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Language and Literary Studies

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften

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Language and Literary Studies at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich

Language: German Studies in German
University website: www.lmu.de
degree: Dr. phil.

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Language
Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.
Language
Language is fossil poetry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, The Poet.
Language
No jobs, no people. No people, no Gaeltacht. No Gaeltacht, no language.
Attributed to Tom O'Donnell [4]
Language
Oft on the dappled turf at ease
I sit, and play with similes,
Loose type of things through all degrees.
William Wordsworth, To the Daisy.
Shallow lakes have been greatly affected by increased concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus from intensive agriculture and increased human populations. These key nutrients for plant growth enter the aquatic environment, changing clear water to turbid through a phenomenon called eutrophication.
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