This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.

The handbook offers an overview of syntactic theory and analysis, in terms of different theories, different languages, and different methods. The Handbook presents the state of art in syntactic analysis, also dealing with the methodology employed, and the rules of argumentation required to achieve such analysesfor a wide range of phenomena.

Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung beschäftigen sich mit der Verschiedenartigkeit der 6000 Sprachen, die auf der Erde gesprochen werden. Die Sprachtypologie versucht, die Regelhaftigkeit der Variation hinter der Vielfalt zu erkennen. Die Universalienforschung sucht nach allgemeingültigen, allen Sprachen zugrunde liegenden Prinzipien. Das Handbuch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über Geschichte, theoretische Ansätze, Methoden und Arbeitsgebiete. Die ersten Artikel gelten den sprachtheoretischen Grundlagen und der Verzahnung mit anderen Disziplinen (z.B. Sprachursprung, Sprachphilosophie, Aphasieforschung, Molekularbiologie). Weitere Abschnitte zeigen die ideengeschichtliche Verankerung der relevanten Fragestellungen und ihre heutigen Ausprägungen. Ein zentraler Teil orientiert sich an den verschiedenen Ebenen der Sprachanalyse, den Unterscheidungen von Kategorien, grammatischen und phonologischen Mitteln, Strukturen und Konstruktionen. Der letzte Teil widmet sich den Fragestellungen und Prinzipien der Arealtypologie. Hinzu kommen diachrone Aspekte, die durch Beispiele eines besonders augenfälligen typologischen Wandels aus einigen Sprachfamilien ergänzt werden. Die 125 Artikel sind überwiegend in englischer Sprache verfasst, einige in Deutsch und Französisch. Die Autoren sind mehrheitlich international renommierte Spezialisten. Das Handbuch wendet sich nicht nur an Spezialisten im Bereich der Typologie und Universalienforschung. Es schlägt Brücken zu einer Vielzahl von Disziplinen und gibt gleichzeitig denjenigen, die sich vor allem für einzelne Sprachen interessieren, einen umfassenden Orientierungsrahmen.

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The Handbook assumes the bilateral division of linguistic academic communication matter in both text and conversation and differentiates between the linguistics of texts (Volume 1) and the linguistics of conversation (Volume 2). The two volumes are arranged in a way that they correspond to each other in their overall composition. The intention thereby is to give prominence to the connections between written-monologic and spoken-dialogic communication - despite all dissimilarities between the two - and to faciliate the orientation of the handbook user. The main goals of the handbook are to represent recent international research as well as the historical development of research on this complex subject, to explain the basis of both textual and conversational methods of analysis, to analyze the crucial aspects of the constitution and typology of texts and conversations, as well as to present the dialogue between textual and conversational linguistics with other disciplines and specific areas of practice.

The conceptualization of sign processes in all their variations as a unitary phenomenon connecting living nature with human culture and distinguishing them both from inanimate nature may serve as a key to providing the human, social, engineering, and natural sciences with a common theoretical basis for well-defined division of labor and cooperation. It is feasible to regard human behaviour in all cultures as sign production and reception. Following this approach, life in family and profession, commerce and administration, art and religion can be understood in a unified way and studied in all its transdisciplinary aspects. Semiotics has made this its task. The handbook Semiotics presents the current state of research in general, descriptive, and applied semiotics. It introduces the reader to systematics and subject matter and gives a comprehensive overview of the historical development of sign conceptions in philosophy, aestetics, logic, mathematics, grammar, stylistics, poetics, music, architecture, the fine arts, medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology, economics, religion, and everyday life. Furthermore, the handbook compares semiotics to other interdisciplinary approaches, and demonstrates its applicability to the analysis of urgent problems of industrial and postindustrial societies. The accessibility of the handbook Semiotics is enhanced by a comprehensive index of persons and an index of persons and an index of subjects which also serves as a two-way bilingual glossary (German-English and English-German) of semiotics terminology.

The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.

This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The 16 sections of the handbook provide the reader in general articles and individual studies with a wide variety of perspectives. The final section contains 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective.