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This book provides a detailed account of verb movement across more than twenty standard and non-standard Romance varieties. Norma Schifano examines the position of the verb with respect to a wide selection of hierarchically-ordered adverbs, as laid out in Cinque's...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-12
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This book presents an overview of revisiting the assessment of language abilities. It also showcases how the measurement of such constructs can result in negative or positive washback and how outcomes might be conducive to repercussions that decide on the future of many...
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Springer
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2018-01-12
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The English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today?
In this Very Short Introduction Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English we...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-01-12
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The great diversity of ethnicities and languages in Africa encourages a vision of Africa as a fragmented continent, with language maps only perpetuating this vision by drawing discrete language groups. In reality, however, most people can communicate with most others...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-10
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This book explores the results of language contact in Michif, an endangered Canadian language that is traditionally claimed to combine a French noun phrase with a Cree verb phrase, and is hence usually considered a 'mixed' language. Carrie Gillon and Nicole Rosen...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-01-05
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This textbook provides a critical introduction to major research topics and current approaches in linguistic typology, the study of structural variation in human language and of the limits on that variation. Jae Jung Song draws on a wide range of cross-linguistic data...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-01-05
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This book presents the essential background for understanding semantic theories of mood. Mood as a category is widely used in the description of languages and the formal analysis of their grammatical properties. It typically refers to the features of a...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-05
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This edited collection brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who together offer cutting-edge insights into the complex roles, functions, and effects of pronouns in literary texts. The book engages with a range of text-types, including...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-04
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This book presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in England. Showcasing developments in sociolinguistic theory, method and application, the chapters examine sociolinguistic topics on different linguistic levels and in different geographical areas across...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-02
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This book presents case studies of five schools engaged in radical change in order to engage with children’s home languages and cultures in a more multilingual and inclusive way. Located around the globe, from Hawaii to Kenya, the case studies are informed by both...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-02
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This book presents research and applications on arrival estimation and localization in speech processing to ensure that the broad vision of the direction of arrival estimation (DOAE) / localization of speech sources is well-established. The book first provides a brief...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-12-23
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Christian Schäfer-Hock beschreibt und erklärt die Entwicklung der journalistischen Darstellungsformen in Deutschlands Tageszeitungen zwischen 1992 und 2012. In Zeiten des sich digitalisierenden Journalismus sind neue Darstellungsformen entstanden – abseits der gängigen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-12-21
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This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-21
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This book focuses on the concept of learner writer identity in the context of foreign language writing. The author demonstrates that the process of writing in a foreign language is much more complex and personal than many writing instructors may assume. The book’s...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-12-21
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This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-21
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Johannes Gerstner untersucht den Wert des gesamten Onlinevideoangebotes deutscher Tageszeitungen aus der Wertungsperspektive des Publikums und der Produzenten und legt dabei besonderes Augenmerk auf den Nutzen von Onlinevideos für die demokratische Aufgabenerfüllung der...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-12-20
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This book fills a significant gap in the field by addressing the topic of absence in discourse. It presents a range of proposals as to how we can identify and analyse what is absent, and promotes the empirical study of absence and silence in discourse. The authors argue...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-18
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This book highlights the need to develop new educational perspectives in which multilingualism is valorised and strategically used in settings and contexts of instruction and learning. Situated in the current educational debate about multilingualism and ethno-linguistic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-18
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This book offers a novel approach to understanding the complexities of communication in culturally and linguistically diverse health care contexts. It marks the culmination of two decades of research in South Africa, a context that has obvious application in a wider...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-16
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This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-15
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