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Coordination Relations in the Languages of Europe and Beyond
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00This book examines the coding of the three coordination relations of combination, contrast and alternative on the basis of a 74 language sample, with special focus on the languages spoken in Europe. It shows that the 'and-but-or' coding system which is typical of Central-Western Europe appears to be extremely rare outside Europe, where a great variation... more...
Language in South Asia
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 46.00An overview of the language of South Asia within a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context. more...
A Dictionary of European Anglicisms
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 59.99The first dictionary of its kind to provide an exhaustive comparative treatment of the influence of English on other European languages. Covering sixteen selected languages from different language families, entries consist of words which are recognizably English in form and which appear in at least one of the languages tested. Entries comprise of a... more...
Linguistic Consequences of the EU-Enlargement
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2007; US$ 109.00This yearbook deals with language problems in Europe, especially with the conditions and consequences of Europes economic and political integration. Each volume is dedicated to a particular topic, but contains also book reviews, reports on the sociolinguistic research in individual countries, and a comprehensive bibliography on new sociolinguistic... more...
Balkan Syntax and Semantics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 210.00The book deals with some syntactic and semantic aspects of the shared Balkan Sprachbund properties. In a comprehensive introductory chapter, Tomić offers an overview of the Balkan Sprachbund properties. Sobolev, displaying the areal distribution of 65 properties, argues for dialect cartography. Friedman, on the example of the evidentials, argues... more...
Circum-Baltic Languages
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 195.00The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European ? Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact... more...
Circum-Baltic Languages
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 210.00The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European ?Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact... more...
Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 173.00This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in Romance languages, with the Balkan patterns coming increasingly... more...
Clitic Phenomena in European Languages
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 180.00This book is concerned with a number of central issues in the theory of clitics, a topic that has become much debated in recent years. Mainly written within a recent generative framework, its contrastive approach discusses these issues against the background of a number of European languages, among which the Balkan Slavic languages figure prominently.... more...
The Discourse of Europe
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 149.00In this volume we approach the question of what it is to be European by considering the way in which citizens talk about their everyday lives, as they are perceived against the background of Europe and European issues. Hence, the volume will offer insights into the rarely glimpsed micro political world of ordinary talk and explore the way in which... more...









