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Be and Equational Sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic

The volume attempts to deal with equational sentences in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and their remote structure. In this unique monograph Mohamed Sami Anwar oes to show that equational sentences in...

Standard in South African English and its Social History

This study of the South African variety of English is an exercise in the sociology of language conducted mainly within the conceptual framework and methodology created by William Labov. It accepts...

Theory of English Lexicography 1530-1791

This book serves as a welcome addition to the better known English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755, by Starnes & Noyes (new edition published by Benjamins 1991). Whereas Starnes & No...

Western Histories of Linguistic Thought

The present bibliography suggests that there has been a constant flow of publications which survey the discipline of linguistics in its various stages of development. It attempts to offer a compre...

Pragmatics

The selection of entries in this bibliography reflects the following definition of pragmatics: The study (i) of the use and extra-linguistic function(s) of language, and (ii) of the relation betwe...

Adolf Glassbrenner

Adolf Glassbrenner (1810-1876) was a German humorist and satirist. The aim of this study is to show that Glassbrenner's writings were rooted within the abstract idealism of the Young Germans. ...

Der von Kurenberg

Der von Kurenberg was one of the first named poets to write in Middle High German language. This study presents a modified, diplomatic edition of the fifteen strophes text by Der von Kurenberg. It...

Versprechen und Verlesen

Versprechen und Verlesen (1895) is distinguished more by observational accuracy than by theoretical sophistication; but it is exactly this characteristic which has proved its lasting value. It is ...

Experimentelle Untersuchungen uber die psychologischen Grundlagen der sprachlichen Analogiebildung (1901)

Fac simile edition with a Foreword by E. F. K. Koerner and an Introduction by David J. Murray. The appendix contains Erwin A. Esper's A Contribution to the Experimental Study of Analogy (1918).

Grammatical Theory and Metascience

In this book, the author analyses the nature of the science of grammar. After presenting some methodological and historical background, he sets forth a theory of language and of grammar, showing t...

Order of Words in the Ancient Languages compared with that of the Modern Languages

New edition of a pioneering work on word order, which originally appeared in French in 1844 (3rd ed., 1879), with an index.

Toward a Historiography of Linguistics

The papers brought together in the present volume represent the essence of the author's reflections on issues concerning linguistic historiography and of particular investigations in 19th and ...

Essay on the Principles of Translation (3rd rev. ed., 1813)

This is a reprint of the third edition of Tytler's Principles of Translation , originally published in 1791, and this edition was published in 1813. The ideas of Tytler can give inspiration to...

Valence, Semantic Case, and Grammatical Relations

The papers in this volume have been grouped in three thematic parts: Valence which plays a key concept in the syntactic classification of verbs and adjectives, provides a necessary link for decodi...

Germanic and its Dialects

Germanists have long lamented the lack of comprehensive bibliographies of past and present literature, particularly in the areas of Frisian, Old English, Old High German, and, most notably, Old Sa...

Semantics: Volume 2

John Lyons

Logic in Linguistics

Training the Speaking Voice

Virgil A. Anderson

'Quaestiones Alberti de Modis significandi.'

This book provides a critical edition, translation and commentary of the British Museum Incunabulum C.21.C.52 and the Cambridge Incunabulum 5.J.3.7. of the Quaestiones Alberti. Although the Britis...

Summa modorum significandi; Sophismata

The writings of Siger of Courtrai were first edited by Gaston Wallerand in 1913. This new edition on the basis of Wallerand's editio prima , with additions, critical notes, and an introduction...