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This book provides a detailed study of Icelandic argument structure alternations within a syntactic theory of argument structure. Building on recent theorizing within the Minimalist Program and Distributed Morphology, the author proposes that much of what is traditionally attributed to syntax should...

The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii) through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages. Taken together the chapters in this volume present...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Antoine Arnauld (1612-1694) est l’un des chefs de file du jansénisme, qui fut l’ adversaire à la fois des Jésuites et des mouvements protestants. En France, ce courant dissident du catholicisme a son centre intellectuel...

L'ablativo: questo sconosciuto? Ma cosa sono i verbi deponenti? E cosa si intende per «genere neutro»? Oggi leggere e tradurre dal latino non è più un problema: dalla fonetica alla morfologia, dalle declinazioni dei sostantivi alle coniugazioni dei verbi, dalla sintassi della frase a quella del...

Transformational syntax is an analytic technique of grammatical description which has exciting psychological and philosophical ramifications inspiring creative research into the conceptual powers and behaviour of man. In this book, first published in 1971, the author suggests that the techniques of...

The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical linguists to rethink many standard assumptions...

The elaboration of linguistic theories depends on the existence of adequate descriptions of particular languages; otherwise theories will be poorly grounded on empirical data. This book starts from theoretical points of wide acceptance among linguists and goes on to present a descriptive metalanguage,...

The volume contains most updated theoretical and empirical research on foreign or second language processes analyzed from the perspective of cognition and affect. It consists of articles devoted to various issued related to such broad topics as gender, literacy, translation or culture, to mention...

This book is the first collection of studies on an important yet under-investigated linguistic phenomenon, the processing and production of head-final syntactic structures. Until now, the remarkable progress made in the field of human sentence processing had been achieved largely by investigating...

The History of the Bengali Language by Bijay Chandra Majumdar The following lectures on the History of the Bengali Language are intended to give a sketch, in broad outline, of the origins of that language and the various influences, linguistic, ethnic, social, that shaped and moulded its earlier...

The education system provides a great way to peer into the potential of the human mind, but its come up short in unleashing it. Marquis R. Nave, who has taught English at the college level for 10 years, has discovered that students minds are the center of education and that their ideas about...

This volume covers the day-to-day activities of a non-native English speaking student carrying out research, attending lectures, socializing, and living in a foreign country.  Whether on a US campus as a foreign student, or in a non-English speaking country where classes are given in English, this book will help students build confidence in interacting with professors and fellow students.

Guillaume's theory of psychomechanics views language as systematic and semiotic, with the use of verb forms governed by the meaning we want to express, which is embedded in the unconscious resources of one's native tongue rather than in rules. Through his application of Guillaume's framework Walter...

Come si fa l’analisi logica di una frase? Come si distinguono i complementi? La prima parte dell’ebook è dedicata all’esposizione chiara e completa della sintassi della frase con tutte le definizioni e un numero notevole di esempi. Nella seconda parte viene proposta una miriade di frasi da...