Language Contact and Grammatical Change (2005)

Author(s): Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva Year: 2005 ISBN: 0521845742,9780521845748,9780511080876 Description: The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This pioneering new study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of...
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First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax (2008)

Author(s): Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Marfa Pilar Larranaga, John Clibbens Year: 2008 ISBN: 9789027253064,9027253064,9789027290601 Description: The papers comprising this volume focus on a broad range of acquisition phenomena (subject dislocation, structural case, word order, determiners, pronouns, quantifiers and logical words) from different languages and language combinations. These include languages with...
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Primary Languages: Effective Learning and Teaching (2008)

Author(s): Cynthia Martin Year: 2008 ISBN: 1844451380,9781844451388 Description: Primary languages are to be an entitlement for all pupils in KS2 from 2010. There is therefore a need to ensure that trainee primary teachers are equipped with the required skills, knowledge and understanding to contribute to this process. This...
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An Introduction to Early Modern English (2008)

Author(s): Terttu Nevalainen Publisher: Oxford University Press, Year: 2008 ISBN: 0748615245,9780748626366,9780748615247 Description: An introduction to Early Modern English, this book helps students of English and linguistics to place the language of the period 1500-1700 in its historical context as a language with a common core but also as...
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Effects of the Second Language on the First (2003)

Author(s): V. J. Cook Year: 2003 ISBN: 1853596337,9781853596339,9781853596346 Description: This book looks at changes in the first language of people who know a second language, thus seeing L2 users as people in their own right differing from the monolingual in both first and second languages. It presents theories...
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