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Taylor & Francis African American Creole and Other Vernacular Englishes in Education NCTERoutledge Research Serie
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The University of Michigan Press Open Sesame
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Faber & Faber Service Slang
Book SynopsisDesperate to avoid ''bubble-dancing'', join the ''dromestoners'' or eat a nice ''tiddly oggy''? Baffled? Well, pull yourself out of the ''aspargus bed'' and dip into Service Slang to find out what these expressions and many more mean. First published in 1943, this is a facsimile reissue, complete with the original witty illustrations. You would be a ''sad apple'' to call it a dictionary, it is more a light-hearted survey of expressions prevalent in the Army, Navy and R.A.F. during the Second World War. ''Chocks away'' and ''draw your pint''.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Historical Linguistics Problems and Perspectives Longman Linguistics Library
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Watching English Change An Introduction to the
Book SynopsisExamines the ways language has changed in the twentieth century. It concentrates on standard English and takes a historical rather than sociolinguistic view of the changes which have occurred.Table of ContentsHow to use this bookGuide to phonetic symbols1. Introduction2. Lexical Change3. Grammatical Change4. Sound Change5. Other ChangesTheoretical Perspective
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Aspects of Language Variation in Arabic Political SpeechMaking
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Phonological System of a Hungarian Dialect Uralic Altaic
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Hippocrene Books Haitian CreoleEnglishEnglishHaitian Creole
Book SynopsisThe pocket-sized guide to Haitian Creole for basic communicationPerfect for travelers, students, and heritage speakers, this compact volume contains over 8,000 total entries. Haitian Creole, or kreyol ayisyen, is the national language of Haiti and spoken throughout the Caribbean and in Haitan communities in the U.S. and Canada. This guide also includes a short introduction to Haitian Creole grammar, common sense phonetic pronunciation for Creole and English, and modern, up-to-date entries in an easy-to-use format. Two-way format is suited to both English and Creole speakers. Also available: Haitian Creole Practical Dictionary and Haitian Creole Dicitonary & Phrasebook.
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Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S. CreoleEnglishEnglishCreole Caribbean Concise
Book SynopsisThis dictionary contains commonsense phonetic pronunciations for Creole and English, modern up-to-date entries, and a section on Creole proverbs.
£10.44
Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S. Western Words A Dictionary of the Old West
Book SynopsisWestern Words has 5,000 words of cowboy language as vibrant now as it was in the old American frontier. Within the cowman''s figures of speech lie the rich field of his subtle humor and strength-unique, original, full-flavored. With his usually limited education he squeezes the juice from language, molds it to suit his needs, and is a genius at making a verb out of anything. He ''don''t have to fish ''round for no decorated language to make his meanin'' clear,'' and has little patience with the man who ''spouts words that run eight to the pound.'' Perhaps the strength and originality in his speech are due to the solitude, the nearness of the stars, the bigness of the country, and the far horizons-all of which give him a chance to think clearly and go into the depths of his own mind. Wide spaces ''don''t breed chatterboxes.'' On his long and lonely rides, he is not forced to listen to the scandal and idle gossip that dwarf a man''s mind. Quite frequently he has no one to talk to but a h
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University of Pennsylvania Press Language in the Inner City
Book SynopsisLanguage in the Inner City firmly establishes African American Vernacular English not simply as slang but as a well-formed set of rules of pronunciation and grammar capable of conveying complex logic and reasoning and confirms the Black vernacular as a separate and independent dialect of English.Trade Review"Get it . . . read it . . . study it. Labov's book is a complete description of the features, issues, and instructional implications pertaining to black dialect." * Contemporary Psychology *"Valuable for speech and language pathologists, school personnel, educators, language-related professionals, psychologists, and others who have any contact with inner city populations." * Journal of the American Speech and Hearing Association *Table of ContentsFigures Tables Introduction PART I- THE STRUCTURE OF THE BLACK ENGLISH VERNACULAR 1- Some Sources of Reading Problems for Speakers of the Black English Vernacular 2- Is the Black English Vernacular a Separate System? 3- Contraction, Deletion, and Inherent Variability of the English Copula 4- Negative Attraction and Negative Concord PART II- THE VERNACULAR IN ITS SOCIAL SETTING 5- The Logic of Nonstandard English 6- The Relation of Reading Failure to Peer-group Status 7- The Linguistic Consequences of Being a Lame PART III THE USES OF THE BLACK ENGLISH VERNACULAR 8- Rules for Ritual Insults 9- The Transformation of Experience in Narrative Syntax Bibliography Index
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Georgetown University Press Studies in Caribbean Spanish Dialectology
Book SynopsisThe editors and fourteen other research linguists discussin English and in Spanishthe African influence on Caribbean phonology, dominant sociolinguistic attitudes in Puerto Rico, and historico-legal aspects of bilingualism in colonial Hispanic America.
