The Handbook of Language and Professional Communication provides a broad coverage of the key areas where language and professional communication intersect and gives a comprehensive account of the field. The four main sections of the Handbook cover: Approaches to Professional Communication Practice Acquisition of Professional Competence
Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs, v. 278)
This volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages and address the question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.
Let's Go is a colorful series for children who are just beginning their study of English. It combines a carefully controlled, grammar-based syllabus with practical, natural-sounding language. Functional dialogues, interactive games, and pairwork activities foster a lively classroom environment where students can learn while having fun. More vocabulary and language to help students communicate in English. More review to recycle and recombine language. New songs, chants, and activities. A fresh, new look with bright warmth and fun that everyone loves!
This volume advances our understanding of how word structure in terms of affix ordering is organized in the languages of the world. A central issue in linguistic theory, affix ordering receives much attention amongst the research community, though most studies deal with only one language. By contrast, the majority of the chapters in this volume consider more than one language and provide data from typologically diverse languages, some of which are examined for the first time.
This work arose from the desire to teach foreign students in North America a particular variety of language used in their disciplines (speech situations), whereupon the inadequacy or non-existence of previous study became apparent. Given this raison d'être, the work first illustrates one approach to the analysis of language in order to test whether something of significance can be said about the typology of texts and discourse.