Publications
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Sub-Indo-European Europe
(2024)
The dispersal of the Indo-European language family dramatically altered the linguistic landscape in Europe, resulting in the loss of many of the preexisting languages. This volume brings together contributions focusing on ...
Empire and Politics in the Eastern and Western Civilizations
(2022)
The volume includes the proceedings of the 2nd Roma Sinica conference held in 2019 and aims to compare some features of the ancient political thought in the Western classical tradition and in the Eastern ancient thought. ...
Der einsame Weg, Band 1 : Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2024)
The 15th volume of the “Historical-Critical Edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s Early Works” – edited by Konstanze Fliedl since 2010 – presents Schnitzler’s play “Der einsame Weg” (1904). The entire extensive corpus of material ...
Medizinische Gutachten des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
(2018)
Historical text species research is still a relatively unexplored field for German, and so far only a few historical text types have been recorded and described. With the medical reports, this study focuses on a historical ...
Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
(2022)
The digitisation boom of the last two decades, and the rapid advancement of digital tools to analyse data in myriad ways, have opened up new avenues for humanities research. This volume discusses how the so-called digital ...
Die Chronik des Richard von San Germano
(2022)
The chronicle of Richard von San Germano is a volume of fundamental significance for the history of the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II in Italy. This volume is the first to analyze and explain Richard’s life and work ...
Dinámicas lingüísticas de las situaciones de contacto
(2021)
The volume offers in-depth analyses of contact situations between Spanish and other languages, showing how language variation and change are part of the complex linguistic dynamics that characterize contact areas. Aimed ...
Annotations in Scholarly Editions and Research
(2020)
The notion of annotation is associated in the Humanities and Information Sciences with different concepts that vary in coverage, application and direction of impact, but have conceptual parallels as well. This publication ...
La Suisse - portrait urbain
(2005)
The classic volume Switzerland. An Urban Portrait was published in three languages by Birkhäuser Verlag in 2005 and has lost none of its relevance to this day. The result of several years of research by ETH Studio Basel, ...
La identidad mexicana en libros escolares y narrativas
(2021)
This study analyzes the discursive construction strategies that structured the cognitive model of Mexican national identity in four generations of textbooks (1960–2009). Using tools from the fields of Cognitive Linguistics ...
Integers: Annual Volume 2013
(2014)
Additive; multiplicative and probabilistic number theory; Sequences and sets; Extremal and classical combinatorics; Ramsey theory; Hypergraphs
Textkomplexität und Textverstehen
(2023)
Text comprehension is a dynamic process in which readers enter into a dialog with the text and interact with it: one’s own knowledge is activated and the text is interpreted in its cultural, social context. The study of ...
Mobility Design
(2022)
Climate change and the scarcity of resources, but also the steadily increasing amount of traffic, make it indispensable to develop new solutions for environmentally friendly and people-friendly mobility. With the expansion ...
Hans Haacke und Pierre Huyghe
(2024)
Since the 1960s, artists have questioned the traditional idea of opposition between art and nature. They have incorporated animals and plants as co-actors in their work, and so established a sculptural aesthetic of the ...
Integers: Annual Volume 2013
(2014)
Additive; multiplicative and probabilistic number theory; Sequences and sets; Extremal and classical combinatorics; Ramsey theory; Hypergraphs
Tradition und Diskurs
(2023)
References to "Islamic tradition" are omnipresent in the general public sphere and in scholarship. However, there has not been much consideration of what actually constitutes Islamic tradition. This volume attempts to ...
Bruchstücke
(2023)
Das Jahrbuch des Dokumentationsarchivs des österreichischen Widerstandes (DÖW) untersucht seit 1986 alle Aspekte des Nationalsozialismus. Dieses Bemühen um Erforschung und Aufarbeitung bleibt immer fragmentarisch. Zu viele ...
The Semantics of Derivational Morphology
(2023)
This volume comprises eight cutting-edge research articles on the meaning of complex words. The contributions apply a range of innovative methodological approaches to under-researched problems in derivational semantics. ...
La identidad mexicana en libros escolares y narrativas
(2021)
This study analyzes the discursive construction strategies that structured the cognitive model of Mexican national identity in four generations of textbooks (1960–2009). Using tools from the fields of Cognitive Linguistics ...
