de gruyter mouton de gruyter jun 2013 (20 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Designed to serve as a textbook for courses in statistical analysis in linguistics, this book orients the reader to various quantitative methods and explains their implications for the field. The methods include chi-square, Fisher test, binomial test, ANOVA, correlation, regression, and cluster analysis. The advantages and limitations of each method are detailed and each method is illustrated with exemplary articles presenting linguistic data.De Gruyter Mouton, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 321 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This volume sheds light upon one of the most emblematic constructions in Ibero-Romance: adverbial infinitives with specified subjects (e.g. al entrar Juan (Sp), para eles verem o resultado (Ptg)). The study attempts to fill an empirical gap and offers a cognitive-functional and comparative account on these constructions.The first part provides an overview of the notions of infinitive, subject and adverbial clauses. The second part consists of two empirical case studies. First, the use of the Portuguese inflected infinitive is shown to be sensitive to factors as the mental accessibility of the infinitival subject, the syntactic-semantic autonomy of the clause, the verbal nature of the infinitive and clausal status of the construction. Second, Spanish and Portuguese infinitives with overt subjects are shown to have different properties: in Portuguese they are more complex and clause-like (having more prototypical subjects and infinitives closer to the verbal prototype), while Spanish infinitives with proper subjects have a simpler structure and are more nominal in nature.More generally, this dissertation illustrates the flexible behaviour of the infinitive in different languages, even in two closely related languages.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 368 pp. Spanisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Ellipsen sind in der modernen Linguistik Gegenstand verschiedener linguistischer Disziplinen: Während sich die Psycholinguistik für Vorgänge des Produzierens und Verarbeitens von Ellipsen interessiert, beschäftigt sich die Grammatikforschung mit dem Äußerungsprodukt Ellipse. Hinzu kommt die sprachphilosophische Frage nach dem Status der Ellipse überhaupt. Der Schwerpunkt des Sammelbandes liegt auf einer integrativen Betrachtung von grammatischen und verarbeitungsbezogenen Fragestellungen. Dieser Schwerpunktsetzung liegt die Hypothese zugrunde, dass das Phänomen ¿Ellipse¿ den Paradefall für den Versuch der Engführung von grammatischen und psycholinguistischen Ansätzen bildet. Eine solche Aufeinanderbeziehbarkeit manifestiert sich im Band u.a. an dem sowohl grammatiktheoretisch als auch psycholinguistisch begründeten Perspektivwechsel vom Ausgelassenen zum Realisierten. Der Band bietet neben einem Perspektivwechsel innerhalb des Kernbereichs der Ellipsenbetrachtung auch neue Perspektiven auf das Phänomen Ellipse, wie etwa die der Interaktionalen Linguistik und der Computerlinguistik.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 472 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Deutsch ist Amtssprache in sieben Nationen und wird in vielen weiteren Regionen von Minderheiten gesprochen. Dass es deshalb alles andere als einheitlich strukturiert ist und viele verschiedene vielfältige nationale, regionale und soziale Prägungen besitzt, verwundert nicht. Die Schwerpunkte dieses Sammelbandes zur deutschen Spracheliegendaher auf den Bereichen Variations- und Soziolinguistik.Mehrere Aufsätze thematisieren den plurizentrischen Charakter des Deutschen, andere Beiträge bearbeiten soziolinguistische Themen wie Fachsprachen, Sprache von Generationen, Probleme der Standardabgrenzung sowie sprachliche Variation und Denken.Ein weiterer Fokus liegt auf sprachenpolitischen Überlegungen zur Stellung der deutschen Sprache in der Welt. Zum einen wird die Bedeutung der deutschen Sprache in verschiedenen Staaten und im Vergleich zum Englischen dargestellt. Zum anderen geht es um Maßnahmen der Bundesregierung zur Förderung von Deutsch als Minderheitensprache sowie als Sprache der EU-Institutionen. Auch sprachenpolitische Interessen kleinerer deutschsprachiger Staaten werden aufgegriffen.Eng mit der Stellung der deutschen Sprache hängt auch der Bedarf an Unterricht in Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache (DaF/DaZ) zusammen. Auch diesem Aspekt ist eine Reihe von Beiträgen gewidmet, die DaF/DaZ sowohl im deutschsprachigen Raum als auch im anderssprachigen Ausland berücksichtigen. Beiträge zu Sprachkontakt und kulturellen Dimensionen des Deutschen runden den Band ab.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 588 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Comprising over 2500 entries, this is the first dictionary available for Tauya, a Trans New Guinea language of the Madang Family. Many entries are accompanied by several examples illustrating the use of these words in natural language. A brief overview of the structure of Tauya is included, consisting of information about its phonological, morphological, and syntactic systems, along with a description of various lexical classes. 312 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The claim that crosslinguistic disparities foster differences in nonlinguistic thought, often referred to as 'linguistic relativity', has for some time been the subject of intense debate. For much of that time the debate was not informed by much experimental work. Recently, however, there has been an explosion of research on linguistic relativity, carried out by numerous scholars interested in the interaction between language and nonlinguistic cognition. This book surveys the rapidly accruing research on this topic, much of it carried out in the last decade. Structured so as to be accessible to students and scholars in linguistics, psychology, and anthropology, it first introduces crucial concepts in the study of language and cognition. It then explores the relevant experimentally oriented research, focusing independently on the evidence for relativistic effects in spatial orientation, temporal perception, number recognition, color discrimination, object/substance categorization, gender construal, as well as other facets of cognition. This is the only book to extensively survey the recent work on linguistic relativity, and should serve as a critical resource for those concerned with the topic. 