Palaeography and the Practical Study of Court Hand
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Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar
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Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar
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The Grammar Daily: 365 Quick Tips for Successful Writing from Grammar Girl
An updated edition of the classic tip-a-day grammar guide from New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Grammar Girl podcast, Mignon Fogarty. One hundred million podcast downloads say it all: Mignon Fogarty's kicky, practical, and easy-to-remember advice about style and usage has won her fans around the globe. Her first book, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and her weekly grammar podcast has been hailed by USA Today as "authoritative but warm." Here in tip-a-day form, Grammar Girl offers 365 lessons on language that are sure to inspire. Chock-full of bite-sized writing tips, fun quizzes, and efficient memory tricks, The Grammar Daily gives you the tools you need to improve your grammar and become an even better communicator, one day at a time. This revised edition of the book, previously published as The Grammar Devotional, has been updated throughout with new lessons and revised content to reflect shifting concerns in style and usage since initial publication.
Categorial Features
Proposing a novel theory of parts of speech, this book discusses categorization from a methodological and theoretical point a view. It draws on discoveries and insights from a number of approaches - typology, cognitive grammar, notional approaches, and generative grammar - and presents a generative, feature-based theory. Building on up-to-date research and the latest findings and ideas in categorization and word-building, Panagiotidis combines the primacy of categorical features with a syntactic categorization approach, addressing the fundamental, but often overlooked, questions in grammatical theory. Designed for graduate students and researchers studying grammar and syntax, this book is richly illustrated with examples from a variety of languages and explains elements and phenomena central to the nature of human language.
The Universal Structure of Categories
Using data from a variety of languages such as Blackfoot, Halkomelem, and Upper Austrian German, this book explores a range of grammatical categories and constructions, including tense, aspect, subjunctive, case and demonstratives. It presents a new theory of grammatical categories - the Universal Spine Hypothesis - and reinforces generative notions of Universal Grammar while accommodating insights from linguistic typology. In essence, this new theory shows that language-specific categories are built from a small set of universal categories and language-specific units of language. Throughout the book the Universal Spine Hypothesis is compared to two alternative theories - the Universal Base Hypothesis and the No Base Hypothesis. This valuable addition to the field will be welcomed by graduate students and researchers in linguistics.
A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
The Structural Design of Language
Although there have been numerous investigations of biolinguistics within the Minimalist Program over the last ten years, many of which appeal to the importance of Turing's Thesis (that the structural design of systems must obey physical and mathematical laws), these studies have by and large ignored the question of the structural design of language. They have paid significant attention to identifying the components of language - settling on a lexicon, a computational system, a sensorimotor performance system, and a conceptual-intentional performance system; however, they have not examined how these components must be inter-structured to meet thresholds of simplicity, generality, naturalness, and beauty, as well as of biological and conceptual necessity. In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax - the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system - must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems. As simple as this novel design is, it provides, as Stroik and Putnam demonstrate, radical new insights into what the human language faculty is, how language emerged in the species, and how language is acquired by children.
The Syntax of Imperatives
The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and interrogatives, the imperative type has received diverse analyses in the literature. This cutting-edge study puts forward a new linguistic theory of imperatives, arguing that categories of the speech act, specifically Speaker and Addressee, are conceptually necessary for an adequate syntactic account. The book offers compelling empirical and descriptive evidence by surveying new typological data in critical assessment of competing hypotheses towards an indexical syntax of human language. An engaging read for students and researchers interested in linguistics, philosophy and the syntax of language.
Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction
Prosody is generally studied at a separate linguistic level from syntax and semantics. It analyses phonetic properties of utterances such as pitch and prominence, and orders them into phonological categories such as pitch accent, boundary tone, and metrical grid. The goal is to define distinctive formal differentiators of meanings in utterances. But what these meanings are is either excluded or a secondary concern. This book takes the opposite approach, asking what are the basic categories of meaning that speakers want to transmit to listeners? And what formal means do they use to achieve it? It places linguistic form in functions of speech communication, and takes into account all the formal exponents - sounds, words, syntax, prosodies - for specific functional coding. Basic communicative functions such as 'questioning' may be universally assumed, but their coding by linguistic bundles varies between languages. A comparison of function-form systems in English, German and Mandarin Chinese shows this formal diversity for universal functions.