£43.20
Georgetown University Press American Spanish Pronunciation
Book SynopsisThe scholar-editors and eight accomplished colleagues together offer views of phonological research on American Spanish.
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The University of Michigan Press The Tai Dialect of Lungming
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Blast Books,U.S. Junk English
Book SynopsisIn Junk English, Ken Smith takes on the misuse, abuse, and downright decay of the English language. His weapons? A sharp wit and an almost frightening grasp of the depths of the decline. Written so that the ordinary writer and speaker of English can readily see how the manipulation of words keeps the culture in a haze of misunderstandings and vagueness, Junk English covers the whole spectrum of the problem. In short sections such as Butt-Covering,” Feeble Beginnings,” God Is on Our Team,” Sports Talk,” and Touchy-Feely Therapy Talk,” Smith shows how everyone from Madison Avenue to middle America has succumbed to euphemisms, mindless jargon, and weasel words. The book’s inclusion of basic advice on how to avoid lazy language shows there’s at least some hope for the future.
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Cambridge University Press Conversations with Strangers
Book SynopsisThis Element documents the evolution of a research program that began in the early 1960s with the author's first investigation of language change on Martha's Vineyard. It traces the development of what has become the basic framework for studying language variation and change.Table of Contents1. Prologue: What this Element is about; 2. Growing up in New Jersey; 3. Martha's Vineyard: Donald Poole, Fisherman; 4. New York City: Rose Barisse, Garment Worker; 5. New York City: Michael Duffy, Fireman; 6. Rural Pennsylvania: Bill Peters, Farmer; 7. Rural Utah: Brad Anders, Dairy Farmer; 8. Hillsborough, North Carolina: Adolphus Hester, Farmer; 9. Knoxville, Tennessee: Louise Atkins, Domestic Worker; 10. East Atlanta: Henry Guyton, Railway Foreman; 11. Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Celeste Sweeney, Saleswoman; 12. Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Gloria Stein, Postal clerk; 13. Final Words; References.
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Cambridge University Press Borrowings in Informal American English
Book SynopsisBased on a rich range of contemporary sources, this insightful and practical book provides a comprehensive description of borrowings in informal American English, including their donors, types, changes, functions, and themes. It features a glossary of 1,200 expressions, making it an essential resource for students and researchers in linguistics.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Foundations; 2. Terms; 3. Donors; 4. Types; 5. Changes; 6. Functions; 7. Themes; Conclusions; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Listening to the Past
Book SynopsisAudio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and thus complement the written data sources for the recent history of the language. This book is the first to bring together a team of globally recognised scholars to document and analyse these early recordings in a single volume. Looking at examples of regional varieties of English from England, Scotland, Ireland, the USA, Canada and other anglophone countries, the volume explores both standard and vernacular varieties, and demonstrates how accents of English have changed between the late nineteenth century and the present day. The socio-phonetic examinations of the recordings will be of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, the history of the English language, language variation and change, phonetics, and phonology.Trade Review'This is a broad, ambitious, and enlightening use of previously untapped sources. The collection provides an exciting new dimension to the analysis of variation and change in twentieth-century English.' Donka Minkova, University of California, Los Angeles'This is the first major publication to tap the wealth of available archival sound recordings for the historical study of spoken English. The editor is to be commended for bringing together a strong line-up of experts and for covering British and American English as well as several New Englishes.' Christian Mair, University of Freiburg'I am very glad that this book exists. As someone who is interested in all aspects of the phonological history of English, I find it a delight to see so much that is new and appetite-whetting gathered together in one volume, especially given that most of the chapters are discussing varieties that are far from the standard forms of English that have often been (understandably but frustratingly) the focus of much historical research.' Patrick Honeybone, Journal of Historical SociolinguisticsTable of Contents1. Analysing early audio recordings Raymond Hickey; 2. British Library sound recordings of vernacular speech Jonathan Robinson; 3. Twentieth-century received pronunciation: prevocalic /r/ Anne Fabricius; 4. Twentieth-century received pronunciation: stop articulation Raymond Hickey; 5. Early London English Paul Kerswill and Eivind Torgersen; 6. Merseyside Kevin Watson and Lynn Clark; 7. Scotland - Glasgow and the Central Belt Jane Stuart-Smith and Eleanor Lawson; 8. Early recordings of Irish English Raymond Hickey; 9. Evidence of American regional dialects in early recordings Matthew J. Gordon and Christopher Strelluf; 10. New England Daniel Ezra Johnson and David Durian; 11. Upper Midwestern English Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy and Joseph Salmons; 12. Western United States Valerie Fridland and Tyler Kendall; 13. Analysis of the ex-slave recordings Erik R. Thomas; 14. Archival data on earlier Canadian English Charles Boberg; 15. Canadian raising in Newfoundland? Sandra Clarke, Paul De Decker and Gerard Van Herk; 16. The Caribbean Shelome Gooden and Kathy-Ann Drayton; 17. West Africa Magnus Huber; 18. Earlier South Africa English Ian Bekker; 19. Tristan da Cunha Daniel Schreier; 20. Australia Felicity Cox; 21. Early New Zealand English: the closing diphthongs Márton Sóskuthy, Jennifer Hay, Margaret Maclagan, Katie Drager and Paul Foulkes; 22. The development of recording technology Raymond Hickey.
