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The wider scope of English : papers in English language and literature from the Bamberg conference of the International Association of University Professors of English
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ISBN: 3631555091 Year: 2006 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Bern Bruxelles : Peter Lang,

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From a diachronic point of view, two linguistic contributions deal with grammaticalization and iconicity and with metaphorical aspects of compounding. The other two linguistic papers are related to the present. One offers a critique of perceptual dialectology and the other is concerned with recent developments in computer cartography. The contributions in the domains of literary and cultural studies demonstrate the wide extension of the field of enquiry and of current methods. Historically, they reach from the Old English period to the present day, and systematically, from new approaches in the interpretation of particular works through overviews over the regional validity of modes of literary aesthetics to recent innovations in literary theory and narratology.

Variation and reconstruction
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ISBN: 902724782X 1283092344 902728525X 9786613092342 9789027285256 9789027247827 Year: 2006 Volume: 268 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia Johns Benjamins Pub.

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The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected. The articles in the present volume consider this relationship from a number of different angles, with a number of different focuses. Several of the papers discuss evidence from Germanic, either Proto-Germanic (Joseph, Schwink), or daughter languages such as Dutch (Goss & Howell), Afrikaans (Roberge), Newcastle English (Milroy), and a Wisconsin German dialect (Geiger & Salmons). Other papers look at Italian (Cravens), Spanish (Harris-Northall), and the non-Indo-European languages or families Aramaic (Miller), and Proto-Hmong-Mien (Ratliff), and the Southeast Asian languages Phan Rang Cham and Tsat (Thurgood). In doing so they bring together a number of interconnected issues which are of current concern in comparative and historical linguistics.

Langue française et diversité linguistique : actes du séminaire de Bruxelles, Belgique, 30 novembre et 1er décembre 2005

Agreement
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ISBN: 9780521807081 9780521001700 0521001706 0521807085 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Agreement in language relates to the correspondence between words in a sentence, in terms of gender, case, person, or number. For example, in the sentence 'he runs', the suffix -s 'agrees' in number with the singular pronoun 'he'. Patterns of agreement vary dramatically cross-linguistically, with great diversity in the way it is expressed and the types of variation permitted. This clear introduction offers an insight into how agreement works, and how linguists have tried to account for it. Comparing examples from a range of languages, with radically different agreement systems, it demonstrates agreement at work in a variety of constructions. It shows how agreement is influenced by the conflicting effects of sentence structure and meaning, and highlights the oddities of agreement in English. The first textbook devoted to the cross-linguistic study of the topic, Agreement will be essential reading for all those studying the structure and mechanisms of natural languages.


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Combat pour le français : au nom de la diversité des langues et des cultures.
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ISBN: 2738116922 9782738116925 Year: 2006 Publisher: Paris Jacob

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