This volume presents a selection of second language acquisition studies at the level of morphosyntax. It looks at different aspects of morphosyntactic development of bilingual language learners/users such as language transfer, syntactic processing, morphology and the pragmatics of language among others.

Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition is an interdisciplinary and timely edited book of essays and empirical studies, most of which are based on the papers presented at the Form and Meaning Conference held in Chicago in 2002.

Данное пособие предназначено для студентов и аспирантов неязыковых вузов, а также тех, кто желает самостоятельно обучиться переводу специальной литературы.

This volume contains a collection of writings that focuses on semantic phenomena and their interpretation in the analysis of the language of a learner. The variety of phenomena that are addressed is substantial: temporal aspect and tense, specificity, quantification, scope, finiteness, focus structure, and focus particles. The number of languages in which these phenomena are investigated is very large as well: Dutch, English, German, Inuktitut, Italian, Japanese, and Polish, to name a few.

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Anna Wierzbicka is the recipient of various awards for her outstanding contributions in linguistics and semantics. The book is divided into four parts: Part I briefly summarizes the cultural universe of English, its general concepts of meaning, history and culture as embedded in certain words and expressions; Part II examines English words from philosophy to everyday discourse; Part III is a study of Anglo culture as reflected in English grammar ...