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Liturgie und Kunst - diesem Thema widmete sich der Kongress der Societas Liturgica 2021, dessen Hauptvorträge in diesem Band versammelt sind. Liturgie wird von den Vortragenden als eine Form von Kunst, als eine Art inspirierter Poiesis verstanden. Liturgische Formen eröffnen gerade durch die Unvollständigkeit ihrer Metaphern und Bilder Wege der Kommunikation mit Gott. Bildende Kunst ist eine Möglichkeit, die ganze Person in den Akt gottesdiens...

This book is the first comprehensive and encyclopaedic investigation of indefinite pronouns (expressions like someone, anything, nowhere) in the languages of the world. It shows that the range of variation in the functional and formal properties of indefinite pronouns is subject to a set of universal implicational constraints, and proposes explanations for these universals.

Der Gottesdienst ist nicht nur ein Gestaltungs- und Anwendungsbereich der Theologie, er ist vielmehr eine eigenständige Form von Theologie, wenn nicht sogar ihre wichtigste Quelle. Ohne die Realität symbolischer Kommunikation und rituellen Handelns sind die Mitteilung und Darstellung des Glaubens und damit auch die Theologie nicht vorzustellen. Theologie zielt von daher nicht nur auf den Gottesdienst, sie kommt vielmehr aus dem Gottesdienst. D...

This book is dedicated to Anna Siewierska, who died, far too young, in 2011. It contains 15 contributions by 20 linguists who may be counted among the foremost scholars in the field of linguistic typology. All of these articles discuss a topic that is prominent in Anna's work, whose journal articles and monographs on the passive, on word order, and on the category of person are standard literature in these respective fields. Mindful of Anna's ...

The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. Its 142 world maps and numerous regional maps are all in full colour. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description. The CD provides an interactive version of the database which allows the user to customize the maps and find and test correlations. The Atlas is...

This book is the first comprehensive and encyclopaedic investigation of indefinite pronouns (expressions like someone, anything, nowhere) in the languages of the world. It shows that the range of variation in the functional and formal properties of indefinite pronouns is subject to a set of universal implicational constraints, and proposes explanations for these universals.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of our current insights into the diversity and unity found across the 6000 languages of this planet. The 125 articles include inter alia chapters on the patterns and limits of variation manifested by analogous structures, constructions and linguistic devices across languages (e.g. word order, tense and aspect, inflection, color terms and syllable structure). Other chapters cover the hi...

Now fully revised in line with the latest research, each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to morphology.

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto und...

Now fully revised in line with the latest research, each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to morphology.