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Cambridge University Press The Singlish Controversy
Book SynopsisSinglish is the colloquial variety of English spoken in Singapore. It has sparked much public debate, but so far the complex question of what Singlish really is and what it means to its speakers has remained obscured. This important work explores some of the socio-political controversies surrounding Singlish, such as the political ideologies inherent in Singlish discourse, the implications of being restricted to Singlish for those speakers without access to standard English, the complex relationship between Singlish and migration, and the question of whether Singlish is an asset or a liability to Singaporeans. These questions surrounding Singlish illustrate many current issues in language, culture and identity in an age of rapid change. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of World Englishes and sociolinguistics. Its detailed analysis of the Singlish controversy will illuminate broader questions about language, identity and globalization.Trade Review'Wee's book, which combines theoretical discussions with relevant examples, is … a welcome reality check for language researchers, educators, and policy makers to reassess their claims and positions beyond narrow linguistic descriptions, evaluative discourse, and linguistics prejudices.' Stefanie Pillai, Language in SocietyTable of Contents1. Language policy in Singapore: English, Singlish and the mother tongues; 2. Ideology pooling and metadiscursive convergence in the Singlish debate; 3. Language experts, linguistic chutzpah and the Speak Good Singlish Movement; 4. Voice: who speaks about Singlish?; 5. The commodification of Singlish; 6. Singlish, migration and mobility; 7. What is Singlish? Language, culture and identity in a globalizing world.
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Cambridge University Press The Italic Dialects 2 Volume Set
Book SynopsisPublished in 1897, this two-volume work by Robert Seymour Conway (1864?1933), classical scholar and comparative philologist, later Hulme Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester, aims to shed light on the origins of the Latin language and Roman institutions by careful examination of the dialects and customs of Rome''s neighbours. The work is laid out in geographical order, so that the influence of one dialect on its neighbours can be traced. The first volume collects all the surviving remains of Oscan, Umbrian and other minor Italic dialects, gleaned primarily from epigraphic sources (such as Oscan inscriptions at Pompeii), but also from the evidence of coins, glosses and other references in later writers, and geographical and proper names from the dialect areas. The second volume contains an alphabet, a grammar and syntax of the dialects, appendices, indexes of names and a glossary of the dialect words.
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Cambridge University Press Rhyme over Reason
Book SynopsisWe are fascinated by what words sound like. This fascination also drives us to search for meaning in sound - thereby contradicting the principle of the arbitrariness of the linguistic sign. Phonesthemes, onomatopoeia or rhyming compounds all share the property of carrying meaning by virtue of what they sound like, simply because language users establish an association between form and meaning. By drawing on a wide array of examples, ranging from conventionalized words and expressions to brand names and slogans, this book offers a comprehensive account of the role that sound symbolism and rhyme/alliteration plays in English, and by doing so, advocates a more relaxed view of the category ''morpheme'' that is able to incorporate less regular word-formation processes.Trade Review'Rejecting the long dominant Saussurean view that language consists very largely of arbitrary sound-meaning associations and is primarily designed for the communication of referential meaning, Benczes takes us on a richly illustrated journey into a world of interrelated English word forms and of meanings affected by sounds and sound patterns. These lexical interactions are the expressive source of everyday language that serves to entertain, arouse, soothe and instruct as much as to inform. This is a book to tickle the reader's fancy, tempting us to try our own hand at discovering such phenomena as onomatopoeia and phonesthemes, rhyming compounds and irreversible binomials. These unconscious influences between form and meaning and form and form are all ways in which our language is continually shaped by what we already know - information essential for anyone concerned with first or second language learning or simply with delving more deeply into the nature of language.' Marilyn Vihman, University of YorkTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Phonological motivation in language evolution and development; 3. Phonetic symbolism; 4. Onomatopoeia; 5. Rhyme and alliteration in blends and compounds; 6. Words, words, words: rhyme and repetition in multi-word expressions; 7. Conclusions: the piggy in the middle.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Las variedades del mundo hispano
