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Direct Speech, Self-presentation and Communities of Practice
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 75.00This book deals with speech representation inGreek adolescents storytelling and investigates how members of differentcommunities of practice present themselves and other characters asinteractional protagonists through the stories they tell. The work puts forth adynamic approach that examines (direct) speech representation at the local andthe broader... more...
Ferdinand de Saussure und die Anagramme
De Gruyter 1972; US$ 126.00Ferdinand de Saussure Und Die Anagramme: Linguistik Und Literatur. more...
Get Started In Greek
Hodder Education 2010; US$ 20.78The best-selling beginner's course for a fun and effective way to learn Greek. This ISBN is for the paperback book. The corresponding audio support (ISBN: 9781444101546) is also available. The book and audio support can also be purchased as a pack (ISBN: 9781444101621). more...
Cross-linguistic Variation in Sentence Processing
Springer 2006; US$ 139.99Argues in favour of cross-linguistic variation in sentence processing by providing empirical data from ambiguity resolution in Greek as L1 and L2. This book shows that in highly inflected languages, like Greek, initial parsing decisions are determined by the interaction of morphological and lexical cues rather than by universal parsing principles. more...
Theorie der Übersetzung antiker Literatur in Deutschland seit 1800
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 126.00The translation of ancient literature became the focus of a lively discussion in Germany around 1800. After Herder and Voss the question once more arose of just how faithfully the ancient world could and should be presented in the German language. Schleiermacher and Humboldt decided to emphasise the cultural strangeness and linguistic individuality... more...
Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 99.00This is a history of the great language controversy that has occupied and empassioned Greeks - sometimes with fatal results - for over two hundred years. It begins in the late eighteenth-century when a group of Greek intellectuals sought to develop a new, Hellenic, national identity alongside the traditional identity supplied by Orthodox Christianity.... more...
Clitics in Greek
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 158.00This monograph investigates the morpho-syntactic and other properties of clitic pronouns in Greek and offers a grammar of proclisis and enclisis in light of Chomsky?s (1995, 2001a, 2005) Minimalist Program. It explores the nature of clitics as syntactic topicalizers which are probed by structurally higher verbal heads to which they move and into which... more...
Rough Guide Phrasebook: Greek
Rough Guides 2011; US$ 8.99Make the most of your trip with the Rough Guide Greek Phrasebook. Find the perfect word or phrase for every situation Use extensive two-way dictionary packed with vocabulary Choose food and drink from any menu Check ou t travel tips and a regional pronunciation guide Listen to correct pronunciation of essential dialogues DOWNLOAD EASY... more...
Causality and Connectives
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 135.00The book explores finely-grained distinctions in causal meaning, mostly from a relevance-theoretic perspective. To increase the challenge of this double task, i.e. a thorough as well as satisfactory account of cause and a detailed assessment of the theoretical model employed to this end, the current study involves an investigation carried out by way... more...
Medieval and Modern Greek
Cambridge University Press 1983; US$ 34.00To speakers of modern Greek the Homeric poems of the 7th century BC are not written in a foreign language. The Greek language has enjoyed a continuous tradition from earliest times until now. This book traces its history from the immediately post-classica more...









