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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Diese vollständig neu bearbeitete, erweiterte und aktualisierte zweite Auflage des Variantenwörterbuchs des Deutschen ist das Ergebnis eines großen, trinationalen Forschungsprojekts und wurde an drei selbstständigen Arbeitsstellen in Deutschland (Universität Duisburg-Essen), Österreich (Universität Wien) und der Schweiz (Universität Basel) erarbeitet, in Zusammenarbeit mit Expertinnen und Experten weiterer Länder. Insgesamt war ein Team von über 40 Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern an der Neuauflage beteiligt. Die drei 'Vollzentren' der deutschen Sprache Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz sowie die vier 'Halbzentren' Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Südtirol und Ostbelgien werden in der Zweitauflage um Einträge zu den 'Viertelzentren' ergänzt: den deutschen Sprachgebieten in Rumänien, Namibia und den Mennonitensiedlungen in Mexiko. Zusätzlich zur nationalen Gliederung des Standarddeutschen trägt das Wörterbuch auch seiner arealen (regionalen) Differenzierung umfassend Rechnung. Für alle Zentren der deutschen Sprache sind gegenüber der ersten Auflage nicht nur zahlreiche Ergänzungen hinzugekommen, sondern auch Korrekturen aufgrund sprachlichen Wandels. Die vorliegende Auflage liefert somit ein umfassendes, zeitgemäßes Bild der nationalen und regionalen Vielfalt des Standarddeutschen. Sie enthält ca. 12.000 standardsprachliche Wörter und Wendungen mit national oder regional eingeschränkter Verbreitung oder mit Differenzen im Gebrauch sowie deren gemeindeutsche Entsprechungen. Sie basiert auf der Auswertung eines umfangreichen Quellenkorpus, auch aus dem Internet, für die Länder mit Deutsch als nationaler oder regionaler Amtssprache und für drei deutschsprachige Minderheiten mit standardsprachlichen Besonderheiten. Damit ist ein Wörterbuch verfügbar, das die Variation der deutschen Standardsprache systematisch und umfassend darstellt. Ein solches Wörterbuch existiert bisher noch für keine andere Sprache, obwohl es für alle Sprachen in Betracht kommt, die sich über mehrere Nationen erstrecken und nationale oder regionale Besonderheiten aufweisen. Das Wörterbuch ist daher von grundlegender wissenschaftlicher Bedeutung, nicht nur für die deutsche Lexikographie, sondern für die Sprachwissenschaft insgesamt. Es hat auch großen praktischen Wert, u. a. für Übersetzer, Autoren, Journalisten und Medienfachleute sowie Lehrer und Lerner des Deutschen, auch für 'Deutsch als Fremd- oder Zweitsprache', wie als Nachschlagewerk für Leser deutschsprachiger Literatur.

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In his last essay just weeks before his death at the age of 91, David S. Nivison says, 'Breaking into a formal system - such as a chronology - must be like breaking into a code. If you are successful, success will show right off.' Since the late 1970's Nivison has focused his scholarship on breaking the code of Three Dynasties (Xia, Shang, Zhou) chronology by establishing an innovative methodology based on mourning periods, astronomical phenomenon, and numerical manipulations derived from them. Nivison is most readily known in the field for revising (and then revising again) the date of the Zhou conquest of Shang, and for his theory that Western Zhou kings employed two calendars (His so-called 'Two yuan' theory), the second being set in effect upon the death of the new king's predecessor and counted from the completion of post-mourning rites for him (i.e., a 'second 'first' year'). Nivison's enabling discovery that the Bamboo Annals (BA) had a historical basis was initially designed to make Wang Guowei's analysis of lunar phase terms (the so-called 'Four quarter' theory that separated each month into four quarters) work for Western Zhou bronze inscriptions. In order to do so he had to assume that some inscriptions used a second yuan counted from completion of mourning. The king's death was the most important event late in a reign, so this implied that a king's reign-of-record was normally counted from the second yuan, omitting initial mourning years. It follows that when the unexpressed mourning years are forgotten (or edited out) but the dates of the beginning and end of the dynasty are still known, the remaining reigns-of-record cluster toward the beginning and end, and a reign in the middle is enlarged. Problems, ideas, and solutions like the one described above are found throughout this new collection of important works on chronology, astronomy, and historiography. 330 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book investigates formal characteristics and discourse functions of linguistic creativity at the level of idioms in spoken ELF as represented in the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE). Building on the findings of previous ELF research, the book proposes that creativity might serve as a fundamental concept in accounting for the variation that seems to be central to describing and understanding English as a lingua franca. 304 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This volume will provide a comprehensive yet accessible description of East Midlands English, an area of neglect in linguistic research. Existing publications, which aggregate the findings of earlier surveys and more recent localised studies presenting an overview of regional speech in the UK, are either lacking up-to-date research data from the East Midlands or simply ignore the region. A coordinated survey of dialects of the East Midlands was part of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) in the 1950s. This data is now over sixty years old and focuses almost exclusively on broad rural dialect speakers. This book will fill the knowledge and literature gaps by comparing vernacular speech in different urban and rural locations in the East Midlands, and examining whether the East Midlands is a 'transition zone' between the North and South. Recordings held by the British Library will be used, and will be supplemented with recordings made with local speakers. Language in the East Midlands is distinctive and there is considerable regional variety, for instance, between speech in the major urban centres of Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Bringing out this regional variation will also improve our wider understanding of language variation in English. The concept of the East Midlands in itself is not a clear one, and this volume aims to address such issues and to examine what makes the East Midlands an area of itself and what this area includes. 