Morphology and linguistic typology. Papers from the Fourth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Catania, 22–24 September 2003 -- Morphological universals and diachrony -- Morphological universals and the sign language type -- Typology and the formal modelling of syncretism -- An inflectional approach to Hausa final vowel shortening -- Blocking and periphrasis in inflectional paradigms -- Morphol…
Preface by Kingsley Bolton -- What we know about Chinese English: status, issues and trends By Zhichang XU, David DETERDING, and Deyuan HE -- Part I: Researching Chinese English Pronunciation -- The Pronunciation of English in Guangxi: Which features cause misunderstandings? By David DETERDING -- The Hong Kong English Syllable Structure By Lian-Hee WEE -- Part II: Researching Chinese English Le…
Chapter 1. Cultural Linguistics: The state of the art (Farzad Sharifian) -- Chapter 2. Cultural Conceptualisations in Humorous Discourse in English and Serbian (Diana Prodanović-Stankić) -- Chapter 3. Cultural Conceptualizations of Death in Taiwanese Buddhist and Christian Eulogistic idioms (Wei-lun Lu) -- Chapter 4. Life as Opera: A cultural metaphor in Chinese (Ning Yu) -- Chapter 5. Cultur…