Geared to sophisticated entrepreneur who wants to build a career or wealth by owning their own small business, this book tells exactly how to purchase at the right time and for the right price. It shows how things work in the active small business marketplace, covering in detail such subjects as: finding and evaluating candidates for acquisition; financing, negotiating and structuring the deal; dealing with legal and tax implications; handling post-acquisition management issues; and determining the current and fair value.
Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language
Wenying Jiang - Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language In this book, linguistic achievements of word order studies in Chinese have been applied to Chinese second language acquisition research. By analyzing a great number of word order errors made by learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL), this book has developed a method for describing and explaining Chinese word order errors.
This volume offers the ontogenetic perspective on research on L3, multilingualism and multiple languages acquisition and a conceptually updated picture of multilingualism studies and third/multiple language acquisition studies. The contributions by prominent scholars of multilingualism present state-of-the- art accounts of the significant aspects in this field. This unique collection of articles adopts a broad-spectrum and synthesized view on the topic. The volume, largely theoretical and classificatory, features main theories, prominent researchers and important research trends.
How Languages Are Learned (Lightbrown and Spada)From the back cover: "This book provides a comprehensive and readable introduction to first and second language acquisition. By understanding how languages are learned, teachers will be better able to judge the merits of different teaching methodologies and textbooks, and to make the most of the time they spend with learners. The book presents the main theories of language acquisition, and considers the implications of these for language teaching. It discusses the effects of factors such as intelligence, personality, and age on language learning.
The Interactional Instinct: The Evolution and Acquisition of Language
The Interactional Instinct explores the evolution of language from the theoretical view that language could have emerged without a biologically instantiated Universal Grammar. In the first part of the book, the authors speculate that a hominid group with a lexicon of about 600 words could combine these items to make larger meanings.
