Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft (372 Artikel)

This book is a collection of eight articles by leading scholars investigating of the acquisition of English by native speakers of Japanese. It deals with a wide range of topics from the acquisiton ...

What factors influence the choice between alternative grammatical structures such as the following: a lit / a lighted cigarette, more full / fuller of convincing arguments, the main thesis of the b...

Cristiano Broccias teaches at the Universities of Genova and Pavia, Italy.

Nancy A. Niedzielski is Assistant Professor at Rice University, Houston, USA. Dennis R. Preston is Professor at Michigan State University, USA.

Gaagudju is a previously undescribed and now nearly extinct language of northern Australia. This grammar provides an overall description of the language. Australian languages generally show a high ...

This dictionary provides a valency description of English verbs, nouns and adjectives. Each entry contains a comprehensive list of the complementation patterns identified on the basis of the larges...

Renaat Declerck is Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Susan Reed is Assistant Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

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Rather than presenting a reverse list of words in endless sequence and strictly alphabetical order, this Reverse English Dictionary considers the structure and formation of words, grouping them tog...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- Part I. Old English -- CHAPTER 2. Basic syntax -- CHAPTER 3. Syntactic case and morphological case -- CHAPTER 4. Clitics --...

Wie sind Mentalitäten und Materialitäten miteinander verbunden und welche Schlüsse über eine Kultur lässt dies zu? Die englischsprachigen Beiträge decken eine große Bandbreite an Themen ab von der ...

Over the past three decades, Cultural Studies within German "Anglistik" have become a success story: relevant research has been undertaken, syllabi (in universities and schools) have been redesigne...

Childhood in neo-Victorian fiction for both child and adult readers is an extremely multifaceted and fascinating field. This book argues that neo-Victorian fiction projects multiple, competing visi...

This volume pays homage to Monika Seidl, a key figure of cultural studies at the University of Vienna's Department of English and American Studies and spotlights her many achievements in the field....

This Gedenkschrift celebrates the memory of Professor Hans Sauer and his passion for travelling. The contributions in this volume explore different kinds of textual and temporal travels from variou...