Language Use, Language Acquisition and Language History

Ingo Plag, Klaus P. Schneider (Eds.)

Language Use, Language Acquisition and Language History. (Mostly) Empirical Studies in Honour of Rüdiger Zimmermann

ISBN 978-3-88476-424-4, ISBN 3-88476-424-1, 282 S., kt., € 30,50 (2000)

ISBN 978-3-88476-432-9, ISBN 3-88476-432-2, 282 S., geb., € 40,50 (2000)

Ingo Plag and Klaus P. Schneider: Who is Rüdiger Zimmermann and why do we love him? An integrative approach

Historical Linguistics

Dieter Stein (Düsseldorf): Turning the clock back in English morphosyntax: they never come back (quite the same), do they?

Günter Rohdenburg (Paderborn): The complexity principle as a factor determining grammatical variation and change in English

Wolfgang Ulrich Wurzel (Berlin): Pfade durch das Lexikon: Für Rüdiger Zimmermann zum Sechzigsten

Jürgen Handke (Marburg): Linguistic education using the new technologies: the case of historical linguistics

Second Language Acquisition

Larry Selinker and Carol Kinahan (London): Online interlanguage analysis: pilgrim from Santiago

Manfred Pienemann (Paderborn): Psycholinguistic mechanism in the development of English as a second language

Ruth Albert (Marburg): Interferenzerscheinungen bei morphologisch komplexen Wörtern aus verwandten Sprachen

Ingo Plag (Siegen): Irregular past tense formation in English interlanguage

Birgit Henriksen and Kirsten Haastrup (Copenhagen): Describing foreign language learner's productive vocabulary use and development

Janusz Arabski (Katowice): Gender differences in foreign language pronunciation skills

Claus Gnutzmann (Braunschweig): Teching grammar: sense and sensibility

Lienhard Legenhausen (Münster): Principles of authenticity and the autonomous classroom

Dieter Wolff (Wuppertal): Some reflections on the importance of writing in foreign language learning

Una Dirks (Hildesheim): Soziobiographische Dimensionen des Fremdsprachenlehrens auf der Basis narrativer Interviews mit EnglischlehrerInnen

Political Discourse

Paul A. Chilton (Birmingham): Participant roles and the analysis of leadership discourse: British and American leaders explain the Kosovo crisis

Klaus P. Schneider: Talking about peace for Northern Ireland: a contrastive rhetorical analysis of the Novel Prize acceptance speeches by John Hume and David Trimble