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Author | : Mark Kaunisto |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2019-05-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3030190447 |
This book sheds new light on the nature of gerunds in English, utilizing data from very large electronic corpora in order to compare pairs of patterns viewed as constructions. It serves as a contribution to the study of complementation, an under-researched area of investigation which bridges observations at the intersection of lexico-grammar, syntax and semantics. As a result, the reader develops their understanding of the meaning and use of each pattern within the system of English predicate complementation as it has evolved in recent times. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of English linguistics, especially English grammar.
Author | : Kate Woodford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1550 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521824231 |
The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.
Author | : Olga Timofeeva |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Günter Rohdenburg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2009-01-22 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0521872197 |
This volume focuses on British-American differences in the structure of words and sentences. The first full-length treatment of the topic, it will be of interest to scholars working within the fields of English historical linguistics, language variation and change, and dialectology.
Author | : Olga Fischer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017-06-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521768586 |
An accessible, up-to-date account of the major changes in English syntax since its beginnings up to the present day.
Author | : Renata Enghels |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2020-07-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110682583 |
The practice of comparing languages has a long tradition characterized by a cyclic pattern of interest. Its meeting with corpus linguistics in the 1990s has led to a new sub-discipline of corpus-based contrastive studies. The present volume tackles two main challenges that had not yet been fully addressed in the literature, namely an empirical assessment of the nature of the data commonly used in cross-linguistic studies (e.g. translation data versus comparable data), and the development of advanced methods and statistical techniques suitably adapted to contrastive research settings. The papers collected in this volume endeavour to find out what (new) types of data are most useful for what kind of contrastive questions, and which advanced statistical techniques are most suited to deal with the multidimensionality of contrastive research questions. Answers to these questions are provided through the contrastive analysis of various language pairs or groups, and a wide variety of phenomena situated at almost all linguistic levels. In sum, this book provides an update on new methodological and theoretical insights in empirical contrastive linguistics and will stimulate further research within this field.
Author | : Anna Giacalone Ramat |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2013-05-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027272077 |
The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and linguistic variation. What has traditionally been treated as a dichotomy is now seen rather in terms of a dynamic interface. The contributions to this volume aim at exploring the most adequate tools to describe and understand the manifestations of this dynamic interface. Thorough analyses are offered on hot topics of the current linguistic debate, which are all involved in the analysis of the synchrony-diachrony interface: gradualness of change, synchronic variation and gradience, constructional approaches to grammaticalization, the role of contact-induced transfer in language change, analogy. Case studies are discussed from a variety of languages and dialects including English, Welsh, Latin, Italian and Italian dialects, Dutch, Swedish, German and German dialects, Hungarian. This volume is of great interest to a broad audience within linguistics, including historical linguistics, typology, pragmatics, and areal linguistics.
Author | : Daniel Schreier |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2013-01-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 110700196X |
Highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics and language acquisition. With contributions from leading experts, the book offers fresh and exciting perspectives as well as an up-to-date overview of the respective fields.
Author | : Nuria Yáñez-Bouza |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2019-10-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108419569 |
Explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of English, both past and present, methodologically and theoretically.
Author | : D. Gary Miller |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198299608 |
This book seeks to answer the questions: why do grammars change, and why is the rate of such change so variable? A principal focus is on changes in English between the Anglo-Saxon and early modern periods. The author frames his analysis in a comparative framework with extended discussions of language change in a wide range of other Indo-European languages. He deploys Chomsky's minimalist framework in a fruitful marriage of comparative and theoretical linguistics within an argument that will be accessible to practitioners in both fields.