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Cover of Allomorphy in Inflexion (Routledge Revivals)
by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

First published in 1987, this book broke new ground in research on inflectional morphology. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of languages, it shows that this is not just a phenomenon left over from obsolete phonological processes but a subject deserving of respect in its own right. The book...
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by Patrick Joseph Duffley
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

This is a series which aims to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative. The texts are ideal for the scholar, the teacher, and the student, but especially for English speaking students in overseas universities where English is the language of instruction,...
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Word and Its Ways in English

Essays on the Parts of Speech and Person

by Walter Hirtle
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017

Words are the foundation, the building blocks of language. While an obvious and irreplaceable concept in the minds of non-linguists, the entry "word" does not figure in the indexes of some books on linguistics. Why is there this neglect of the word among many contemporary linguists? Inspired by the work...
Cover of The Syntax of Imperatives
by Asier Alcázar, Mario Saltarelli
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014

The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and interrogatives, the imperative type has received diverse analyses in the literature. This cutting-edge study puts forward a new linguistic...
Cover of The Romance of Language
by Alethea Chaplin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017

This vintage book contains a detailed and fascinating treatise on language, with a specific focus on the birth, evolution and development of the English language. Highly accessible and full of interesting information, "The Romance of Language" constitutes a must-have for students of linguistics and...
Cover of Egyptian Alphabetical Letters of Creation Cycle
by Moustafa Gadalla
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017

This book focus on the relationship between the sequence of the creation cycle and the Egyptian ABGD alphabets; the principles and principals of Creation; the cosmic manifestation of The Egyptian Alphabets ; the three Primary Phases of the Creation Cycle and their numerical values; the creation theme...
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Reading in a Second Language

Process, Product and Practice

by Cyril J. Weir, A.H. Urquhart
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014

Reading in a Second Language sets the testing and teaching of reading against a theoretical background, discussing research from both applied linguistics and cognitive psychology. Where possible, it focuses on research into second language readers and distinguishes different kinds of reading, particularly...
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Worlds in Common?

Television Discourses in a Changing Europe

by Ulrike H. Meinhof, Kay Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2005

Worlds in Common? examines the newly emerging forms of language used in satellite television programmes, exploring a wide range of genres including twenty-four hour news broadcasting, culture channels, talk shows, local TV and European news. Focusing on the experiences of British and German viewers,...
Cover of The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication provides a broad coverage of the key areas where language and professional communication intersect and gives a comprehensive account of the field. The four main sections of the Handbook cover: Approaches to Professional...
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The Anatomy of Translation Problems

The Application of Minimal Deviation and the Proportionality Principle in the Translation of Economic Editorials

by Peng-Yen Lai
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013

‘The Anatomy of Translation Problems’ is the summation of the author’s extensive teaching experience in the translation of economic editorials. Throughout the author’s teaching experiences, Dr Lai has identified several problems that occur in a high frequency for both the beginner as well...
Cover of Working with Portuguese Corpora
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014

Although Portuguese is one of the main world languages and researchers have been working on Portuguese electronic text collections for decades (e.g. Kelly, 1970; Biderman, 1978; Bacelar do Nascimento et al., 1984; see Berber Sardinha, 2005), this is the first volume in English that encapsulates the...
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Trends in Parsing Technology

Dependency Parsing, Domain Adaptation, and Deep Parsing

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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010

Computer parsing technology, which breaks down complex linguistic structures into their constituent parts, is a key research area in the automatic processing of human language. This volume is a collection of contributions from leading researchers in the field of natural language processing technology,...
Cover of Studies in the Syntax of Relative and Comparative Causes
by Avery D. Andrews III
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016

This title, first published in 1985, is an investigation of certain aspects of the syntax of relative and comparative clauses. The author provides a typological survey of relative clauses in the languages of the world which serves both to convey a general impression of what relative clauses are like...
Cover of Understanding Predication
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017

This book investigates the linguistic status of predication, especially within the generative paradigm. The topics discussed include minimalist accounts of predication, types of predication, copular constructions, topic and focus, theticity and transitivity. The contributions analyze constructions...
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