Cross-linguistic corpora for the study of translations : insights from the language pair English-German by Hansen-Schirra, Silvia, 1975-, Neumann, Stella, 1968-, Steiner, Erich

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Metaphor, nation and discourse

Table of Contents: “…: Standard language ideology, metaphors and discourses about Serbian national identity in the newspaper Politika in 2015 / Stijn Vervaet -- 5. Metaphors for language contact and change: Croatian language and national identity / Višnja Čičin-Šain -- 6. …”
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Focus on the USA.

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Manual of Romance Languages in the Media. by Bedijs, Kristina

Table of Contents: “…Audiovisual Latino Media in the US: The Emergence of Bilingual Media Text Genres in the Interface between Language Contact, Language Policy and Translation17. Language Change through Medial Communication -- 18. …”
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Historical Linguistics 1991 : Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12-16, 1991. by Marle, Jaap van

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Cameroon by Todd, Loreto

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When data challenges theory : unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure

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Language conflict in Algeria : from colonialism to post-independence by Benrabah, Mohamed

Table of Contents: “…Circumnavigating a Term: L̀anguage Conflict' and Related Concepts -- Language Contact and Domination -- Linguistic Consequences of Colonialism: Ireland, a Case Study -- Language Planning and Conflict -- Resistance and Peace Sociolinguistics -- 2. …”
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Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law : Trading Routes and the Development of Commercial Law. by Gialdroni, Stefania

Table of Contents: “…5 Brokers as German-Italian Cultural Mediators in Renaissance Venice -- 6 German-East Slavic (Language) Contacts in Legal Texts of the Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries -- 7 The Language of the Law: The Lübeck Law Codes (ca. 1224-1642) -- 8 A Legal World Market? …”
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Dialectology meets typology : dialect grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective

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Endangered languages of the Caucasus and beyond

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Continuity and change in grammar

Table of Contents: “…A plea for the re-evaluation of dialectal evidence / Katrin Axel & Helmut Weiss -- Impossible changes and impossible borrowings: the Final-over-Final Constraint / Theresa Biberauer, Michelle Sheehan & Glenda Newton -- Continuity is change: the long tail of Jespersen's cycle in Flemish / Anne Breitbarth & Liliane Haegeman -- Using the Matrix Language Frame model to measure the extent of word-order convergence in Welsh-English bilingual speech / Peredur Davies & Margaret Deuchar -- On language contact as an inhibitor of language change: the Spanish of Catalan bilinguals in Majorca / Andrés Enrique-Arias -- Towards notions of comparative continuity in English and French / Remus Gergel -- Variation, continuity and contact in Middle Norwegian and Middle Low German / John D. …”
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Information structure and language change : new approaches to word order variation in Germanic

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Variationist Sociolinguistics Change, Observation, Interpretation. by Tagliamonte, Sali A.

Table of Contents: “…The Gold -- Your Data -- The Real World -- 5 Quantitative Analysis -- The Quantitative Paradigm -- Distributional Analysis -- Statistical Modeling -- The Three Lines of Evidence -- The Case Study -- Variable (that) -- Goldvarb Logistic Regression -- Challenging the Variable Rule Program -- Drawbacks to the Variable Rule Program -- New Toolkits for Variationist Sociolinguistics -- Summary -- Exercises -- 6 Comparative Sociolinguistics -- Comparison -- The Comparative Method -- Comparison in Origins -- Comparison in Language Contact -- Standards for Comparison -- Variable (did) -- Exercises…”
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Romani in contact : the history, structure, and sociology of a language

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Interlingual lexicography : selected essays on translation equivalence, contrastive linguistics and the bilingual dictionary by Hartmann, R. R. K.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 21: 300 Years of English-German Language Contact and Contrast: The Translation of Culture-specific Information in the General Bilingual Dictionary -- Chapter 22: Recent Trends in Pedagogical Lexicography: The Case of the 'Bilingualised' Learner's Dictionary -- Chapter 23: Case Study: The Exeter University Survey of Dictionary Use -- Chapter 24: Interlingual References: On the Mutual Relations between Lexicography and Translation -- Consolidated Bibliography -- (a) Cited dictionaries and other reference works -- (b) Other literature -- Index.…”
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Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics : an International Handbook. by De Gruyter

Table of Contents: “…Comparison and relationship of languages; 2. Language contact and Indo-European linguistics; 3. Methods in reconstruction; 4. …”
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Historical discourse analysis : grammatical subject in Japanese by Fujii, Noriko

Table of Contents: “…Historical background of Japanese language contact with Western languages -- 1.3. Reformation of the language -- 1.4. …”
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The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages : Prodeedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloqium, Odense University, November 1994. by Nielsen, Hans Frede

Table of Contents: “…Alternative Interpretations of Later Anglo-French -- 4.0 The Table Turns -- References -- LANGUAGE CONTACT AND LEXICOGRAPHY: THE CASE OF ANGLO-NORMAN -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ADDING INSULT TO INJURY:THE ENGLISH WHO CURSE IN BORROWED FRENCH -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ANGLO-FRENCH IN THE 13TH AND 14TH CENTURIES: CONTINENTAL OR INSULAR DIALECT?…”
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Influence of Spanish on the English language since 1801 : a lexical investigation by Schultz, Julia (University lecturer)

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English historical sociolinguistics by Millar, Robert McColl, 1966-

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Language planning in China by Yuming, Li

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Subjectivity in Language and in Discourse. by Baumgarten, Nicole

