E-book Colonial Vocabularies: Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870-1970

Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans’ colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, “Oriental language teachers” – as they were termed prior to the Second World War – were fundamental. European state nationalisms influenced and increasingly competed with each other by promoting their languages and cultures abroad, by means of…

E-book Arabic in Contact

Of course, languages are not in contact. We could say that speakers of languages are, but even this would be misleading, as we would bestow an undue role to in-dividuals in their capacity as speakers, and at the same time forget that words and patterns spread when they are heard, rather than when they are uttered. As Thomason (2001: p. 2) puts it, “in the simplest definition, language contact…

E-book The Writing Culture of Ancient Dad?n : A Description and Quantitative …

This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-?Ul? in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variatio…

E-book A Grammar of Elfdalian

Elfdalian is the language traditionally spoken in Övdaln (Älvdalen), central Sweden. Due to its linguistic differences to Swedish, coupled with the determination of the speech community, several attempts have been made to acquire an official recognition of Elfdalian as a minority language in Sweden. However, despite growing interest in documenting and revitalising Elfdalian, it is still regar…

E-book Voice Syncretism

This book is a typological study of resemblance in formal verbal marking be-tween two or more of the following seven clausal constructions: passives, antipas-sives, reflexives, reciprocals, anticausatives, causatives, and applicatives. Follow-ingMalchukov (2015;2016;2017),Creissels (2016), andZúñiga & Kittilä (2019),these constructions are called voices. In turn, their formal marking is call…

E-book Methods in prosody : A Romance language perspective

The field of prosody research belongs to those linguistic disciplines that have de-veloped rapidly in recent decades. This is mainly due to the appreciation it hasreceived in theoretical studies of grammar, but also to the technological revo-lution that has resulted in the widespread availability of software dedicated toconducting analyses and calculating statistics. All stages of experimental …

E-book Honorary Doctorate Prof.Mary Beckman

Today we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Radboud University. This university’s anniversary would not be complete without an honorary doctor in the language sciences. We feel privileged that you agreed to become an honorar y doctor of Radboud University.You have contributed so much to the language sciences. At the start of your career, you…

E-book Beyond Media Borders : Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media

In recent decades, a flurry of excellent scholarship has described media and processes of mediation in increasingly expansive terms. Media, much of this work posits, is not only the specific technologies by which informa-tion is disseminated, but also any communicative conduit that conveys ideas or meaning between one place or person and another. As Lars Ellestr…

E-book The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East

The Huayuanzhuang East oracle bone inscriptions, first discovered in 1991 and completely published in six folio volumes in 2003, are a synchronically compact and unified late Shang (ca. 1250-1045 BC) corpus of several thousand individual divination accounts inscribed on hundreds of still intact turtle shells and cattle scapulae. Produced under the patronage of a prince of the royal f…

E-book Culturally Speaking : The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated…

Each Friday my colleagues and I gather to discuss the week’s wins and losses. As we share ideas and experiences, we focus on the messages we are constructing and hearing. Sometimes, when topics are delicate, we are careful with phrasing and vocal tone, and when the space fills with people, we adjust our volume or move our bodies into closer proximity. The te…

E-book Netprov : Networked Improvised Literature for the Classroom and Beyond

Netprov isnetworked improv: networked, improvised literature. Netprovis collaborative fiction-making in available media. Netprov is role-playingin writing and images. Netprov is storytelling in real time. Netprov is agreat game for students and friends. Netprov is an emerging art form ofthe digital age.And netprov is fun. When your dog’s social media account replies toanother dog’s account,…

E-book Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation: Qualities and the Grammar of …

This book explores some of the consequences of a specific hypothesis about aparticular systematic morphosyntactic pattern, with the aim of contributing to abroader understanding of the nature of constraints on morphosyntactic variation.Our argument is that variation is constrained by lexical semantics, in ways that arefamiliar from some corners of the linguistic literature, but that are not yet…

