Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition
Leading scholars review their speciality in language acquisition
Each chapter provides the reader with a strong introduction of the field and contains an overview of the work in the field by a leading authority
Includes modern perspectives, reviews of crucial experiments, naturalistic data summaries, and methodological innovations that have led to new insights
Combining literary analysis and theoretical linguistics, Tiffany Beechy's timely and engaging study provides a critical reassessment of Old English texts that challenges the distinction between Anglo-Saxon prose and verse, ultimately recognizing an inherent poetic nature present in all Old English texts. While the poetic nature of Beowulf, due to the regular meter and heroic story, is recognized, this study demonstrates that poetry is a more widespread phenomenon than previously thought; poetic patterning can be found across the Old English corpus, both in verse and in so-called prose.
Like other recent work in the field of generative-transformational grammar, this book developed from a realization that many problems in linguistics involve semantics too deeply to be solved insightfully within the syntactic theory of Noam Chomsky's Aspect of the Theory of Syntax. Dr Jackendoff has attempted to take a broader view of semantics, studying the important contribution it makes to the syntactic patterns of English.
Настоящее пособие посвящено предлогам - одной из наиболее трудных для усвоения тем английского языка. В книге представлены предлоги места и направления, предлоги времени и другие наиболее употребительные предлоги. Большое внимание в данном пособии уделено фиксированным предлогам с глаголами, прилагательными и существительными.
Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origins, and Use
"Why do we know so much more than we have evidence for in certain areas, and so much less in others? In tackling these questions--Plato's and Orwell's problem--Chomsky again demonstrates his unequalled capacity to integrate vast amounts of material. . . . A clear introduction to current thinking on grammatical theory." David W. Lightfoot, University of Maryland
