This book analyzes the linguistic diversity of South America based on approaches deeply rooted in the tradition of formal grammar. The chapters brought together in this contributed volume consider native languages all kinds of languages used in the...Lasīt vairāk
This book analyzes the linguistic diversity of South America based on approaches deeply rooted in the tradition of formal grammar. The chapters brought together in this contributed volume consider native languages all kinds of languages used in the...Lasīt vairāk
The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and interrogatives, the imperative type has received comparatively less attention. Using compe...Lasīt vairāk
Innovations and Challenges in Grammar traces the history of common understandings of what grammar is and where it came from to demonstrate how rules are anything but fixed and immutable. In doing so, it deconstructs the notion of correct...Lasīt vairāk
Innovations and Challenges in Grammar traces the history of common understandings of what grammar is and where it came from to demonstrate how rules are anything but fixed and immutable. In doing so, it deconstructs the notion of correctness to...Lasīt vairāk
Reliable, authoritative, and designed to ease grammar anxiety!Words are the currency of every business transaction. They persuade, inspire, educate and clarify. Essential Grammar for Business offers guidance to profe...Lasīt vairāk
To what extent can one speak of the Renaissance in terms of grammar did the medieval curricular subject grammatica survive into the Renaissance unchanged or was it transformed by the pedagogical programme of the humanists? The studies collected here...Lasīt vairāk
A book about language, exploring the new rules of writing in the age of social media, emojis and cyberslang. Featuring emoji strings, sidebars, quizzes and style debates among the most lovable nerds of the digital copy world, it is suitable for reade...Lasīt vairāk
The monograph is devoted to the notion of strategic intervention and its application in the foreign language classroom, in particular with reference to teaching grammar structures. The first four chapters, which are theoretical in nature, address suc...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Jan-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107005808)
The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and interrogatives, the imperative type has received diverse analyses in the literature. This...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Advances in Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Dec-2013, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781441162045)
Linguistics and language scholars from Europe, Australia, and North America offer nine essays on approaches to teaching grammar in second language learning instruction. They consider theoretical and pedagogical developments, such as the need to avoid...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Topoi - Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi - Berliner
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Dec-2013, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110308990)
For the first time, this study examines the full range of spatial expression used in the Hittite world through a fruitful combination of insights from Hittitology, cognitive linguistics, and Indo-European studies. The volume includes an introduction...Lasīt vairāk
Over half a century ago, J. L. Austin predicted developments in the discipline of grammar which, in properly establishing it as a science, would at the same time displace a large part of philosophy - philosophical logic, to be specific. With the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Feb-2012, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262017022)
Linguists have mapped the topography of language behavior in many languages inintricate detail. To understand how the brain supports language function, however, we must take intoaccount the principles and regularities of neural function. Mechanism...Lasīt vairāk
Are there evidence-based answers to the broad question What explicit knowledge about language in teachers and/or students appears to enhance literacy development in some way? Distinguished by its global perspective, its currency, and its compreh...Lasīt vairāk
