Category: Linguistics

By Cliff Goddard

ISBN-10: 0949659320

ISBN-13: 9780949659323

Initially a Ph.D. thesis. This reprint publishes the thesis pages in line with actual web page aspect.

By Margherita Cumino

ISBN-10: 0194543463

ISBN-13: 9780194543460

A three-level path for younger childrens according to the primary of lively studying, with a robust appearance.

By María de los Ángeles Gómez González (ed.), Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (ed.), Francisco Gonzálvez García (ed.), Angela Downing (ed.)

ISBN-10: 9027256527

ISBN-13: 9789027256522

Over the past 40 years, the functionalist method of linguistic description and clarification has given upward push to numerous significant faculties of suggestion that percentage an important assumptions: (i) shape isn't self sufficient of meaning/function or language use; and (ii) linguistic description and rationalization have to bear in mind the communicative functionality of language. This quantity deals readers drawn to sensible linguistics a particular pattern of stories that together end up the efficacy of the analytical instruments and approaches generally accredited in the functionalist culture with a view to examine language and discourse, with distinctive specialize in key pragmatic/discourse notions akin to contextualization, grammaticalisation, reference, politeness, (in-)directness, discourse markers, speech acts, subjective evaluate and sentiment research in texts, between others. furthermore, this quantity deals particular corpus-based suggestions for the target contextualisation of linguistic info, that's an important given the imperative function disbursed to context in either practical linguistics and pragmatics/discourse research.

By Luc Nisset

ISBN-10: 0071432981

ISBN-13: 9780071432986

ISBN-10: 0071509143

ISBN-13: 9780071509145

A face is worthy 1,001 French phrases utilizing the tales that our faces, visual appeal, and gestures inform, French on your Face is helping you research and have in mind crucial French vocabulary and daily expressions in relation to character, attitudes, moods, and feelings. This highly unique e-book is jam-packed with illustrations that would tickle your humorous bone and fine-tune your skill to speak, face-to-face, in French.

By Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

ISBN-10: 0748613277

ISBN-13: 9780748613274

What precisely are phrases? Are they the issues that get indexed in dictionaries, or are they the elemental devices of sentence constitution? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the results of those assorted techniques to phrases in English. He explains a few of the ways that phrases are concerning each other, and exhibits how the historical past of the English language has affected notice constitution. issues contain: phrases, sentences and dictionaries; a notice and its components (roots and affixes); a observe and its kinds (inflection); a notice and its family (derivation); compound phrases; observe constitution; productiveness; and the old resources of English observe formation.

By Eriko Sato

ISBN-10: 1118130715

ISBN-13: 9781118130711

Learn to talk Japanese—the speedy and straightforward way

Japanese is the gateway to the wealthy tradition of the intriguing and intricate island country of Japan. a few humans get intimidated by means of the possibility of conversing Japanese—worried that it's simply too complicated and different—but those fears are unfounded. once you can commit an entire life to the learn of this or any language, making a choice on up the fundamentals of eastern doesn't require to any extent further than an curiosity and a willingness to aim anything new.

Japanese For Dummies has every thing you want to begin conversing the language. writer and Professor of eastern Eriko Sato introduces the necessities of grammar and pronunciation, providing you with a operating feel of the language, prior to exhibiting you eastern in motion. You'll additionally detect social customs, formalities, and manners, from how and whilst to bow to easy methods to unwrap a present.

• comprises vocabulary summaries, a mini-dictionary, and an audio CD filled with conversations and pronunciations
• Assumes no previous wisdom of eastern in your part—providing the proper advisor for a quick-but-thorough, lighthearted-but-not-lightweight creation to the language
• CD allows you to pay attention eastern as it's particularly spoken and reinforces classes from the book

Whether you just are looking to introduce your self to the japanese language, say a number of phrases to a neighbor or coworker, or you're making plans a big journey or research out of the country in Japan, Japanese For Dummies will help you get the fundamentals quick and paintings in the direction of your individual aim at your individual pace.
CD-ROM/DVD and different supplementary fabrics aren't incorporated as a part of the ebook dossier, yet can be found for obtain after buy.

By Kenji Hakuta

ISBN-10: 0309072972

ISBN-13: 9780309072977

ISBN-10: 030951133X

ISBN-13: 9780309511339

By Werner Abraham (Ed.), Larisa Leisiö (Ed.)

ISBN-10: 9027229805

ISBN-13: 9789027229809

ISBN-10: 9027293252

ISBN-13: 9789027293251

Is the passive a unified common phenomenon? The declare derived from this quantity is that the passive, if no longer common, has turn into unified in response to functionality. Language as a way of verbal exchange wishes the passive, or passive-like buildings, and in the end develops them in keeping with different voices (impersonal energetic, center, reflexive), particular semantic meanings reminiscent of adversativity, or tense-aspect different types (stative,perfect, preterit). convinced participants evaluate the passives in quite a few languages and language teams, together with languages not often mentioned. one other crew of individuals takes a unique theoretical process towards passivization inside a extensive typological viewpoint. one of the languages mentioned are Vedic, Irish, Mandarin chinese language, Thai, Lithuanian, Mordvin, and Nganasan, subsequent to nearly all ecu languages. numerous theoretical frameworks comparable to Optimality concept, glossy Structuralist ways, position and Reference Grammar, Cognitive Semantics, allotted Morphology, and Case Grammar were utilized through the several authors.

By J. Weissenborn, Barbara Hohle

ISBN-10: 1556199929

ISBN-13: 9781556199929

ISBN-10: 9027224919

ISBN-13: 9789027224910

ISBN-10: 9027298238

ISBN-13: 9789027298232