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Language and Learning (4TH 07 Edition)
by Terry Piper  Publisher Comments Once again, this comprehensive, easy-to-read book explores the way in which children learn language, the way language is taught to children, and how these two roads to language sometimes diverge-always giving equal treatment to first and second language...
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Roots and Patterns
by Maya Arad Publisher Comments This book is simultaneously a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an in-depth empirical study of Hebrew. Based on Hebrew data, the book defends the status of the root as a lexical and phonological unit and argues that roots, rather than verbs or nouns,...
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Integrated English: Explorations 2: 2 Student Book (Integrated English)
by Terra Brockman Publisher Comments "Integrated English is a flexible, integrated four-skills program with an emphasis on speaking and listening. The program is comprised of Gateways, Transitions, and Explorations. It can be used as a complete, six-level course or as three separate, two...
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Workings of Language : From Prescriptions To Perspectives (99 Edition)
by Rebecca S. Wheeler Publisher Comments Defusing chicken-little prognostications about English, this volume suggests that dark claims about language are not to be taken at face value. Instead, these claims function as a signal: time to step back. Offering just such a time-out, eminent...
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Syntactic Gradience: The Nature of Grammatical Indeterminacy
by Bas Aarts Publisher Comments This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy. It looks at gradience in English word classes, phrases, clauses and constructions, and examines how it may be defined and differentiated...
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Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems
by Brian Swann Publisher Comments "With Wearing the Morning Star," Brian Swann presents a collection of more than one hundred Native American songs that celebrate the rich and vibrant oral traditions of the Indigenous peoples of North America. These are songs of the earth and the sky...
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Discourse & Social Change
by Norman Fairclough Publisher Comments Now available in paperback, this book is a critical introduction to discourse analysis as it is practised in a variety of different disciplines today, from linguistics and sociolinguistics to sociology and cultural studies. The author shows how concern...
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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics #90: Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope
by Keren Rice Publisher Comments This book offers a rich and theoretically informed survey of verb structure in Athapaskan languages....
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All About Language
by Barry J. Blake Publisher Comments In clear, congenial style Barry Blake explains how language works. He describes the make-up of words and how they're built from sounds and signs and put together in phrases and sentences. He examines the dynamics of conversation and the relations between...
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Describing Discourse: A Practical Guide to Discourse Analysis (Hodder Arnold Publication)
by Nicola Woods Publisher Comments For anyone approaching discourse analysis for the first time, theory means little when it is not related to actual knowledge and experience of language in use. Describing Discourse takes the unique approach of introducing discourse studies through the...
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On Qualitative Inquiry: Approaches to Language and Literacy Research (Language and Literacy)
by George Kamberelis Publisher Comments In this seminal work, the authors provide the first systematic exploration of the philosophical foundations and the historical development of qualitative inquiry. Thorough yet accessible, this volume is an indispensable tool for language and literacy...
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The Life of Language: The Fascinating Ways Words Are Born, Live & Die
by Sol And Barbara Ann Kipfer Steinmetz Publisher Comments In this fascinating and jargon-free guide, lexicographers Kipfer and Steinmetz reconstruct the births of thousands of words, including infantries, poz, mobs, Soho, dinks, choo choos, frankenfoods, LOL, narcs and perps. This word lover's guide to...
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The Force of Language
by Jean-jacques Lecercle Publisher Comments This text illustrates how the philosophy of Language, if differently conceived, can directly incorporate questions of political thought and of emotionality, and offers the practical case of defensive strategies against abusive speech. This follows a...
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XP-Adjunction in Universal Grammar: Scrambling and Binding in Hindi-Urdu (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
by Ayesha Kidwai Publisher Comments One of the most hotly debated phenomena in natural language is that of leftward argument scrambling. This book investigates the properties of Hindi-Urdu scrambling to show that it must be analyzed as uniformly a focality-driven XP-adjunction operation...
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Projects in Linguistics: A Practical Guide to Researching Language
by Alison Wray Publisher Comments This is an invaluable companion for students undertaking a piece of independent research for the first time. It introduces the most commonly used tools and techniques of research and offers practical advice on how to choose a research topic, how to...
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Defining Creole
by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language usually under conditions of subordination, but that structurally they are...
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The Semitic Languages
by Robert (edt) Hetzron Publisher Comments The Semitic Languages presents a unique, comprehensive survey of 23 languages from their origins in antiquity to the present day. The volume includes: an introduction to the grammatical traditions, subgrouping and writing systems; individual descriptions...
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Language Alive in the Classroom (99 Edition)
by Rebecca S. Wheeler Publisher Comments A common lament of teachers in the English-speaking world is that students at all levels often show very little knowledge of grammar. As traditionally taught (if taught at all), grammar is a dry, prescriptive subject and one that students often dislike...
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Language, Power and Identity Politics (Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities)
by Mairead Nic (edt) Craith Publisher Comments Dominance, identity and resistance are key themes in this volume in which contributors examine language in global, virtual and local settings. Power is highly contextual and the chapters focus on concepts such as world languages, linguistic rights and...
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Ug and External Systems; Language, Brain, and Computation.
by Anna Maria Di Sciullo Book News Annotation Drawing examples from different languages, from experiences of learning first and second languages, and from observation of speech and mental disorders, scholars discuss Universal Grammar (UG) and the external systems, conceptual-intentional and...
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