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Das mentale Lexikon
Tectum Verlag 2012; US$ 25.87Hauptbeschreibung Ohne Wörter ist Sprachgebrauch kaum vorstellbar. Sie sind eine wichtige Grundlage für den Aufbau des lexikalischen Wissens, tragen zur Entwicklung der Sprachmodalitäten 'Hören', 'Sprechen', 'Lesen' und 'Schreiben' bei und ermöglichen es somit den Menschen, sprachlich miteinander zu kommunizieren. Besonders in der Fremdsprache erweist... more...
Burger, Harald; Dobrovol'skij, Dmitrij; Kühn, Peter; Norrick, Neal R.: Phraseologie / Phraseology. Volume 1
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 475.00Phraseology includes the whole area of language phenomena called set phrases, proverbs and fixed expressions and formulaicity in everyday parlance. The Handbook offers a critical view of research on the linguistic properties and uses of formulaicity in various types of discourse as well as in numerous languages, considering research results from the... more...
Advances in the Theory of the Lexicon
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 182.00The book investigates the interface structure of the lexicon from various perspectives, including typology and processing. It surveys work on verb classes, verb-noun similarities, semantic representations, concepts and constructions of polysynthetic languages, research on the processing of inflectional and derivational elements, and new work on inheritance-based... more...
Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics
Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 130.00Perspectives in Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics offers an introduction to words and corpus linguistics. From this foundation it explores the much wider issues that are inevitably raised but somehow marginalized in lexicology (the study of words) and corpus linguistics: how are individual words integrated into language? What are the real benefits... more...
Dascal, Marcelo; Gerhardus, Dietfried; Lorenz, Kuno; Meggle, Georg: Sprachphilosophie / Philosophy of Language / La philosophie du langage. 2. Halbband
De Gruyter 1996; US$ 811.00This 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...
Wordwatching
Ebury Publishing 2010; US$ 16.01Alex Horne loves words. He loves them so much, in fact, that he's decided to invent his own ... and get them into the dictionary. But, as Alex discovers, gaining entry into the official lexicon takes more than just a gentle word in the ear of the editor. Evidence is required - Alex needs proof that his words are being spoken by more people than just... more...
Conceptual Structure in Lexical Items
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 165.00This volume deals with the occurrence of lexical gaps in the domain of linguistic action verbs. Though these constitute a considerable proportion of the verb inventory of many languages, not all concepts of verbal communication may be expressed by lexical items in any particular one of them. Introducing a conceptual system which allows gaps to be searched... more...
Phraseology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 188.00Long regarded as a peripheral issue, phraseology is now taking centre stage in a wide range of fields. This recent explosion of interest undoubtedly has a great deal to do with the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated the key role of phraseological expressions in language and provided researchers with automated methods... more...
Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning?Text Theory
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 188.00The Meaning Text Theory (MTT) is a lexicon-centred and dependency-based theory for the description of language using a holistic model that incorporates semantics, syntax, morphology and lexis. This volume, prepared on the occasion of Igor Mel'čuk?s 70th birthday, offers a cross-section of the current advances in MTT and its applications. The first... more...









