Books from Language Science Press
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Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches. Fourth revised and extended edition
By Stefan MüllerThis book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, ...
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Interpreting language-learning data
By Aarnes GudmestadThis book provides a forum for methodological discussions emanating from researchers engaged in studying how individuals acquire an additional language.
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German(ic) in language contact: Grammatical and sociolinguistic dynamics
By Christian ZimmerTherefore, we focus on language contact as such in this book, not on specific migration scenarios. Accordingly, this volume includes chapters on language contact within and outside of (Central) Europe.
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Quality aspects in institutional translation
By Tomáš Svoboda, Łucja Biel, Krzysztof ŁobodaThe purpose of this volume is to explore key issues, approaches and challenges to quality in institutional translation by confronting academics’ and practitioners’ perspectives.
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Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The handbook
By Stefan Müller, Robert D. Borsley, Anne AbeilléJournal of Linguistic Research 1(3). 51–68. Everaert, Martin. ... Slides to a Course at the 1st Parseme Training School, Prague, January 2015. https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/ events/parseme-1st-training-school (30 March, 2021). Fraser, Bruce.
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Multiword expressions: Insights from a multi-lingual perspective
By Manfred Sailer, Stella MarkantonatouThis paper profited from the feedback of numerous esteemed colleagues, many of whom were among the audiences at the PARSEME 1st Training School in Prague, the Computational Linguistics Research Colloquium in Düsseldorf, ...
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Attributive constructions in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
By Ariel GutmanThis study is the first wide-scope morpho-syntactic comparative study of North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects to date.
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Die Entwicklung des Definitartikels im Althochdeutschen: Eine kognitiv-linguistische Korpusuntersuchung
By Johanna FlickDer Gebrauch des Definitartikels vor Familien- und Rufnamen im Frühneuhochdeutschen aus grammatikalisierungstheoretischerPerspektive. In Friedhelm Debus, RitaHeuser& ... Syntax (Sammlung kurzer Grammatiken germanischer Dialekte 2).
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Explanation in typology: Diachronic sources, functional motivations and the nature of the evidence
By Karsten Schmidtke-Bode, Natalia Levshina, Susanne Maria MichaelisThis volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic ...
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Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition
By Katie K. DragerThis book investigates the ways in which a lemma’s phonetic realisation depends on a combination of its grammatical function and the speaker’s social group.
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The lexeme in descriptive and theoretical morphology
By Olivier Bonami, Gilles Boyé, Georgette DalThe papers in the present volume take stock of the descriptive and theoretical usefulness of the lexeme, but also adress many of the challenges met by classical lexeme-based theories of morphology.
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A dictionary and grammatical sketch of Dagaare
By Mark Ali, Scott Grimm, Adams BodomoThis book presents an extensive dictionary of the Dagaare language (Niger-Congo; Gur (Mabia)), focussing on the dialect of Central Dagaare, spoken in the Upper West region of Ghana.
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A grammar of Komnzo
By Christian DöhlerVerbs encode 18 TAM categories, valency, directionality and deictic status. Morphological complexity lies not only in the amount of categories that verbs may express, but also in the way these are encoded.
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A short guide to post-editing
By Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Jean NitzkeThe aim of this text book is to provide basic knowledge about the most relevant topics in professional PE. The text book comprises ten chapters on both theoretical and practical aspects including topics like MT approaches and development, ...
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Empirical studies in translation and discourse
By Mario BisiadaComplex words, causatives, verbal periphrases and the gerund: Romance languages versus Czech (a parallel corpus-based study). Praha: Karolinum. Čermák, Petr, Olga Nádvorníková, Leontýna Bratánková, Štěpánka Černikovská, Jan Hricsina, ...
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Roots of language
By Derek BickertonThe book also proposed that the same set of properties would be found to emerge in normal first-language acquisition and must have emerged in the original evolution of language.
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African linguistics across the disciplines: Selected papers from the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics
By Samuel Gyasi ObengProceedings of that meeting are published in this volume. The papers presented in this volume reflect the diversity of opportunities for language study in Africa.
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African linguistics on the prairie: Selected papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics
By Jason Kandybowicz, Travis Major, Harold TorrenceThe articles in this volume reflect the enormous diversity of African languages, as they focus on languages from all of the major African language phyla.
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Adjective attribution
By Michael Rießler(29) Yiddish (Indo-European; Jacobs, Prince & van der Auwera 1994) a. di def.pl grin-e green-def.pl oyg-n eye-pl 'the green eyes' b. di def.pl oyg-n eye-pl di attr.def.pl grin-e green-def.pl 'the green eyes' c.
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The future of dialects: Selected papers from Methods in Dialectology XV
By Marie-Hélène Côté, Remco Knooihuizen, John NerbonneThis is regrettable when the last articulate traces of a culture are lost, but it also promotes a complex dynamics of interaction as speakers shift from dialect to standard and to intermediate compromises between the two in their forms of ...