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Chapter 17 Motivation by formally analyzable terms in a typological perspective
(2016)
This article tackles a question raised by one of the founding figures of lexical typology, Stephen Ullmann: to what degree do languages differ in the extent to which they resort to morphologically analyzable lexical items? ...
Chapter Predicting language-learning difficulty
(2013)
The difficulty people have in learning a foreign language strongly depends on how different this language is from their native tongue (Kellerman 1979). Although this statement seems uncontroversial in the general form as ...
Chapter 17 Timbre Networks
(2013)
Over the following pages, I will propose and present a method that integrates the sound realm of computer music into the domain of human performance, striving to find a balance between these two worlds by focusing on the ...
Chapter When Paul Met Ludwig
(2017)
This paper tries to make plausible the following claims: The paragraphs §608–612 of “On Certainty” do not speak in favour of what Boghossian construes as the Master Argument for Relativism; that “On Certainty” introduces ...
Traditio et Translatio
(2016)
The contributions of the volume give an insight into the different facets of the work of the Vetus Latina Institute Beuron, which was conducted between 1999 and 2014 by Roger Gryson and shaped by his personality. They ...
Rhetoric and Drama
(2017)
In this preface, a synopsis of the conference preceding this volume is followed by a concise description of the DramaNet project; after an outline of various ties between rhetoric and drama, including copious references ...
Combinatory Linguistics
(2012)
The book examines to what extent the mediating relation between constituents and their semantics can arise from combinatory knowledge of words. It traces the roots of Combinatory Categorial Grammar, and uses the theory to ...
The Expression of Gender
(2013)
Gender is a fascinating category, which has grown steadily in importance across the humanities and social sciences. The book centres on the core of the category within language. Each of the seven contributions provides an ...