Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today) Övdalian is spoken in central Sweden by about 2000 speakers. Traditionally categorized as a dialect of Swedish, it has not received much international attention. However, Övdalian is typologically closer to Faroese or Icelandic than it is to Swedish,…
Discourses of Helping Professions (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series) Discourses of Helping Professions brings together cutting-edge research on professional discourses from both traditional helping contexts such as doctor-patient interaction or psychotherapy and more recent helping contexts such as executive coaching. Unlike workplace, professional and institutional discourse – by now well established fields in linguistic research…
Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs (Studies in Language Companion Series) The verb has often been considered the center of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and…
A Cultural History of Aramaic: From the Beginnings to the Advent of Islam (Handbook of Oriental Studies) Aramaic is a constant thread running through the various civilizations of the Near East, ancient and modern, from 1000 BCE to the present, and has been the language of small principalities, world empires, and a fair share…
Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English: Preposition Placement 1500-1900 (Studies in English Language) The preposition is of specific curiosity to syntacticians, historians and sociolinguists of English, as its placement inside a sentence is influenced by syntactic and sociolinguistic constraints, and by how the ‘guidelines’ concerning prepositions have modified over time, because of language change, of…