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Published by De Gruyter Mouton Feb 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 3110322978ISBN 13: 9783110322972
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The aim of this edited volume is to examine how current theories and principles underlying English as a Lingua Franca studies contribute to research on present pedagogical practices in ELF contexts. The book provides useful insights into pedagogical practices in different ELF settings and knowledge on the pedagogy-policy relationship in terms of ELF. 272 pp. Englisch.
Published by De Gruyter Mouton Feb 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1614517851ISBN 13: 9781614517856
Seller: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense investigation in formal linguistics. Since complex syntax is clearly evidenced by sentential embedding and since embedding of one clause/phrase in another is taken to signal recursivity of the grammar, the capacity of computing syntactic complexity is of central interest to the recent hypothesis that syntactic recursion is the defining property of natural language. In the light of more recent claims according to which complex syntax is not a universal property of all living languages, the issue of how to detect and define syntactic complexity has been revived with a combination of classical and new arguments. This volume contains contributions about the formal complexity of natural language, about specific issues of clausal embedding, and about syntactic complexity in terms of grammar-external interfaces in the domain of language acquisition. 234 pp. Englisch.
Published by De Gruyter Mouton Feb 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1614517851ISBN 13: 9781614517856
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Book
Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense investigation in formal linguistics. Since complex syntax is clearly evidenced by sentential embedding and since embedding of one clause/phrase in another is taken to signal recursivity of the grammar, the capacity of computing syntactic complexity is of central interest to the recent hypothesis that syntactic recursion is the defining property of natural language. In the light of more recent claims according to which complex syntax is not a universal property of all living languages, the issue of how to detect and define syntactic complexity has been revived with a combination of classical and new arguments. This volume contains contributions about the formal complexity of natural language, about specific issues of clausal embedding, and about syntactic complexity in terms of grammar-external interfaces in the domain of language acquisition. 234 pp. Englisch.
Published by De Gruyter Mouton Feb 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 3110369508ISBN 13: 9783110369502
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Book
Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -English has long been suspected to be a vowel-shifting language. This hypothesis, often only adumbrated in previous work, is closely investigated in this book. Framed within a novel framework combining evolutionary linguistics and Optimality Theory, the account proposed here argues that the replacement of duration by quality as the primary cue to signaling vowel oppositions has resulted in the 'shiftiness' of many post-medieval English varieties. 234 pp. Englisch.
Published by De Gruyter Mouton Feb 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 3110369508ISBN 13: 9783110369502
Seller: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Book
Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -English has long been suspected to be a vowel-shifting language. This hypothesis, often only adumbrated in previous work, is closely investigated in this book. Framed within a novel framework combining evolutionary linguistics and Optimality Theory, the account proposed here argues that the replacement of duration by quality as the primary cue to signaling vowel oppositions has resulted in the 'shiftiness' of many post-medieval English varieties. 234 pp. Englisch.
Published by De Gruyter Mouton Feb 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1614516715ISBN 13: 9781614516712
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume focuses on how English, through false Anglicisms, influences several European languages, including Italian, Spanish, French, German, Danish and Norwegian. Studies on false Gallicisms are also included, thus showing how English may be affected by false borrowings. 300 pp. Englisch.
Published by De Gruyter Mouton Feb 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1614513872ISBN 13: 9781614513872
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This edited collection examines how people use a range of different modalities to negotiate, influence, and/or project their own or other people's identities. It brings together linguistic scholars concerned with issues of identity through a study of language use in various types of written texts, conversation, performance, and interviews. 368 pp. Englisch.
Published by De Gruyter Mouton Feb 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1614518998ISBN 13: 9781614518990
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The language is no longer spoken, but the analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring languages. This book pays special attention to the language in its social context, historical-comparative analysis, and the methods used to analyse the archival material. 428 pp. Englisch.
Published by De Gruyter Mouton Feb 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 3110411792ISBN 13: 9783110411799
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The present volume presents objective methods to detect and analyse various forms of repetitions. Repetition of textual elements is more than a superficial phenomenon. It may even be considered as constitutive for units and relations in a text: on a primary level when no other way exists to establish a unit - as in a musical composition (a motif can be recognised as such only after at least one repetition) - and on a secondary, artistic level, where repetition is a consequence of the transfer of the equivalence principle from the paradigmatic axis to the syntagmatic one as showed by R. Jakobson.The analysis of repetitive elements and structures in texts with objective mathematical means can serve several practical and theoretical purposes, among them:Characterisation of texts by means of parameters (measures, indicators) as taken from established mathematical statistics or specifically constructed ones in individual cases.Comparison of texts on the basis of their quantitative characteristics and classification of the texts by the results.Research for the laws of text, which control the mechanisms connected to text creation. As a remote aim, the construction of a theory of text consisting of a system of text laws. The final attempt of every possible quantitative text analysis is the construction of a text theory. The book illustrates this on examples of such laws and corresponding empirical tests. 220 pp. Englisch.
Published by De Gruyter Mouton Feb 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1614517851ISBN 13: 9781614517856
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense investigation in formal linguistics. Since complex syntax is clearly evidenced by sentential embedding and since embedding of one clause/phrase in another is taken to signal recursivity of the grammar, the capacity of computing syntactic complexity is of central interest to the recent hypothesis that syntactic recursion is the defining property of natural language. In the light of more recent claims according to which complex syntax is not a universal property of all living languages, the issue of how to detect and define syntactic complexity has been revived with a combination of classical and new arguments. This volume contains contributions about the formal complexity of natural language, about specific issues of clausal embedding, and about syntactic complexity in terms of grammar-external interfaces in the domain of language acquisition.
Published by De Gruyter Mouton Feb 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 3110369508ISBN 13: 9783110369502
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Book
Buch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - English has long been suspected to be a vowel-shifting language. This hypothesis, often only adumbrated in previous work, is closely investigated in this book. Framed within a novel framework combining evolutionary linguistics and Optimality Theory, the account proposed here argues that the replacement of duration by quality as the primary cue to signaling vowel oppositions has resulted in the 'shiftiness' of many post-medieval English varieties.
Published by De Gruyter Mouton Feb 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 3110377926ISBN 13: 9783110377927
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book contains a collection of papers dealing with the question of how rhythm shapes language. Until now, there was no comprehensive theory that addressed these findings adequately. By bringing together researchers from many different fields, this book will make a first attempt to fill this gap. 318 pp. Englisch.
Published by De Gruyter Mouton Feb 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1614517657ISBN 13: 9781614517658
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book presents a description of Unua, one of two dialects of Unua-Pangkumu, an Oceanic language of Malakula Island, Vanuatu. Unua has about 700 speakers who are bilinguals using Unua in local interactions and using the national language, Bislama, non-locally, as well as in local public and religious settings. The description is based on material collected in the field from speakers of different age-groups in the five Unua villages. The data corpus includes a substantial body of material: contemporary translations of the New Testament gospels; audio-recorded transcribed and glossed texts; and elicited material collected with a range of speakers. The analysis includes comparisons with other Malakula languages and is both of typological and historical-comparative interest. The data documentation is substantial and detailed. 616 pp. Englisch.