Number in the world’s languages: A Comparative Handbook The strong development in research on grammatical number in recent years has created a need for a unified perspective. The different frameworks, the ramifications of the theoretical questions, and the diversity of … Weiterlesen
Language of the English Street Sign This book opens readers’ eyes to something they see all the time but take for granted: street signs. It is a portrait of the signs on modern English streets: what they look like, who … Weiterlesen
Corpus Linguistics and Translation Tools for Digital Humanities: Research Methods and Applications Presenting the digital humanities as both a domain of practice and as a set of methodological approaches to be applied to corpus linguistics and translation, chapters in this … Weiterlesen
Discourse particles: syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and historical aspects Discourse particles have often been treated as a phenomenon restricted to Germanic languages (Abraham 2020) and they still raise questions about their nature as an independent category. This book reveals that this … Weiterlesen
Python-Programmierung für Germanist:innen: Ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch Dieses Buch stellt die erste deutschsprachige Einführung in die Python-Programmierung für Germanist:innen sowie sprachorientierte Studierende oder Forschende in den Digital Humanities dar. Alle Beispiele sind konsequent der deutschen Sprache entnommen und verdeutlichen, wie … Weiterlesen
Collocations as a language resource: a functional and cognitive study in English phraseology Are collocations problems or solutions to problems? If you take the perspective of the foreign learner, as in traditional phraseology, they are certainly challenging, and they have … Weiterlesen
Geschichte der romanischen Länder und ihrer Sprachen: Innerromanischer und deutsch-romanischer Sprachvergleich. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Dacoromania Der Sammelband Geschichte der romanischen Länder und ihrer Sprachen ist dem bekannten Daco-Romanisten Rudolf Windisch gewidmet. Die Leserinnen und Leser dürfen also zurecht viele … Weiterlesen
Vladimir Nabokovs Eigenwelt: Deutsche Bezugsfelder einer russischen Künstlerexistenz Obwohl Vladimir Nabokovs Haltung gegenüber Deutschland zwischen kühler Distanz und glühender Ablehnung schwankte, lassen sich sowohl im Leben als auch im Werk des herausragenden russisch-amerikanischen Schriftstellers verschiedene »deutsche Tropen« beobachten. Dabei geht … Weiterlesen
Dating the Old Norse Poetic Edda: A multifactorial analysis of linguistic features This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda, perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age. This … Weiterlesen
A study on the influence of ancient Chinese cultural classics abroad in the 20th century This book presents an extensive literary survey of the influence of ancient Chinese cultural classics around the globe, highlighting a mammoth research project involving over … Weiterlesen
Empörung, Revolte, Emotion: Emotionsforschung aus der Perspektive der German Studies Dieser Sammelband erörtert die Relevanz der aktuellen Emotionsforschung für die verschiedenen Fachrichtungen der Germanistik. Besonders berücksichtigt wird dabei eine bestimmte Emotion: die Empörung, als individueller und als kollektiver Affekt, als … Weiterlesen
Aviation in the literature and culture of interwar Britain Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain looks at the impact of aviation in Britain and beyond through the 1920s and 1930s. This book considers how in this period … Weiterlesen
Queer transgressions in twentieth-century Polish fiction: gender, nation, politics Throughout the twentieth century in Poland various ideologies attempted to keep queer voices silent—whether those ideologies were fascist, communist, Catholic, or neo-liberal. Despite these pressures, there existed a vibrant, transgressive trend … Weiterlesen
The evolution of Spanish past forms The Evolution of Spanish Past Forms examines how Spanish past forms have changed diachronically. With examples from Medieval Spanish, Golden Age Spanish, and Modern Spanish literary works, this book demonstrates how language is dynamic … Weiterlesen
Animal-human relationships in Medieval Iceland: from farm-settlement to sagas Domestic animals played a range of roles in the imaginative world of medieval Icelanders: from partners in settlement and household allies, to violent offenders, foster-kin and surrogate wives, they were vital … Weiterlesen