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Summary: Shows safety procedures to prevent injury when working with electricity. Stresses alertness, planning, removal of potential hazards and good housekeeping.
Author : Joseph Vendryes
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Language and languages
ISBN :
Summary: Shows safety procedures to prevent injury when working with electricity. Stresses alertness, planning, removal of potential hazards and good housekeeping.
Author : Joseph Vendryes
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Historical linguistics
ISBN :
Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262542188
The new edition of a comprehensive, accessible, and hands-on text in historical linguistics, revised and expanded, with new material and a new layout. This accessible, hands-on textbook not only introduces students to the important topics in historical linguistics but also shows them how to apply the methods described and how to think about the issues. Abundant examples from a broad range of languages and exercises allow students to focus on how to do historical linguistics. The book is distinctive for its integration of the standard topics with others now considered important to the field, including syntactic change, grammaticalization, sociolinguistic contributions to linguistic change, distant genetic relationships, areal linguistics, and linguistic prehistory.
Author : Andrew L. Sihler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027236976
This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as prime subject or as background information, it should help students understand the assumptions and reasoning that underlie the contents of their handbooks and etymological dictionaries.This book should be a useful guide for anyone unfamiliar with (historical) linguistics who is studying the history of a language, and also for those who are enrolled in courses devoted to reading texts in old languages.
Author : Ralph Fasold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521847680
This accessible textbook offers balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of modern linguistics.
Author : Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher :
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780199019151
The English Language is an essential survey of the development of the language from its Indo-European past to the present day. Now in a third edition, this text offers enhanced discussion of the socio-historical and cultural contexts of the English language, new approaches to the history ofEnglish, and an anthology of specimen texts from the four major periods of English: Old, Middle, Early Modern, and Modern.
Author : John Lyons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 1981-05-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139935658
This 1981 book is a general introduction to linguistics and the study of language, intended particularly for beginning students and readers with no previous knowledge or training in the subject. There is first a general account of the nature of language and of the aims, methods and basic principles of linguistic theory. John Lyons then introduces in turn each of the main sub-fields of linguistics: the sounds of language, grammar, semantics, language change, psycholinguistics: the sounds of language, grammar, semantics, language change, psycholinguistics, language and culture. Throughout the book he emphasizes particularly those aspects of the discipline that seem fundamental and most likely to remain important. He stresses throughout the cultural at least as much as the biological context of human language, and shows how the linguist's concerns connect productively with those of the traditional humanities and the social sciences. Each chapter has a wide-ranging set of discussion questions and revision exercises, and extensive suggestions for further reading. The exposition is marked throughout by the author's characteristic clarity, balance and authority.
Author : Hans Henrich Hock
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311061328X
Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English - or Modern British and American English - still be called the same language? The present book provides answers to questions like these in a straightforward way, aimed at the non-specialist, with ample illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages. Most chapters in this new edition have been reworked, with some difficult passages removed, other passages thoroughly rewritten, and several new sections added, e.g. on the regularity of sound change and its importance for general historical-comparative linguistics. Further, the chapter notes and bibliography have all been updated. The content is engaging, focusing on topics and issues that spark student interest. Its goals are broadly pedagogical and the level and presentation are appropriate for interested beginners with little or no background in linguistics. The language coverage for examples goes well beyond what is usual for books of this kind, with a considerable amount of data from various languages of India.
Author : Tore Janson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199604282
Does not discuss the Semitic languages.
Author : Anne McCabe
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 9781781794333
This introductory textbook provides readers with a foundation in methods for analysing and understanding language from various theoretical perspectives within linguistics and language studies. Its novel approach introduces systemic functional linguistics, text and discourse analysis, and formal approaches to linguistics. It demonstrates applications of these approaches to reveal how we use language in society, how our brains process language, and how we learn language. Topics include phonetics, phonology, conversation analysis, morphology, semantics, functional and formal syntax, text linguistics, genre analysis, evaluative lexis in text, multimodal representations of meaning, language change and variation, animals and language, the brain and language, and first and second language development/acquisition. The main language focused on is English, while other languages are also drawn on to illustrate the principles, models and theories. Learning outcomes, exercises (with answer key), ideas for project work, and questions for reflection are provided throughout. A final chapter gathers explanations of various fields of practice within linguistics, written by linguists from around the world, including David Crystal (Clinical Linguistics), Frances Christie (Educational Linguistics), and Malcolm Coulthard (Forensic Linguistics). An Introduction to Linguistics and Language Studies offers an array of analytical tools for undergraduate students of language, communication, and education, and provides an overview of the field for those interested in further study in linguistics and applied language studies. Readers will come away with a heightened sensitivity to and appreciation of their own and other's use of language for creating meaning and for interaction.