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Das Hasenmädchen Lilly und der Enterich Billy sind die besten Freunde. Aber auch beste Freunde streiten mal. Und das so richtig dolle. Beide sind sich sicher, dass der Andere angefangen hat und Schuld an dem Ganzen ist. Auch die Mäuse, die den Streit beobachten, sind sich nicht einig, wer denn nun angefangen hat. Zum Glück gibt es die schlaue Füchsin Frieda, die den beiden Streithähnen hilft, wenn auch anders, als erwartet... In der Bilderbuch...

Prosody in English, German and Chinese is outlined as a principal component of linguistic form for communicative functions in speech interaction.

This book presents materialist and psychological theories in relation to specific artworks. Researchers and students studying art, psychology, or human imagination can use this as an important guide to understanding abstract art, or as a key text for courses on modern art.

This book explains how actions and inactions change in social contexts, connecting psychological research with problems of interest in communication, public health, economics, organizational and consumer behavior, and environmental sciences. This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary view also informs intervention design and gauges social media effects.

This volume offers a linguistic window into twenty-first-century hunter-gatherer societies - how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies. It challenges assumptions regarding the lack of social dynamism in hunter-gatherer societies and shows that their languages are no different from other languages.

With individual chapters embracing different theoretical perspectives, from the purely descriptive to formal analyses of novel data, this Handbook provides readers with an exhaustive treatment of historical syntax, and is an invaluable resource for postgraduates and researchers in the field.

Politeness plays a vital role in maintaining class differences. This book analyses the interrelationship between politeness and class in British English, focusing on linguistic ideologies and the way class boundaries are marked out by politeness and impoliteness.

The relation between ontologies and language is currently at the forefront of natural language processing (NLP). This book focuses on the technology involved in enabling integration between lexical resources and semantic technologies. It will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in NLP, computational linguistics, and knowledge engineering.

One of the most important principles which underlies biolinguistics is that Turing's thesis must be satisfied: the structural design of biological systems obey physical and mathematical laws. This book proposes a structural design for human language which does exactly that, giving central importance to minimalist syntax.

Using data from a variety of languages such as Blackfoot, Halkomelem, and Upper Austrian German, this book explores a range of grammatical categories and constructions, including tense, aspect, subjunctive, case and demonstratives. It presents a new theory of grammatical categories - the Universal Spine Hypothesis - and reinforces generative notions of Universal Grammar while accommodating insights from linguistic typology. In essence, this ne...

The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and interrogatives, the imperative type has received comparatively less attention. Using compelling empirical evidence, this cutting-edge study presents a new linguistic theory of imperatives.

The 'Korean wave' in music and film and Korea's rise as an economic power have boosted the popularity of Korean language study worldwide. This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the sound, structure, and history of Korean, with examples in Korean hangul script for students at any level of study, from undergraduate to advanced.

This book proposes a novel theory of parts of speech, bringing together the latest research and discoveries in the area from different viewpoints. The theory is richly illustrated with examples from a variety of languages and explains elements and phenomena central to the nature of human language.

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As we wrestle with the role and limits of policing, a political philosopher who spent over two decades as a New York City police officer and Vermont chief of police presents a normative account of what it means to police a pluralist democracy. Invoking his vast experience, Brandon del Pozo argues that we all have the prerogative to use force to protect others, but police embody the government's unique duty to do so effectively and with restrai...

A history of English georgic writing--literature focused on working rural lives, landscapes and environments--from 1500 to the present"--

Zero Tolerance reveals the complex interplay between state repression and Uyghur violence in Xinjiang. It exposes how Uyghur aspirations for self-determination challenge the foundations of the Chinese Communist Party's claim to authority. For students and scholars of terrorism, authoritarian politics, military cooperation, and national security.

Zero Tolerance reveals the complex interplay between state repression and Uyghur violence in Xinjiang. It exposes how Uyghur aspirations for self-determination challenge the foundations of the Chinese Communist Party's claim to authority. For students and scholars of terrorism, authoritarian politics, military cooperation, and national security.