Until recently grammars of English have received surprisingly little scholarly attention, while a lot of research is done on dictionaries. It appears, however, that learners of English shy away from modern grammars and prefer to consult dictionaries or traditional reference grammars instead. This… read more
Australia’s policies on languages of the late 1980s were characterized by a balance between the community and broader needs of the nation on the one hand and European and Asian languages on the other. In a climate of ever stronger economic rationalism, globalization and shrinking resources these… read more
Corpus linguistics, descriptive, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics use corpora and generalise their findings beyond the samples contained in them. That raises the problem of the representativity of the data base and of the application of methods for the presentation of findings. Although… read more
ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Europa 1992: eine sprachliche Perspektive Die Europaische Gemeinschaft praktiziert seit ihrer Griindung im Jahre 1952 eine föderalistische Sprachformel. Der Druck hin zu einer (mehr) zentralistischen, hegemonialen Praxis ist allerdings sehr stark. Abgesehen von den enormen Kosten,… read more
