Patterns of Text: In Honour of Michael Hoey
By Michael Hoey, Geoff Thompson
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:323
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1556197926
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781556197925
* Published: 2001
Ideophones (Typological Studies in Language)
By F.K.Erhard Voeltz, Christa Killian-Hatz
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:421
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027229465
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027229465
Offprint :
Ideophones / ed. by F.K. Erhard Voeltz; Christa Killian-Hatz, Typological studies in language 44 (2001): 339-354.
Case, Referentiality and Phrase Structure (Linguistik Artuell/Linguistics Today)
By Balkiz Ozturk
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:278
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027228019
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027228017
Providing rich comparative data from typologically different languages such as Turkish, Chinese, Hungarian, English and Japanese, this book is of particular interest to typologists as well.
Formal Grammar: Theory and Implementation (New Directions in Cognitive Science)
By Robert Levine
* Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:448
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:019507310X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780195073102
Product Description:
The second volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series, this collection presents recent work in the fields of phonology, morphology, semantics, and neurolinguistics. Its overall theme is the relationship between the contents of grammatical formalisms and their real-time realizations in machine or biological systems. Individual essays address such topics as learnability, implementability, computational issues, parameter setting, and neurolinguistic issues. Contributors include Janet Dean Fodor, Richard T. Oehrle, Bob Carpenter, Edward P. Stabler, Elan Dresher, Arnold Zwicky, Mary-Louis Kean, and Lewis P. Shapiro.
The Lexical Approach: The State of ELT and a Way Forward (LTP teacher training)
By Michael Lewis
* Publisher:EMEA British English - 1993
* Number Of Pages:176
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:090671799X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780906717998
Product Description:
THE LEXICAL APPROACH develops current thinking, synthesizing the best insights of previous theory, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and modern approaches to grammar.
The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)
By Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles, Ellen Barton
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:372
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027233578
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027233578
The Syntax-discourse Interface: Representing And Interpreting Dependency (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)
By Petra Burkhardt
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:255
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027228043
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027228048
This book combines theoretical and experimental aspects of the establishment of dependency. It provides an account of dependency relations by focusing on the representation and interpretation of referentially dependent elements, particularly regular reflexives, logophors, and pronouns. First, the establishment of dependency is discussed within a model of syntax-discourse correspondences that predicts an economy-based dependency hierarchy contingent on the level of representation at which the dependency is formed as well as the internal structure of the dependent element and its antecedent. Secondly, the model's predictions are substantiated by a series of experimental studies (conducted in English and Dutch) providing evidence from three sources of online sentence comprehension: reaction time studies, Broca's aphasia patient studies, and event-related brain potential studies. The findings show that dependencies are established at distinct levels of linguistic encoding (i.e. syntax or discourse) determined by the presence or absence of coargumenthood and the representation of the dependency-forming elements.
Ellipsis: Functional Heads, Licensing, and Identification
By Anne Lobeck
* Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:224
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0195091817
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780195091816
Product Description:
This book elaborates a theory of ellipsis that sheds new light on a well-known phenomenon, bringing it under the aegis of general and universal principles. Lobeck argues that ellipted categories in IP (VP Ellipsis), DP (N' Ellipsis), and CP (Sluicing) are empty, non-referential pronominals, subject to the same licensing and identification conditions as referential pro. She proposes that both types of empty pronominals must be licensed under head-government to satisfy the Empty Category Principle, and identified through strong agreement. In the case of ellipsis, agreement-type features make the empty category visible to interpretive processes of reconstruction. These licensing and identification conditions derive the result that ellipses are complements of functional categories DET, COMP, and INFL, but not of lexical categories. The analysis is supported by contrastive evidence from ellipsis in French and German, in which licensing and identification interact with Verb Raising, feature checking, and a parameter defining "strong" agreement.
Visuals for the Language Classroom (Longman Keys to Language Teaching)
By Andrew Wright, Safia Haleem
* Publisher:Pearson P T R (1994)
* Number Of Pages:128
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0582047811
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780582047815
Visuals for the Language Classroom is a practical guide to the visual materials commonly available to the classroom teacher. It describes the characteristics of the various media and shows how a sensitive understanding of these characteristics will lead the teacher to fresh, dynamic and efficient activities in the language classroom. All the ideas in this book can be copied by any teacher with the minimum of time, money or artistic talent. Many of the hundreds of examples have been illustrated by the authors themselves
It includes
• Separate chapters on each of the different types of visual materials, analysis of their characteristics and ideas for exploiting these characteristics
• Technical tips on handling the various types of materials and hints on how to improve your drawing and designing skills.
• Questions and activities to help you see how the ideas could be adapted and applied to your own classroom
Andrew Wright has worked with teachers in over twenty-five countries. Through his teaching, books and articles he is well known for his concern for the creativity of the teacher and for the practicality of his ideas.
Safia Haleem has been a classroom teacher of English as a foreign language for many years. She is also a teacher trainer and a regular broadcaster for the BBC.
