Recent Textbooks Linguistics • Communications
Varieties of English
Volumes 1-4
These new multimedia textbooks cover the phonology, morphology and syntax of varieties of English around the world. The set consists of four volumes which are sorted according to regions and accompanied by an interactive cd-rom containing sound samples, speech recordings, interactive and synchronized maps, an extensive bibliography on relevant research literature, and links to pertinent websites. [more ...]
Language Diversity Endangered
This book compiles unique contributions on the extent and kinds of language endangerment world-wide. Besides presenting the specific situations of language endangerment at the subcontinental level, the volume discusses major issues that bear universally on language endangerment. Aspects of the actual study of endangered languages within fieldwork frameworks are carefully examined. [more ...]
Introduction to English Linguistics
The book introduces beginning university students to the study of English linguistics, with a strong focus on linguistic analysis and argumentation. Students are familiarized with the necessary methodological tools to obtain relevant data and learn to systematically analyze their data and to relate their findings to theoretical problems. [more ...]
Essentials of Language Documentation
This volume presents in-depth introductions to major aspects of language documentation, including overviews on fieldwork ethics and data processing, guidelines for the basic annotation of digitally-stored multimedia corpora and a discussion on how to build and maintain a language archive. [more ...]
Cognitive Phonology in Construction Grammar
Analytic Tools for Students of English
This textbook is an accessible introduction to both English phonology and phonology in general. It is designed for students as well as teachers of English and linguistics. [more ...]
Kognitive Grammatik
[Cognitive Grammar]
Cognitive grammar transforms insights from the cognitive sciences into grammatical descriptions and attempts to use the grammar of natural languages to understand human thinking. The presentation is centred on the classical paradigms of Cognitive grammar as they have been developed from 1975 and later systematically expanded. [more ...]
Latinum Electronicum
The Latinum Electronicum is an interactive Latin course which teaches the basic knowledge of Latin. The course was developed within the framework of the “Virtual Campus Switzerland” in three languages – German, French, and Italian. In 23 lessons, students can learn Latin and also prepare for the qualification in Latin exam. [more ...]
Deutsches Neo-logismenwörterbuch
[Dictionary of German Neologisms]
The dictionary lists all new coinages, loan words borrowed from other languages, and words that have taken on new meaning (while retaining their original form) in the German language since 2000. [more ...]
Vokabular des Nationalsozialismus
[The Vocabulary of National Socialism]
In this comprehensive reference work Cornelia Schmitz-Berning casts light on the history and the specific employment of expressions belonging to official language use under the National Socialist regime. [more ...]
Einführung in die Satzanalyse
[Introduction to Constituent Analysis in German]
The textbook offers a detailed overview of the theoretical concepts and terminology of constituent analysis, which are explained by way of numerous applied examples and sample analyses, and supplemented by exercises and an index.. [more ...]
Textstilistik des Deutschen
[Stylistics of German Texts]
This introductory work offers a fundamental, instructional, and easy-to-read outline of all the aspects of stylistics from, among others, a text-linguistic perspective. The work covers, for example, the functional types of style, stylistic competence, style and context, the communicative effects of stylistic means, and stylistic coherence. [more ...]