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar
A new edition of a successful undergraduate textbook on contemporary international Standard English grammar, based on Huddleston and Pullum's earlier award-winning work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002). The analyses defended there are outlined here more briefly, in an engagingly accessible and informal style. Errors of the older tradition of English grammar are noted and corrected, and the excesses of prescriptive usage manuals are firmly rebutted in specially highlighted notes that explain what older authorities have called 'incorrect' and show why those authorities are mistaken. Intended for students in colleges or universities who have little or no background in grammar or linguistics, this teaching resource contains numerous exercises and online resources suitable for any course on the structure of English in either linguistics or English departments. A thoroughly modern undergraduate textbook, rewritten in an easy-to-read conversational style with a minimum of technical and theoretical terminology.
The Beginners' Drill-book of English Grammar
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A Practical Malay Grammar
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The Beginners' Drill-book of English Grammar
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A Handbook Of Phonetics, Including A Popular Exposition Of The Principles Of Spelling Reform
A Handbook Of Phonetics, Including A Popular Exposition Of The Principles Of Spelling Reform
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Grammar-land
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The Language of Fashion
The specialised language of fashion draws the research interest of linguists and semioticians as well as communication experts and fashion historians. This volume contributes to advancing the knowledge of crucial aspects in the language of fashion that still need deep investigation. It brings together contributions that shed light on the morphological, lexical, pragmatic, and cultural aspects of the language of fashion, without ignoring cognitive and semiotic phenomena. The diversity of topics and perspectives of the chapters presented here testifies to the variety and vitality of scientific research in the complex and multifaceted language of fashion.
Basic Spanish Grammar
This book is a beginner's guide to basic Spanish grammar.
An Introduction to the Irish Language
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Palaeography and the Practical Study of Court Hand
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Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar
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Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar
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Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar
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Gesenius’s Hebrew Grammar
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Grammar-land
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Gesenius’s Hebrew Grammar
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Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar
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Speech and Interaction of Preadolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Preface1. Introduction1.1. Background1.2. Topics treated in the book1.3. Data1.4. Methods2. Prosody2.1. Overview of previous research on the prosody of persons with ASD2.2. Prosodic characteristics of preadolescent boys with ASD2.3. Perception of atypicality by neurotypical listeners2.4. The role of prosodic features in the creation of comprehension problems2.5. Conclusion3. Disfluencies3.1. Overview of previous research on disfluencies in the speech of persons with ASD3.2. Disfluencies in the speech of preadolescent boys with and without ASD3.3. The role of disfluencies in the creation of comprehension problems3.4. Conclusion4. Comprehension problems4.1. Overview of previous research on conversational repairs in the interaction of persons with ASD4.2. Causes of comprehension problems in group therapy sessions involving preadolescent boys with ASD4.2.1. Overly literal interpretation of speech4.2.2. Topical discontinuities4.2.3. Non-verbal features associated with trouble-source turns: the role of eye contact4.2.4. Other causes of comprehension problems4.3. Conclusion5. Gaze behavior5.1. Overview of previous studies on the role of gaze in interaction from a conversation analytic point of view 5.2. Overview of previous studies on gaze-related features in the interaction of persons with ASD.5.3. Three main patterns used for avoiding eye contact in group therapy sessions involving preadolescents boys with ASD5.3.1. Fixing one's gaze straight ahead5.3.2. Letting one's gaze wander around5.3.3. Looking at one's own hands when speaking5.4. General remarks on the gaze behaviour of preadolescents boys with ASD5.5. Conclusion6. Therapists' response strategies and teaching orientations 6.1. Therapists' response strategies in group therapy sessions involving preadolescent boys with ASD6.1.1. Introduction6.1.2. Five most common response strategies6.1.2.1. Approval 6.1.2.2. Comment on the contents of a turn / turns 6.1.2.3. Question addressed to the whole group 6.1.2.4. Question concerning the contents of a turn / turns 6.1.2.5. Rephrasing the contents of a turn / turns 6.2. Therapists' teaching orientations in group therapy sessions involving preadolescent boys with ASD6.2.1. Introduction6.2.2. Implicit teaching orientation6.2.3. Explicit teaching orientation6.2.4. Prosodic problems: beyond teaching orientations?6.3. Conclusion7. ConclusionBibliography List of transcription conventionsIndex of key words
