Children s language acquisition has not been previously studied in relation to regional language variation. For the first time, this study examines the connections between language acquisition and language variation. The book s analysis of the Moselle-Franconian dialect based on data collected from children between three and ten years of age reveals both monolingual and bilingual patterns of acquisition. These findings enable the reader to understand changes in language during early phases of acquisition caused by regional language variation."

Until now, scholars have largely ignored Apollonius of Rhodes s deep interest in secret cults, arcane rituals, paradoxa, and magic. The present study extensively explores this material with special emphasis on its function in the Argonautica. Based on this complementary methodological presentation, the book is geared to both religious historians and literary scholars."

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This book presents the historical lexicography of German, Dutch, and English with a focus on factors related to ideological history, professional lexicography, and cultural education. In the main part of the book, the author undertakes a professional treatment of the common types of lexicographic information, and alsogives a discussion ofsome rarely provided lexicographic information.

Die sprach- und kulturgeschichtliche Studie untersucht das Konzept des Hochdeutschen im Sprachnormierungsdiskurs des 18. Jahrhunderts und damit ein zentrales Thema der deutschen Sprachgeschichte. Das Corpus umfasst grammatikographische, lexikographische, sprachhistorische, varietatenbezogene, rhetorische und sprachkritische Texte. Methodisch verknupft die Arbeit text- und diskurslinguistische sowie lexikologische Ansatze. Berucksichtigt werden sowohl wortbezogene als auch tiefenstrukturelle Groessen wie Argumentationsmuster und diskurssemantische Grundfiguren. Die Semantik zentraler Schlusselwoerter wie Obersachsisch, Niederdeutsch, Oberdeutsch, Poebel, Volk, verstandlich und klar wird in Wortartikeln in konzentrierter Form dargestellt. In den Bereichen Sprachgeographie, Sprachsoziologie, Sprachideologie sowie Stilistik wird gezeigt, wie Strategien der Stigmatisierung bzw. Aufwertung einzelner Varietaten funktionieren, wobei sowohl dominante als auch eher marginale Akteure in den verschiedenen Sprachregionen berucksichtigt werden. Im Gegensatz zu bisherigen Einzeluntersuchungen wird insbesondere die Verbindung zwischen dem Hochdeutschen und nationalen Identitatskonstruktionen deutlich.

The study proceeds from the category of numerus in European article-languages, correlating it to a classification of noun meanings into 'contoured' and 'diffuse'. With a view to integrating those usages that deviate from this correlation, the author develops the category of 'noun aspect'. The origins of aspectual modes of meaning are viewed in relation to processes of grammaticalization. The historical precursors of these categories and processes are compared.

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This volume first of all assembles 1470 advertisements from German and Swiss newspapers serving as potential source material for further linguistic, journalistic or historical studies. The study of them presented here draws on an action-oriented text variety model as an instrument for their analysis. Typical linguistic functions and wordings are presented, combined with a discussion of the advertising strategies employed in the period and the way these a) correlate with the social value systems prevalent at the time, and b) contrast with the advertising strategies employed today.

"Germany is the land of foreign word dictionaries," Peter von Polenz wrote in 1967, commenting on the German tendency to use borrowed expressions. This investigation considers the foreign word dictionary in its entirety from 1800 2007. It addresses not only the structural and lexicographic diversity of this dictionary type, but also discusses relevant historical factors."

This is the first systematic study of the syntax of a German dialect to combine the findings of modern syntactic theory with other linguistic areas (diachrony, morphology, semantics, discourse representation theory) for the purpose of analyzing syntactic phenomena. First, a theoretically crucial distinction is made between first-order and second-order natural languages, assigning dialects to the first of these classes and arguing that this makes them the most appropriate objects of linguistic study. Four chapters are then devoted to central features of Bavarian syntax with a view to gaining insight into the functional system of a natural language. The results thus obtained confirm the necessity of such an undertaking.

In this book, Holmberg and Platzack present a theory of the role which subject-verb agreement and case morphology play in syntax. Their theory is based mainly on a detailed comparison of syntactical inflectional properties in the various Scandinavian languages, although many other languages are discussed as well. The theoretical issues discussed include abstract vs. morphological case, functional heads, verb-second, null subjects and other empty categories, pronouns and clitics, various impersonal constructions, long distance reflexives, and the double object construction. Probably the most detailed and comprehensive study to date of the interplay of case, subject-verb agreement, and other grammatical properties in the syntax of related languages, this book offers important insights for professional linguists and students with an interest in generative grammar, typology/comparative grammar, or Scandinavian and Germanic languages.

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This quantitative sociolinguistic study examines the complex linguistic and social factors governing variation and change in the position of an auxiliary and a non-finite verb form in dependent clauses in works from 16th-century Nuremberg. It traces developments through adolescence and early adulthood and examines the usage of parents, siblings and others in the family network as well as written models (instructional works, printed books, and business and administrative language).

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Recent models of dialect contact, notably in the work of Trudgill, Chambers, James Milroy, and Labov have stressed the importance of the notions of salience, simplification, linguistic complexity, and the speech community in accounting for the patterns that arise. In this case-study of the speech of rural migrants in the Norwegian city of Bergen, Paul Kerswill critically examines the usefulness of these concepts, and puts recent models of dialect contact to the test for the first time against a case of such contact as it is actually happening. Dialect contact often, it is said, leads to Koineization - the emergence of new, mixed varieties of a language resulting from the intermingling of speakers of different varieties of that language. Kerswill investigates the extent to which processes of change typically ascribed to Koineization are already prefigured in the speech of the first-generation adult migrants of this study. While the author's approach is broadly quantitative he also demonstrates the importance of ethnographic and social-psychological explanations in accounting for the wide differences between individuals in the study. He argues for a sociolinguistic methodology founded on a richer and more comprehensive view of the social factors influencing, langague use.

"Y escribiras muy claramente en las piedras todas las palabras de esta ley."

(Debarim - Deuteronomio 27:8)

La presente obra tiene por objetivo aclarar el texto biblico a traves de la tradicion oral del pueblo de Israel, de modo de facilitar la comprension y divulgacion de la palabra de Dios a toda la humanidad permitiendo el acceso al texto original (entregado en hebreo) y a una traduccion fiel de este. Para lograr este proposito, la estructura del texto cuenta con las siguientes caracteristicas:

1.- Fidelidad de la traduccion al texto original. Para lograr una mejor traduccion, usamos el texto hebreo original y la tradicion oral del pueblo de Israel.

2.- Transliteracion de los nombres y lugares biblicos Hemos cambiado las versiones espanolizadas de los terminos biblicos. De modo de permitir la correcta pronunciacion1 de estos agregamos simbolos especiales y acentos para indicar sonidos que no tienen representacion en espanol.

3.- Texto hebreo con puntuacion, cantilacion y fonetica La presente edicion contiene el texto hebreo original vocalizado y con cantilacion y bajo este se encuentra la fonetica. Para lograr una mayor comprension se ha dispuesto el texto hebreo frente al texto espanol.

4.- Anexos Estos permiten la profundizacion de distintas tematicas.

5.- Comentarios Los comentarios estan basados en la tradicion oral del pueblo de Israel, la cual fue recibida por Mosheh (Moises) en el monte Sinai y traspasada hasta nuestros dias. Estos se encuentran bajo el texto en espanol, aclarando la comprension de los versiculos senalados y explicando la etimologia de los terminos, es decir el origen de ellos en su raiz proveniente de la lengua hebrea.