Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general.
Данная книга представляет собой первую в нашей стране попытку создать курс письменного перевода с русского языка на английский. Она может быть использована как при подготовке переводчиков, так и в целях повышения квалификации преподавателей английского языка, а также всех изучающих английский язык.
Why is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-Perfect Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Language
Long-time word-detective and bestselling author of "Port Out", "Starboard Home", Michael Quinion brings us the answers to nearly two hundred of the most intriguing questions he's been asked about language over the years.
First Steps in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
First Steps in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics is an introduction to the liguistics branches (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics lexicography, translation and discourse analysis.
The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS examines the present state of the conflict, its history and its future. Above all, it uses the past as a way of illuminating the present.