Syllables
This workbook contains 64 printable handouts to help your students with multisyllable words that are out of context. Each page contains from 18 to 43 words divide into two, three, four, five and six syllables. Section ONE wanders from A to Z, each page dedicated to a letter of the alphabet. Words range from two to six-syllable words.Section TWO covers twenty topics: butterflies, spiders honeybees, weather, trees, cats, dogs, time, cars and trucks, school, airplanes, dinosaurs, action, flowers, space, food, houses, Christopher Columbus, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Each page has about twenty words ranging from two to four syllables.Section THREE focuses on prefixes and suffixes and covers another twenty topics: insects, dogs, books, numbers, sports, buildings, the home, the ocean, writing, mammals, the butterfly, birds, school, technology, food, clothing, holidays, flowers, jobs, and the future. Each page has about twenty words ranging from two to four syllables.Common Core Standards: ELA3.RF.3a and 3.RF.3c and 4.RF.3a and 5.RF.3a
A Field Manual of Acoustic Phonetics
This book provides a practical and easy-to-understand introduction to acoustic speech analysis, primarily aimed at those involved in linguistic analysis and description in the field and at those preparing for such fieldwork. It explains commonly used methods for displaying aspects of a speech wave, such as waveform graphs, spectra, spectrograms, fundamental frequency graphs (pitch graphs), and intensity graphs. It illustrates how the results of acoustic analysis can be interpreted and used to improve the objectivity, accuracy and precision of phonetic descriptions of speech sounds. The book assumes basic knowledge of articulatory phonetics. It can be used to teach introductory courses in acoustic phonetics at the undergraduate level.
Sanskrit Noun declension using Ashtadhyayi Sutras
Sanskrit is coming of Age. More and more Colleges and Universities are offering a degree course in this lingua franca of yore. Many schools across Europe and America are introducing Sanskrit to young learners. In India too there is a revival across the length and breadth, with committed organizations working to reach out to adults and children all over. To understand Sanskrit Grammar, the basic stuff is all about knowing the correct spelling of NOUNS and VERBS. This edition gives the correct spelling of Sanskrit NOUNS, that are commonly seen in literature or those that serve as templates for spellings of other Nouns. It also goes into the Ashtadhyayi of Panini to see what changes are involved to make the final spelling. The 7x3 Sup Table matrices for Nouns in 7 cases and 3 numbers are judiciously arranged, with emphasis on clarity and legibility. Gender of Nouns is explicitly specified, and the mechanism of Original Sup Affixes, and Modified Sup affixes is elaborated. Ashtadhyayi Sutras for Sandhi changes in the Noun spellings are listed, so that the reader understands the background process threadbare.
From Jazz and Rap to Dzhaz and Rep
The book offers an in-depth analysis of English loanword adaptation process in Russian. It is based on a rich body of data presenting the major nativisation patterns of those English sounds absent from Russian in both established and online loans. The formal analysis of the uncovered patterns is couched within the framework of Optimality Theory.
Phonetics in Language Teaching
This Element explores ways in which language teachers, especially teachers of English, can benefit from knowledge of phonetics. It also offers recommendations for introducing and improving pronunciation teaching in the classroom. While hoping that this Element is useful to instructors of all languages, the majority of the examples comes from North American English (NAE) and the English language classroom. At the same time, the Element acknowledges that English language teaching is rather different from the teaching of other languages, since nowadays, most interactions around the world in English do not involve a native speaker, and use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) has become widespread. Teachers of English should be aware that their students may not want to mimic all aspects of native-speaker pronunciation; since some native-speaker patterns of speech, such as the extensive simplification and omission of sounds may not be helpful in enhancing intelligibility.
