Kambarov proposes eight uniform rules for the use of definite, indefinite and zero articles in English and German built from his views of the concept of definiteness and its relation to mental spaces
This work is the result of a research project by Price (PhD, Germanic linguistics, U. of California at Berkeley) that began with the investigation of the age and authorship of the Old Saxon Heliand ma
This analysis of the 9th-century Old Saxon epic Heiland is drawn from Augustyn's dissertation written at the U. of California at Berkeley. The myth is the basis for Augustyn's examination of the ro
In this second volume based on a 1998 Berkeley German Linguistics Roundtable, international contributors to 14 papers divide their interests between historical and contemporary language data. Phonolog
Scholars from the U.S. and Germany discuss recent research in Germanic linguistics. Thirteen contributions cover such topics as the distribution of restrictive and nonrestrictive adjectives, the North
This book by David K. O’Rourke presents a study of language and linguistic forms and the roles they played in the initial imagining, developing, and maintaining of a society based on coerced labor. It
Volume 81 of this series deconstructs the use of language in depictions of Korean migration in Germany. Roberts (modern languages, Indiana U., Purdue U.) considers newspaper latices, autobiographical
Inheritance, which has its origins in the field of artificial intelligence, is a framework focusing on shared properties. When applied to inflectional morphology, it enables useful generalizations wit
Selected Writings of Irmengard Rauch represents that portion of Irmengard Rauch’s articles which center on contemporary and historical Germanic linguistic phenomena. They thus speak to the principal N
Although the Franco-American communities of Southbridge, Massachusetts, and Woonsocket, Rhode Island, have much in common historically, the shift from French to English has advanced to differing degre
Drawing on his research in 2007-08 for a PhD in linguistics at the University of Georgia, Bucsko, now a Spanish teacher at a Georgia high school, explores preverbs, which are added to the front of ove
De Benedictis (classical and modern languages, literature, and cultures; Wayne State U., Michigan) analyzes how words, when combined in a particular manner, contribute to the making of certain codes,
Kilpatrick (Italian, U. of Georgia) examines consonant clusters and their propagation through northern Italian dialects including Piemontese, Piacentino, Genovese, Milanese, Bolognese and Standard Ita
This interdisciplinary collection of articles, written by scholars involved in translating the Bible into various languages around the world, demonstrates that such translation projects are promoting
Kperogi offers a comparative study of English and Nigerian English. The author has organized the twenty-two chapters that make up the main body of his text in five parts devoted to conceptual issues i
A linguist by training, Mallen (Hispanic studies, Texas A&M U.-College Station) argues that at an intuitive level, the three major of stages of Cubism Cezannian, analytic, and synthetic follow rou
Seven of the nine essays in this book were previously published in books such as The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore (Greenwood Press) and Born in the Blood: On Native American Translation (U
Studies the nature and extent of code-mixing in Hong Kong the mixing of Cantonese, modern standard Chinese, and English drawing on written data obtained from the local Chinese press over a period of t
O'Rourke, an independent scholar of the cultural history of social idealism, presents a study of the word "household," its history and etymology, connotations, current equivalents (home and family), a