E-book Endangered Compound Prosody in Kansai Japanese : Implications for the …

Compounds have often been noted to straddle the boundary between “words” and “phrases,” having some amount of internal structure (Scalise and Vogel 2010).On the one hand, compounds have the characteristics of “words.” As a start-ing point, we can define a compound as a word which consists of two or more words (Fabb 1998). Compounds often have a meaning which builds on one, but not t…

E-book Syntax of Dutch

Dutch is an official language in the Netherlands, Belgium-Flanders, Surinam, Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles. With about 22 million native speakers it is one of the world?s greater languages. It is taught and studied at more than 175 universities around the world (source: taalunieversum.org). Furthermore, Dutch is one of the most well-studied living languages; research on it has had …

E-book The Bankruptcy : A Novel

Translators bear a heavy responsibility. When Jerome translated the Greek logos into the Latin verbum in the Vulgate Bible, he set Western theology and philosophy on an errant path for well over a millennium. But we should not be too harsh on old Jerome; even the brilliant Erasmus flailed in the face of the polysemic Greek word when he attempted a L…

E-book A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu

This dictionary is intended for two main audiences, who may want to find in it different types of information. The first intended audience is the Vurës language community. I hope they will be able to use this dictionary to help them write their language, and to promote and maintain the use of traditional words and meanings. It was for this audience, particularly the y…

E-book Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c.775-900 : New Approach…

So begins an entry within a collection of medical recipes found in an early ninth-century medical manuscript located in the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, cod. sang. 759 (see Figure 1).2 This collection, covering roughly the second half of the manuscript (pp. 58–94), includes a vast range of material, from recipes for scented ointments to treatments for blindness, skin co…

E-book Velar Fronting in German Dialects : A Study in Synchronic and Diachron…

The distribution of German dorsal fricatives – palatal [ç] and velar [x] – haspreoccupied linguists of diverse theoretical persuasions for over ninety years.Scholars who have discussed the patterning of those sounds include the follow-ing:Jones (1929),Hermann (1932),Bloomfield (1933),Trubetzkoy (1939),Moul-ton (1947),Leopold (1948),Jones (1950),Trim (1951),Dietrich (1953),Trost (1958),Heik…

E-book Understanding Irish Spelling : A Handbook for Teachers and Learners

The quotation above was one of several responses received from teachers in a series of interviews that sought their perceptions of how Irish reading is taught and of the particular challenges they face in helping school children develop literacy skills in their second language. Although less specific than some responses, this one captures vividly the sense of frustration on the part of teac…

E-book Children’s Literature in Translation : Texts and Contexts

Be it explicit or implicit, all translators have some awareness of context when translating a text. Rodica Dimitriu calls context a key notion in translation studies and one that allows for “complex analyses of the translator’s activities and decisions, of translation processes and, ultimately, of what accounts for the meaning(s) of a translated text” (Dimitriu 2005, 5). However, there is…

E-book Write Yourself: Creative Writing and Personal Development (Writing for…

Write Yourself is a complete introduction to facilitating creative writing for therapy or personal development, both with individuals and groups. Clear and practical, and with a strong theoretical base, it is also an essential handbook for individuals embarking on their own personal writing journeys. Topics covered include the nature, values and principles of therapeutic creative writing, how t…

E-book The Writing of Disaster - Literary Representations of War, Trauma and …

In the past few years a number of book-length English-language studies of the cultural dimensions of disasters in modern Japan have appeared in print.2 The question arises: Why do we need another? The reason is that none of these books concentrates solely on literature, as this book does, and only a few of the volumes treat the disaster spawned by World War II—the most destruc-tive military c…

E-book Science & Technology Studies Elsewhere : A Postcolonial Programme

In April 2017, scientists took to the streets in a historically unprecedented Global March for Science. The event was seen as symbolic of a crisis in the relationship of science and society. This book considers the Global March for Science from a postcolonial perspective to inquire into the toolkit that the academic field of Science & Technology Studies (STS) has to offer. It argues that new co…

