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Completion, Volume 2/Part 1
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 210.00The present volume, the ninth in the series, continues De Gruyter Mouton's project of completing Roman Jakobson's Selected Writings. It covers the period between 1916 and 1943, offering texts that have not been reprinted since their original appearance. The range of genres is considerable - linguistic and literary studies are flanked by reviews, conference... more...
Brüchige Zugehörigkeiten
Campus Verlag 2011; US$ 27.17Inhaltsverzeichnis Inhalt Vorbemerkung9 Kapitel 1 Gegenwärtige Probleme der Zugehörigkeit und ihre historische Bedingtheit Gabriele Rosenthal unter Mitarbeit von Viola Stephan11 1.1Die Enkelinnen und Enkel: Zwischen angestrengter Anpassung und provokativer Abgrenzung?11 1.2Eine Studie zu mehreren Generationen: Fragestellungen - interviewte Personen... more...
Sociocultural Perspectives on Language Change in Diaspora
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 125.00This book is a sociolinguistic examination of the Russian speech of the American “Third Wave”, the migration from the Soviet Union which began in the early 1970s under the policy of détente. Within the framework of bilingualism and language contact studies, it examines developments in emigré Russian with reference to the late... more...
Wörterbuch der Kollokationen im Deutschen
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 238.00Collocations are frequently occurring combinations of words with a semantic motivation behind the link (e.g. brush teeth, dark night, high forehead etc.). This innovative dictionary registers for each base-word all the collocators possible in German, together, where appropriate, with their meanings and instances of their use. This productive dictionary... more...
Coding the Hypothetical
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1998; US$ 158.00Conditionals encode speculation. They convey how events could have been different in the past or present, or might be different in the future if particular conditions had been or will be met. While all languages afford the means to speculate or hypothesize about possible events, the ways in which they do so vary. This work explores some of this variation... more...
Emotive Signs in Language and Semantic Functioning of Derived Nouns in Russian
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1987; US$ 165.00Russian-English Dictionary of Verbal Collocations
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1993; US$ 158.00All languages are characterized by the regular cooccurrence of certain words; for example, we say in English, tall building but high mountain . These recurrent combinations or collocations are peculiar to each individual language and cannot be predicted by a learner of that language. There are thousands of striking collocational differences between... more...
See No Evil Digital Guide
Saddleback Publishing 2012; US$ 11.50The Teacher's Resource Guides provide 10 pages of activities and reproducible worksheets per novel to support the books and extend students' reading skills. A key at the end of each guide provides answers and sample responses. The activities give lower-level readers the tools to construct, extend, and examine the meaning of text. more...
The Grammaticalization of 'Give' + Infinitive
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00The author analyses the grammaticalization of 'give' with infinitive in causative and modal constructions in the closely related Slavic languages Russian, Polish and Czech. Drawing on extensive diachronic and synchronic corpus data, the study combines a detailed analysis of the current use of these constructions with a reconstruction of their development.... more...
Russian Language Studies in North America
Anthem Press 2012; US$ 99.00This collection provides a comprehensive overview of Russian language research in Canada and Russia, with a focus on elements of structure, as well as on language dynamics and change. more...









