Product Description: Information structure, or the way the information in a sentence is 'divided' into categories such as topic, focus, comment, background, and old versus new information, is one of the most widely-debated topics in linguistics. This volume incorporates exciting new work on the relationship between syntax and information structure...read more

Product Description: Aiming at exemplifying the methodology of learner corpus profiling, this book describes salient features of Romanian Learner English. As a starting point, the volume offers a comprehensive presentation of the Romanian-English contrastive studies...read more

Product Description: The book provides the first comparison of usage preferences across registers in the language pair English-German. Due to the innovative quantitative approach and broad coverage, the volume is an excellent resource for scholars working in contrastive linguistics and translation studies as well as for corpus linguists...read more

Product Description: The volume consists of reprints of papers originally published between 1967 and 2009, divided into two parts, only apparently devoted to two different areas of linguistics but in fact constituting a coherent whole. The «cognitive» part is an inevitable consequence of the «contrastive» part...read more

Product Description: Much of the new wave of contrastive linguistics has focused on aspects of the grammatical system, examining phonological, morphological, lexical and syntactic similarities and differences across two or more languages. As with many other areas of linguistics, there exists a renewed interest in discourse perspectives in the study of languages in contrast, and much of that work uses corpora and corpus linguistics techniques to study language...read more

Product Description: This collection consists of thirteen contributions focusing on the latest trends of information structure and agreement, couched in the most current developments of Minimalism, Cartography, and Optimality. Some chapters focus on the syntax of information structure in relation with the position occupied by different constituents in the CP domain and their interpretation such as the distinction between contrastive and corrective focus; the inclusion of given information in focus; the interplay of information structure and binding; the relative position of complementisers; and discourse-based constituents in the left periphery...read more

Product Description: This volume deals with different aspects of the creation and use of multilingual corpora. The term 'multilingual corpus' is understood in a comprehensive sense, meaning any systematic collection of empirical language data enabling linguists to carry out analyses of multilingual individuals, multilingual societies or multilingual communication...read more

Product Description: Während kontrastive Grammatiken seit langer Zeit existieren, sind Überlegungen zu kulturkontrastiven Grammatiken neu. Grundlagen liefern sowohl Ideen Wilhelm von Humboldts zu unterschiedlichen Weltansichten und Gedanken Ernst Cassirers zur Symbolkraft der Sprache einerseits wie andererseits - in Auseinandersetzung mit dem sprachlichen Determinismus - die Kognitive Anthropologie und Ethnosemantik, deren Vertreter vor allem Dell Hymes und Erving Goffman sind...read more

Product Description: Bei dieser Arbeit handelt es sich um einen Vergleich zwischen deutschen und chinesischen Kontaktanzeigen, definiert als Varianten derselben Textgattung. Deutsche Inserate haben außenstrukturell gesehen eine längere Gattungsgeschichte und wirken stilistisch persönlicher sowie umgangssprachlicher als ihre chinesischen Pendants...read more

Product Description: This is the first book on coordinating constructions that adopts a broad cross-linguistic perspective. Coordination has been studied intensively in English and other major European languages, but we are only beginning to understand the range of variation that is found world-wide...read more