A History of Russia Volume 1
A History of Russia Volume 1

Author: Walter G. Moss

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2003-07-01

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13: 0857287524

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This new edition retains the features of the first edition that made it a popular choice in universities and colleges throughout the US, Canada and around the world. Moss's accessible history includes full treatment of everyday life, the role of women, rural life, law, religion, literature and art. In addition, it provides many other features that have proven successful, including: a well-organized and clearly written text, references to varying historical perspectives, numerous illustrations and maps, fully updated bibliographies accompanying each chapter as well as a general bibliography, a glossary, and chronological and genealogical lists.

Passivization and Typology
Passivization and Typology

Author: Werner Abraham

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 9027229805

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Is the passive a unified universal phenomenon? The claim derived from this volume is that the passive, if not universal, has become unified according to function. Language as a means of communication needs the passive, or passive-like constructions, and sooner or later develops them based on other voices (impersonal active, middle, reflexive), specific semantic meanings such as adversativity, or tense-aspect categories (stative, perfect, preterit). Certain contributors review the passives in various languages and language groups, including languages rarely discussed. Another group of contributors takes a novel theoretical approach toward passivization within a broad typological perspective. Among the languages discussed are Vedic, Irish, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Lithuanian, Mordvin, and Nganasan, next to almost all European languages. Various theoretical frameworks such as Optimality Theory, modern structuralist approaches, Role and Reference Grammar, cognitive semantics, Distributed Morphology, and case grammar have been applied by the different authors.

Die slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages. Halbband 2
Die slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages. Halbband 2

Author: Sebastian Kempgen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-11-26

Total Pages: 1276

ISBN-13: 3110393689

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The present second volume completes the handbook Die slavischen Sprachen "The Slavic languages. Ein internationales Handbuch zu ihrer Struktur, ihrer Geschichte und ihrer Erforschung. An International Handbook of their History, their Structure and their Investigation". While the general conception is continued, the present volume now contains articles concerning inner and outer language history as well as problems of sociolinguistics, contact linguistics, standardology and language typology.

Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World
Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World

Author: Jennifer Austin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-04-23

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0521115531

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An introduction to bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics including language contact, bilingual societies, code-switching and language choice.