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New Vistas in Grammar

Author : Linda R. Waugh

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 551 pages

File Size : 26,40 MB

Release : 1991-01-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027235430

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The papers in this volume reflect the renewed interest in the semantics of grammatical categories and the issues of invariance and variation in grammar. In particular, this collection presents the current understanding of invariance of grammar with respect to the synchronic and diachronic analyses of specific languages, and as realized in work on typology and universals.The book is divided into five sections: The Question of Invariance; Invariance and Grammatical Categories; Grammar and Discourse; Grammar and Pragmatics; Typology and Universals.



New Trends in Language Acquisition Within the Generative Perspective

Author : Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 24,94 MB

Release : 2020-01-17

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9402419322

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This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art treatment of the acquisition of Indo- and Non-Indo-European languages in various contexts, such as L1, L2, L3/Ln, bi/multilingual, heritage languages, pathology as well as language impairment, and sign language acquisition. The book explores a broad mix of methodologies and issues in contemporary research. The text presents original research from several different perspectives, and provides a basis for dialogue between researchers working on diverse projects with the aim of furthering our understanding of how languages are acquired. The book proposes and refines new theoretical constructs, e.g. regarding the complexity of linguistic features as a relevant factor forming children’s, adults’ and bilingual individuals’ acquisition of morphological, syntactic, discursive, pragmatic, lexical and phonological structures. It appeals to students, researchers, and professionals in the field.



Construction Grammar and its Application to English

Author : Martin Hilpert

Publisher : Edinburgh University Press

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 39,14 MB

Release : 2014-03-17

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0748675868

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Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.



New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms

Author : Eli Hinkel

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 316 pages

File Size : 14,25 MB

Release : 2001-07-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 113564408X

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New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms brings together various approaches to the contextualized teaching of grammar and communicative skills as integrated components of second language instruction. Its purpose is to show from both theoretical and practical perspectives that grammar teaching can be made productive and useful in ESL and EFL classrooms. In this text: *First-rate scholars approach the teaching of grammar from multiple complementary perspectives, providing an original, comprehensive treatment of the topic. *Discourse analysis and research data are used to address such pedagogical areas as grammatical and lexical development in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. *The communicative perspective on ESL and EFL instruction that is presented provides ways for learners to enhance their production skills, whereas the meaning-based grammar instruction can supplement and strengthen current methodology with a communicative focus. This volume is intended as a foundational text for second language grammar pedagogy courses at the advanced undergraduate and master's levels.



New Vistas

Author : H. Douglas Brown

Publisher : Pearson PTR Interactive

Page : 148 pages

File Size : 26,78 MB

Release : 2000-02

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9780139082788

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New Vistas, by H. Douglas Brown, is a completely revised five-level integrated series appropriate for high school or adult education students who are at a true beginning through high-intermediate level. The series empowers students to meet the challenges of each unit, and carefully recycles and reinforces language so students can produce language while feeling confident with their ability. New Vistas engages students in a variety of creative exercises, games, and activities. And the books go beyond the classroom, with "Strategies for Success" sections.



New Vistas

Author : H. Douglas Brown

Publisher :

Page : 408 pages

File Size : 12,53 MB

Release : 1998-10

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9780139082115

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New Vistas is a completely revised five-level integrated series for true beginning to high-intermediate students.New Vistas-- Empowers students to meet the challenges of each unit.-- Goes beyond the classroom with "Strategies for Success" sections.-- Carefully recycles and reinforces language so students can produce language while feeling confident with their ability.-- Connects students to the Internet through its website.-- Engages students in a variety of creative exercises, games, and activities.-- Considers students' individual learning preferences.



History and Perspectives of Language Study

Author : Olga Mišeska Tomi?

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 342 pages

File Size : 28,51 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9789027236920

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Each of the contributions in this volume expresses in some way the hope that it is possible to achieve an integrity of linguistics, understood as a science of man, in its psychological, sociological, pragmatic and cultural context. The first section focuses on the history of language study, the second section on the integrative description of facets of language, and the last section on the need for the study of language in context.



New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics

Author : C-T James Huang

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 408 pages

File Size : 37,76 MB

Release : 2012-12-06

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9400916086

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The past decade and a half has witnessed a great deal of renewed interest in the study of Chinese linguistics, not only in the traditional areas of philological studies and in theoretically oriented areas of syn chronic grammar and language change but also in the cultivation of new frontiers in related areas of the cognitive sciences. There is a significant increase in the number of students studying one area or another of the linguistic structure of Chinese in various linguistic programs in the United States, Europe, Australia and in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and other parts of Asia. Several new academic departments devoted to the study of linguistics have been established in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the past few years. The increasing research and study activities have also resulted in a number of national and international conferences, including the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL), which has been held annually in the United States; the International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL), which has had its fourth meeting since it was launched by Academia Sinica in Taiwan in 1990; the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (lACL), created in Singapore in 1992 and now incorporated in Irvine, California, which has held its annual meetings at major institutions in Asia, Europe, and the US.



The Logic of Markedness

Author : Edwin L. Battistella

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 188 pages

File Size : 26,55 MB

Release : 1996-08-22

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 019535592X

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Theories of language espoused by linguists during much of this century have assumed that there is a hierarchy to the elements of language such that certain constructions, rules, and features are unmarked while others are marked; "play" for example, is unmarked or neutral, while "played" or "player" is marked. This opposition, referred to as markedness, is one of the concepts which both Chomskyan generative grammar and Jakobsonian structuralism appear to share, yet which each tradition has treated differently. Battistella studies the historical development of the concept of markedness in the Prague School structuralism of Roman Jakobson, its importation into generative linguistics, and its subsequent development within Chomsky's "principles and parameters" framework. He traces how structuralist and generative linguistics have drawn on and expanded the notion of markedness, both as a means of characterizing linguistic constructs and as a theory of the innate language faculty.



Chomskyan (r)evolutions

Author : Douglas A. Kibbee

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 501 pages

File Size : 46,73 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027211698

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Chomsky's atavistic revolution (with a little help from his enemies) / John E. Joseph -- The equivocation of form and notation in generative grammar / Christopher Beedham -- Chomsky's paradigm : what it includes and what it excludes / Joanna Radwanska-Williams -- "Scientific revolutions" and other kinds of regime change / Stephen O. Murray -- Noam and Zellig / Bruce Nevin -- Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b / Peter T. Daniels -- Grammar and language in syntactic structures : transformational progress and structuralist "reflux" / Pierre Swiggers -- Chomsky's other revolution / R. Allen Harris -- Chomsky between revolutions / Malcolm D. Hyman -- What do we talk about, when we talk about "universal grammar" and how have we talked about it? / Margaret Thomas -- Migrating propositions and the evolution of generative grammar / Marcus Tomalin -- Universalism and human difference in Chomskyan linguistics : the first "superhominid" and the language faculty / Christopher Hutton -- The evolution of meaning and grammar : Chomskyan theory and the evidence from grammaticalization / T. Craig Christy -- Chomsky in search of a pedigree / Camiel Hamans & Pieter A.M. Seuren -- The "linguistics wars" : a tentative assessment by an outsider witness / Giorgio Graffi -- British empiricism and transformational grammar : a current debate / Jacqueline Léon -- Historiography's contribution to theoretical linguistics / Julie Tetel Andresen.