Meaning and the Bilingual Dictionary

Arleta Adamska-Salaciak

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 18
• The topic of this book, central to the endeavours of bilingual dictionary-makers and metalexicographers, is how to transmit meaning across languages w... Lees meer

Bridges and Barriers in Metalinguistic Discourse

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 17
• Linguistics has found itself in the middle of a lively debate about its disciplinary integrity, its future and role in modern societies. The ongoing d... Lees meer

Movement and Reconstruction: Questions and Principle C Effects in English and Polish

Jacek Witkos

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 9
• This book addresses an old observation that complex interrogative constituents moved to the left periphery of the clause display dual properties with ... Lees meer

Cognitive Approaches to Language and Linguistic Data

• Hardcover | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 27
• The volume presents over 30 contributions by leading European and American linguists presented to Professor Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, an eminent... Lees meer

Achievements and Perspectives in Sla of Speech: New Sounds 2010

• Hardcover | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 32
• This publication constitutes a selection of papers presented at the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Soun... Lees meer

The Pragmatics of Modals in Shakespeare

Minako Nakayasu

• Hardcover | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 30
• Modals and related phenomena are without doubt one of the most complicated issues in the grammar of language. This study provides a reappraisal of the... Lees meer

Inheritance of Features in Metaphoric Mappings in English

Michal Janowski

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 26
• The book is devoted to conceptual metaphors in English according to the level of abstraction in their target domains. The findings reveal a striking d... Lees meer

Celtic Literatures - Discoveries

Sabine Heinz

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 20
• The book consists of two parts. The first part provides an overview of the development of Celtic and English/French language literatures from Celtic c... Lees meer

In Search of Communication and Community

Kacper Bartczak

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 16
• This book is an attempt to offer a reading of the poet's oeuvre that will venture beyond indeterminacy and retrieve a human struggle inscribed in the ... Lees meer

English «At» an Integrated Semantic Analysis

Iwona Kokorniak

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 21
• This book aims to provide a considerably detailed, integrated and methodologically grounded study of at within the cognitive framework. Assuming the n... Lees meer

Beats-And-Binding Phonology

Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 7
• The present monograph introduces a model of Beats-and-Binding phonology (B&B phonology), embedded in the epistemological framework of Natural Linguist... Lees meer

Epistemological Perspectives on Linguistic Semiotics

Zdzislaw Wasik

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 8
• This book is aimed at investigating the consequences of epistemological positions for the foundation of linguistic semiotics with special reference to... Lees meer

The Syntax of Numeral Noun Constructions

Jacek Witkoś, Dominika Dziubala-Szrejbrowska, Piotr Ceglowski, Paulina Lęska

• Hardcover | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 40
• Numeral constructions in Polish are known for their complex morpho-syntax: in particular, depending on the type, case and syntactic context, the numer... Lees meer

Gender and the Formation of Modern Standard English

Urszula Okulska

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 14
• The study examines the influence of gender on several long-term changes between 1500 and 1710 with an aim to assess the power of this variable in the ... Lees meer

Time for Words

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 6
• This volume contains a selection of papers on different aspects of foreign vocabulary learning and acquisition. It presents various theoretical issues... Lees meer

Friendly Metaphors

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 25
• This is a collection of essays to celebrate 45 years of Professor Aleksander Szwedek's academic endeavour and his impressive contribution to the devel... Lees meer

Language and Meaning

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 19
• The collection of papers addresses the perennial problem of the relation between language and meaning. It proposes various theoretical approaches to t... Lees meer

Aspects of the Grammar of Focus

Przemyslaw Tajsner

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 24
• The book examines the aspects of focus within the recent minimalist paradigm. Focus is viewed here as a grammar's response to the requirements of the ... Lees meer

Elements of Slavic and Germanic Grammars

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 23
• This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English, German, Czech, Polish... Lees meer

Ironies of Art/Tragedies of Life

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 13
• In Plato's Symposium , Socrates says that the true poet must be tragic and comic at the same time, and the whole of human life must be felt as a blend... Lees meer

Conceptual Metonymy and Lexicographic Representation

Sylwia Wojciechowska

• Hardcover | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 34
• The book aims to show how the tenets of the cognitive theory of metonymy can benefit the lexicographic representation of metonymic lexemes, so that th... Lees meer

Poor Paul: L Vocalisation and the Process of Syllable-Coda Weakening

Christina Laurer

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 22
• L Vocalisation ( milk [miuk]) originated in London a century ago and contributes to the linguistic phenomenon of «Dialect Levelling». This study inves... Lees meer

Estuary English?

Joanna Przedlacka

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 4
• This book discusses the phonetic make-up of the teenage speech in the Home Counties in order to verify the status of a putative new variety referred t... Lees meer

Language Function, Structure, and Change

• Paperback | Engels | Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature. | nr. 5
• Language Function, Structure, and Change brings together sixteen contributions by leading Polish linguists on cognitive and contrastive linguistics, s... Lees meer