Book SynopsisLas variedades del mundo hispano tiene un acercamiento nuevo a la dialectología española, ya que guía a los estudiantes por las macrovariedades fascinantes y diversas del mundo hispano.Un libro de texto único escrito en español que ofrece una introducción atractiva y accesible a la dialectología española, sus ámbitos claves incluyen: la cobertura de España, Sudamérica, Centroamérica, y Norteamérica; el libro de texto contiene una mezcla ideal de teoría y práctica; secciones de Práctica que contienen ejercicios para reforzar el aprendizaje; e incluye actividades que invitan a los estudiantes a explorar materiales de video y audio en el sitio web que acompaña el libro de texto. Además, el libro de texto incluye un componente de redes sociales que deja que los estudiantes aprendan en un formato que ha sido poco utilizado en cursos universitarios.Aunque principalmente fue diseñado para estudiantes de dialectología y fonética, tanto a nivel subgraduado como Table of ContentsUNIDAD 1: LOS ELEMENTOS BÁSICOS Y LA VARIACIÓN LECTAL EN ESPAÑA1. Introducción a la fonética y fonología españolas1.0 Introducción1.1 ¿Qué es el alfabeto fonético internacional?1.2 Fonética y fonología españolas1.3 La transcripción fonética1.4 Los inventarios de consonantes y vocales1.5 Contenido adicional1.6 Práctica2. La dialectología: la geografía e historia2.0 Introducción2.1 ¿Cómo se ve un mapa (lingüístico) del mundo hispano?2.2 Los países hispanohablantes y sus capitales2.3 La historia del español en España2.4 La historia del español en Latinoamérica2.5 Contenido adicional2.6 Práctica3. España: el centro-norteño3.0 Introducción3.1 ¿Por qué los españoles hablan con un sonido que suena como th en inglés?3.2 Las características fonéticas y fonológicas3.3 Las características morfosintácticas 3.4 Las características léxicas3.5 Contenido adicional3.6 Práctica4. España: el andaluz y el canario4.0 Introducción4.1 ¿Por qué no pronuncian la letra s al final de las palabras?4.2 Las características fonéticas y fonológicas4.3 Las características morfosintácticas 4.4 Las características léxicas4.5 Contenido adicional4.6 PrácticaUNIDAD 2: LAS MACROVARIEDADES EN NORTEAMÉRICA5. México5.0 Introducción5.1 ¿Por qué muchas palabras en México terminan en –ote?5.2 Las características fonéticas y fonológicas5.3 Las características morfosintácticas 5.4 Las características léxicas5.5 Contenido adicional5.6 Práctica6. Centroamérica6.0 Introducción6.1 ¿Por qué mis amigos de Guatemala me tratan de vos?6.2 Las características fonéticas y fonológicas6.3 Las características morfosintácticas 6.4 Las características léxicas6.5 Contenido adicional6.6 Práctica7. El Caribe7.0 Introducción7.1 ¿Por qué mi amigo dice hablal en vez de hablar?7.2 Las características fonéticas y fonológicas7.3 Las características morfosintácticas 7.4 Las características léxicas7.5 Contenido adicional7.6 Práctica8. El español en los EE. UU.8.0 Introducción8.1 ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre Spanglish y el español de los Estados Unidos?8.2 Las características fonéticas y fonológicas8.3 Las características morfosintácticas 8.4 Las características léxicas8.5 Contenido adicional8.6 PrácticaUNIDAD 3: LAS MACROVARIEDADES EN SUDAMÉRICA9. La región andina9.0 Introducción9.1 ¿Qué es ese sonido que oigo cuando dicen "ella compró el pollo"?9.2 Las características fonéticas y fonológicas9.3 Las características morfosintácticas 9.4 Las características léxicas9.5 Contenido adicional9.6 Práctica10. Río de la Plata10.0 Introducción10.1 ¿Por qué escucho un sonido como sh cuando dicen "Yo ya la llamé"?10.2 Las características fonéticas y fonológicas10.3 Las características morfosintácticas 10.4 Las características léxicas10.5 Contenido adicional10.6 Práctica11. La región central y sureña de Chile11.0 Introducción11.1 ¿Hay la forma de vosotros en Chile?11.2 Las características fonéticas y fonológicas11.3 Las características morfosintácticas 11.4 Las características léxicas11.5 Contenido adicional11.6 Práctica12. Paraguay12.0 Introducción12.1 Dado que el guaraní es un idioma oficial allí, ¿Cuál es la situación lingüística allí?12.2 Las características fonéticas y fonológicas12.3 Las características morfosintácticas 12.4 Las características léxicas12.5 Contenido adicional12.6 PrácticaEl epílogoE.0 Introducción al capítuloE.1 ¿Dónde se habla el español en el continente africano?E.2 Los territorios españoles en MarruecosE.3 La haketía E.4 El caso particular de GibraltarE.5 Guinea EcuatorialE.6 PrácticaLos apéndicesA1. El Alfabeto Fonético Internacional (AFI)A2. Los principales fonos (en AFI) del españolA3. ¡Mejoremos la pronunciación!A4. La acentuación en la ortografíaA5. La transcripción para más de una palabra
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Gibbs M. Smith Inc Spanish Slanguage
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Gibbs Smith French Slanguage A Fun Visual Guider to French
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc William Faulkner Gavin Stevens and the Cavalier
