The Acquisition of Verbs at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
This book presents an analysis of early verbs. Using data from Italian children, it suggests the syntax-semantics interface is well-established early on. The analysis of production and comprehension delays uncovers general characteristics of language acquisition devices.
Language Acquisition at the Interfaces
Presenting leading research in first, second, and heritage language acquisition, this volume explores syntax, semantics, and phonology across a diverse range of spoken and signed languages. An essential reference for all scholars in the field.
The Influence of Translation on the Arabic Language
Siddig Abdalla explores the influence of the translation of English idioms by journalists working at Arabic satellite TV stations, using a mixed-method approach. His results will serve to guide media translators and lexicographers’ choice in the usage of idioms.
Acquiring Lingua Franca of the Modern Time
Explore modern ESL/EFL teaching strategies for a globalized, digital world. International scholars apply linguistic theory and multi-cultural communication to today’s classrooms.
Learn Italian with fun texts, dialogues, and photos covering cultural topics like cities, recipes, and famous writers. This book includes grammar and recordings with a variety of accents—a great training tool for A1-B2 level students.
Undergraduate ELT in Sri Lanka
This book examines English language education in post-colonial Sri Lanka. It reveals how post-colonial attitudes hinder teaching and argues that the general principles of teaching English need specific modifications for South Asian societies.
This volume brings together fifteen papers on the morphosyntax of Romance varieties. Using diverse theoretical approaches and modern research methods, it tackles key issues and will appeal to students and researchers in Romance and theoretical linguistics.
Dombrovan provides an introduction to some basic concepts of linguistic synergetics, viewed here as a new research approach to language studies. She considers human language as an open, dynamic, non-linear, and self-organising system, and sheds new light on language development.
Freeman teaches academics and graduate students how to write seductive academic prose by learning a literacy rarely taught in academic writing or style handbooks. He details how to use literary devices and figures of speech to meet ideals of stylish communication.
Based on the principle “One size does not fit all,” this volume presents a wide range of topics on diversity in English language education. It covers student and teacher profiles, teaching practices, assessment, world Englishes, and culture in the classroom.
A Syntactic Study of Idioms
Dąbrowska studies idioms referring to psychological states in English from the perspective of syntax, focusing particularly on the syntactic structure of this specific set of verbal psych-idioms, and on the constraints on the way they are built.
Spatial Minds
To what extent is spatial language connected to conceptualization? This book investigates the similarities and differences in Hungarian, Croatian, and English, analyzing expressions like *in, on,* and *at* to shed light on the relationship between language and the mind.
Persistence and Resistance in English Studies
This book gathers together a selection of articles by members of the Association of Young Researchers in Anglophone Studies, covering a wide range of topics dealing with English literature and culture, language and linguistics.
How do we comprehend language? This book provides a comprehensive overview of experimental and theoretical studies on language processing, emphasizing the fruitful interaction among theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience.
New Trends in Foreign Language Teaching
Language teaching approaches, methods and procedures are constantly undergoing reassessment. This publication discusses the latest developments in the field and emerging patterns in the foreign language classroom.
When Italians speak Russian, do they think in Italian or Russian? This research demonstrates that a native speaker’s way of structuring language is much more resistant to change than grammar, revealing how deeply our mother tongue influences the way we think.
This conference proceedings emphasizes the international aspect of the field of Celtic Studies, and highlights the relatively strong position of Celtic Studies in Poland, through its inclusion of Polish scholars working on Irish and Breton.
This volume explores the ‘living’ usage of language in building and performing the law across academic and professional contexts. These contributions offer multiperspectival approaches to legal discourse, providing an invaluable resource for academics and students.
Grammar and Text
The contributions here are based on presentations given at the 10th and 11th Fora for Linguistic Sharing. They present the results of original research in two broad areas, namely text and discourse linguistics and grammar.
Foreign Women Authors under Fascism and Francoism
This collection highlights cultural features and processes which characterized translation practice under the dictatorships of Mussolini and Franco. It brings to the fore the “microhistory” that exists behind every publishing proposal, whether collective or individual.