Category: Linguistics

By Société de linguistique romane

ISBN-10: 3110346087

ISBN-13: 9783110346084

Desk of contents
Ulrike intestine, Robert Fuchs & Eva-Maria Wunder
1 creation 1
David Deterding
2 The phonology of Brunei English: L2 English or emergent style 9
Stefanie Pillai
3 Rothicity in Malaysian English: The emergence of a brand new norm? 23
Magdalena Wrembel
4 Cross-linguistic impression in moment vs. 3rd language acquisition of phonology 41
Romana Kopečková
5 variations within the belief of English vowel sounds through baby L2 and
L3 newcomers 71
Hemalatha Nagarajan
6 Loanword version and moment language acquisition: Convergence and divergence 91
Taiwo Soneye & Kehinde Ayoola
7 Onset consonant cluster realisation in Nigerian English: The emergence of an endogenous kind? 117
Christoph Gabriel, Johanna Stahnke & Jeanette Thulke
8 buying English and French speech rhythm in a multilingual lecture room: A comparability with Asian Englishes 135
Robert Fuchs & Eva-Maria Wunder
9 A sonority-based account of speech rhythm in chinese language newcomers of
English 165
Heidi Altmann & Barış Kabak
10 English observe rigidity in L2 and postcolonial types: systematicity and
variation 185
Sabine Zerbian
11 Prosodic marking of concentration in transitive sentences in types of South African English 209
Ulrike Gut
12 Epilogue Index 249

By Steve Giles

ISBN-10: 0203212118

ISBN-13: 9780203212110

ISBN-10: 0415077540

ISBN-13: 9780415077545

At a time whilst postmodernism turns out to have completed a dominant place in cultural and demanding thought, the members to this quantity current a miles wanted corrective to the deceptive photographs of modernism that have ruled contemporary debate. Theorizing Modernisms contains an account of eu modernism, and research of the paintings of Apollinaire and Aberti, Wyndham Lewis and Mike Johnson, and Kert Schwitters. Steve Giles offers a far wanted assessment of the connection among modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernism and modernity.

By Robert D. van Valin Jr., Randy J. LaPolla

ISBN-10: 1139166794

ISBN-13: 9781139166799

Publish 12 months note: First released in 1997
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This e-book is an creation to syntactic concept and research which might be used for either introductory and complicated classes in theoretical syntax. providing an alternative choice to the traditional generative view of the topic, it bargains with the key matters in syntax with which all theories are involved. It provides syntactic phenomena from quite a lot of languages and introduces scholars to the most important typological matters that syntactic theories needs to deal with.

A beneficiant variety of routines is incorporated, which supply perform with the strategies brought within the textual content and likewise disclose the coed to in-depth research of knowledge from many languages. each one bankruptcy comprises feedback for extra interpreting which surround paintings from many theoretical views.

A separate instructing advisor is available.

By William Safire

ISBN-10: 1416587403

ISBN-13: 9781416587408

For the earlier twenty-five years american citizens have trusted Pulitzer Prize-winning wordsmith William Safire for his or her weekly dose of linguistic illumination in The long island instances Magazine's column "On Language" -- the most renowned gains of the journal and a Sunday-morning staple for innumerable fanatics. he's the main largely learn author at the English language this day.

Safire is the guru of up to date vocabulary, speech, language, utilization and writing. committed and disputatious readers itch to choose up each one column and reply to the week's linguistic knowledge with a gotcha letter to the Times. the proper note within the correct position on the correct Time marks the booklet of Safire's 16th ebook on language. This assortment is a vintage to be learn, re-read, loved and fought over. fanatics, critics and fellow linguists wait with bated (from the French abattre "to beat down") breath for every new anthology -- and, like its predecessors, this one is certain to meet and pleasure.

Safire reveals fodder for his columns in politics and present occasions, in addition to in technology, know-how, leisure and way of life. The self-proclaimed card-carrying language maven and dad grammarian isn't above tackling his personal linguistic errors as he detects language traits and tracks phrases, words and clichés to their resource. Scholarly, enjoyable and considerate, Safire's serious observations approximately language and slanguage are immediately provocative and enlightening.

Safire is America's go-to man by way of language, and he has integrated sharp and passionately opinionated letters from readers around the English-speaking global who've been not able to withstand deciding on up a pen to place the maven himself in his position or to supply exchange interpretations, extra examples, fun anecdotes or simply props.

