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Language in Time and Space
Inhalt: M. Alinei: Yankee: A Dutch Etymology Revisited W.-D. Bald: If and Falls J. B. Berns: Niederlandisches im englischen Wort-atlas L. E. Breivik: There in Space and Time F. Chevillet: Dialectal Aspects of the English Strong Verb System J. Culpeper / M. Kyto: Towards a Corpus of Dialogues, 1550-1750 X. Dekeyser: Alway(s) and Algate(s) L. Elmevik: Did OE stede, Placeae also Have the Meaning, (Enclosed) Pastureae? J. Fisiak: OE hyll in the East Midlands in Early Middle English H. Goebl: Dialektometrische Beobachtungen A. Huebler: English Stock Market Metaphors A. Iwamoto: The Entanglements of English Personal Pronouns K. Janicki: On Unconventional Metaphors as a Source of Misunderstanding G...
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Focus on England and Wales
This volume is a wide-ranging study in dialectology. General surveys appear along with in-depth studies of particular problems. Some papers describe the present situation in terms of dynamic synchrony, others deal with the past and making use of present-day dialectal data to help solve certain problems and, finally, those that draw on the past to explain the present. Traditional dialectological methodology is presented here, as is modern quantificational and computative dialectology. Moreover, regional English and Welsh English are investigated on the phonological, morphological and syntactical levels.
Language Mapping
The Handbook of Language Mapping aims to explore the core methodological and theoretical approaches of linguistic cartography. In both empirical and theoretical linguistics, the spatial variation of language is of increasing interest and the visualization of language in space is therefore also of growing significance. It is the precondition for correct data interpretation. But how does it work? What has to be considered when drawing a map? And how has the problem been tackled so far? This book provides answers to such questions by taking a closer look at the theoretical issues surrounding cartography and at the concrete practice of mapping. The fundamental issues raised are addressed particu...