The Phonetics of Derived Words in English
Effects of morphological structure on phonetic detail present us with two challenges. The empirical challenge is that some predictors have produced inconsistent effects. The theoretical challenge is that it is unclear where morpho-phonetic effects originate from. Do speakers decompose words into morphemes? Or can such effects also originate from non-decompositional structure? This book investigates the durational properties of English derived words in four large-scale corpus studies. In the decompositional perspective, durations are modeled as a function of frequency and segmentability, prosodic structure, and affix informativeness. In the non-decompositional perspective, durations are modeled with predictors derived from linear discriminative learning networks. Results show that the decompositional predictors are far less reliable than previously thought. Meanwhile, some non-decompositional predictors model durations successfully. Discriminative learning is shown to be a promising alternative for modeling speech production. However, the book also demonstrates that many investigated predictors are conceptually interrelated. It ultimately cautions against taking the metaphors we use to describe these predictors as final explanations.
The Phonology of Consonants
The most comprehensive work on dissimilation (the avoidance or repair of combinations of similar sounds) to date, this book proposes a novel analysis that handles dissimilation as the avoidance of surface correspondence relationships. It draws on recent work in Agreement By Correspondence to show that dissimilation is a natural outcome predicted by the same theory of Surface Correspondence. The theory is developed in more detail than ever before, and its predictions are tested and evaluated through ten in-depth analyses of diverse languages from Quechua to Kinyarwanda, together with a typological survey of over 150 dissimilation patterns drawn from over 130 languages, from Acehnese to Zulu. The book redefines the core of Surface Correspondence theory to a level of formal specificity and theoretical precision surpassing previous work. The book's findings are made more accessible by numerous examples featuring data from 47 languages from around the world.
Phase Theory
Phase Theory is the latest empirical and conceptual innovation in syntactic theory within the Chomskyan generative tradition. Adopting a cross-linguistic perspective, this book provides an introduction to Phase Theory, tracing the development of phases in minimalist syntax. It reviews both empirical and theoretical arguments in favor of phases, and examines the role phases play at the interface with semantics and phonology. Analyzing current phasehood diagnostics, it applies them in a systematic fashion to a broad range of syntactic categories, both phases and non-phases. It concludes with a discussion of some of the more contentious issues in Phase Theory, involving cross-linguistic variation with respect to phasehood and the dynamic versus static nature of phases.
Voice Quality
The first description of voice quality production in forty years, this book provides a new framework for its study: The Laryngeal Articulator Model. Informed by instrumental examinations of the laryngeal articulatory mechanism, it revises our understanding of articulatory postures to explain the actions, vibrations and resonances generated in the epilarynx and pharynx. It focuses on the long-term auditory-articulatory component of accent in the languages of the world, explaining how voice quality relates to segmental and syllabic sounds. Phonetic illustrations of phonation types and of laryngeal and oral vocal tract articulatory postures are provided. Extensive video and audio material is available on a companion website. The book presents computational simulations, the laryngeal and voice quality foundations of infant speech acquisition, speech/voice disorders and surgeries that entail compensatory laryngeal articulator adjustment, and an exploration of the role of voice quality in sound change and of the larynx in the evolution of speech.
A Cross-Linguistic Approach to the Syntax of Subjunctive Mood
Proposes a syntactic account of subjunctive embedded clausesOffers a new range of cross-linguistic empirical factsProvides new insights into recent theoretical frameworks
Elements of Style 2017
Elements of Style 2017 is a major update to Strunk's grammar classic, published in 1921. Much has changed since then, and this new, expanded edition presents a set of up-to-date grammar, style, and punctuation rules for today's writers. Packed with useful advice and easy-to-follow examples, the book will help you to write well, self-edit efficiently, and produce a grammar-perfect final draft. If you write anything at all, you should have a copy of this writing guide on your desk.Bestselling author/editor Richard De A'Morelli shares his 30+ years of editorial experience and explains nearly 500 grammar, style, and punctuation rules in a clear and simple way. Read any chapter, follow the practical advice, and you will see an overnight improvement in your writing. Read a chapter a day, and in a few weeks you will be amazed by the polished quality of your final draft.- Writers of all skill levels will discover quick and easy ways to recognize and fix grammar, style, and punctuation errors in their manuscripts.- Students can use these rules to edit and polish book reports, essays, and other homework.- Teachers can use this handbook to help students learn grammar and punctuation rules without the tears.- Employees can follow these simple guidelines in the workplace to produce well-written reports, brochures, and other materials.Clear, concise writing is essential in today's world. For an author, a well-edited manuscript may bring an acceptance letter from a publisher or agent; or if you self-publish, it could generate positive reviews and sales. For students, an impressed instructor could mean an A grade; and in the workplace, a well-written report could mean a pay raise, a promotion, or the success of a business venture.Learn how to improve your grammar, style and punctuation, and take your writing to the next level with Elements of Style 2017.
