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Complex Lexical Units
Both compounds and multi-word expressions are complex lexical units, made up of at least two constituents. The most basic difference is that the former are morphological objects and the latter result from syntactic processes. However, the exact demarcation between compounds and multi-word expressions differs greatly from language to language and is often a matter of debate in and across languages. Similarly debated is whether and how these two different kinds of units complement or compete with each other. The volume presents an overview of compounds and multi-word expressions in a variety of European languages. Central questions that are discussed for each language concern the formal distin...
Performing the Greek Crisis
Performing the Greek Crisis explores the impact of the Greek financial crisis (2009–19) on the performing arts sector in Greece, and especially on contemporary concert dance. When Greece became the first European Union member to be threatened with default, the resulting budget cuts pushed dance to develop in unprecedented directions. The book examines the repercussions that the crisis had on artists’ daily lives and experiences, weaving the personal with the political to humanize a phenomenon that, to date, had been examined chiefly through economic and statistical lenses. Informed by the author’s experience of growing up in Greece and including interviews and rich descriptions of perf...
It's different with you
This book is a collection of studies about forms of address in the world’s languages, with a focus on contrast and difference. The individual chapters highlight inter- and intralinguistic variation in the expression of address and its sociol-cultural functions across media, registers, geographical contexts and time – in more than 15 languages. The volume showcases the variety of approaches that exists in current address research, including the breadth of contrastive methodologies harnessing surveys and questionnaires, focus group discussions, corpus linguistics, discourse and conversation analysis to offer complementary perspectives on culture-specific address practice. This volume is for students and researchers of address and social interaction in a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including various sub-disciplines of linguistics (such as contrastive, variational and intercultural pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and morphology) and intercultural communication, as well as experts in individual languages and qualitative sociologists.
The Continuity of Linguistic Change
The Continuity of Linguistic Change presents a collection of selected papers in honour of Professor Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda. The essays revolve around the study of linguistic variation and the mechanisms and processes associated with linguistic change, a field to which Villena-Ponsoda has dedicated so many years of research. The authors are researchers of renowned international prestige who have made significant contributions in this field. The chapters cover a range of related topics and provide modern theoretical and methodological perspectives, addressing the structural, cognitive, historical and social factors that underlie and promote linguistic change in varieties of Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Swedish. The reader will find contributions that explore topics such as phonology, acoustic phonetics and processes deriving from the contact between languages or linguistic varieties, specifically levelling, koineisation, standardisation and the emergence of ethnolects.
Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax
Using different theoretical approaches and frameworks, this book addresses a broad range of themes in contrastive linguistics, including inflection, derivation and compounding, tense, wh-questions, post-verbal subjects, focus and clitics, among others. Comparing English, German, Greek, Romance, Slavic and South Pacific languages, the book highlights the significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description and general interface issues, casting light on contrasts between languages at the levels of morphology and syntax. In this respect, it makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of language typology and language universals.
Semantics of Complex Words
This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex words through different theoretical frameworks. Contributions by experts in the field, both morphologists and psycholinguists, identify crucial areas of research, present alternative and complementary approaches to their examination from the current level of knowledge, and indicate perspectives of research into the semantics of complex words by raising important questions that need to be investigated in order to get a more comprehensive picture of the field. Recent decades have seen both extensive and intensive development of various theories of word-formation, however, the semantic aspects of complex words have, with a few notable exceptions, been rather neglected. This volume fills that gap by offering articles written by leading experts in the field from various theoretical backgrounds.
Multikulturelles Deutschland im Sprachvergleich
Deutscherwerb bei mehrsprachigen Lernerinnen und Lernern lässt sich unter Berücksichtigung ihrer Erstsprachen effektiver gestalten. Dabei erweist sich der Sprachvergleich in doppelter Hinsicht als nützlich: Durch die Bewusstmachung der Unterschiede und der Gemeinsamkeiten der Sprachen können Lernerinnen und Lerner die grammatischen Regeln besser verstehen. Die Lehrkräfte werden für die Besonderheiten ihrer Muttersprache bzw. des Deutschen sensibilisiert; sie können auf die Schwierigkeiten der Lernenden präziser eingehen, wenn sie deren sprachlichen Hintergrund kennen. Dieser Band ist das erste praktische Handbuch, das zunächst 15 in Deutschland gesprochene Sprachen kontrastiv vergleicht und für alle Leser-, Lehr- und Lerntypen didaktisch aufbereitet. Fokussiert werden die Grammatik, die Sprachgeschichte und die soziolinguistische Situation dieser Sprachen.
Le vin et ses émules
Comment s’exprime-t-on sur le vin en chinois ? A quoi faut-il s’attendre lorsque les chefs étoilés découvrent leur verve poétique ? Comment peut-on vanter les qualités d’un vin pétillant français non fabriqué en Champagne ? Où trouve-t-on un grand corpus historique des menus de restaurants ? Quelle est le rôle des céréales dans la mythologie grecque ? Comment traduit-on en français des descripteurs oenologiques allemands comme fruchtig, milchig, cremig, schokoladig, traubig, rosenduftig ? Est-il nécessaire que le client comprenne tout ce qui est écrit dans le menu ? Autour de la thématique des terminologies et des discours gastronomiques et oenologiques, ces dernières ...
On Invisible Language in Modern English
Winner: AEDEAN Leocadio Martín Mingorance Book Award for Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics 2020 This book investigates the syntactic phenomenon of ellipsis and the linguistic forces that trigger it. It presents the results of a corpus-based study which takes into account grammatical, semantic/discursive, usage-related and processing variables. Evelyn Gandón-Chapela builds upon the few empirical works on ellipsis in Present-day English to offer the first comparative analysis of ellipsis and its development throughout the recent history of the English language. Moreover, the book also provides a complex query algorithm which automatically detects and retrieves cases of ellipsis, leading to successful recall ratios, applicable to a wide range of parsed corpora.