Table of Contents: “…Subjectivity in the Discourse of Depressed Acute Care Hospital PatientsPart II Language Contact Settings; Subjectivity in English Lingua Franca Interactions; Metadiscourse and the Construction of Speaker Identities in L2 Academic Presentational Talk; Saying What You Think: An Analysis of French and Australian English Non-Native Speaker Expression of Subjectivity; Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity as Aspects of Epistemic Stance Marking; Subjective Modality in Persian and English Parallel Texts; Part III Cross-Linguistic Comparison.…”
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Lost in transmission : the role of attrition and input in heritage language development

Table of Contents: “…The relevance of first language attrition for the acquisition of heritage languages / Bernhard Brehmer and Jeanine Treffers-Daller -- Definiteness in Wenzhounese Chinese in the Netherlands and in China : evidence for generational change in two locations / Suzanne Aalberse, Sible Andringa, Martina Faber and Phine Lippe -- Effects of first language attrition on heritage language input and ultimate attainment : two generations of Turkish immigrants in the UK / Tuğba Karayayla -- Not in the mood : frequency effects in heritage speakers' subjunctive knowledge / David Giancaspro -- Word order variation in heritage languages : subject shift and object shift in Norwegian / Merete Anderssen and Marit Westergaard -- Language contact : gender agreement in Spanish L2 learners and heritage speakers / Jessica Diebowski -- Vocabulary development in the heritage language between ages 6 and 10 / Elke G. …”
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The Dead Sea scrolls and Pauline literature

Table of Contents: “…Paul's View of the Spirit in the Light of Qumran Paul and the Jerusalem Church: Light from the Scrolls on Graeco- Semitic Language Contacts and Ethics of Gospel Mission ; Israel and the Community in Paul (Rom 9-11) and the Rule Texts from Qumran ; Ends Meet: Qumran and Paul on Circumcision.…”
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Multilingual corpora and multilingual corpus analysis. by Velupillai, Viveka

Table of Contents: “…Written and spoken language in language contact -- 4. Corpus-based analyses of contact-induced transfer -- 5. …”
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Crossing boundaries : interdisciplinary approaches to the art, material culture, language and literature of the early medieval world : essays presented to Professor Emeritus Richar...

Table of Contents: “…Bishop Ranulph Flambard and the Ravensworth Estate; 25. Varieties of language-contact in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts; 26. Flodibor rex Francorum; 27. …”
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Globalization and language in contact : scale, migration and communicative practices

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The Handbook of Asian Englishes by Bolton, Kingsley

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Asian Englishes Today -- Introduction -- Braj Kachru and Asian Englishes -- Asian Englishes today -- The Handbook of Asian Englishes -- Future directions in the study of Asian Englishes -- Acknowledgments -- REFERENCES -- Part I The History and Development of Asian Englishes -- Chapter 2 Asia before English -- Introduction -- The physical environment of South and Southeast Asia -- The people, their languages, and histories -- Precolonial language contact -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- NOTE…”
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Variation and change in morphology : selected papers from the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2008

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Himalayan languages : past and present

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The Routledge handbook of Arabic sociolinguistics

Table of Contents: “…Ideologies in the manifestations in language contact situations: the case of Arabic-Hebrew in Palestine / Nancy Hawker -- Applied sociolinguistics: 19. …”
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Focus realization in Romance and beyond

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Socio-onomastics : the pragmatics of names

Table of Contents: “…Variation in the onomastic outcome after language shift -- 9.1 The time dimension after language shift -- 9.2 Onomastic outcome related to the duration of language contact and bilingualism -- 9.2 Onomastic outcome related to the duration of language contact and bilingualism -- 9.3 Onomastic outcome related to the social classification of the minority groups -- 9.3 Onomastic outcome related to the social classification of the minority groups -- 9.4 Onomastic outcome related to ethnic identity and attitudes in the minority groups -- 9.4 Onomastic outcome related to ethnic identity and attitudes in the minority groups -- 9.5 The importance of literary language -- 10. …”
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Studies in Japanese bilingualism

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The Welsh answering system by Jones, Bob Morris

Table of Contents: “…6.5 Forms of verbal responsives: positive and negative6.6 Summary -- 7 Language contact: the influence of English -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Language background -- 7.3 Conclusions -- 8 Internal causes of variation -- 8.1 Isomorphism -- 8.2 Discourse -- 8.3 Semantics -- 8.4 Overall summary and conclusions -- Appendix I. …”
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Language typology and historical contingency : in honor of Johanna Nichols

Table of Contents: “…how do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact? / Randy J. LaPolla -- Real data, contrived data, and the Yokuts Canon / William F. …”
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Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin : Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia. by Verhaar, S. J., John W. M.

Table of Contents: “…; Introduction; Historical background; Pidgins and pidginization; Creoles and creolization; Language contact in New Guinea; Historical linguistics.…”
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Dialect Levelling in Limburg. by Hinskens, Frans

Table of Contents: “…Models; Chapter 1 A sociolinguistic model and three hypotheses; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The absence of studies of dialect levelling; 1.2.1 Language loss, dialect loss and dialect levelling; 1.2.2 Research on the structural consequences of language contact; 1.2.3 The notion of dialect levelling in the literature; 1.2.4 Fencing off the notion of dialect levelling from related concepts; 1.2.5 Trudgill's model of accommodation and levelling in situations of dialects in contact; 1.3 Developing a sociolinguistic model of dialect levelling. …”
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Arabic in contact

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