La Suisse - portrait urbain
(2005)
The classic volume Switzerland. An Urban Portrait was published in three languages by Birkhäuser Verlag in 2005 and has lost none of its relevance to this day. The result of several years of research by ETH Studio Basel, ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch
(2021)
The “Ambras Book of Heroes,” commissioned by Maximilian I, is one of the most important sources of medieval German literature. In this eleven-volume complete edition, all 25 texts from the codex appear in print for the ...
Annotations in Scholarly Editions and Research
(2020)
The notion of annotation is associated in the Humanities and Information Sciences with different concepts that vary in coverage, application and direction of impact, but have conceptual parallels as well. This publication ...
Was sprach der eine zum anderen?
(2019)
Eight disputations on precedence have been preserved from Ancient Mesopotamia. In these texts, two opposing understandings of everyday life engage in a verbal argument. The works served at one time to teach oratorical ...
Bruchstücke
(2023)
Das Jahrbuch des Dokumentationsarchivs des österreichischen Widerstandes (DÖW) untersucht seit 1986 alle Aspekte des Nationalsozialismus. Dieses Bemühen um Erforschung und Aufarbeitung bleibt immer fragmentarisch. Zu viele ...
Dinámicas lingüísticas de las situaciones de contacto
(2021)
The volume offers in-depth analyses of contact situations between Spanish and other languages, showing how language variation and change are part of the complex linguistic dynamics that characterize contact areas. Aimed ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch
(2021)
The “Ambras Book of Heroes,” commissioned by Maximilian I, is one of the most important sources of medieval German literature. In this eleven-volume complete edition, all 25 texts from the codex appear in print for the ...
Lingüística de corpus y lingüística histórica iberorrománica
(2016)
Corpus Linguistics; Ibero-Romance Languages
Prosopon Rhomaikon
(2017)
This volume includes 17 studies that present aspects of the Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period. The book`s thematic focus is on structural developments, major personalities, and the Byzantine Empire`s relations ...
Chapter 2 Phonetics
(2012)
Sign and spoken languages differ primarily in their perceptual channel, vision vs. audition. This ‘modality difference’ has an effect on the structure of sign languages through-out the grammar, as is discussed in other ...
The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China
(2022)
This volume is distinctive for its extraordinarily interdisciplinary investigations into a little discussed topic, the spatial imagination. It probes the exercise of the spatial imagination in pre-modern China across five ...
Chapter Final Phases of Medieval Hebraism
(2010)
"The relationship between Jews and Christians and between Judaism and Christianity during the 13th and 14th century is a matter of concrete and contingent historical circumstances; and its ideological elements ...
The Nivison Annals
(2018)
In his last essay just weeks before his death at the age of 91, David S. Nivison says, "Breaking into a formal system - such as a chronology - must be like breaking into a code. If you are successful, success will show ...
L’historiographie tardo-antique et la transmission des savoirs
(2015)
This volume focuses on the role played by historiography in the selection, processing and transmission of knowledge in Late Antiquity. In particular, the transmission of documents (civil and ecclesiastical, authentic and ...
Chapter 2 Phonetics
(2012)
Sign and spoken languages differ primarily in their perceptual channel, vision vs. audition. This ‘modality difference’ has an effect on the structure of sign languages through-out the grammar, as is discussed in other ...
Die slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages
(2009)
Slavic Languages; Linguistic History
Chapter Maverick: Experimentally Testing a Conjecture of the Antitrust Authorities
(2020)
The book identifies conditions for trust and cooperation. It highlights unintended consequences of individually rational behavior, and shows how trust and cooperation change dependent on social embeddedness. Such analyses ...
Krishna Sobti’s Views on Literature and the Poetics of Writing
(2022)
The Hindi writer Krishna Sobti (1925-2019) carved out a special place for herself within the post-Partition Hindi literary sphere thanks to her idiosyncratic use of language and her bold choices of topics. Known primarily ...
Doing Experimental Media Archaeology
(2022)
The volume aims at taking the materiality of past media devices seriously and explores the heuristic possibilities of an experimental study of these devices. It offers a sophisticated reflection on the epistemological and ...
Animal Industries
(2024)
This book explores the history and development of animal industries in Nordic countries from their establishment in the late nineteenth century to the present day. It charts the manner in which the value of an animal has ...
Handbuch Deutsch als Fach- und Fremdsprache
(2024)
In recent years, the interest in GFL has continued to grow around the globe. So far, however, not enough attention has been paid to the fact that GFL is generally learned for work and with specific professional intentions. ...