Book SynopsisMany readers imagine Gavin Stevens as the character most similar to William Faulkner in all of his apocryphal Yoknapatawpha, and while Stevens was once considered the most reliable Faulknerian spokesperson, ample scholarship has demonstrated that he functions as far more than merely the author's mouthpiece. In William Faulkner, Gavin Stevens, and the Cavalier Tradition, Lorie Watkins Fulton defines Stevens's role and examines the scope of his influence. Fulton proposes that Faulkner uses similarities between himself and Stevens to voice, at a fictional remove, concerns about people of his own class and even of his own ancestry. Ultimately, she suggests that Stevens's manipulations of the law, his misunderstanding of human beings, and his rhetorically high-minded pursuit of not so much truth as of justice, or of justice as he sees it remove him ideologically only a degree or two away from the most terrifying dictators of the twentieth century.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc The Verbal Aspect Integral to the Perfect and
Book SynopsisThis book argues that the verbal aspect of the Greek Perfect is complex, involving not one but two aspects, where the perfective applies to events and the imperfective applies to states. These two aspects are connected to specific morphemes in the Perfect tense-form. This study analyses Perfect tense-forms in discursive text by focusing on the Pauline Corpus. The method is grounded in grammaticalisation studies and informed by morphology, comparative linguistics, and historical linguistics. The argument is further supported by a corpus-based study showing both the Greek Perfect tense-form use in letters over an 800-year period and adverb collocations of the Perfect tense-form. The adverb collocations establish when a Perfect is used for an event or for a state. This study challenges other verbal aspect studies that find only one verbal aspect to explain the Greek Perfect. This study situates the Pauline Perfect tense-form usage within a spectrum of other letter writers, and finds thTrade Review“Sedlacek provides a coherent, well theorised, and carefully argued case for a complex aspect for the synthetic Greek perfect tense-form in the Pauline corpus and comparative sources from ca 400 BCE to 400 CE. His critique of previous scholarship on the topic identifies areas of misunderstanding in ways that will unsettle serious students of Hellenistic Greek and arouse their interest in Sedlacek’s own constructive proposals.” —Todd Klutz, Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Early Christian Literature, University of Manchester“James Sedlacek’s analysis of verbal aspect with respect to perfects in the Pauline writings brings to the table a multidisciplinary approach that invokes corpus linguistics in the pursuit of both semantic and pragmatic angles. He interacts with major published works on aspect, arguing that (plu-)perfect forms point to an imperfective state, a perfect action, or both, while noting that context-relevance cannot be discerned merely from the use of the form itself. Readers will appreciate the author’s care in documenting his interactions via substantive citations of current scholarship as well as charting of the Pauline, classical and patristic Greek data that go to the argument. The discussion is engaging and quite informative in its pursuit of advancing our understanding of perfect ‘tense’ forms.” —Jonathan M. Watt, Professor of Biblical Studies, Chair of Department of Bible Christian Ministries and Philosophy, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania“James Sedlacek’s research offers a fresh way forward in understanding the Greek synthetic perfect tense-form based on his thorough investigation of both recent and older scholarship on the topic, on his own comprehensive analysis of the Pauline Corpus, and comparison between Paul and a diachronic Greek epistolary and moral literature corpus from 400 BCE to 400 CE. His work is both systematic and clear, complex and balanced, interdisciplinary and most innovative in arguing for the presence of both perfective and imperfective aspects in the Greek synthetic perfect.” —Revd. Svetlana Khobnya, Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Languages, Nazarene Theological College, ManchesterTable of ContentsList of Figures – Series Editor Preface – Author’s Preface – Introduction – Overview of Verbal Aspect Studies as Related to the Greek Perfect and Pluperfect Tense- Forms – A Way Forward – The Complex Aspect of the Perfect Tense- Form in the Pauline Corpus – Comparing the Pauline Corpus to a Diachronic Corpus of Epistolary and Moral Literature – Conclusion – Bibliography – Rationale and Purpose of the Appendices –Chart of Morphemes – Chart of Stem Count – Chart of Stems by Frequency – Chart of Context – Chart of Adverbial Modification of Stative Perfects – Chart of Adverbial Modification of Eventive Perfects – Adverb Frequency Data – Key Adverbs – Chart of Adverbial Modification of Perfects used in Citational or Referential ways – Chart of Pauline Corpus Examples with Perfects – Chart of Analysis Corpus Examples with Perfects – Chart of Selected Verbs Found in the Perfect Tense- Form within the Pauline Corpus Fully Conjugated – Author Index – Text Reference Index – Subject Index.
