Product Description: Medieval confessions in the German language served to express the awareness and confession of guilt in liturgical and non-liturgical contexts. This three-part study provides annotated text editions of hitherto unknown, independently handed-down confessional texts of the 13th and 14th centuries and phenomenological investigations of their tradition and text structures...read more

Product Description: The Yearbook is devoted to linguistic problems in Europe, especially to the linguistic prerequisites and consequences of economic and political integration. Each volume deals with a particular topic, but also contains book reviews, reports on sociolinguistic research in individual countries and a bibliography with comprehensive information on new sociolinguistic publications in Europe...read more

Product Description: South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia...read more

Product Description: The most fundamental category of human cognition and action, and all human languages have developed many devices to express it. These include verbal categories, such as tense and aspect, but also adverbials, particles, and principles of discourse organisation...read more

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Product Description: South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia...read more

Product Description: South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia...read more

Product Description: South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia...read more

Product Description: South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. The considerable body of linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale...read more

Product Description: The essays in this, the fifth volume of the Yearbook cover important grammatical and socio-linguistic issues.

Product Description: This volume emerged from an international symposium held in 1999 in Japan, and represents the current research in the areas of contact, convergence and typology in South Asian languages. It covers: syntactic, morphological and phonological typology; issues relating to typology and convergence; the origin, emergence, or loss of a specific feature of construction in course of time; the notion and significance of 'linguistic area' and the interplay of typological and genetic factors in determining the South Asian language area; morphological diversity and borrowing in South Asia; creolization in morpho-syntax and code mixing in contact situations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The central theme of this book is the study of social movements in India, situating movements in society and in the discipline of sociology. It looks at the movements of modernity and postmodernity in particular and how the odd and mutually anomalous combination of these compose the historical-specific representation of contemporary Indian society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have universal applicability. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Consolidating empirical and theoretical research on South Asian languages and dialects, The Yearbook of South Asian Languages provides a forum for the articulation of new ideas and approaches that have universal applicability but which are firmly grounded in a study of South Asian Languages...read more

Product Description: Language has always occupied a central place in the intellectual landscape of India while the west has often sought inspiration, both conceptual and technical, from the grammarians and language philosophers of ancient India. Yet, ever since the colonial period, the study and practice of linguistics in India has been overshadowed by Anglo-American traditions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Inspired by Bhartrhari's and Wittgenstein's non-atomistic views, Pace Panini refuses to be intimidated by what are seen as the triumphs of Paninian and neo-Paninian approaches to morphology. It takes the notion of 'word-based morphology' seriously, and presents a radically a-morphous morphology in which all morphological relationships are captured in a uniform manner, and without the benefit of Paninian constructs such as 'root', 'stem', and 'morpheme' or devices such as 'levels' and 'strata'...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Lectures Against Sociolinguistics exposes the very serious limitations of sociolinguistics as we know it. Its twelve lectures critically examine the standard sociolinguistic ways of exploring several intersections of human linguisticality and sociality (variability, inter-ethnic and cross-sex communication, language-contact, and 'native'/'non-native' speech, etc...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In putting ‘morphonology’ up for adoption as a chapitre particulier in 1929, Trubetzkoy started a debate regarding the boundary between phonology and morphology that has not ended yet. Essentially a record of a roundtable devoted to that boundary (Montréal, October 1994), Trubetzkoy’s Orphan is a full and fascinating picture of some very important contemporary attempts to define it...read more

Product Description: This collection of twelve essays, some of which have been written specifically for this volume by well-known European and North-American sociolinguists, reflects an increasing recognition within the field that sociological and theoretical innocence can no longer be underwritten by it, and offers a multi-pronged and multi-methodological way to move towards a critical, reflexive, and theoretically responsible socio-linguistics...read more