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Flusslandschaften
(2023)
Rivers have always been a formative component of spaces. They serve as natural borders, mold the character of a landscape, shape how entire regions look, and often mark politically contested border areas. At the same time, ...
Chapter Languages of the Middle Andes in areal-typological perspective
(2012)
Among the indigenous languages of the Andean region of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile and northern Argentina, Quechuan and Aymaran have traditionally occupied a dominant position. Both Quechuan and Aymaran are ...
Chapter Higher order exceptionality in inflectional morphology
(2011)
We start from the notion of ‘canonical’ inflection, and we adopt an inferential-realizational approach. We assume that we have already established the features and their values for a given system (while acknowledging that ...
Vor dem Kollaps!? Beschäftigung im sozialen Sektor
(2024)
This book uses current data to show how the employment situation in the social sector has developed in recent years and what impact the Corona pandemic is having on social institutions in comparison to other sectors.
Gestures
(2024)
For a long time, much of mainstream philosophy trivialized gestures, representing them as a kind of pseudo-language. In the last decades, nevertheless, a growing body of literature has shown how gestures play a central ...
Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The State of the Art
(2015)
Linguistics; Anthropology; Mainland Southeast Asia
Navigating Copyright for Libraries
(2022)
Much of the information that libraries make available is protected by copyright or subject to the terms of license agreements. This reader presents an overview of current issues in copyright law reform. The chapters present ...
Theorie der Klassik
(2022)
For the last three centuries, prominent thinkers have been asking themselves what it is that constitutes a classic. This volume takes up this question and shows how cultural artifacts become and remain classics through ...
Die Reihe Merz 1923–1932
(2019)
This volume, the fourth in the complete works of Kurt Schwitters, offers the first complete and annotated edition of Merz, the avant-garde journal for multimedia that appeared between 1923 and 1932 under Schwitters’ editorial ...
Chapter Sarazenen als „Fremde“?
(2009)
The subjects of this volume are views and perceptions of the “other” (i.e. strangers, enemies or curiosities) within the Islamic world, as well as in the interplay between the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. More than 20 ...
New Challenges in Typology
(2009)
Typology; Linguistic Description
Introducing the Framework, and Case Studies from Africa and Eurasia
(2015)
Valency; Verb Classes; Argument Alternations
Chapter 12 Icelandic valency classes
(2015)
The present chapter gives an overview of valency classes in Icelandic and the most common, noticeable, or productive alternations found in the language. The over-view is based on my own native-speaker knowledge of the ...
Normative Konstituenzien der Demokratie
(2024)
Democracies are coming under increasing pressure. In the process, the meaning of democracy itself has become the subject of debate. What normative conditions are essential for democracy? And how can we better realize these ...
Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity
(2023)
In recent years, the focus in historical studies has moved away from asking what knowledge ancient people produced to asking how and why it was produced. The present volume follows up with these developments, positioning ...
Chapter 5 Linguistic areas, bottom-up or top-down?
(2014)
In this paper we will take data from four areas of grammatical structure: argument marking (coded by Birchall), subordination (coded by Van Gijn), the noun phrase (coded by Krasnoukhova), and tame marking (tense/aspect/m ...
Rome and The Guidebook Tradition
(2019)
Almost everyone has used a guidebook, when travelling, or in the armchair at home. But how was the guidebook born? In this book, scholars from various disciplines argue that the guidebook emerged in Rome in the late Middle ...
Audioliterary Poetry between Performance and Mediatization / Audioliterale Lyrik zwischen Performance und Mediatisierung
(2024)
This book critically examines how audioliterary poetry – poetry that is composed to be performed – is changing in the digital age. Its interdisciplinary chapters reflect on performative embodiment in live formats (such as ...
The Works of Li Qingzhao
(2019)
This volume is a translation of the song lyrics, poetry, and prose of Li Qingzhao (1084-1150s), with annotations and an introductory critical essay. Her song lyrics and poetry will be presented in a way to help readers get ...
Franz Brentano und sein philosophischer Nachlass
(2019)
Although Franz Brentano was one of the most influential turn-of-the-century philosophers, he, like Ludwig Wittgenstein, published little but left a large philosophical legacy. This study examines the biographical and ...