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Passwords to Paradise: How Languages Have Re-invented World Religions by Nicholas Ostler
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Nicholas Ostler [Ostler, Nicholas]

to kto mojetĭ na vodou besědou pisati ili Eretičĭsko imă sebě obrěsti So who can write speech upon water, or find for himself the name of a heretic?6 Nonetheless, he ...
( Category: General November 9,2016 )
What the F by Benjamin K. Bergen
epub |eng | 2016-07-26 | Author:Benjamin K. Bergen

7 How Cock Lost Its Feathers A thousand years ago, people living in the British Isles spoke various manifestations of Old English, the language that would evolve over the subsequent ...
( Category: Linguistics September 24,2016 )
Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally) by John McWhorter
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:John McWhorter [McWhorter, John]

Grammaticalization as Spectator Sport From the point of view of one language, such as our own, it will seem as if grammaticalization serves to lend a language the tools it ...
( Category: Etymology September 10,2016 )
Of Minds and Language by Piattelli-Palmarini Massimo; Uriagereka Juan; Salaburu Pello
epub |eng | 2009-08-20 | Author:Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo; Uriagereka, Juan; Salaburu, Pello

15.5 Rational numbers are hard I will conclude now with two contrasting numerical concepts: the successor principle and rational numbers. The successor principle captures the idea that there is always ...
( Category: Linguistics August 21,2016 )
I Speak, Therefore I Am by Andrea C. Moro
epub |eng | 2016-07-04 | Author:Andrea C. Moro

12 MARTIN JOOS (born Wisconsin 1907; died Madison 1978) Languages can differ from one another unpredictably and without limit. —Hamp, Joos, Householder, and Austerlitz, eds., Readings in Linguistics Bad luck ...
( Category: Linguistics August 19,2016 )
The Book of Human Emotions by Tiffany Watt Smith
epub |eng | 2016-06-06 | Author:Tiffany Watt Smith

JEALOUSY You have to trust. That’s what you tell yourself. When you see the e-mail hurriedly closed down and a bright smile—is it too bright?—on the face. Or the door ...
( Category: Word Lists August 1,2016 )
Doing Pragmatics by Grundy Peter
epub |eng | 2013-11-26 | Author:Grundy, Peter [Grundy, Peter]

If we reconsider (29) There must therefore be a very good case for not allowing anyone to proceed to Year 3 we see that the function of ‘therefore’ isn’t only ...
( Category: Linguistics June 28,2016 )
Ancestral Journeys by Jean Manco
epub |eng | 2016-06-11 | Author:Jean Manco

Now the disease in Byzantium ran a course of four months, and its greatest virulence lasted about three. And at first the deaths were a little more than the normal, ...
( Category: Prehistory June 13,2016 )
On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume by Noam Chomsky & Mitsou Ronat
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-25 | Author:Noam Chomsky & Mitsou Ronat [Chomsky, Noam]

CHAPTER 2 The Object of Inquiry I hope it will not be too repetitive if I begin by summarizing briefly what I have said so far, elaborating here and there ...
( Category: Postmodernism June 10,2016 )
A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian by Maiden Martin; Robustelli Cecilia;
epub |eng | | Author:Maiden, Martin; Robustelli, Cecilia;

14.6 The desinences of the present tense The present tense is characterized by the following desinences attached to the root of the verb.5 TABLE 14.B The conjugation of the present ...
( Category: Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses May 12,2016 )
The Time Traders by Andre Norton
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Andre Norton

Chapter 10 Having been cuffed and battered into submission more quickly than would have been possible three weeks earlier, Murdock now stood sullenly surveying the man, who, though he dressed ...
( Category: Adventure May 12,2016 )
American Language Supplement 2 by H.L. Mencken
epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:H.L. Mencken [Mencken, H.L.]

2 Tactic may really be called accepted. The NED has examples from Edmund Burke, Edward A. Freeman and Mark Pattison. Mr. Arthur D. Jacobs, of Manchester, tells me that it ...
( Category: Linguistics May 1,2016 )
The Stories of English by David Crystal
epub |eng | 2012-08-19 | Author:David Crystal [CRYSTAL, DAVID]

Some further examples are given on p. 326. It remains a lexicological puzzle why some words were accepted and some rejected. We do not know how to account for the ...
( Category: England April 25,2016 )
The Language Revolution by Crystal David
epub |eng | | Author:Crystal, David

Not like writing If Netspeak does not display the properties we would expect of speech, does it instead display the properties we expect of writing? Here too, there are fundamental ...
( Category: Linguistics April 25,2016 )
Raising Bilingual Children by Maritere Rodriguez Bellas
epub |eng | | Author:Maritere Rodriguez Bellas

Pros and Cons of Language Learning in After-School Programs PRO: After-school programs can fill the gap when typical schools don’t offer language learning. They provide a regular way for a ...
( Category: Language Arts April 20,2016 )

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