Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunc Books

This collection of papers investigates two specific linguistic phenomena from the point of view of first- and second-language acquisition. While observations on the acquisition of scrambling or pronominal clitics can be...

"...this work represents a key case study in the study of the prosody and syntax interactions." (Pilar Prieto, Lingua 115, 2005)  

Austronesian languages have long raised interesting questions for generative theories of syntax and morphology. The papers in this volume encompass some of these traditional questions and place them in newer theoretical...

The Mandarin VP deals with a number of constructions in Mandarin Chinese which involve the main verb and the material following it, like the object NPs, resultative phrases, durative expressions and other elements. The basis...

Noun Phrases and Nominalizations: The Syntax of DPs is a theoretical study of nominal expressions which covers central aspects of their syntax that have not been approached with concurrent tools in recent years. The study...

This book is an extensively revised version of the core part of my 1993 MIT doctoral dissertation, which seeks to provide a Minimalist theory of Case absorption and support it through empirical investigation. The central idea...

Tense, Attitudes, and Scope is a model-theoretic inquiry into the semantics of tense in natural language. The book presents the view that the semantic contribution of tense is made in relation to structurally higher...

Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface starts by analyzing the interpretation of interrogative phrases in single and multiple constituent questions, including their interpretation under adverbs of...

o. COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX This volume contains 13 papers that were prepared for the Seventh Workshop on Comparative Germanie Syntax at the University of Stuttgart in November 1991. In defining the theme both of the...

Examining its subject from a generative perspective, this highly detailed text deals with the syntax of nominal expressions. It focuses on empirical data taken from the Spanish language, though the author goes further to draw conclusions of wider...

Since 1970-ties in the theory of syntax of natural language quite a number of competing, incommensurable theoretic frameworks have emerged. Today the lack of a leading paradigm and kaleidoscope of perspectives deprives our general understanding of syntax...

This book grew out of a concern we have had that very many theoretical and descriptive work on the Kwa languages were not accessible to the general linguistic community. As a result, these languages were only referred to in the context of very specific...

Carlota S. Smith was a key figure in linguistic research and a pioneering woman in generative linguistics. This selection of papers focuses on the research into tense, aspect, and discourse that Smith completed while Professor of Linguistics at the...

Not all sentences encode their subjects in the same way. Some languages overtly mark some subjects depending on certain features of the subject argument or the sentence in which the subject figures. This is known as Differential Subject Marking (DSM)...

This book examines the problem of linearization from a new perspective: that of the linearization of affixes. The author's driving proposition is that affixation provides a means of satisfying the universal requirement to linearize linguistic outputs...

DOES DISCOURSE HAVE A 'STRUCTURE'? HARRIS'S REVOLUTION IN LINGUISTICS As a freshman back in 1947 I discovered that within the various academic divisions and subdivisions of the University of Pennsylvania there existed a...

¡Descubre el desafío perfecto para ejercitar tu mente! Presentamos "Sopa De Letras para adultos Letra Grande" - un paquete de 50 rompecabezas de sopa de letras diseñados específicamente para adultos con letras grandes y legibles.Sumérgete en la diversión...

The book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses with parallel French-English texts. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, studying, job searches, working etc. The...

Augmented Transition Network Grammars are at present the most widely used method for analyzing natural languages. Despite the increasing po­ pularity of this method, however, no extensive papers on ATN-Grammars have been...

This study is concerned with the use of the English modals (may, might,can, could, shall, should, will, would and must) in adverbial, relative and complement clauses. It employs synchronic data from the British National Corpus and quantitative methods to...

Les textes réunis dans ce volume examinent les mécanismes d'émergence des marqueurs métalinguistiques, leur fonctionnement sémantico-pragmatique dans différents types de discours et leur rapport à la variation.

En esta investigación se analizan expresiones reactivas negativas propias del español coloquial desde un enfoque macrosintáctico

Gen Z slang is everywhere!There's no point denying it. It's not like Klingon, either. You can't ignore it into oblivion. It's here to stay (and evolve).Pop culture, digital marketing, movies, TV shows, books, and the entire internet, in general, is...

Ready to conquer the German verb tense challenge?Famous for its unique sentence structures, lengthy nouns and sometimes "harsh" tones, the German language is actually a wonderful and very expressive language, and one absolutely worth learning. Not only...