The correct note within the correct position on the correct Time is an engaging, realized and piquant examine the eccentricities and foibles that locate their method into the English language. Exposing linguistic hooey and rigamarole and full of Safire's trademark knowledge, this booklet has a spot at the table or bedside desk of all who proportion his profound love of the English language -- in addition to his penchant for asking "What does that mean?" Or, "Wassat?"

This new assortment is certain to please readers, writers and note fanatics in all places and spark the curiosity of somebody who has ever questioned, "Where did the word 'brazen hussy' come from?"

By C.E. Eckersley, M. Macaulay, Revised by D. K. Swan

ISBN-10: 0058255893

ISBN-13: 9780058255898

ISBN-10: 1317743245

ISBN-13: 9781317743248

The Routledge instruction manual of ancient Linguistics presents a survey of the sector overlaying the tools which underpin present paintings; types of language swap; and the significance of historic linguistics for different subfields of linguistics and different disciplines.

Divided into 5 sections, the amount surround a variety of ways and addresses matters within the following areas:
• historic perspectives
• equipment and models
• language change
• interfaces
• neighborhood summaries

Each of the thirty-two chapters is written through a expert within the box and offers: a advent to the topic; an research of the connection among the diachronic and synchronic examine of the subject; an outline of the most present and significant tendencies; and examples from fundamental information. The Routledge instruction manual of old Linguistics is vital analyzing for researchers and postgraduate scholars operating during this area.

Chapter 28 of this publication is offered at no cost in PDF structure as Open entry at www.tandfebooks.com. it's been made on hand less than an artistic Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.

By Rachel Sutton-Spence

ISBN-10: 1403935076

ISBN-13: 9781403935076

This new learn is a huge contribution to signal language examine and to literature typically, taking a look at the advanced grammatical, phonological and morphological structures of signal language linguistic constitution and their position in signal language poetry and function. Chapters care for repetition and rhyme, symmetry and stability, neologisms, ambiguity, issues, metaphor and allusion, poem and function, and mixing English and signal language poetry. significant poetic performances in either BSL and ASL--with emphasis at the paintings of the deaf poet Dorothy Miles--are analyzed utilizing the instruments supplied within the publication

By Christopher Kendris, Theodore Kendris

ISBN-10: 0764197975

ISBN-13: 9780764197970

The world's bestselling Spanish verbs reference publication has simply gotten greater! The authors concentration at once on a command of Spanish verbs--and fluency in Spanish starts off with wisdom of verbs. This new 7th version exhibits scholars and tourists precisely how one can use the 501 commonest and worthwhile Spanish verbs in all 15 tenses and moods. every one verb is alphabetically indexed in easy-to-follow chart shape, one verb according to web page with its English translation. Enclosed with the booklet are discs, a CD-ROM with language-learning aids, and an audio CD that studies the formation and utilization of Spanish verb kinds.

New positive factors include--
Formation and utilization of Spanish verb tenses and moods summarized as they relate to their English equivalents
The fifty five so much crucial Spanish verbs utilized in context
Another 2,200 commonplace verbs conjugated just like the book's 501 version verbs
Verbs in idiomatic words
Passive and lively voice formations
Sentences demonstrating Spanish verb utilization in all tenses
Exercises in Spanish verb utilization with answers
Appendixes masking impersonal verbs, climate expressions, and English-Spanish verb index . . .and extra

501 Spanish Verbs plus software--the top language studying software of its variety!

It's vital for language sessions, a self-teaching consultant for foreign tourists, and a convenient reference quantity for translators. as well as the 501 verb tables the booklet with software program encompasses a wealth of extra positive aspects to assist scholars increase a very complete command of Spanish for conversing, studying, writing, and listening comprehension. There's a cause different publishers imitate Barron's 501 Spanish Verbs. After virtually 50 years out there, Barron's verb books are nonetheless the simplest. pick out the unique!

By Anat Biletzki (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0792344251

ISBN-13: 9780792344254

Talking Wolves advances an research of Hobbes which takes language heavily (as heavily as Hobbes took it). It provides a interpreting of Hobbes's view of society at huge, and political society specifically, via a complete dialogue in keeping with, and in detail associated with, his philosophy of language. This philosophy, in flip, is noticeable in a brand new gentle as being a practical concept of language in use, language in action.