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The Scope of Theoretical Grammar
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The Scope of Theoretical GrammarThe Scope of Theoretical Grammar

Theoretical grammar and its subject. General principles of grammatical analysis. General characteristics of language as a functional system. Notions of ‘system’ and ‘structure’. General characteristics of linguistic units.
 
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Survey of English Spelling
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Survey of English SpellingPublished at a time when literacy and spelling are issues of topical concern, A Survey of English Spelling offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date overview of this important but hitherto neglected area of the English language.
The text brings together a vast body of knowledge, both synthesised from diverse sources and original, unpublished research. The emphasis is on a functional exploration of the spelling regularities and markers that underpin literacy in English.
 
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Arabic-English-Arabic Legal Translation
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Arabic-English-Arabic Legal TranslationArabic-English-Arabic Legal Translation provides a groundbreaking investigation of the issues found in legal translation between Arabic and English. Drawing on a contrastive-comparative approach, it analyses parallel authentic legal documents in both Arabic and English to examine the features of legal discourse in both languages and uncover the different translation techniques used. In so doing, it addresses the following questions:


 
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Adverbs: Functional and diachronic aspects
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Adverbs: Functional and diachronic aspectsAdverbs as a word class are notoriously difficult to define. The volume deals with the delimitation of this category, its internal structure, the morphological make-up of adverbs and their positions in syntactic structures. A closer look at diachronic developments sheds light on the characteristics of adverbial word-formation. Taking into account adverbs in German, English, Dutch, French and Italian, the contributions to this volume provide new insights into the characteristics of this heterogeneous and multi-faceted category and will be of interest to linguists working in the fields of morphology, syntax and language change.
 
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The Nature of Linguistic Competence
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The nature of linguistic competenceThe nature of linguistic competence

All languages are similar in their organization and in their function:

—Every human language has a lexicon and a grammar to create sentences. — —Knowledge of the grammar and lexicon = person’s linguistic competence.
 
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