This book examines agrammatism in Moroccan Arabic, challenging prominent syntactic theories. Based on new data, it argues that the deficit is not a loss of structural knowledge, but a processing issue where access to entirely intact grammar is blocked.
English in Southeast Asia
This is the first single volume to publish such diverse work on English in Southeast Asia. Sections cover Varieties, Literacies, and Literatures, from code-switching to new writings. An excellent resource for university students and academics.
This book studies how Polish students acquire the English article system. Based on studies of beginner to advanced learners, the results prove that L2 acquisition is better in advanced groups, while less advanced groups have tremendous difficulties.
Teaching English in Multilingual Contexts
This collection of innovative papers discusses the teaching of English in multilingual countries. Written by experienced practitioners, it examines how English can be more effectively taught to students in Asia. A powerful resource for language educators.
“Talkin’ Different”
This book explores linguistic change among Irish Travellers, focusing on the influence of the educational system. It analyses whether increased school attendance by young Traveller women influences their speech patterns as a strategy for survival.
Webs of Words
Webs of Words brings together ten studies on the history of words and vocabulary, covering languages from Chinese and Czech to Māori and Russian. These essays focus on empirical evidence, placing words in the social and cultural lives of their users.
ELT
This volume brings together diverse researchers and educators to optimize English Language Teaching worldwide. As both practitioners and investigators, the authors present research that reflects back on teaching, connecting theory with practice.
This book offers practical advice for translators, combining linguistics and natural sciences to address mistranslated nature terminology. It helps find suitable equivalents and shows when overspecification or domestication is justified and when it becomes an error.
This collection addresses key issues in lexical categories, categorization, and category change. It explores defining categories, the problem of fuzziness, and nominalizations using data from numerous languages. For researchers and advanced students in linguistics.
Exploring Aitken’s Law, the unique Scottish Vowel Length Rule, this book argues that all vowel length distinctions are a consequence of universal, inviolable principles of grammar.
The Grammatical Voice in Japanese
This book’s main argument is that the Japanese passive originates from an earlier middle voice. This reframes the voice system from a conventional active-passive binary pair to a newly proposed active-middle-passive ternary pair.
Internal Structure of Verb Meaning
This study makes years of academic research on Tamazight (Berber) verbs accessible to a wide audience. It investigates the internal structure of verb meaning, revealing insights from a millennia-old language that has resisted oppression and is spoken by millions.
Freond ic gemete wið
This book offers a mosaic of perspectives on medieval Britain. Its chapters present focused analyses of language, literature, and society from the Anglo-Saxon period to the late Middle Ages, offering new readings of texts and exploring language change.
The growth of Creative Writing has generated new ways of thinking about the craft. This book presents fresh explorations that treat writing as a dynamic activity, not a static object, offering practical ways to develop your own work.
Linguists of Tomorrow
This collection of papers by established and up-and-coming researchers covers topics from theoretical linguistics to psycholinguistics and applied linguistics. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in current issues in linguistics.
Challenges of Discourse Processing
This book shows how linguistic analysis and natural language processing can automatically recognize the discourse structures of technical documents. It presents concrete solutions which can be deployed in industrial contexts to improve document quality.
The Language of Diversity
From a Christian worldview, these essays bridge gaps among racial, cultural, and religious differences. The selections examine interfaith relations and challenge readers to probe topics like education, race, and gender.
The Politics of Translation and Transmission
This book studies the beginnings of Hungarian political thought through two 17th-century texts derived from an unlikely source: King James I’s Basilikon Doron. It reveals how Scottish ideas were re-articulated in a Central European context.
Languages for Specific Purposes
This book provides an overview of solutions and current issues in teaching Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP). Containing 20 articles by teachers and researchers, it is a valuable resource for language teachers and specialists designing LSP courses.
This volume showcases original experimental studies on language processing. It focuses on word access, vocabulary acquisition, and syntax development in numerous languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, English, German, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.
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