The study of word-formation offers a great many puzzles to the present-day student of language. Not the least of these is its status as a branch of linguistic study. If we are to make much progress in understanding such matters, the topic of 'word-formation' as it is here defined may have to be recognized as after all rather superficially conceived: our real business should be with meanings and how they are expressed and Combined. The volume makes a welcome contribution in a difficult and controversial field. As English has increasingly come into world-wide use, there has arisen an acute need for more information on the language and the ways in which it is used.
Language Handbook - Additional Practice in Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics (Grade 7) SB and Answer Key
This booklet, Language Handbook, contains worksheets that reinforce essential grammar, usage, and mechanics rules and instruction.Tests at the end of each section can be used either for assessment or as end-of-section reviews. A separate Answer Key for the Language Handbook provides answers or suggested responses to all items in this booklet.
The Familiar Enemy - Chaucer, Language and Nation in the Hundred Years War
The Familiar Enemy re-examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. During this war, two profoundly intertwined peoples developed complex strategies for expressing their aggressively intimate relationship. This special connection between the English and the French has endured into the modern period as a model for Western nationhood.
This book is impressive for its erudition and its thoroughness...Sherzer more than succeeds in proving his point that the study of speech play is central to understanding language use.
For Elementary Language Arts Methods and Language Development courses; a supplement to Reading Methods texts.
This practical text shows how to incorporate critical lessons in decoding into a balanced, comprehensive literacy program. With its major focus on the importance of phonemic awareness, phonics knowledge, and decoding, this text addresses all aspects of decoding in depth, explores numerous formal and informal decoding strategies, and compares the strengths and weaknesses of each decoding technique for word recognition, analogy, context, phonics, and morphemic analysis.
