrich; Steger, Hugo; Zgusta, Ladislav: Namenforschung / Name Studies / Les noms propres. 2. Halbband+Registerband
De Gruyter 1996; 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...
Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 165.00A number of previous approaches to linguistic borrowing and contact phenomena in general have concluded that there are no formal boundaries whatsoever to the kinds of material that can pass from one language into another. At the same time, various hierarchies illustrate that some things are indeed more likely to be borrowed than others. Linguistic... more...
Strategien der Integration und Isolation nicht-nativer Einheiten und Strukturen
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 147.00this volume studies how speakers deal with loanwords from foreign languages. Are foreign words adapted in pronunciation, writing, flexion and syntax to the recipient language or do they keep characteristics of the language of their origin? Do loan units change the system of the recipient language or do they get changed by it? Methodical considerations... more...
Semitic and Indo-European
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1995; US$ 210.00This volume presents the key examples of morphological correspondences between Indo-European and Semitic languages, afforded by nouns, verbal roots, pronouns, prepositions, and numerals. Its focus is on shared morphology embodied in the cognate vocabulary. The facts that are brought out in this volume do not fit comfortably within either the Indo-Europeanists’... more...
Semitic and Indo-European
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 225.00This is a sequel to the author's Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies (1995). That volume provided the key examples of morphological correspondences between the Semitic and the Indo-European languages. In this sequel, the author analyzes correspondences of structure, either within a certain group of languages or belonging to a distantly... more...
Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 210.00The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. The questionnaire targets systematically the possibility of contact influence / grammatical borrowing... more...
Namen
Narr Francke Attempto 2012; US$ 26.95Hauptbeschreibung Diese Einführung befasst sich aus linguistischer Perspektive mit der nominalen Sondergruppe der Eigennamen im Deutschen. Sie berücksichtigt die neueste Forschung und bietet auch Ausblicke auf die Namen anderer Sprachen und Kulturen. In einem ersten Teil wird synchron ihren spezifischen Funktionen und grammatischen Besonderheiten... more...
Named Entities
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 120.00Named Entities provides critical information for many NLP applications. Named Entity recognition and classification (NERC) in text is recognized as one of the important sub-tasks of Information Extraction (IE). The seven papers in this volume cover various interesting and informative aspects of NERC research. Nadeau & Sekine provide an extensive... more...