308 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The uses and practices of sign languages are strongly related to scientific research on sign languages and vice versa. Conversely, sign linguistics cannot be separated from Deaf community practices, including practices in education and interpretation. Therefore, the current volume brings together work on sign language interpreting, the use of spoken and sign language with deaf children with cochlear implants and early language development in children exposed to both a spoken and sign language, and reports on recent research on aspects of sign language structure. It also includes papers addressing methodological issues in sign language research. The book presents papers by 'more seasoned' researchers and 'new kids on the block', as well as papers in which the two collaborate. The contributions will be of interest to all those interested in linguistics, sociolinguistics, cultural studies, interpreting and education. It will have particular relevance to those interested in sign linguistics, sociolinguistics of deaf communities, Deaf studies, Deaf culture, sign language interpretation, sign language teaching, and (spoken/signed) bilingualism. Given the scarcity of literature on 'Deaf studies', the book will also appeal widely beyond the traditional academic milieu. As a result, it has relevance for those teaching and learning sign languages, for professional and student interpreters and for teachers of the deaf. 328 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The papers compiled in the present volume aim at investigating the many fruitful manners in which cognitive linguistics can expand further on cognitive translation studies. Some papers (e.g. Halverson, Muñoz-Martín, Martín de León) take a theoretical stand, since the epistemological and ontological bases of both areas (cognitive linguistics and translation studies) should be known before specific contributions of cognitive linguistic to translation are tackled. Several works in the volume attempt to illustrate how some of the notions imported from cognitive linguistics may contribute to enrich our understanding of the translation process in a general translation problem such as metaphor (e.g. Samaniego), the relationship between form and meaning (e.g. Tabakowska, Rojo and Valenzuela) or cultural aspects (e.g. Bernárdez, Sharifian/Jamarani). Others use translation as an empirical field to test some of the basic assumptions of cognitive linguistics such as frames (e.g. Boas), metonymy (e.g. Brdar/Brdar-Szabó), and lexicalisation patterns (e.g. Ibarretxe-Antuñano/Filipovi ). Finally, another set of papers (e.g. Feist, Hatzidaki) opens up new lines of investigation for experimental research, a very promising area still underdeveloped. 432 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Embeddings of discrete metric spaces into Banach spaces recently became an important tool in computer science and topology. The purpose of the book is to present some of the most important techniques and results, mostly on bilipschitz and coarse embeddings.The topics include: (1) Embeddability of locally finite metric spaces into Banach spaces is finitely determined; (2) Constructions of embeddings; (3) Distortion in terms of Poincaré inequalities; (4) Constructions of families of expanders and of families of graphs with unbounded girth and lower bounds on average degrees; (5) Banach spaces which do not admit coarse embeddings of expanders; (6) Structure of metric spaces which are not coarsely embeddable into a Hilbert space; (7) Applications of Markov chains to embeddability problems; (8) Metric characterizations of properties of Banach spaces; (9) Lipschitz free spaces. Substantial part of the book is devoted to a detailed presentation of relevant results of Banach space theory and graph theory. The final chapter contains a list of open problems. Extensive bibliography is also included. Each chapter, except the open problems chapter, contains exercises and a notes and remarks section containing references, discussion of related results, and suggestions for further reading.The book will help readers to enter and to work in a very rapidly developing area having many important connections with different parts of mathematics and computer science.Walter de Gruyter, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 384 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Vocatives have rarely been comprehensively discussed in their various facets. With 12 contributions covering the diversity of vocative marking, structures, and functions, as well as the relevance of vocatives for theoretical and methodological reasoning, this volume contributes to closing a significant gap in linguistic research. It provides a detailed picture of the vocative as a structure between 'system' and 'performance'. 332 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The grammar of negative polarity items is one of the challenges for linguistic theory. NPIs cross-cut all traditional categories in grammar and semantics, yet their distribution is by no means arbitrary. Theories of NPI licensing have been proposed in terms of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics - each with its own merits and problems. The volume comprises state-of-the-art studies and suggests an interpolation approach to NPI licensing. 376 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This is a new critical and commented edition of the Planctus Magistrae Doloris, a vernacular old Veronese prose version of a Planctus Mariae that was copied in the second half of the 14th century. While a first transcription was published in 1891 by Gustav Oehlert, the current editor has succeeded in identifying the Latin version the vernacular text was drawn from, allowing him to clarify some difficult passages. Moreover, the author has established a stemma codicum of the three manuscripts that transmit the Latin text, illuminating the branch of the tradition on which the vernacular depends. This edition also contains a detailed linguistic commentary and glossary.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 136 pp. Italienisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Questa è laseconda edizioneriveduta e ampliata del Supplemento Bibliografica del DI, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1997 (con ca. 100 pagine). Fornisce informazioni dettagliate su tutti i testi (letterari e nonletterari), fonti e corpora elettronici che sono a base del lavoro lessicografico al DI.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 548 pp. Italienisch.