Languages Across Boundaries

Languages Across BoundariesThis 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 last

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and silence—to show how sounds enable critical social and political concepts such as dialogue

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Ayurveda: the college and the gurukula

Rites One and Two

Although Saint Francis is today celebrated as the Christian saint most closely identified with compassion for animals

Welche Ideal des Wissens und welche Kriterien des Wissens wurden formuliert

In Iran a subject's "voluntary confession" reaches a huge audience via television

the NATO campaign caused many civilian deaths and destroyed the nation’s infrastructure

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