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Ulysses Press What They Didn't Teach You In German Class: Slang
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Anthem Press Humor 2.0
Book SynopsisThe book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged.
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Truran Cornish Sayings Superstitions and Remedies
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Bodleian Library The Real McCoy and 149 other Eponyms
Book SynopsisThe English language is rich with eponyms – words that are named after an individual – some better known than others. This book features 150 of the most interesting and enlightening specimens, delving into the origins of the words and describing the fascinating people after whom they were named. Eponyms are derived from numerous sources. Some are named in honour of a style icon, inventor or explorer, such as pompadour, Kalashnikov and Cadillac. Others have their roots in Greek or Roman mythology, such as panic and tantalise. A number of eponyms, however, are far from celebratory and were created to indicate a rather less positive association – into this category can be filed boycott, Molotov cocktail and sadist. Encompassing eponyms from medicine, botany, invention, science, fashion, food and literature, this book uncovers the intriguing tales of discovery, mythology, innovation and infamy behind the eponyms we use every day. The perfect addition to any wordsmith’s bookshelf.Trade Review'An eponym, as you know, is a word named after an individual, and the above paragraph contains fourteen of them, all derived from The Real McCoy and 149 Other Eponyms by the excellent Claire Cock-Starkey, author of A Library Miscellany and The Book Lovers' Miscellany.' * TLS *'From boycotts to Biros, the English language is rich in eponyms - a place or thing named after individuals. But who were the people behind them? In a fascinating new book, Claire Cock-Starkey reveals all …' * Daily Mail *Recommended in 'The Guardian' Christmas Best Buys under £10'Pleasing little compendium. From "melba toast" named after the world famous opera singer Dame Nellie Melba for whom the cracker was first developed at the savoy in London, to "Kalashnikov", called after the Soviet peasant who invented the AK47, there is plenty of fun but useless knowledge to discover here. Perfect for fans of QI.' * The Idler *
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Battlebridge Publications From French to Creole
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New Writing North Aal Aboot Geordie
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Battlebridge Publications Comparative Creole Syntax: Parallel Outlines of
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Battlebridge Publications Black Through White: African Words and Calques
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Battlebridge Publications Talk of Saint Kitts and Nevis
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iEdutainments Ltd Learn 101 Valencian Verbs In 1 Day: With
Book SynopsisThe colour coded verb table allows the reader to focus all of their attention on one colour tense at a time enabling them to make immediate connections between the subject and the verb! The Valencian LearnBots are a great resource for dyslexic learners, children and adult learners. Children can start to identify what a verb is and the way it changes with the subject of the sentence. Advanced learners can go on to learn the different tenses and improve their accuracy. This book also works along-side its very own kick-starter app on Googles Android and Apples App Store allowing the user the ability to hear some of the conjugations being read out loud by a native speaker. The app also allows the user to test their ability in remembering verbs and conjugations.Trade ReviewBook review for LearnBots by Dr. Josep-Lluis Gonzalez Medina (Eton College England) "After a number of years in which educational trends favoured oral fluency over grammatical accuracy, it is encouraging to see a book which goes back to basics and makes learning verbs less daunting and even easy. At the end of the day, verb patterns are fundamental in order to gain linguistic precision and sophistication, and thus should not be regarded as a chore but as necessary elements to achieve competence in any given language. The colour coding in this book makes for quick identification of tenses and the running stories provided by the pictures are an ideal mnemonic device in that they help students visualize each verb. I would heartily recommend this fun verb book for use with pupils in the early stages of learning and for later on in their school careers. It can be used for teaching but also, perhaps more importantly, as a tool for independent study. This is a praiseworthy attempt to make verbs more easily accessible to every schoolboy and girl in the country."
