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Sprachgebrauchsmuster
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00Discourse and ways of thinking are mirrored in typical language usage. With corpus linguistic methods it is possible to expose recurring formula and patterns of language usage and their variations. This book demonstrates how inductive theories for cultural studies analyses can be derived from large bodies of text. The methods are illustrated with a... more...
Minimalist Inquiries into Child and Adult Language Acquisition
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 196.00The volume is a collection of original articles that present new research on first and second language acquisition from the perspective of current generative linguistics, using a detailed case study of Portuguese as a first, second and third language. The book focuses on studies exploring both empirical/experimental and theoretical aspects of the acquisition... more...
Language and Social Cognition
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 182.00This interdisciplinary volume provides a novel perspective on social aspects of language. It views ways of how the acquisition and management of knowledge of ourselves and others is reflected in language. Hence, by combining the two disciplines social cognition and linguistics, it proceeds beyond cognitive linguistics by examining language from a wider... more...
Word Frequency Studies
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00Word frequency plays a prominent role in many scientific and applicational fields. The book presents innovative methods in research and new results important for language and text characterization. Based on a general theory, surprising interrelations are shown between word frequency and other linguistic properties. Interrelations between previously... more...
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 54.99This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and others can judge what are the most useful models for the... more...
Approaches to Phonological Complexity
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00The proposed volume draws on an interdisciplinary sketch of the phonetics-phonology interface in the light of complexity. Composed of several first-order contributions, it will consequently be a significant landmark at the time of the rise of several projects linking complexity and linguistics around the world. more...
Loanwords in the World's Languages
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 307.00This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed from other languages. The authors have assembled a unique database of over 70,000 words from 40 languages from around the world, 18,000 of which are loanwords. This database (http://loanwords.info)... more...
Processes in Third Language Acquisition
Edinburgh University Press 2009; US$ 105.00This volume brings together six case studies of an adult multilingual speaker who acquires a new language through social interaction. The book deals especially with the multilingual situation, the learners acquisitional activities, and the involvement of background languages in the process of speaking. It offers a coherent study of various linguistic... more...
Control as Movement
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 88.00Presents the main arguments for and against the Movement Theory of Control. more...
Investigations in Sociohistorical Linguistics
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 25.00Containing tales of historical-sociolinguistic detection, this book provides a unique insight into how language contact shapes varieties of English. more...









