Category: Linguistics

By Sylvie Donna, Jonathan Marks

Курс по отработке произношения для обучающихся уровня effortless и выше.
Курс разбит на 50 юнитов, охватывающих основные аспекты произношения: отработку отдельных звуков, правильного ударения в словах, темпа речи и интонации в предложениях. Каждый юнит сопровождается адаптированными аудио-материалами на CD, озвученными британскими носителями языка.

Структура юнитов построена по стандартной схеме книг серии "In Use": информация дается на левой странице разворота, на правой странице приводятся упражнения.
В конце книги приводится дополнительная справочная информация: ключи с ответами, заключительные упражнения по материалам всего курса.

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На сайте уже есть продолжение этого курса, уровень Intermediate (продолжающие).

By John McMenemy

With approximately six hundred cross-referenced entries, The Language of Canadian Politics bargains short essays at the many features of the Canadian political procedure, together with associations, occasions, legislation, ideas, and public regulations. Concisely written, it truly is a massive source for individuals drawn to modern politics, in addition to these attracted to the historical context of up to date political behaviour. Readers now not acquainted with Canadian govt and politics will locate the publication a useful creation; others will welcome this up to date fundamental reference. The fourth version builds at the strengths of prior variants. virtually each access has been revised to mirror modern Canadian political occasions, and lots of new ones were extra. the implications and instant aftermath of the 2006 federal election are integrated in a variety of up to date entries. There are entries at the merged innovative Conservative and Canadian Alliance events in addition to new entries at the Anti-Terrorist Act, the general public security Act, and the Council of the Federation. The Sponsorship Scandal and the Gomery studies are integrated in different entries. there's new info on nationwide protection certificate, and the O’Connor inquiry into the "extraordinary rendition" of Maher Arar includes a part of the revised fabric on commissions of inquiry. As one other source, websites were extra to the various entries.

By Niels Davidsen-Nielsen

By Rudolph Franz Flesch

Guide on writing sincerely and concisely.

By Robert Fiengo

Asking Questions examines a important phenomenon of language -- using sentences to invite questions. even though there's a sizeable literature at the syntax and semantics of interrogatives, the common sense of "questions", and the speech act of wondering, nobody has attempted to place the syntax and semantics including the speech acts over the whole variety of phenomena we pretheoretically reflect on as asking questions. Robert Fiengo not just does this, but in addition takes up a few extra foundational matters within the idea of language.

By positioning the findings of latest grammatical theorizing in the higher area of language use, Fiengo demanding situations the use theorist to recognize the significance of grammatical shape and the grammarian to recognize the significance of use. as well as constructing an Austinian contrast among 4 wondering speech-acts, and a suggestion about the philosophy of language, Asking Questions incorporates a worthy dialogue of the type-token contrast and the way use of language compares with use of different issues. Fiengo additionally considers the character of a number of questions, revealing what one needs to recognize to invite them, and what speech acts one might practice while asking them.

Asking Questions advances our figuring out of quite a lot of concerns in a couple of vital respects. students and scholars of linguistics and philosophy will locate lots to curiosity them during this pioneering work.

By Borbala Keszler, Klara Lengyel, Katalin Horvath

Konzeption: Diese Grammatik stützt sich sowohl auf die culture der klassischen ungarischen Sprachbeschreibung als auch auf neueste Forschungsergebnisse der vor allem westeuropäischen Grammatikographie.
Systematisch, ausführlich und wissenschaftlich fundiert werden die wichtigsten grammatischen Strukturen dargestellt und anhand von Beispielen aus der Umgangs- und Literatursprache veranschaulicht.

Inhalt: Einleitung – Morphologie I: Wortformenlehre – Morphologie II: Wortarten (Die Grundwortarten, das Funktionswort, Satzäquivalente) – Morphologie III: Wortbildung – Syntax I: Syntagmen – Syntax II: Sätze (Die Satzglieder, die unterordnenden Satzverbindungen, die nebenordnenden Satzverbindungen, examine des mehrfach zusammengesetzten Satzes) – Anhang – Literaturverzeichnis – sign up.

By Wayne Leman

An outline of the grammar of the Cheyenne language, with illustrative sentences and texts.

By Uli Sauerland, Penka Stateva

All people can interpret sentences in their local language speedy and with no attempt. operating from the viewpoint of generative grammar, the participants examine 3 psychological mechanisms, generally assumed to underlie this skill: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation. This quantity brings jointly specialists from semantics and pragmatics to convey ahead the learn of interconnections among those 3 mechanisms. The contributions advance new insights into very important empirical phenomena; for instance, approximation, loose selection, lodging, and exhaustivity results.

By FFRandonnée