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Helion & Company Russian World War II Dictionary: A
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Grammaticalization Paths of English and High
Book SynopsisExistential constructions are a fundamental feature of many Indo-European languages, and constructions with non-referential subjects have developed in all of the latter, albeit at different stages in their histories. High German does not feature a prototypical existential construction that is equivalent in syntactic and pragmatic function and semantic meaning to the English existential there-construction. How did a prototypical existential structure originate in English? Why is it that High German has never developed such a construction? Has it ever shown a tendency towards developing one? How did two closely related languages such as English and High German come to differ so much with respect to these constructions? By means of investigating a variety of historical and contemporary data this study shows that not only semantic, pragmatic and syntactic factors are involved, which decide the choice of a certain construction, but also very much the more general different linguistic development that the two languages underwent in the course of time.Table of ContentsContents: The Beginnings. Towards a Historical Explanation of the Difference between English and High German Existential Constructions: Word Order in the History of English - The Derivation of the English ETC - Word Order in the History of High German - The Derivation of the High German Existential da-Construction - The Derivation of High German ‘es’-Constructions – ETCs in Modern English: Syntactic Classification - Semantic Classification - Pragmatic Approach – The Modern High German Counterparts: The Status of es in ModHG - Syntactic Approach to the High German Counterparts - Semantic and Pragmatic Approaches to the ModHG Counterparts.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Studies in Bilingual Education
Book SynopsisThis book deals with bilingual education in general, but it pays special attention to bilingual education in monolingual areas. One central aim is to study the effects of bilingual programmes during the final stages of Primary and Secondary Education in contexts where the L2 (English) is not normally used as an instrument of social communication in the students’ environment, but instead is used only at school, where some subject areas are undertaken totally or partially in this language. The reader interested in bilingual education will find a valuable source of information on different bilingual programmes in the USA and Spain: what schools do and the contents they teach, their timetable and extracurricular activities; the specific objectives that they aim to achieve and the methodology they use, with special reference to the CLIL approach, the schools and the students’ level of success with bilingual education, the most common problems that they have to face in monolingual areas and how to solve them.Trade Review«Alles in allem liefert das Buch einen spannenden Blick darauf, was alles möglich ist, wenn politischer Wille, finanzielle Mittel, dynamische Schulstrukturen, engagierte Lehrkräfte und interessierte SchülerInnen aufeinandertreffen, und stellt einen interessanten Beitrag zum Forschungsstand über die Rolle bilingualer Unterrichtsformen bei der Förderung von Mehrsprachigkeit und Plurilingualismus in Europa dar.» (Elisabeth Wielander, Info DaF 2/3, 2013)Table of ContentsContents: Daniel Madrid/Stephen Hughes: Introduction to Bilingual and Plurilingual Education – José Luis Ortega Martín: The Primary and Secondary School Curriculum in Spain – Sacramento Jaímez/Ana M. López Morillas: The Andalusian Plurilingual Programme in Primary and Secondary Education – José Roa/Daniel Madrid/Inmaculada Sanz: A Bilingual Education Research Project in Monolingual Areas – Ana María Ramos García/José Luis Ortega Martín/Daniel Madrid: Bilingualism and Competence in the Mother Tongue – Javier Villoria/Stephen Hughes/Daniel Madrid: Learning English and Learning through English – Daniel Madrid: Monolingual and Bilingual Students’ Competence in Social Sciences – Ana María Ramos García: The Cultural Knowledge of Monolingual and Bilingual Studies – Miguel Angel Pérez Abad: The International Spanish Academies in California – Diego Uribe: The Dual Immersion Program at R.W. Emerson Elementary (USA) – Miguel Fernández Álvarez/Juan Ignacio García Rico: Bilingual Education at Roosevelt Elementary School in Cicero (USA) – José Manuel Vez: Plurilingual Education in Bilingual Areas: The Case of Galicia – Stephen Hughes/Daniel Madrid: Synthesis of Principles, Practices and Results.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Saggi in onore di Piergiuseppe Scardigli
