This book offers practical advice for translators, combining linguistics and natural sciences to address mistranslated nature terminology. It helps find suitable equivalents and shows when overspecification or domestication is justified and when it becomes an error.
This collection addresses key issues in lexical categories, categorization, and category change. It explores defining categories, the problem of fuzziness, and nominalizations using data from numerous languages. For researchers and advanced students in linguistics.
Exploring Aitken’s Law, the unique Scottish Vowel Length Rule, this book argues that all vowel length distinctions are a consequence of universal, inviolable principles of grammar.
The Grammatical Voice in Japanese
This book’s main argument is that the Japanese passive originates from an earlier middle voice. This reframes the voice system from a conventional active-passive binary pair to a newly proposed active-middle-passive ternary pair.
Internal Structure of Verb Meaning
This study makes years of academic research on Tamazight (Berber) verbs accessible to a wide audience. It investigates the internal structure of verb meaning, revealing insights from a millennia-old language that has resisted oppression and is spoken by millions.
Freond ic gemete wið
This book offers a mosaic of perspectives on medieval Britain. Its chapters present focused analyses of language, literature, and society from the Anglo-Saxon period to the late Middle Ages, offering new readings of texts and exploring language change.
The growth of Creative Writing has generated new ways of thinking about the craft. This book presents fresh explorations that treat writing as a dynamic activity, not a static object, offering practical ways to develop your own work.
Linguists of Tomorrow
This collection of papers by established and up-and-coming researchers covers topics from theoretical linguistics to psycholinguistics and applied linguistics. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in current issues in linguistics.
Challenges of Discourse Processing
This book shows how linguistic analysis and natural language processing can automatically recognize the discourse structures of technical documents. It presents concrete solutions which can be deployed in industrial contexts to improve document quality.
The Language of Diversity
From a Christian worldview, these essays bridge gaps among racial, cultural, and religious differences. The selections examine interfaith relations and challenge readers to probe topics like education, race, and gender.
The Politics of Translation and Transmission
This book studies the beginnings of Hungarian political thought through two 17th-century texts derived from an unlikely source: King James I’s Basilikon Doron. It reveals how Scottish ideas were re-articulated in a Central European context.
Languages for Specific Purposes
This book provides an overview of solutions and current issues in teaching Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP). Containing 20 articles by teachers and researchers, it is a valuable resource for language teachers and specialists designing LSP courses.
This volume showcases original experimental studies on language processing. It focuses on word access, vocabulary acquisition, and syntax development in numerous languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, English, German, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.
Languages in Australian Education
Despite 20 years of language policy development, languages have not secured a place in Australian education. As Australia enters a new phase of policy activity, this book examines what has been achieved and considers a viable path for renewal.
Formal Studies in Slavic Linguistics presents current research by young scholars on challenging phenomena in various Slavic languages. The volume expands its scope to include all areas of theoretical linguistics and will interest Slavic scholars and linguists alike.
This book explores the English lexicon as a mirror of cultural identity. Studies show how word contextualization leads to differing interpretations, revealing that language needs the cornerstone of Culture to thrive.
Beyond Postmodernism
This collection provides an alternative to Postmodernism, arguing it has ruled too long. Contributors utilize critical tools like posthumanism and postcontemporary theory, yielding conclusions beyond its scope. For those seeking something new, join the dialogue.
Lexicography and Terminology
This book explores current trends in lexicography and terminology. It analyzes the presentation of complex items like idioms and non-equivalent lexics in various dictionaries and examines terminology for Languages for Special Purposes from a cognitive angle.
A Journey through Knowledge
A Journey through Knowledge is a collection of articles honouring renowned Romanian linguist Hortensia Pârlog. United by the common theme of the “journey,” these articles explore traveling across identities, time, space, languages, and cultures.
This pioneering study applies generative grammar to Lithuanian in a contrastive analysis of small clauses in English and Lithuanian. The work addresses whether these constructions express a subject-predicate relationship and function as a clause.