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This volume explores the interpretation of indefinites and the constraints on their distribution by paying particular attention to key issues in the interface between syntax and semantics: the relation between the semantic properties of indefinite...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772454048Author Learning English CurriculumFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Learning English CurriculumPublisher Learning English...

First published in 1913, this book contains an adaptation of Ein Schloss in den Ardennen by the German author Friedrich Wilhelm von Hacklander (1816-77). Aimed at school pupils, the text is presented in German with phonetic transcriptions of difficult...

The contributions collected in this book provide a wide range of perspectives on and prospects for the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF), and explore various contexts where ELF is used predominantly: Academic and research settings as well as...

Die Schwerpunkte des 50. Bandes sind vielfältig und reichen von der Analyse einer Reihe literarischer Texte aus unterschiedlichen theoretischen Perspektiven über die Bewertung des Sprachgebrauchs in verschiedenen soziopolitischen Kontexten bis hin zu...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639079517Author Zhen ZengFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 141g

Originally published in 1938, this book was created to provide exercises in French prose and free composition for school students. The text is divided into four sections: section one contains an outline of French syntax; section two presents prose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781465215208Author Joy C. BetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737638445Author Steve CombsFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Old Paths Publications, IncPublisher Old Paths Publications, IncWeight(grams) 499g

Spanish is spoken as a first language by almost 400 million people in approximately 60 countries, and has been the subject of numerous political processes and debates since it began to spread globally from Iberia in the thirteenth century. A Political...

'The substance of these lectures', John Rhys states in his preface, 'was delivered at Aberystwyth College in 1874 ... but it is hoped that they will also be found intelligible to other than Welsh readers'. Rhys (originally Rees, 1840-1915) had been a...

Collocations are especially needed for translators, especially in the final phase of production of the target language text. This book proposes an integrated methodology, based on the information extracted from dictionaries and corpus, to encode and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639355321Author Colleen Sylvia Kreidl NiklausFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 118g

The present volume offers a selection of papers on current issues in Slavic languages. It takes stock of the past 20 years of linguistic research at the Department of Slavic Studies at Leipzig University. Within these two decades, the scientific writing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781463340100Author Ruth RouxFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint PalibrioPublisher PalibrioWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, historical, and socio-cultural perspective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using a cohesive approach to provide new theoretical insights into language shift, language acquisition and...

Originally published in 1933, this German course was created 'primarily to meet the need of a prose manual which may be used in form from the time a boy begins the translation of connected passages to the time he leaves school'. The text is divided into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176351031Author Annika JohanssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Stockholm University PressPublisher Stockholm University PressWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596057302Author Marcus Tullius CiceroFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 503g

The Indo-Aryan language family is a branch of the Indo-European phylum, and includes Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Kashmiri and Gujarati. First published in 1875, this three-volume comparative grammar of the family was written by the British civil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639024470Author Padmini GaunderFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 263g

The Global World is a pivotal formula in present-day "Newspeak". The book's leitmotif - if it is true that the faces of today's global world are manifold - is that language opens to the other, that the word's boundaries are the multiple...

Ever since Odysseus heard tales of his own exploits being retold among strangers, audiences and readers have been alive to the complications and questions arising from the translation of myth. How are myths taken and carried over into new languages, new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782383720034Author Goetz SchwabFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Research-Publishing.NetPublisher Research-Publishing.NetWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648890727Author James G MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This book uses a complex systems perspective to describe how a language school in Greece evolved, and at times resisted change. Starting with an accessible introduction to complex systems theory (CST), it uses a complexity perspective to interpret data...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241510640Author James Stanley LittleFormat PaperbackImprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110663785Author Tim SeuchterFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426981869Author Ronald HaladynaFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 654g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781446754696Author Nikola TravnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Lulu Press IncPublisher Lulu Press IncWeight(grams) 86g

A Course in Applied Linguistics for Arab EFL/ESL Students has been developed keeping in view the academic needs of native-Arabic speakers learning English as a second/foreign language. The book in the process of understanding how students acquire second...

Originally published in 1941, this book contains a series of passages in French gathered together to provide material for students practising English translation. The passages cover a wide range of subject matter and are of varying difficulty. This book...

Originally published in 1925, this book presents a series of passages intended for translation by advanced students of German. The passages were chosen 'so as to afford as wide a range of style and vocabulary as possible' and cover a variety of German...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913825812Author Margaret CoozeFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Prosperity EducationPublisher Prosperity EducationWeight(grams) 268g

Bilingual and bicultural scholar Yeng-Seng Goh offers the first in-depth English language analysis of global Chinese, exploring the spread of Chinese beyond China and its emergence as a global language. Approaching the topic from a Singapore perspective,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581129588Author Kelechukwu U IhemereFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher Universal PublishersWeight(grams)...

1. 0 INTRODUCTION This book provides an encompassing analysis of Subject Clitics (SCLs) by giving a detailed description of these elements in two varieties of Piedmontese, a Northern Italian Dialect: Astigiano and Turinese spoken in the areas of Asti and...

The aim of this monograph is an attempt to examine the relationship between collective memory and oral texts. The material basis for this presentation consists of folklore oral texts, both prosaic and poetic, different as regards their genres (fairy...