Grammar Practice and Culture in Igbo Language
Welcome to Grammar Practice and Culture in Igbo Language. Language is generally an art. Further than that, Igbo Language is a communication vehicle with extensive variety. With so many dialects, the language gives the speaker such flexibility to cut and paste, cut and join, mix and match within and outside of any particular dialect. This is a language that utilizes idioms, proverbs, adage, axiom, hyperbole, euphemism and other forms of verbal communication. It is also a language that is deeply rooted in oral tradition, due to the rich historical background of the language.It is easy to see the same nuances that are found in other, and rather universal, languages. Grammar construction that utilizes nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, and prepositions find good outlet in Igbo language. In a lot of places, the word 'Igbo' is presented as 'Igbo'. In this text, it is simply put as 'Igbo', the difference being an inherent diversification in the language that enables the different parts of the community to use either of those words.This text is divided into three parts thus: Grammar, Conversation, and Culture. The Grammar section deals with vowels, consonants, numbers and words. It also deals with forming sentences. The Conversation section features two characters exchanging words as well as asking and answering questions. The Culture section uses events and ceremonies to reveal the way of life of Igbo people.
Elements of Style 2017
Elements of Style 2017 is a major update to Strunk's grammar classic, published in 1921. Much has changed since then, and this new, expanded edition presents a set of up-to-date grammar, style, and punctuation rules for today's writers. Packed with useful advice and easy-to-follow examples, the book will help you to write well, self-edit efficiently, and produce a grammar-perfect final draft. If you write anything at all, you should have a copy of this writing guide on your desk.Bestselling author/editor Richard De A'Morelli shares his 30+ years of editorial experience and explains nearly 500 grammar, style, and punctuation rules in a clear and simple way. Read any chapter, follow the practical advice, and you will see an overnight improvement in your writing. Read a chapter a day, and in a few weeks you will be amazed by the polished quality of your final draft.- Writers of all skill levels will discover quick and easy ways to recognize and fix grammar, style, and punctuation errors in their manuscripts.- Students can use these rules to edit and polish book reports, essays, and other homework.- Teachers can use this handbook to help students learn grammar and punctuation rules without the tears.- Employees can follow these simple guidelines in the workplace to produce well-written reports, brochures, and other materials.Clear, concise writing is essential in today's world. For an author, a well-edited manuscript may bring an acceptance letter from a publisher or agent; or if you self-publish, it could generate positive reviews and sales. For students, an impressed instructor could mean an A grade; and in the workplace, a well-written report could mean a pay raise, a promotion, or the success of a business venture.Learn how to improve your grammar, style and punctuation, and take your writing to the next level with Elements of Style 2017.
Language and Dialect Contact in Ireland
Warren Maguire examines Mid-Ulster English as a key case of new dialect formation, considering the roles of language shift and dialect contact in its phonological development. He explores the different processes which led to the development of MUE through contact between dialects of English, Scots and Irish and examines the history of a wide range of consonantal and vocalic features. In addition to determining the phonological origins of MUE, Maguire shows us why the dialect developed in the way that it did and considers what the phonology of the dialect can tell us about the nature of contact between the input language varieties. In doing so, he demonstrates the kinds of analysis and techniques that can be used to explain the development of extra-territorial varieties of English and colonial dialects in complex situations of contact, and shows that Irish English provides a useful testing-ground for models of new dialect formation.As one of the oldest 'new' extra-territorial varieties of English, one which developed in a context of language and dialect contact, MUE provides an excellent opportunity to study how new dialects develop in situations of settlement colonisation.
Grammar and Style Choices for College Writers
This textbook provides a practical guide to grammar and style choices for college writers, giving students a basic vocabulary for thinking and talking about language use and enabling them to make purposeful choices in their writing.
