Languages

Drawing on data from six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian), this monograph focuses on a widely debated area of phonetics and phonology: intonation, and specifically its relation to metrics, its interface with syntax, and whether it can be attributed to phonetics or phonology, or to both.

In The Crucible of Language, Vyvyan Evans explains what we know and do when we communicate using language; he shows how linguistic meaning arises, where it comes from, and the way language enables us to convey the meanings that can move us to tears, or make us dizzy with delight.

What happens when writing overtakes reading as the basis of people's daily literate experience? Drawing on recent interviews with people who write every day, Brandt explores this major turn in the development of mass literacy and examines the serious challenges it poses for America's educational mission and civic health.

Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this is a book written by an expert both for specialists in the subject and for general readers interested in the English language.

Written specifically to help undergraduate students of English language and linguistics develop the art of writing essays, projects and reports, this book is a comprehensive and very readable resource and contains numerous discipline-related examples, practice exercises and an answer key.

This third edition incorporates the major developments in language study since the mid 1990s. It includes major new sections on electronic communication and language death. All statistics and maps have been updated, and all sections revised. The book benefits from many new illustrations and a completely fresh text design.

The language we use forms an important part of our sense of who we are - of our identity. This book outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups - ethnic, national, religious and gender - and the language varieties important to each group.

This text covers all the fundamental things a student needs to know about writing essays and research papers in the humanities and social sciences. Starting from the common difficulties students face, it demonstrates with numerous examples all the stages necessary to produce a good piece of academic work.

This textbook provides a comprehensive and structured vocabulary for all levels of undergraduate French courses. It is divided into twenty thematic sections allowing for easy integration into modular courses. Words and phrases have been grouped into units and graded according to likely usefulness and difficulty. There are 750 accompanying exercises.

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Basic Persian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume....

A practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern Czech, this book focuses on the morphology and syntax of the language. Presenting a description of the language, it uses clear, jargon-free explanations and sets out the complexities of Czech in short, readable sections.

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Teaches Chinese through the use of native speakers and interactive exercises.

"Master the everyday language; up-to-date cultural situations; accessible and thorough"--Cover.

This second edition of Thai: An Essential Grammar provides an up-to-date and concise reference guide to Thai grammar....

"Master the everyday language; up-to-date cultural situations; accessible and thorough"--Cover.

Introduces Dutch culture and people through the medium of the language used. This book provides students with the basic tools to express themselves in a wide variety of situations. It includes useful exercises and a full answer key, grammar tables for easy reference, and frequent comparative references to English grammar.

Can a bump on the head cause someone to speak with a different accent? Can animals, aliens, and objects talk? Can we communicate with gods, demons, and the dead? Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic is a curio shop full of colourful superstitions, folklore, and legends about language.

Accessible and wide-ranging, this introduction to contemporary Philosophy of Action guides the reader through the major views and arguments. The topics addressed include the nature of intentional action and its explanation, the nature of reasons, the role of desire and intention in action, the nature of autonomy and the possibility of group agents.

Linguistic Fieldwork offers practical guidance on areas such as applying for funding, the first session on a new language, writing up the data and returning materials to communities. This expanded second edition provides new content on the results of research, on prosody elicitation, on field experiment design, and on working in complex syntax.

Explains words and expressions from the present-day vocabulary of Arabic

Introduces the essentials of Chinese syntax. This book presents Chinese entries in both Pinyin romanization and Chinese characters, and are accompanied, in most cases, by English translations to facilitate self-tuition as well as classroom teaching in both spoken and written Chinese.

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as it is written and spoken today. It includes clear descriptions of all the main grammatical phenomena of French, and their use, illustrated by numerous examples taken from contemporary French, and distinguishes the most common forms of usage, both formal...

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, HAMMER'S GERMAN GRAMMAR AND USAGE FIFTH EDITION provides students and teachers with a complete guide to German as it is written and spoken today.

This third edition incorporates the major developments in language study since the mid 1990s. It includes major new sections on electronic communication and language death. All statistics and maps have been updated, and all sections revised. The book benefits from many new illustrations and a completely fresh text design.

A compendium of useful things for linguistics students to know, from the IPA chart to the Saussurean dichotomies, this book will be the constant companion of anyone undertaking studies of linguistics.