E-book A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement

How can there be so many different languages in the world while the abilityto use language seems to be fundamentally the same for every human being?This is without doubt one of the core questions of linguistics, and it is thisBig Question that is hidden behind the smaller questions in this book. Tostudy the variation and the underlying linguistic system in a scientific way,we ideally want to ha…

E-book The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek : Linguistic Prehist…

Author(s) van Beek, Lucien Collection Dutch Research Council (NWO) Language English Show full item record Reflexes of syllabic liquids play an important yet controversial role in Greek dialect classification and the analysis of Homeric formulas. This book tackles the entire evidence afresh and elaborates a ground-breaking new scenario of language change in the epic tradition.; Readership…

E-book Old Church Slavic : Grammar and Dictionaries

This is a difficult book. For specialists in Slavic linguistics, the familiar material of Old Church Slavic appears under shockingly novel light. For theoretical linguists, this work presents a construct unlike any other with the word grammar in the title. For all readers, the grammar is difficult because the complex formal appa-ratus is stated declaratively, not procedurally, and thus its vali…

E-book Creating Standards : Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript …

Manuscripts originate from literacy practices embedded in numerous social domains, such as education, administration, religion and trade. Expressed in spoken and written languages, various social activities prompt the development of organising principles and structures, which in turn serve as models for the agents and participants of literacy practices. The…

E-book Formulaic Language : Theories and Methods

Of the many types of multiword expressions identified in the literature, the cur-rent study focuses on a small, structurally defined set of possible prefabricatedsequences (prefabs), in particular, attributive adjective-noun sequences as usedin American English conversation. The paper examines the role of frequency of One source of interest in multiword expressions (MWEs) derived from corpusstu…

Espanol Para Indonesios (Nivel Basico = Tingkat Pemula)

Di era globaliasi ini, menimba ilmu pengetahuan di perguruan tinggi sudah menjadi hal yang wajar. Bahkan sekarang ini semakin banyak orang Indonesia yang meneruskan pendidikan ke tingkat strata 2 dan strata 3 ke luar negeri. Negara-negara seperti Inggris, Prancis, Jerman, Jepang, dan Spanyol menjadi tempat tujuan untuk menimba ilmu. Namun, ada kalanya kita tidak dapat melanjutkan sekolah ke lua…

Kamus Seri Tiga Bahasa : Inggris Spanyol Indonesia

Arus informasi yang semakin meluas antar negara membutuhkan kemampuan memahami bahasa asing secara lebih mendalam. Seperti kita ketahui, bahasa Inggris merupakan salah satu kunci berkomunikasi di dunia internasional. Akan tetapi, komunikasi ini akan lebih baik jika didukung oleh kemampuan bahasa asing lainnya. Bahasa Spanyol merupakan salah satu bahasa yang populer dan banyak diminati di seluru…

E-book Driving and Embracing Change: Learning and Teaching Languages and Comm…

When considering the title of this book, we, as its editors, had to reflect on the notion of change. Change is constant and inevitable, but fundamental changes do not happen overnight. Such changes result from actions and measures that address deep, complex and interrelated systemic issues, and thus require a shift in mindset. Fifty years ago, Gregory Bateson (1972/2000), an early advocate for …

Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia

Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia ini merupakan usaha yang bertujuan mencakup sebagian besar kata dan ungkapan Bahasa Indonesia yang paling umum dipakai. Kita semua mengetahui Bahasa Indonesia merupakan bahasa resmi Nasional. Dalam perkembangannya Bahasa Indonesia banyak mendapat pengaruh atau masukan dari bahasa ibu/daerah dan bahasa asing. Kamus ini mengandung kosa kata dengan frekuensi yang tingg…