Book SynopsisIl presente volume contiene una raccolta di saggi dedicati alla figura e all’opera di Piergiuseppe Scardigli (Altopascio 1933 - Firenze 2008), insigne docente di filologia germanica e geniale studioso del mondo germanico antico e medievale, apprezzato in Italia e all’estero. Il libro comprende una serie di contributi che trattano aspetti e problematiche delle letterature e delle lingue germaniche antiche, medievali e moderne, prescelti tra quelli cari al dedicatario. Alcuni di questi saggi traggono spunto da indicazioni fornite dallo stesso Scardigli, altri seguono le linee di pensiero da lui tracciate o fanno un bilancio della ricerca in campi nei quali egli ha profuso il suo impegno scientifico, come la lingua, la letteratura e la civiltà gotica, i longobardismi in italiano e il germanico nell’ambito dell’indeuropeo. Il libro contiene 16 contributi in italiano, quattro in tedesco e tre in inglese ed è corredato da una bibliografia completa e particolareggiata di tutti gli scritti di Piergiuseppe Scardigli, anche di ambiti diversi da quello germanico.Table of ContentsContenuto: Giancarlo Breschi: Ricordo di Piero – Massimo Fanfani: Un maestro intravisto da lontano – Fabrizio D. Raschellà: Scardigli studioso e maestro. Un breve profilo scientifico e maieutico – Hans-Gert Roloff: Piergiuseppe Scardiglis langer Weg zur deutschen Sprache – Klaus von See: Erinnerungen an Piergiuseppe Scardigli (1933-2008) – Adele Cipolla: I Germani come problema storico. Nach vierzig Jahren – Michael Dallapiazza: Scardigli und das deutsche Publikum – Raffaella Del Pezzo: Riflessioni su appunti inediti di Piergiuseppe Scardigli – Vittoria Dolcetti Corazza: I Goti e la «germanizzazione» del Vangelo – Carla Falluomini: A Text-Critical Study of the Pauline Epistles in Gothic – Elisabetta Fazzini: Piergiuseppe Scardigli e gli studi sui dialetti walser in Italia. I toponimi di Macugnaga – Nicoletta Francovich Onesti: Altopascio e dintorni – Renato Gendre: Pier Giuseppe Scardigli non germanista – Anna Maria Guerrieri: L’elmo della invisibilità: sulla identificazione di un elemento del meraviglioso germanico – Claudia Händl: Considerazioni sulla posizione giuridica della donna longobarda – Patrizia Lendinara: The figura etymologica in Old English – Simona Leonardi: Traduttori e interpreti nell’alto medioevo germanico – Marcello Meli: Il contributo di Piergiuseppe Scardigli allo studio della tradizione norrena – Elda Morlicchio: Goti, Longobardi e mondo romanzo – Verio Santoro: Der Streit um die deutsche Philologie am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts in Italien – Magnús Snædal: The Runic Inscriptions from Kovel and Pietroassa – Letizia Vezzosi: La ‘via’ di Piergiuseppe Scardigli – Alessandro Zironi: Dal gotico al norreno: tracce di un percorso culturale nel lavoro scientifico di Piergiuseppe Scardigli.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English
Book SynopsisThe study of the work of Geoffrey Chaucer – still regarded as a literary genius more than 600 years after his death – centres on the problems of detailed readings of his poetry (including in some cases the textual authority for these readings) and the historical context that gives them meaning. In some ways, the modern understanding of the shaping historical context was undermined in the second half of the twentieth century by the dogmatism of Robertsonian Augustinianism, as a basis for the interpretation of medieval literature in general and of Chaucer’s poetry in particular, and at the same time by the reactions of determined opposition provoked by this approach. Undeniably, medieval views often fail to coincide with modern ones and they are frequently uncomfortable for modern readers. Nevertheless, Chaucer’s brilliance as an observer of the human scene coexists with and irradiates these unfamiliar medieval ideas. The essays in this volume explore in detail the historical context of Chaucer’s poetry, in which orthodox Catholic ideas rather than revolutionary Wycliffite ones occupy the central position. At the same time, they offer detailed readings of his poetry and that of his famous contemporaries in an attempt to do justice to the independent and original work of these poetic masters, writing in the great royal households of England in the period 1360-1400.Table of ContentsContents: Simon Horobin: Review – Anne J. Duggan: ‘The Hooly Blisful Martir for to Seke’ – Alan J. Fletcher: Piers Plowman and the Benedictines – Caroline E. Jones: A Lesson in Patience – Gavin Hughes: Fourteenth-Century Weaponry, Armour and Warfare in Chaucer and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – David Scott-Macnab: Sir Thopas and his Lancegay – William Marx: An Absent King: Perceptions of the Politics of Power in the Reign of Richard II and the Middle English Prose Brut – Gerald Morgan: Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale: The Book of the Duke – Barry Windeatt: Plea and Petition in Chaucer – Mary Carr: The Fall of Lucifer and the Sin of Pride in Piers Plowman – A.V.C. Schmidt: The Humanity of Pearl – Brendan O’Connell: The Poetics of Fraud: Jean de Meun, Dante and Chaucer – Nicolas Jacobs: Criseyde’s Last Word.
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