Intensifiers in English and German

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics | nr. 6
• This book deals with expressions like English myself, yourself, himself and so on, and German selbst from a perspective of language comparison. It is ... Lees meer

When-Clauses and Temporal Structure

Renaat H C Declerck

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and has been the focus of much attention in recent years. In this book, Declerck offers a detailed ... Lees meer

Negation in Non-Standard British English

Lieselotte Anderwald

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics | nr. 8
• Based on the British National Corpus, this book investigates a range of morphosyntactic features of negation that can be found in everyday spoken lang... Lees meer

The Meaning of Topic and Focus

Daniel Büring

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics | nr. 3
• This study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics. Based ... Lees meer

Negative Contexts

Ton Van Der Wouden

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• This research emphasizes semantic, syntactic and pragmatic considerations illustrating a wide array of linguistic approaches. Written from within the ... Lees meer

Language Processing in Discourse

Monika Doherty

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• This book argues that language systems determine language use to a greater extent than is generally assumed. The author demonstrates how the typologic... Lees meer

Aspectual Grammar and Past Time Reference

Laura A Michaelis

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• This study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammati... Lees meer

Negation in Non-Standard British English

Lieselotte Anderwald

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics | nr. 8
• Despite the advances of radio and television and increasing mobility and urbanization, spoken English is by no means becoming more like the written st... Lees meer

The Meaning of Topic and Focus

Daniel Büring

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics | nr. 3
• Based on examples from German and English, this study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational ... Lees meer

Reciprocity in English

Florian Haas

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• Although the grammatical expression of reciprocal (or 'mutual') situations in the languages of the world has received a surprising amount of attention... Lees meer

The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English

Christine Günther

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günther ... Lees meer

The Grammar of Identity

Volker Gast

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• English self -forms and related words from other Germanic languages (e.g. Dutch zelf, Swedish själv, etc.) are used in two different functions: as 'in... Lees meer

Aspectual Grammar and Past Time Reference

Laura a Michaelis

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics | nr. 4
• This study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammati... Lees meer

The Grammar of Irish English

Markku Filppula

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• Irish English, also termed 'Anglo-Irish' or 'Hiberno-English', as in this book, is not usually perceived as having a grammatical system of its own. Ma... Lees meer

English and Celtic in Contact

Markku (University of Joensuu, Finland) Filppula, Juhani (University of Tampere, Finland) Klemola, Heli (University of Joensuu, Finland) Paulasto

• Hardcover | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• English and Celtic in Contact provides the first comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic influences in English. Drawing on both orig... Lees meer

When-Clauses and Temporal Structure

Renaat H C Declerck

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and received much attention in recent years. This book offers a detailed discussion of the temporal... Lees meer

Negative Contexts

Ton Van Der Wouden

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• This research emphasizes semantic, syntactic and pragmatic considerations illustrating a wide array of linguistic approaches. Written from within the ... Lees meer

Reciprocity in English

Florian Haas

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics | nr. 15
• Although the grammatical expression of reciprocal (or 'mutual') situations in the languages of the world has received a surprising amount of attention... Lees meer

Stretched Verb Constructions in English

D J Allerton

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• Constructions such as 'make an accusation against' , or 'give one's approval for' can be seen as 'stretched' versions of simple verbs, such as 'accuse... Lees meer

Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• In this book, contributors have been brought together to discuss the role of two major factors shaping the grammars of different varieties of English ... Lees meer

The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English

Christine Günther

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günther ... Lees meer

Dislocated Elements in Discourse

• Hardcover | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• Deals with "dislocation" - the removal of phrases from their canonical positions in a sentence to its left or right edge. This book reveals some of th... Lees meer

The Grammar of Irish English

Markku Filppula

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• Irish English, also termed 'Anglo-Irish' or 'Hiberno-English', as in this book, is not usually perceived as having a grammatical system of its own. Ma... Lees meer

Pronominal Gender in English

Peter Siemund

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
• This book investigates the use of English third person pronouns (he, she, it) across different varieties of English, where we frequently find he and s... Lees meer