Konversationsanalyse

The term “conversational analysis” denotes a relatively recent research field, which was originally developed by sociologists and was then taken up by linguists and made a decisive contribution to the development of conversational research in linguistics. The book is designed as an introduction to the field. [more ...]

Einführungskurs Italienisch

[An Introductory Course in Italian]

This course is addressed to all those who, over and above the simple requirements of tourist communication, need to acquire a command of Italian for professional purposes in a brief space of time. It provides the basic knowledge enabling, say, students of Romance languages to follow classes and lectures on subjects to do with Italy and Italian. [more ...]

¡Que barbaridad! I

[¡Que barbaridad! Introduction to Spanish. Contrastive-cognitive language course on audio-visual foundations - Manual.]

This language course is designed for use at universities, secondary schools, language schools, and adult education centres. [more ...]

Spanische Grammatik

[A Grammar of Spanish]

The »Grammar of Spanish« addresses itself to all Hispanophiles and especially to all students and teachers of Spanish. Romance scholars will derive particular profit from the emphasis not only on the difference between Spanish and German, but also on those between Spanish and French. [more ...]

Grundlagen der generativen Syntax

This workbook provides a fundamental introduction to the new theory of generative syntax tailored to the needs of students of French, Italian and Spanish. The aim of this approach is to develop a model for a speaker's ability to generate an infinite number of sentences from a set of simple rules. [more ...]

Einführung in die französische Morphologie

[Introduction to French Morphology]

This workbook is angled at students of French. The central objective of the book is to provide an overall view based on unified structural principles.  [more ...]

Einführung in die romanische Sprachwissenschaft

[Introduction to Romance Linguistics]

Long years of experience have strengthened the authors' convictions that the most efficient way of introducing beginner students to fundamental issues in Romance linguistics is to develop their knowledge in the three areas (a) work techniques/aids, (b) linguistic disciplines, and (c) the Romance languages parallel to one another. [more ...]

Grundlagen der Übersetzungs-
wissenschaft

[Essentials of a Linguistic Study of Translation. French, Italian, Spanish.]

This workbook differs from other introductions in three ways. It is language-based without concentrating on one specific language-pair, and it is concerned with selected essentials. All chapters provide bibliographic references and contain exercises. [more ...]