From the author of the New York Times bestseller Word Freak, a vibrant, lively, and illuminating journey through the exotic world of Merriam-Webster, dictionaries, and language, at a time of rapid-fire change in the way we create,...Lasīt vairāk
This book delves into psycholinguistic and cognitive aspects of lexical activation, availability, and production in English or Spanish as additional languages in classroom settings. Inst...Lasīt vairāk
Bringing together a collection of conversations with leading lexicographers from around the world, this innovative book explores the role dictionaries have played in history. Covering twenty different languages, it is essential reading for academic...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009392419)
Bringing together a collection of conversations with leading lexicographers from around the world, this innovative book explores the role dictionaries have played in history. Covering twenty different languages, it is essential reading for academic...Lasīt vairāk
An AZ of intriguing, illuminating and surprising linguistic knowledge, written by the inventor of the bestselling quiz game about words and language, League of the Lexicon....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111581286)
This volume re-examines the manuscript tradition of Pollux Onomasticon, the ten-book Atticist lexicon that had the widest circulation in Medieval Byzantium and the Humanistic West. The important reference edition by Erich Bethe (190019...Lasīt vairāk
Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making is a collection of individual contributions by leading terminology scholars from around the globe who describe historical developments of terminology as a discipline and a field of practice....Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674297517)
The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China is the first systematic study of the codification of Manchu and Chinese words for animals and plants in the eighteenth century. Bian and Söderblom Saarela show how Qing le...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496240354)
Geoffrey Kimball offers the first comprehensive dictionary of the Natchez language, a now extinct Native American language originally spoken in the region surrounding Natchez, Mississippi, and finally in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma-- Provided b...Lasīt vairāk
The volume examines lexical and idiomatic phenomena in various Indo-European languages, covering a wide range of linguistic and interdisciplinary studies while addressing both single-language issues and contrastive perspectives.§§An interdisciplinary...Lasīt vairāk
The volume explores the history of language contact between Italy and Anglophone countries and illustrates the phenomenon of lexical borrowing. Types of English-induced borrowings are presented on the basis of quantitative and qualitative informat...Lasīt vairāk
Italian Words: A Practical Introduction to the Italian Lexical System offers a detailed description of the Italian lexicon, explaining the organization of Italian words in a system and the function of this system. Italian Words: A P...Lasīt vairāk
Italian Words: A Practical Introduction to the Italian Lexical System offers a detailed description of the Italian lexicon, explaining the organization of Italian words in a system and the function of this system. Italian Words:...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111577135)
Swedish computational lexicography has a long history at the University of Gothenburg, both in its primary role as a central aspect of the scientific study of vocabulary and also as an infrastructural component for conducting research based on langu...Lasīt vairāk
In the Shadow of the Author continues the enduring practice by sharing contemporary approaches to uncovering meaning in historical texts from a linguistic perspective and with special emphasis on translation technique and methods in lexicography and...Lasīt vairāk
Irish names: theyre older than the pyramids. And looking to the future, theyll probably be mispronounced for another 5000 years! This book contains over 200 Irish names for girls and boys. Youll find their magical origins, meanings, and most impor...Lasīt vairāk
