Publications
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Chapter ‘Tested’ Remedies in Mesopotamian Medical Texts
(2015)
This contribution investigates the phraseology of descriptions of efficacy (efficacy phrases) in Mesopotamian medical texts, concentrating on the qualification latku ‘tested, tried, proven’, which implies that knowledge ...
Discourse on the State of the Jews Bilingual Edition
(2019)
Considered the first specimen of a theoretical literature on Jewish political economy, the Discourse is much more. Initially conceived as an apology for the Jewish community of Venice, it is actually replete with sceptical ...
Chapter A idade dos «desvios»: diacronia, variação social e linguística de corpus
(2016)
How and in which direction(s) is research in Ibero-Romance historical linguistics evolving? Now that the initial enthusiasm for the possibilities of digital corpora has worn off, the essays gathered in this volume reflect ...
Boundaries and Bridges: Language Contact in Multilingual Ecologies
(2017)
Language Contact; Creoles; Bilingualism; Language Change.
Poéticas espectatoriales en Hispanoamérica y Brasil (1800–1847)
(2022)
This book offers the first panoramic study on the development and characteristics of the literary-journalistic genre of spectator periodicals in Hispanic America and Brazil. After contextualizing these publications within ...
Demokratie und Populismus in der griechischen Antike und heute
(2024)
In light of the evident global rise of populist tendencies in recent years, it seems reasonable to ask whether there were political currents in classical Athens and then in the Hellenist poleis that could qualify as populist ...
In Japan liegt das Glück auf dem Land
(2024)
Japan’s regions have been affected by an aging population and structural weaknesses. Now, young people seem to be moving back to the country and solving these problems. Politics and the media paint an idyllic picture: in ...
Emerging Subjectivity in the Long 19th-Century Middle East
(2024)
What, actually, meant “modernisation” for the long 19th century Middle Easterner? Stephan Guth finds the essence of the so-called Arab(ic) “Renaissance” (and corresponding movements in Turkish) in emerging subjectivity and ...
Sprachverfall?
(2014)
The 2013 Annual of the Institute for the German Language provides a classification of discourse on language decline based on language history and variation linguistics. In addition, it offers an analysis of the processes ...
Korea and the “Others”
(2024)
This volume features ten articles, each dealing with a particular aspect of the relationship between the Korean people and foreigners. It is a work conducted with a comparative/structuralist approach, which comprises a ...
Good practice in der institutionellen Kommunikation
(2023)
How can we identify successful linguistic action in recordings of institutional conversations? The theoretical-methodological contributions discuss what the basis for evaluation is, how it can be collected empirically, and ...
Sacred Scripture / Sacred Space
(2019)
Thirteen papers on different subjects, focussing on writings and inscriptions in medieval art, explore the faculty of writing to create and determine spaces and to generate the sacred by the display of holy scripture. The ...
The Influence of English on Italian
(2023)
The volume explores the history of language contact between Italy and Anglophone countries and illustrates the phenomenon of lexical borrowing. Types of borrowings are discussed on the basis of a usage-based list of ...
Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences
(2013)
linguistics; linguistic differences
Chapter Medieval Endowment Cultures in Western India: Buddhist and Muslim Encounters – Some Preliminary Observations
(2019)
The volume analyses the encounter between Buddhist and Muslim communities in South and Central Asia during the medieval period. The articles by historians, epigraphists, philologists, art historians and archaeologists ...
300 Jahre Robinson Crusoe
(2022)
The year 2019 marked the 300th anniversary of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. His novel was a huge success right away and was soon followed by bootlegs and translations. With the robinsonade, an independent genre of adventure ...
Religion and Change
(2023)
Are religions like everything else in the world, subject to permanent change? Or are they perhaps the only stable element for people in a world of permanent change? Within the wide field of this discourse, five authors – ...
Parenthetical Verbs
(2015)
parenthesis; comment clauses; report clauses; quotation
Kaiser Julian 'Apostata' und die philosophische Reaktion gegen das Christentum
(2008)
During his short reign in the 4th century, Emperor Julian II, known as the Apostate, attempted to combat Christianity philosophically and to set up a pagan Neo-Platonic doctrine as a counter-programme. The volume presents ...
Öffentliches Recht und Privatrecht
(2020)
This conference volume presents lectures and discussion from the Conference of the Association of German Professors of Constitutional Law that was held in Marburg, Germany, on 9–12 October 2019.