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The English Noun Phrase: The Nature of Linguistic Categorization (2007)

The English Noun Phrase The Nature Of Linguistic Categorization
Author(s): Evelien Keizer Year: 2007 ISBN: 0521849616,9780521849616 Description: English has an interesting variety of noun phrases, which differ greatly in structure. Examples are ‘binominal’ (two-noun) phrases (‘a beast of a party’); possessive constructions (‘the author’s opinion’); and discontinuous noun phrases (‘the review [came out yesterday] of his book’)....
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How Texts Work (Routledge a Level English Guides) (2003)

How Texts Work
Author(s): Adrian Beard Year: 2003 ISBN: 9780415286343,9780415286350,0415286344,0415286352,0203696972,9780203696972,9780203698006 Description: How Texts Work: explores the ways in which we categorize texts reveals the limitations of some of the polarisations we use to categorize texts analyzes a wide variety of texts from a range of genres and periods, from Ibsen’s A...
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Language: the Basics: Second Edition (1999)

Language The Basics Second Edition
Author(s): R.L. Trask Year: 1999 ISBN: 041520089X,9780415200899 Description: Language: The Basics provides a concise introduction to the study of language. Written in an engaging and entertaining style, it encourages the reader to think about the way language works. New features include:* a chapter on ‘Language in Use’ which...
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Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English (2002)

Pathways Of Change Grammaticalization In English
Author(s): Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach, Dieter Stein Year: 2002 ISBN: 9027230560,9789027230560,9780585463308 Description: There is a continual growth of interest among linguists of all-theoretical denominations in grammaticalization, a concept central to many linguistic theories. However, the discussion of grammaticalization processes has often suffered from a shortage of concrete empirical...
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The Neurobiology of Affect in Language Learning (1999)

The Neurobiology Of Affect In Language Learning
Author(s): John H. Schumann Year: 1999 ISBN: 0631210105,9780631210108 Description: This book presents a theory of how the psychology and neurobiology of stimulus appraisal influences the variability in second language acquisition. It then extends the notion of affect developed for second language acquisition to primary language acquisition and to...
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The Evolution of Language (2010)

The Evolution Of Language
Author(s): W. Tecumseh Fitch Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2010 ISBN: 052185993X,9780521859936,9780521677363,9780511677472 Description: Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on...
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Language Test Construction and Evaluation (1995)

Language Test Construction And Evaluation
Author(s): J. Charles Alderson, Caroline Clapham, Dianne Wall Series: Cambridge Language Teaching Library Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 1995 ISBN: 0521478294,9780521478298 Description: Language Test Construction and Evaluation describes the process of language test construction clearly and comprehensively. Each chapter deals with one stage of the test construction process;...
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