Linguistics
epub |eng | | Author:Istvan Kecskes,Chaofen Sun

2 Chinese Nouns and Issues With the Grammatical Marker de 的 Wang (1990) reported that the average length of words in the PRC Chinese public school textbooks is 1.98 characters ...
( Category: Linguistics March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-26 | Author:Thomas, Margaret [Thomas, Margaret]

Otto Jespersen (1860–1943) The Danish scholar Otto Jespersen published his autobiography in 1938 under the title En Sprogmands Levned , literally ‘A Language-man’s Life ’. The Foreword to the English ...
( Category: Linguistics March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Fiona Rossette-Crake

Final position Given information New information (tonic syllable) The given information is generally a referent that has been mentioned in the previous discourse, for example in the sentence just before. ...
( Category: Language Experience Approach March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rosina Lippi-Green

Phanna Xieng is a Cambodian-American who worked for Peoples National Bank of Washington. Mr. Xieng was repeatedly denied a promotion although he had an excellent work history, high marks in ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 1983-03-10 | Author:Shirley Brice Heath

A question of degree and kind Both Trackton and Roadville are literate communities and each has its own traditions for structuring, using, and assessing reading and writing. The residents of ...
( Category: Linguistics March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Winfred P. Lehmann; [Winfred P. Lehmann]

The form of the infinitive in Sanskrit has a different suffix from that of the infinitive in Greek (ein), or in Latin (vowel + re), or in Germanic (*onom > ...
( Category: Linguistics March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carl James

(e) I think Senhor is *constipated (√caught a cold ⇐ Portuguese ‘constipado’) This type of error is common where the MT and the TL are cognate, which is paradoxical: a ...
( Category: Linguistics March 8,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2014-06-10 | Author:Martin Maiden

8.8.3 The ‘progressive’ structures stare/andare/venire + gerund In the earliest Italo-Romance attestation of the construction sta facendo ‘she is doing’, stare has all the attributes of an autonomous lexical verb, ...
( Category: Linguistics March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Arrojo, Rosemary

Kafka’s tormented architect of the labyrinth/text Among the architectural metaphors to be found in Nietzsche’s work, the one that relates the labyrinth to textuality and interpretation is notably effective in ...
( Category: Linguistics March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-02 | Author:Qing Zhang

Excerpt 3.12 Catherine: “I like very much people with taste” 1 Wo juede [T2] shenghuo fangshi shi I feel [T2] lifestyle is, 2 yige qujue yu nide geren xingge15 he ...
( Category: Arts & Humanities March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-31 | Author:JENNIFER JENKINS,Will Baker,MARTIN DEWEY & Will Baker & Martin Dewey

p.306 References Amelina, M. 2010. Do other languages than English matter? International career development of highly qualified professionals. In E. Meyer and B. Apfelbaum (Eds.), Multilingualism at work: From policies ...
( Category: Linguistics March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-02 | Author:Fryer, Louise.

7.2.4 Pace, pitch, segmentation As well as tone, the pace of delivery can also be varied to suit the scene – a fast-action sequence benefits from a quicker pace, while ...
( Category: Linguistics March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gussenhoven, Carlos; Jacobs, Haike; & Haike Jacobs

9.6.1 Ambisyllabicity in English English has two post-MOP syllabification rules which create ambisyllabic consonants. LIAISON applies across word boundaries so as to cause a word-final consonant to be in the ...
( Category: Linguistics February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Launey/Mackay [Launey/Mackay]

22.2 The Counterfactual This form is built on base 3 (the middle base), with the suffix -zquia.1 The plural is in -’ (glottal stop). The way the counterfactual relates to ...
( Category: Linguistics February 29,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-03 | Author:Ronald Carter & John McRae [Carter, Ronald]

From the outset Lady Bracknell deliberately misconstrues Jack’s words, punning on the verb ‘to lose’. Even her ‘minor matters’ is socially not how one would expect the subject of parents ...
( Category: European February 29,2020 )