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This volume offers in-depth introductions into major aspects of the Foundations of Arabic Linguistics, early Syriac and medieval Hebrew linguistic traditions. It presents Sībawayhi in the context of his grammatical legacy and reviews his work in the light of modern theories.
€131.00$182.00
Drawing on the recent discussions on Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic, this book offers a comprehensive survey of the various fields of Muslim, Jewish and Christian Arabic texts (folklore, religious and linguistic literature) as well as the matters of mixed language and diglossia.
€108.00$140.00
Studies internal and external factors which bear on the nature of linguistic variation proper. This book focuses on properties of the Language Faculty and its interface with other domains of the Mind/Brain, as defined within the Minimalist Program.
€107.00$139.00
The evolutionary emergence of language is a field generating a rapidly expanding scientific literature. But is it really science? This book provides a systematic overview of thinking in this area.
€99.00$136.00
The present study provides an extensive treatment of the topic of enargeia on the basis of the classical and humanist sources of its theoretical foundation. These serve as the basis for detailed analyses of verbal and pictorial works of the Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age.
€136.00$189.00
Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology puts genealogical and areal explanation for shared morphology in a balanced perspective. Lars Johanson and Martine Robbeets provide nothing less than the foundations for a new perspective on diachronic linguistics between genealogical and areal linguistics.
€233.00$302.00
Although during the years philology has attained a high degree of development Etymology appears only to have reached the level of philology at the turn of the century. This dictionary embodies the findings of modern philological scholarship. It also provides the etymologies of proper and ...
€103.00$133.00
Offers intensive scholarly analysis, discoveries, methodologies, and important reinterpretations with regard to the emergence of Germanic features. This book presents a discussion of the phonological and morphological history of early German from Indo-European to 800 A D. It contains text ...
€128.00$166.00
Transcends research on writing by relating written text to the cognitive and social processes that create and change it. This book includes key features such as: reciprocity as a principle of discourse; language development as socialization; context, explicitness, genre, topic, and comment as ...