Contrastive Linguistics and other Approaches to Language Comparison
Edited by Matthias Hüning and Barbara Schlücker
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 12:1 (2012) v, 119 pp.
Matthias Hüning
List of John Benjamins publications in which Matthias Hüning is involved.
Titles
Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European History
Edited by Matthias Hüning, Ulrike Vogl and Olivier Moliner
This volume explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. It argues that, over the centuries, the pursuit of linguistic homogeneity has become a central aspect of the mindset of Europeans. In its extreme form, it became manifest in the principle of 'one language, one state, one… read more[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 1] 2012. ix, 339 pp.
Articles
2013 Chapter 19. Europe’s multilingualism in the context of a European culture of standard languages Exploring the Dynamics of Multilingualism: The DYLAN project, Berthoud, Anne-Claude, François Grin and Georges Lüdi (eds.), pp. 407–428 | Article
Starting from the central DYLAN question as to the conditions under which Europeans consider multilingualism as an advantage or as a drawback, the present chapter primarily discusses the historical aspects of European multilingualism. Methodically, many of the aspects dealt with are based on an… read more
2009 Semantic niches and analogy in word formation: Evidence from contrastive linguistics Languages in Contrast 9:2, pp. 183–201 | Article
Word formation, like other lexical phenomena, seems to be a difficult terrain for contrastive linguistics since it hardly allows for significant and insightful generalizations about the differences between two languages, as has been stated in the literature more than once. This paper investigates… read more
2004 Book notice: “The Morphology of Dutch” by Geert Booij Studies in Language 28:2, pp. 468–473 | Miscellaneous