Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft (525 Artikel)

The book is concerned with a hitherto underresearched grammaticalization process: the development from quality-attributing adjective to determiner in the English noun phrase. It takes a bottom-up a...

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The book provides an account of English inversion, a construction that displays perplexing idiosyncrasies at the level of semantics, phonology, syntax, and pragmatics. Basing his central argument o...

English Language Education Policies and Practices in the Mediterranean Countries and Beyond

The book introduces the reader to the central areas of English linguistics. The main sections are: the English language and linguistics - sounds - meaning-carrying units - sentences: models of gram...

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian Mair ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Englische Linguistik der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

The book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexit...

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With English-medium higher education burgeoning in Europe and elsewhere outside the English-speaking world, this book is the first to offer an ethnographically-embedded analysis of such classroom d...

Variation, Representation, and Change

Hajar Abdul Rahim is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and a principal member of the (ICE) Malaysia. Shakila Abdul Manan is an Associate Professor of English Language Studies and Editor-in-Chie...

The Contributors: Maria Dakowska, Larry Selinker, Beatrice Baumgartner-Cohen, Carol Kinahan, Eric Mathieu, Anatoly Dorodnych, Anita Fetzer, Benita von Heynitz, J. Tudor Morris, Karlheinz Hengst, In...

Serving as an introduction to English morphology and word-formation, this book also tries to advance the state-of-the-art in this field. The author takes his readers gently through the basic notion...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Fischer, Hermann -- 1. Joseph Hall: Virgidemiarvm. Lib. Iii -- 2. JOHN DONNE: Satyre II -- 3. JOHN MARSTON: The Scourge of Villanie. Satyre. VIII. -- 4. ANONYMO...

Antje Dallmann has received her MA from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in American and British Studies, French and Culture Studies. In her dissertation, she discusses how the trope of paranoia is u...