This original comparative study explores two central questions in the study of first language acquisition: What is the relative impact of structural and functional determinants? What is univ ...more on ebook "Children's Discourse..."

This comprehensive book examines approaches to teaching students who aim to make the leap from 'advanced' or 'superior' proficiency in a foreign language to 'near-native' ability. While ther ...more on ebook "Developing Professional-Level Langu..."

The news interview has become a major vehicle for presenting broadcast news and political commentary, and a primary interface between the institutions of journalism and government. This much ...more on ebook "The News Interview..."

Provides a non-technical introduction to recent developments in linguistic computing and offers specific guidance to the linguist or language professional who wishes to take advantage of the ...more on ebook "Using Computers in Linguistics..."

By the late 1970s phonologists, and later morphologists, had departed from a linear approach for describing morphophonological operations to a nonlinear one. Computational models, however, r ...more on ebook "Computational Nonlinear Morphology..."

What is the role of meaning in linguistic theory? Generative linguists have severely limited the influence of meaning, claiming that language is not affected by other cognitive processes and ...more on ebook "Language from the Body..."

This book is a guide to the development of English syntax between the Old and Modern periods. Beginning with an overview of the main features of early English syntax, it gives a unified acco ...more on ebook "The Syntax of Early English..."

This book applies recent theoretical insights to trace the development of Castilian and Latin American Spanish from the Middle Ages onwards, through processes of repeated dialect mixing both ...more on ebook "Variation and Change in Spanish..."

The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all concerned with issu ...more on ebook "Language Death..."

This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. In a wide-ranging discussion, Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and mo ...more on ebook "Conditionals and Prediction..."