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Aspects of Language and Learning
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Aspects of Language and LearningThis book is based on a series of lectures, which begin with a look at the history of the language that we use in order to encode our knowledge, particularly our scientific knowledge, i.e., the history of scientific English.
This book is based on a series of lectures, which begin with a look at the history of the language that we use in order to encode our knowledge, particularly our scientific knowledge, i.e., the history of scientific English. Prof. M.A.K. Halliday poses the question of how a growing child comes to master this kind of language and put it to his or her own use as a means of learning.
 
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Tags: scientific, knowledge, history, language, particularly
The Grammar and Lexis of Conversational Informal English in Advanced Textbooks
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The Grammar and Lexis of Conversational Informal English in Advanced TextbooksThe Grammar and Lexis of Conversational Informal English in Advanced Textbooks

The book is divided into seven chapters in which various different linguistic aspects of conversation are dealt with. In the opening chapters, spoken language is presented and approached as a multidimensional entity, particularly as the sum of lexico-syntactic and socio-linguistic elements....
 
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Tags: chapters, socio-linguistic, elements, lexico-syntactic, particularly, Grammar, Textbooks, English, Advanced
Einstein Was Right!
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Einstein Was Right!

All modern books on Einstein emphasize the genius of his relativity theory and the corresponding corrections and extensions of the ancient space–time concept. However, Einstein’s opposition to the use of probability in the laws of nature and particularly in the laws of quantum mechanics is criticized and often portrayed as outdated.
 
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Grammaticalization at Work: Studies of Long-term Developments in English
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Grammaticalization at Work: Studies of Long-term Developments in EnglishThis volume takes a fresh look at the history of English by examining the development of a number of morphological, syntactic and lexical features within a long time-span, with focus on grammaticalization, particularly pronominalization and adverbialization. volume.
 
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Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development
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Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its DevelopmentProto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development

Although for some scholars the very possibility of syntactic reconstruction remains dubious, numerous studies have appeared reconstructing a variety of basic elements of Proto-Indo-European syntax based on evidence available particularly from ancient and/or archaic Indo-European languages.
 
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Tags: Proto-Indo-European, available, evidence, syntax, particularly, Development, Syntax, based