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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...
Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 180.00This volume is a collection of 12 papers which originated from a research project on ?Europe and the Mediterranean from a linguistic point of view: history and prospects?. The papers deal with specific morphosyntactic aspects of language structure and evolution. The comparative perspective is adopted both from a synchronic (typological) and a diachronic... more...
Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 261.00Perceptual dialectology investigates what ordinary people (as opposed to professional linguists) believe about the distribution of language varieties in their own and surrounding speech communities and how they have arrived at and implement those beliefs. It studies the beliefs of the common folk about which dialects exist and, indeed, about what attitudes... more...
Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 261.00The Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology, Volume II, expands on the coverage of both regions and methodologies in the investigation of nonlinguists' perceptions of language variety. New areas studied include Canada (anglophone and francophone), Cuba, Hungary, Italy, Korea, and Mali, and most prominent among the new approaches are studies of the salience... more...
Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 173.00This book discusses the historical record of the idea that language is associated with national identity, demonstrating that different applications of this idea have consistently produced certain types of results. Nationalist movements aimed at ?unification?, based upon languages which vary greatly at the spoken level, e.g. German, Italian, Pan-Turkish... more...
Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 173.00The South Asian languages, mainly Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, have become a focus of interest in the formal study of language as a natural consequence of the research program of the Principle and Parameters approach and an enforced interest in exploring the parametrical space of human language. The contributions to the present volume combine theoretical... more...
Language in the British Isles
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 42.00Provides a comprehensive survey of the dominant languages and dialects used in the British Isles. more...
The Changing Languages of Europe
OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 48.99This book shows that the languages and dialects of Europe are becoming increasingly alike and furthermore that this unifying process goes back to Roman times, is accelerating, and affects every European language including those of different families such as Basque and Finnish. The unifying process involves every grammatical aspect of the languages... more...
The Languages and Linguistics of Europe
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 363.00The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guideis part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The book supplies profiles of the language families of Europe, including the sign languages. It also discusses the the areal typology, paying attention to the Standard Average European,... more...









