Category: Grammar

By Francis Byrne, Donald Winford

ISBN-10: 9027252335

ISBN-13: 9789027252333

The quantity has as its subject, not just the kinds of formal buildings and units which creole languages syntactically make the most of to accomplish constituent concentration, but additionally, in a wider feel, the numerous different phenomena and methods present in those languages which serve to spotlight sentence-level components. The publication is prepared into 5 sections: 1. verb concentration, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; 2. concentration and anti-focus; three. concentration and pronominals; four. discourse patterning; five. grammatical family.

By B T Khoali

By Guy Stern

ISBN-10: 0486204227

ISBN-13: 9780486204222

This logical, developmental presentation of the most important facets of German grammar contains all of the important instruments for speech and comprehension. Designed for adults with restricted studying time who desire to gather the fundamentals of daily German, this grammar positive factors a variety of shortcuts and timesavers. perfect as an advent, complement, or refresher.

By Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach, Dieter Stein

ISBN-10: 0585463301

ISBN-13: 9780585463308

ISBN-10: 9027230560

ISBN-13: 9789027230560

There's a continuous progress of curiosity between linguists of all-theoretical denominations in grammaticalization, an idea vital to many linguistic theories. although, the dialogue of grammaticalization methods has usually suffered from a scarcity of concrete empirical experiences from English. The ebook includes dialogue of information and gives theoretical lead articles according to those information that are supposed to support sharpen the theoretical facets concerned, equivalent to the definition and the logical connection of the part approaches of grammaticalization.

By Robert Freidin

ISBN-10: 0203643569

ISBN-13: 9780203643563

ISBN-10: 0415331811

ISBN-13: 9780415331814

Generative Grammar provides a considerable contribution to the sphere of linguistics in drawing jointly for the 1st time the author's most vital paintings at the thought of generative grammar. The essays accrued right here exhibit Freidin's function in relocating the speculation ahead when it comes to new proposals, and examine the efforts to appreciate the evolution and historical past of the speculation by means of cautious research of ways and why it has replaced through the years.

By William B Boyce; William J Davis

By Eddy Verbaan, Christine Sas, Janneke Louwerse

ISBN-10: 1135020825

ISBN-13: 9781135020828

The Routledge Graded Dutch Reader has been in particular designed for intermediate rookies of Dutch and contains a huge number of graded readings. The readings are taken from various modern Dutch writing; from newspapers and magazines via to expert journals and the web.

By Stefan Georg

ISBN-10: 1901903583

ISBN-13: 9781901903584

Linguists and experts on Siberia are quite often conversant in the identify Ket, which designates a small ethnic staff at the Yenisei and their language, commonly considered as a linguistic enigma in lots of respects. Ket is a critically endangered language with this present day under 500 local audio system. including Yugh, Kott, Arin, Assan and Pumpokol, all of that are thoroughly extinct, it types the Yeniseic relations of languages, which has no identified linguistic kinfolk. This "Grammar of Ket" constitutes the 1st ebook of its type in English and is dependent as follows: creation; The Kets and their Language; Phonology; Morphology; and, References. A moment quantity is deliberate on Ket Syntax, supported via a set of unique texts with translations and annotations.

By C. Fought

ISBN-10: 0333986377

ISBN-13: 9780333986370

Chicano English in Context is the 1st smooth, complete learn of Chicano English, a spread spoken through hundreds of thousands of Latinos within the U.S. it's also one of many first reports of ongoing sound switch inside an ethnic minority group. It in short describes the phonology, syntax and semantics of this kind, and explores its the most important position within the building of ethnic identification between younger Latinos and Latinas. It additionally corrects misconceptions I how most people perspectives Chicano English.

By Marilyn N. Silva

ISBN-10: 0844258288

ISBN-13: 9780844258287

Grammar in lots of Voices teaches smooth English grammar as a self-discipline in itself, concentrating on splendidly varied examples of English prose, with none entice blunders correction. It limits dialogue to the syntax of the language, but it's not wedded to any specific thought, taking its insights from a few colleges of concept. The booklet bargains "real" passages from finished writers, leading to extra fascinating and colourful routines having worth in themselves simply because they're humorous, macabre, informative, and encouraging. The passages were conscientiously selected to mirror the multicultural range of written language. Grammar in lots of Voices recognizes that readers might imagine approximately language in ways in which grammarians won't expect. through studying to control sentence buildings and to evaluate the end result of the syntactic offerings you are making, you'll find that you're in a position to realizing what as soon as can have appeared inscrutable, impenetrable, and dull.