Intercultural Communication
By Everett M. Rogers, Thomas M. Steinfatt
* Publisher:Waveland Press - 1998
* Number Of Pages:292
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1577660323
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781577660323
Product Description:
As communication and transportation technologies shrink global distances and contact with unalike others expands, the necessity for effective intercultural communication becomes paramount. This text provides a solid foundation for applying communication principles to intercultural interactions. A key element in effective intercultural communication is recognizing ethnocentrism. To do so, one must first be aware of the pervasive influence of culture. This book uses the history of intercultural contact to emphasize the layers of collective consciousness that shape the attitudes and beliefs of various peoples. Different worldviews color perceptions, values, and communication patterns. Without an awareness of these differences, intercultural communication can result in misunderstandings, prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination. Ineffective communication prevents the exchange and exploration of diverse perspectives that can enrich our lives. Through multiple examples, this book teaches the skills of competent intercultural communication so that active, interested participants can engage in the limitless benefits of sharing viewpoints with others in a rapidly changing world.
The Representation and Processing of Compound Nouns
By Gary Libben, Gonia Jarema
* Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:258
* Publication Date:2006-02-02
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0199285063
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780199285068
Product Description:
This book presents new work on the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of compound words and shows the insights it offers on natural language processing and the relation between language, mind, and memory.
Contents
Preface and Overview vi
Notes on the Contributors xii
1 Why Study Compound Processing?
An overview of the issues 1
Gary Libben
2 Compound Types 23
Wolfgang U. Dressler
3 Compound Representation and Processing:
A cross-language perspective 45
Gonia Jarema
4 The Neuropsychology of Compound Words 71
Carlo Semenza and Sara Mondini
5 Preschool Children’s Acquisition of Compounds 96
Elena Nicoladis
6 Doghouse/Chien-maison/Niche: Approaches to
the understanding of compound processing in bilinguals 125
Erika S. Levy, Mira Goral, and Loraine K. Obler
7 Conceptual Combination: Implications for the
mental lexicon 145
Christina L. Gagne
The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: Volume 1: To 1550
By Roger Ellis
* Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:500
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0199246203
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780199246205
Product Description:
THE OXFORD HISTORY OF LITERARY TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH
General Editors: Peter France and Stuart Gillespie
This groundbreaking five-volume history runs from the Middle Ages to the year 2000. It is a critical history, treating translations wherever appropriate as literary works in their own right, and reveals the vital part played by translators and translation in shaping the literary culture of the English-speaking world, both for writers and readers. It thus offers new and often challenging perspectives on the history of literature in English. As well as examining the translations and their wider impact, it explores the processes by which they came into being and were disseminated, and provides extensive bibliographical and biographical reference material.
Volume 1 of The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English originates with what medievalists have long known, that virtually everything written in the Middle Ages in English can be regarded, one way or another, as a translation, and that medieval understandings of what constitutes literature were significantly more generous than many modern ones. It uses modern as well as medieval understandings of translation to inform its discussions (the two understandings have a great deal in common), and it aims to situate medieval translation in English as fully as possible in its various cultural contexts: this includes, in particular, the complicated inter-relations of translation throughout the period into Latin, and (for the Middle English period) of translation in French. Since it also understands the Middle Ages of its title as including the first half of the sixteenth century, it studies what has survived of nearly a thousand years of translation activity in England.
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Telicity in the Second Language (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders)
By Roumyana Slabakova
(August 2001)
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:249
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588110389
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588110381
Product Description:
This text looks at the subject of telicity in the second language, and includes such topics as: aspectual distinctions; theories of access to UG; aspectual semantics; the aspect-related constructions; and first language acquisition research on aspect.
Chapter 1
Aspect and theories of
second language acquisition
1.1 Introduction
The goal of this book is to present a detailed study of the second language
acquisition (SLA) of English telicity marking by native speakers of Bulgarian, a
Slavic language. A parameterized distinction between English and Slavic
situation aspect is proposed, and the subtle differences between English and
Slavic telic and atelic sentences are examined. Thus the book opens a new area
of parameter research in SLA and studies in depth the mental representation of
telicity in interlanguage. In addition to the general theoretical interest that a
study of the acquisition of telicity marking evokes, the book highlights a
number of specific theoretical issues.
First of all, following Verkuyl (1972, 1993) the book advances a specific
view of English verb phrases (VP), according to which their aspectual meaning
is compositional: a property of the verb and a property of the noun phrase (NP)
object conspire to bring forward an aspectual interpretation. In Slavic VPs, on
the other hand, only a property of the verbal form signals the aspectual interpretation.
Thus, it is argued that a verb may contain two types of information:
its idiosyncratic meaning and information about its aspectual class. The latter
may be represented by a zero morpheme, licensed by the property of the object
(as in English) or by an affix on the verb (as in Slavic). It is proposed that the
above distinction between Slavic and English can be viewed in terms of a
parameter, with two values, or settings. These are only two of the telicity
parameter settings that human languages may exhibit. Other possible values are
tentatively discussed in Chapter 3.