198 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this study, the author describes the linguistic expression of space in Caac, an endangered and under-documented Oceanic language spoken in New Caledonia, from both a descriptive and theoretical perspective. Part I provides a concise description of Caac grammar, presenting a first formal portrait of this language to the reader. Part II describes the formal and semantic features of the linguistic resources available in Caac to encode spatial relationships. Part III presents the theoretical framework based on and exploring further the vector analysis developed by Bohnemeyer (2012) and Bohnemeyer & O'Meara (2012). In particular, the author proposes an additional sub-category of vectors (Head-unspecified Vectors) which accounts for the uses of centrifugal forms in Caac. The resulting framework provides a systematic account of expressions of orientation as well as location and motion, and to combine the Frames of Reference typology (Pederson et al. 1998; Levinson, 1996, 2003; Bohnemeyer & Levinson, not dated) with an analysis of deictic expressions within a single framework. Special attention, moreover, is given to the use of Caac absolute and deictic directionals in spatial constructions involving Fictive Motion. The analysis of Caac data leads us to introduce an additional category of Fictive Motion beyond those previously recognised in the literature, labelled here 'Anticipated Paths', which in turn shed new light on the nature of vectors and the relationship between location, motion and orientation. 324 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides a state of the art collection of constructional research on syntactic structures in German. The volume is unique in that it offers an easily accessible, yet comprehensive and sophisticated variety of papers. Moreover, various of the papers make explicit connections between grammatical constructions and the concept of valency which has figured quite prominently in Germanic Linguistics over the past half century. 462 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This volume will provide a comprehensive yet accessible description of East Midlands English, an area of neglect in linguistic research. Existing publications, which aggregate the findings of earlier surveys and more recent localised studies presenting an overview of regional speech in the UK, are either lacking up-to-date research data from the East Midlands or simply ignore the region. A coordinated survey of dialects of the East Midlands was part of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) in the 1950s. This data is now over sixty years old and focuses almost exclusively on broad rural dialect speakers. This book will fill the knowledge and literature gaps by comparing vernacular speech in different urban and rural locations in the East Midlands, and examining whether the East Midlands is a 'transition zone' between the North and South. Recordings held by the British Library will be used, and will be supplemented with recordings made with local speakers. Language in the East Midlands is distinctive and there is considerable regional variety, for instance, between speech in the major urban centres of Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Bringing out this regional variation will also improve our wider understanding of language variation in English. The concept of the East Midlands in itself is not a clear one, and this volume aims to address such issues and to examine what makes the East Midlands an area of itself and what this area includes. 198 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This volume will provide a comprehensive yet accessible description of East Midlands English, an area of neglect in linguistic research. Existing publications, which aggregate the findings of earlier surveys and more recent localised studies presenting an overview of regional speech in the UK, are either lacking up-to-date research data from the East Midlands or simply ignore the region. A coordinated survey of dialects of the East Midlands was part of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) in the 1950s. This data is now over sixty years old and focuses almost exclusively on broad rural dialect speakers. This book will fill the knowledge and literature gaps by comparing vernacular speech in different urban and rural locations in the East Midlands, and examining whether the East Midlands is a 'transition zone' between the North and South. Recordings held by the British Library will be used, and will be supplemented with recordings made with local speakers. Language in the East Midlands is distinctive and there is considerable regional variety, for instance, between speech in the major urban centres of Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Bringing out this regional variation will also improve our wider understanding of language variation in English. The concept of the East Midlands in itself is not a clear one, and this volume aims to address such issues and to examine what makes the East Midlands an area of itself and what this area includes.

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Most of the world's Extraterritorial Englishes stem historically from southern English dialects - Southern England having been the most densely-habited part of the country. However, the dialects of Southern England remain under-studied. The papers in this volume consider both diachronic and synchronic aspects of the dialects of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire and the Isles of Scilly. 302 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides a collection of articles on subordination in English framed from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. It covers ample areas of the history of the major subordinated structures of English and their recent development in various native and non-native varieties. Most contributions are based on large electronic databases and corpora of written and spoken texts. The book focuses on the continuum that links subordinated and coordinated structures in a fluid way, shows their permanent state of flux, and sheds light on the whole system's dynamic essence by discussing a large number of explanatory principles at work in shaping it. Many of these are well-known from the grammaticalization and the Construction Grammar theories, such as the concepts of attractor, multi-sourcing, inheritance, categorial incursion, metaphorization or exaptation. This volume represents the latest trends in the field by some of its most prestigious specialists. 320 pp. Englisch.