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
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
The collection groups similar proverbs on various subject matter in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin, demonstrating a proverbial universality. Divided into 17 categories, some of the them
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
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
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
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
Drawing on her work as an anthropologist, Portis-Winner proposes cultural semiotics as a new paradigm or world view unified by broad themes and yet divided by wide differences and interpretations, and
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
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
Losquino provides evidence of West Germanic features in a set of runic inscriptions that are several centuries earlier than other scholars have found such features. She compares the earliest Danish ru
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 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
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
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
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
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
En 1901, deprimido por el suicidio de su íntimo amigo, Carles Casagemas, Picasso se sumerge en los lienzos austeros y melancólicos del Período Azul. Con sólo veintidós años de edad y desesperadamente
Reiner (composer, music producer, performer and writer) investigates the link between musical time and the world of signs and symbols. In the seven chapters, he discusses the extent to which musical t
