Word roots with different structures may hold some semantic relation with each other. This is due to the presence of similar molecular constituents in root structures, which stand for either their structural properties or their functional characteri...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the rich history of the keyword from its earliest manifestations (long before it appeared anywhere in Google Trends or library cataloging textbooks) in order to illustrate its implicit and explicit mediation of human cognition and...Lasīt vairāk
The author of this volume examines the historical development and popularization of the ideological concept of the Volksgemeinschaft. This is a process of scientification, which the author describes using the examples of sociology, history, economic...Lasīt vairāk
This volume provides a comparative investigation into concepts of the abyss in fourteen ancient and contemporary languages and cultures worldwide. It combines ethnolinguistics with philosophy, literature, folklore, religion and translation to demonst...Lasīt vairāk
As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese ancient characters and newly unearthed literature, this book brings together the authors research articles that discuss the development of Chinese characters and the tradition of Chinese paleograph...Lasīt vairāk
As the second volume of a two-volume set on Chinese ancient characters and unearthed literature, this book brings together the authors scholarly works on Chinese scripts studies and unearthed materials.In this volume, the author scrutinize...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the rich history of the keyword from its earliest manifestations (long before it appeared anywhere in Google Trends or library cataloging textbooks) in order to illustrate its implicit and explicit mediation of human cognition and...Lasīt vairāk
Jewish Monotheism is built on a fundamental assumption: God has spoken to the Jews and commanded them to follow His law. But what exactly are - Gods words? This monograph examines the notion of word in Ancient Judaism fr...Lasīt vairāk
A great read for those who appreciate seeing the whimsy in words, as Warren remarkably achieves etymological entertainment.?BooklistYou cant stop language, because when alls said and done is never....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-May-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110773545)
Das Germanische steht seit den Anfängen der indogermanischen Sprachwissenschaft im Verdacht, von Sprachkontakt betroffen zu sein, und zwar wegen struktureller und lexikalischer Abweichungen vom Indogermanischen. Die Entstehung des German...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-May-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198812470)
For centuries, investigations into the origins of words were entwined with investigations into the origins of humanity and the cosmos. With the development of modern etymological practice in the nineteenth century, however, many cherished etymologies...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631818138)
Das Buch untersucht den Diskurs über das Hässliche im Werk Friedrich Schlegels. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf dem »Studium«-Aufsatz (1795/7), den »Charakteristiken« (1796-1801), der »Lucinde« (1799) und seinen ab 1802 entstandenen Schriften....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Mar-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226600192)
How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept’s long, complicated history across litera...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Mar-2019, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226600222)
How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept’s long, complicated history across litera...Lasīt vairāk
Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, Manfred Hainzmann, Gerhard Bauchenhenss, Gerhard Bauchhenss
Sērija : Mitteilungen Der Prahistorischen Kommission
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Mar-2020, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, ISBN-13: 9783700180654)
Corpus Fontes epigraphici religionum Celticarum antiquarum edits religious inscriptions with a probably Celtic background from the Roman provinces offering an in-depth epigraphic, linguistic, historical and iconographic analysis. Fasciculus 1 of th...Lasīt vairāk
Presents case studies of the uses of etymology and wordplay in a number of medieval literatures.00In modern scholarship, etymology and wordplay are rarely studied in tandem. In the Middle Ages, however, they were intrinsically related, and both featu...Lasīt vairāk
Alexander Marr, Raphaėle Garrod, José Ramón Marcaida, Richard J. Oosterhoff
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Jan-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822945413)
How Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter Before Romantic genius, there was ingenuity. Early modern ingenuity defined every person—not just exceptional individuals—as having their ow...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Oct-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631794067)
Anhand der Wortfeldtheorie wird nachgezeichnet, welche Begriffe im Althochdeutschen und im Altsächsischen das gesellschaftliche Phänomen von Konflikten erschlossen haben und wie sich deren Inhalte und die Struktur des Feldes etwa durch eine neue ......Lasīt vairāk
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An indispensable reference for scholars and students of eighteenth-century English literature This addition to the celebrated Wiley-Blackwell Keywords series explores the meanings of fifty-eight of the most important words in Britis...Lasīt vairāk
Language is always changing, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether its the use of literally to mean figuratively, or the way young people use LOL or business jargon like Whats the ask?it often seems as if...Lasīt vairāk
The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes frau...Lasīt vairāk
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A bestselling linguist takes us on a lively tour of how the English language is evolving before our eyes -- and why we should embrace this transformation and not fight itLanguage is always changing -- but we tend not to like it. We u...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2016, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN-13: 9780826356567)
From aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure words and language facts in one fascinating chain of word associations. Did you know, for example, thatscandal derives from the Latin for...Lasīt vairāk
McKeown and Smith present a textbook and workbook for medical students teaching them the Latin and Greek words, prefixes, and suffixes that make up modern medical terminology. As an alternative to the conventional memorizing of word lists, they offer...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Dec-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781625341631)
In 1495, the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija published a Spanish-to-Latin dictionary that became a best seller. Over the next century it was revised dozens of times, in nine European cities. As these dictionaries made their way around the glob...Lasīt vairāk
In a combination of detective work, mythology, ancient history, archaeology, the roots of society, technology and warfare, a prominent journalist reveals how the English language is based on original Stone Age language and uncovers the most influenti...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Nov-2015, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781625341709)
In 1495, the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija published a Spanish-to-Latin dictionary that became a best seller. Over the next century it was revised dozens of times, in nine European cities. As these dictionaries made their way around the gl...Lasīt vairāk
"A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive."Hobson-Jobson is a unique work of maverick scholarship. Compiled in 1886 by two...Lasīt vairāk
This volume explores the semantics and pragmatics of Southern Quechua and Ecuadorian Quichua expressions of stance and deixis. This work is the first to study a broad range of stance/deictic phenomena in Quechua and Quichua in-depth....Lasīt vairāk
Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective tell us about the nature of language and communication?Drawi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Nov-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Red Globe Press, ISBN-13: 9781137334572)
Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective tell us about the nature of language and communication? Drawing...Lasīt vairāk
Explains the history behind the names of some classic dishes and includes a recipe on how to make that dish, including steak Diane, oysters Rockefeller, and baked Alaska....Lasīt vairāk
History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in Northwestern Europe. This book aims to restore the key position of historical linguistics...Lasīt vairāk
The Etymology, Phonology, Semantics and Morphology of the word Moor from Ancient Times.Hieroglyphics begins to take on a lettering system in the form of an upper Kemetic Script known as Proto- Sinatic or Ancient Moabite/Cannanite from which the Greek...Lasīt vairāk
Abbi (linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru U., New Delhi, India) presents a grammar that emerged from the major language documentation project Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese, conducted from 2005 to 2009. There may be fewer than 10 native speakers...Lasīt vairāk