Learning to read, speak and write French like a native?Your journey begins here.Oh là là! C'est une grande nouvelle! Up to 300 million people across the globe speak French, so it makes a lot of sense that you would want to learn it. After all, the French...

So, you want to master the verbs and conjugations of the Spanish language?Learning a new language involves dedication and hard work, and a language such as Spanish is no different. Spoken by over 500 million people across the world and used as an...

Would you like to learn to write and speak better English and gain an advantage in your professional and personal life? Do you want to better communicate with an international audience and forge stronger relationships? If you answered "yes" to any of...

The 4000 Words Essential for an Educated Vocabulary. English offers perhaps the richest vocabulary of all languages, in part because its words are culled from so many languages. It is a shame that we do not tap this rich source more often in our daily...

Improve Your Child's Italian Skills in no Time with the Most Amusing Book for Kids and Beginners!Would you like your child to:Help your child improve their Italian?Learn proper Italian pronunciation?Discover the most commonly used phrases in daily...

Make Learning a Language Fun with this Book! Help Your Child Learn French Through Captivating Exercises & Activities. Would you like your child to:Learn how to speak another language?Develop interest in the French language and culture?Quickly...

A tried-and-true grammar-based approach that will have you speaking Korean confidently in no time, even if you are an absolute beginner.This book is designed to address the key areas where students frequently struggle.It provides a step-by-step learning...

An exciting way to start speaking Spanish like a NATIVE is here! If you're looking to get a good head start by focusing on the right Spanish language foundations, then keep reading!Has your Spanish speaking skills plateaued?Are you frustrated...

Learn beginner German grammar painlessly with step-by-step lessons that focus on the essentials and help you build a learning habit.Inside "German Grammar for Beginners" you'll find: 30 beginner-level German grammar lessons: This reference and...

The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies provides a cutting-edge survey of current scholarship in this area. Divided into four sections, which cover understanding vocabulary; approaches to teaching and learning vocabulary; measuring knowledge of...

Combining English for Specific Purposes (ESP) genre-based analysis, corpus-based language studies, and semi-structured interviews, this book represents the first multi-faceted project on the macro-structure of empirical research articles (ERAs) from both...

This book systematically outlines the development of ancient Chinese. Consisting of 20 chapters, the self-contained work presents macro-level discussions on a broad range of topics, including: philology, phonology, exegetics, certain words' special...

This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one. This working definition sets "middle construction" apart from "middle voice" in that it...

كتاب "توّضح الجليل" هو رحلةٌ في عالمِ النحوِ العربيّ، يقدّمها لكم الأستاذُ محمد شعبان التونيّ، مُستندًا إلى شرحِ ابن عقيل على ألفية ابن مالك، مُستلهماً من أوضح المسالك لابن هشام.يُقدّمُ الكتابُ شرحًا مُبسّطًا للقواعدِ النحويةِ، مُزودًا بأمثلةٍ واضحةٍ...

The genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a decades-old linguistic conundrum. Shedding new light on this perplexing object-case alternation in Russian, this volume analyzes two variants of genitive objects that alternate with accusative...

This study is concerned with the structure of verb phrases in English and Spanish, and with syntactic processes involving VP and Vo. A primary focus of attention is auxiliary verbs. It is argued that the structure dominating...

This manuscript is a revision of my 1982 MIT dissertation of the same name. A previous version of sections of chapters 1 and 5 appeared as 'Case Agreement in Russian', in The Mental Representation of Gram­ matical Relations,...

Among the several dozens of symposia held on the occasion of the quincentennial of U ppsala University, there was included one symposium devoted to the theme of 'Philosophy and Grammar'. A selection of the most important papers...

Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation . Introduction . Outlook and Goals . Noun Incorporation . Properties of NI . On the Syntactic Nature of NI . Conclusion and Outline of Book .- Theoretical Background . A Bit of History of Phrase...

Linking is one of the challenges for theories of the syntax-semantics interface. In this new approach, the author explores the hypothesis that the positions of syntactic arguments are strictly determined by lexical argument...

This book is an attempt to contribute to the contrastive study of the syntax of English and Dutch. Although it is not the first contrastive grammar of the two languages to be published in Holland, it is undoubtedly the most...

This book is the first collection of studies on an important yet under-investigated linguistic phenomenon, the processing and production of head-final syntactic structures. Until now, the remarkable progress made in the field of human sentence...