This informative book examines several aspects of the syntax of imperative clauses in English and in a variety of other Germanic languages in the context of the challenge that apparent optional movement poses for the Minimalist Program. At a more general level, the book engages in current debate on one of the key issues in syntactic theory - the motivation for displacement operations in natural language.
Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life combines the video advantages of DVDs with the educational benefits of fluent American English speakers in unscripted interviews.
This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices—both theoretical and practical—on the complex politics, challenges, and strategies of educating students—in North America and worldwide—who are speakers of diverse or nonstandard varieties of English, creoles, and hybrid varieties of English, such as African American Vernacular English, Caribbean Creole English, Tex Mex, West African Pidgin English, and Indian English, among others.
