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Fear And Loathing In The North - Jews And Muslims In Medieval Scandinavia And The Baltic Region

130,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Provides the possibility to appreciate and understand the complexity of Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the North.
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Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics In Typological Perspective

159,52€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Presents the Egyptian-Coptic language in cross-linguistic perspective. This book is aimed at linguists of all stripes, especially typologists, historical linguists, and specialists in Egyptian-Coptic, Afroasiatic languages, or African languages. It intends to bring together language typology and the Egyptian-Coptic language in an explicit fashion.
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Partitive Cases And Related Categories

211,57€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Argument-marking, morphological partitives have been the topic of language specific studies, while no cross-linguistic or typological analyses have been conducted. This book brings together research on partitives in different languages.
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The Typology Of Motion Events - An Empirical Study Of Chinese Dialects

de Carine Yuk-Man Yiu

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 Deals with the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wu, Hakka, Min and Cantonese. This book shows that these dialects form a continuum with some exhibiting more characteristics of a verb-framed language than the others.
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Concepts In Gene Therapy

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 This text deals with the various aspects of gene therapy from the point of view of leading experts in their respective fields. It provides not only an overview to the various topics of gene therapy, but also discusses current problems and potential solutions.
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Complementizer Semantics In European Languages

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 A comparative study of complementizer semantics in European languages. It focuses on semantics, but related issues such as the syntax, morphology and diachrony of complementizers, and their omission and combination are also discussed. It also contains contributions from experts of individual languages and language families.
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Ergativity, Valency And Voice

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 A collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. It covers such geographical regions as the Americas, the Caucasus, Asia, and Near East.
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Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics In Typological Perspective

36,50€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This volume presents the Egyptian-Coptic language in cross-linguistic perspective. It is aimed at linguists of all stripes, especially typologists, historical linguists, and specialists in Egyptian-Coptic, Afroasiatic languages, or African languages.
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Alignment And Ergativity In New Indo-Aryan Languages

de Saartje Verbeke

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 The book provides an overview of the alignment patterns found in modern Indo-Aryan languages. It analyzes four Indo-Aryan languagesâ€" Asamiya, Nepali, Rajasthani and Kashmiriâ€" on the basis of text corpora. The book is a thorough synchronic study of alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan languages.
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Yiddish Language Structures

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 The contributions address several levels of the language system including morphology, syntax and lexicology, and put special emphasis on mechanisms of internal and contact-induced language change spanning different epochs and societal and textual strata.
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Coordination Relations In The Languages Of Europe And Beyond

de Caterina Mauri

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 Examines the coding of the three coordination relations of combination, contrast and alternative on the basis of a 74 language sample, with special focus on the languages spoken in Europe. This work represents a systematic attempt towards a unified typology of coordination relations.
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Epistemic Meaning - A Crosslinguistic And Functional-Cognitive Study

de Kasper Boye

211,57€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Deals with epistemic expressions: the linguistic means we have for expressing our degree of certainty about and our type of evidence for propositions about the world. This book presents a cross-linguistic study of such expressions and demonstrates that they behave in a way that can be described in terms of a coherent but complex meaning domain.
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Hispanisation - The Impact Of Spanish On The Lexicon And Grammar Of The Indigenous Languages Of Austronesia And The Americas

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 Literally hundreds of languages world-wide have experienced direct or indirect Hispanisation during the heyday of the Spanish colonial empire. This volume is meant to give the reader a better idea of the range of contact constellations in which Spanish functions as the donor language.
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Grammatical Borrowing In Cross-Linguistic Perspective

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 Contains 30 chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. This book includes an introduction, which describes the setup of the questionnaire and the methodology of the approach, along with a survey of the difficulties of sampling in contact linguistics.
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Alignment Change In Iranian Languages - A Construction Grammar Approach

de Geoffrey L.J. Haig

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 This book presents an account of alignment shifts in Iranian languages, and covers a time-span of some two and half millennia. It blends data from more than 20 Iranian languages, past and present, with theoretical discussion of alignment (ergativity, accusativity), subjecthood, diachronic syntax and morphology.
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Verbal And Signed Languages - Comparing Structures, Constructs And Methodologies

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 Explores how much of knowledge based on research on spoken languages needs to be refined in the light of the growing field of sign linguistics. This book focuses on topics: linearity and arbitrariness principles and definition of units and levels of analysis, expression of grammatical categories, semantic relations, and cohesion mechanisms.
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Aspects Of Language Contact - New Theoretical, Methodological And Empirical Findings With Special Focus On Romancisation Processes

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 Presents fourteen contributions to the debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. This volume also presents a number of vistas on language contact which represent developments in the field. It provides readers with insights on various levels of language-contact related studies.
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The Use Of Databases In Cross-Linguistic Studies

211,57€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Ready access to knowledge about cross-linguistic variation is of great value to many types of linguistic research. This book describes a number of successful database projects, focusing on cross-linguistic and typological research. It includes a chapter on general problems of using databases to handle language data.
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Quotative Indexes In African Languages - A Synchronic And Diachronic Survey

de Tom Güldemann

211,57€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Presents the results of a cross-African survey of quotative indexes in which 39 African languages were selected to represent the genealogical and geographical diversity of the continent. This book is useful to linguists working on African languages as well as typologists working on similar studies in other geographical areas.
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On Comitatives And Related Categories - A Typological Study With Special Focus On The Languages Of Europe

de Aina Urdze, Cornelia Stroh e Thomas Stolz

291,33€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general linguistic hypotheses about the grammar and cognitive foundations of comitatives.
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Standard Negation - The Negation Of Declarative Verbal Main Clauses In A Typological Perspective

de Matti Miestamo

259,56€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Offers a cross-linguistic study of clausal negation based on a systematic language sample. This book discusses methodological issues, especially sampling, and typologizes standard negation by paying attention to structural differences between affirmatives and negatives.
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Relative Constructions In European Non-Standard Varieties

de Adriano Murelli

211,57€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Relative Constructions in European Non-Standard Varieties
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Rara & Rarissima - Documenting The Fringes Of Linguistic Diversity

244,69€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of human language(s) as do universals. This title presents an extensive data gathering of rara and rarissima.
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The Typology Of Adjectival Predication

de Harrie Wetzer

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 This text investigates the ways in which the adjectival predication is expressed in the languages of the world. Based on a survey of 115 languages, it puts forward a typology of predicative adjectival constructions, which involves a distinction between "noun-like" and "verb-like" adjectivals.
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