Secondly, based on the above view of verb phrases and following Hale and
Keyser (1992, 1993), and Travis (1992, 1994, 1999a, b), it is proposed that the
four aspectual classes of verbs (Vendler 1967), viz. accomplishments, achievements,
activities, and states, can be represented in four different phrase structure
templates, where distinct subevents are mapped onto different VP shells
and make reference to the properties of the object. Thus, event-type distinctions
are captured at the interface of lexical semantics and syntax. It is argued that the
four templates are language universals, and the parameterized distinctions
between languages involve the syntactic positions of telicity markers. It is at this
level that the English-Slavic contrast receives an explanation.
Third, based on the syntax-theoretical treatment of Slavic and English
telicity marking, the book investigates the SLA of this parameter and focuses on
the mental representation of aspectual properties of English in the interlanguage
of Slavic speakers learning English. L2 learners are found to be capable
of resetting the telicity parameter value to the English setting, thus successfully
acquiring a property of language almost never taught in language classrooms.
The fourth issue that the book addresses is the nature of the initial hypothesis
that Slavic speakers entertain regarding telicity marking. Basically, two
logical possibilities offer themselves if access to UG is assumed: learners either
have direct access to UG, in which case they do not demonstrate the L1 value of
the parameter in their interlanguage competence (Epstein, Flynn and Martohardjono
1996; Flynn 1996) or they start out the process of acquisition by
hypothesizing that aspect in the L2 is encoded in the same way as in their
mother tongue (Schwartz and Sprouse 1994, 1996). The results of the experimental
studies described in the book bring new evidence to bear on the
theoretical choice above, supporting the latter view.
Fifth, the book studies the acquisition of a cluster of constructions, which
syntactic research relates to the English value of the telicity parameter, and
which have been found to co-occur in the speech of children learning English
as their first language (Snyder and Stromswold 1997). The proposed cluster
includes the double object construction, the verb–particle construction, and the
resultative secondary predicate construction. Results indicate that every one of
the above forms part of this aspect-related cluster and that, although double
objects appear somewhat earlier than the other two constructions, this difference
is statistically insignificant. Verb-particles, resultatives, and double objects
appear some time after telicity marking has been acquired. Chapter 6 of the
book discusses some possible reasons for this situation.
In the remainder of this chapter, the concept of aspect will be briefly
introduced, then the theoretical framework of the book—Universal Grammar
(UG) and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) — will be presented. Three
approaches to UG principles and parameters in SLA will be outlined: the No
Parameter Resetting approach, the Direct Access approach and the L1 Grammar
as the Initial Hypothesis approach. The predictions that each one of these
approaches makes with respect to parameter resetting will be examined.
Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal Papers (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)
By Thorhallur Eythorsson
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:441
* Publication Date:2008-03-06
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027233772
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027233776
Product Description:
This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The overall theme of the volume is 'internal factors in grammatical change.' The papers focus on fundamental questions in theoretically-based historical linguistics from a broad perspective. Several of the papers relate to grammaticalization in different ways, but are generally critical of 'Grammaticalization Theory'. Further papers focus on the causes of syntactic change, pinpointing both extra-syntactic (exogenous) causes and - more controversially - internally driven (endogenous) causes. The volume is rounded up by contributions on morphological change 'by itself.' A wide range of languages is covered, including Tsova-Tush (Nakh-Dagestan), Zoque, and Athapaskan languages, in addition to Indo-European languages, both the more familiar ones and some less well-studied varieties.
Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies in honour of Frits Beukema (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)
By Wim Van Der Wurff
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:352
* Publication Date:2007-07-13
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027233675
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027233677
Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In Honour of Angela Downing (Studies in Language Companion)
By Christopher S. Butler, Raquel Hidalgo Downing, Julia Lavid
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:481
* Publication Date:2007-07-13
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027230951
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027230959
Corpus-based Analyses of the Problem-Solution Pattern: A phraseological approach (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)
By Lynne Flowerdew
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
* Number Of Pages:179
* Publication Date:2008-02-06
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027223033
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027223036
The Cognitive Representation of Speech (Advances in Psychology)
By T. Myers
* Publisher:Elsevier Science Ltd
* Number Of Pages:576
* Publication Date:1982-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0444861629
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780444861627
The 32 main papers, taken together, provide a comprehensive review of speech research by scientists who have made leading contributions to our understanding of the topics discussed. The papers are assembled within a coherent, problem-oriented structure.
The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, Computational and Experimental Issues (Natural Language Processing)
By Paola Merlo, Suzanne Stevenson
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:348
* Publication Date:2002-08
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588111563
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588111562
"This volume derives from the special conference session ... held in conjunction with the 11th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 19-21, 1998"--Pref.
Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)
By Laura Gavioli
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:176
* Publication Date:2005-12-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027222924
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027222923