Kamus Umum Bahasa Indonesia

Keperluan akan adanya kamus Bahasa Indonesia yang dapat memberikan pedoman praktis bagi masyarakat makin terasa, lebih-lebih karena perkembangan bahasa Indonesia kita pesat dan karena pemakai bahasa nasional kita itu kian tinggi kesadarannya akan pentingnya kecermatan dalam berbahasa. Hal ini pastilah disadari pula oleh penulis ketika beliau menyebutkan dalam kata pengantar yang diarahkan kepad…

E-book Reflexively Speaking : Metadiscourse in English as a Lingua Franca

Ten years ago, I remarked on the surprisingly small proportion of metadiscoursestudies that investigated spoken discourse compared to the total amount of meta-discourse research (Mauranen 2012). This is still true, even though much more re-search has been devoted to spoken discourses since then. The proportional gapremains enormous. If we look for studies addressing not only speaking in general…

E-book Learners in Transition : Chinese Students’ Journeys from EFL to ESL …

It may be necessary here to give a very brief sketch of Confucian thought and its paramount influence on Chinese culture. Confucius (551–479 bc) lived during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770–221 bc), which was an unprec-edented era of cultural flowering amidst conflict and civil strife in the history of China. As the “First Teacher of China” (Jin & Cortazzi, 2006), …

E-book Thick Evaluation

magine I tell you that Maddy is bad. Perhaps you infer from my intonation, or thecontext in which we are talking, that I mean morally bad. Additionally, you willprobably infer that I am disapproving of Maddy, or saying that I think you shoulddisapprove of her, or similar, given typical linguistic conventions and assuming I amsincere. However, you might not get a more detailed sense of the parti…

E-book Bahasa Spanyol Bahasa Sahabatku

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E-book Easy French Step-by-Step

Easy French Step by Step proves that a solid grounding in grammar basics is the key to mastering a second language. You are quickly introduced to grammatical rules and concepts in order of importance, which you can build on as you progress through the book. You will also learn more than 300 verbs, chosen by their frequency of use. Numerous exercises and engaging readings help you quickly build …

E-book Colloquial French: The Complete Course for Beginners

Colloquial French: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to French as it is written and spoken today.

E-book Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction

Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction considers a subject that falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which fascinating discoveries and important problems are found. Beginning with the oldest, ‘arts’ end of the subject, it moves chronologically through to the newest research — the ‘science’ aspects. Themes included are: the prehistory of languages and their common…

E-book Languages: A Very Short Introduction

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? The diversity of languages today is varied, but it is steadily declining. In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen Anderson answers the above questions by looking at the science behind languages. Considering a wide range of different l…

E-book Oxford Latin Course

Horace's day than with an Englishman of the Middle Ages. Lastly, to read and understand Latin, you need to think clearly; this is a skill which is essential in all academic subjects and, indeed, in the whole of life. It would be wrong to pretend that Latin is easy but we hope our course will make the process of learning it both interesting and enjoyable.

E-book The Study of Language

We don’t usually think of speaking as similar to chewing, licking and sucking, but, like speaking, all of these actions involve movements of the mouth, tongue and lips in some kind of controlled way. So, perhaps this connection is not as improbable as it first sounds. It is an example of the type of observation that can lead to interesting speculations about the origins of spoken language. Th…

E-book Simplified Signs : A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Popu…

Many children and adults experience considerable difficulty producing or understanding a spoken language despite having adequate hearing levels. Some of these persons may benefit from learning a full and genuine sign language, such as one of the sign languages used by members of a Deaf1 community. They may acquire a substantial vocabulary of signs and learn to combine them into complex s…

E-book Inquisitive Semantics

Inquisitive semantics is a new semantic framework mainly intended forthe analysis of linguistic information exchange. Information exchangecan be seen as a process of raising and resolving issues. Inquisitivesemantics provides a new formal notion of issues, which makes itpossible to model various concepts that are crucial for the analysis oflinguistic information exchange in a more refined and m…

E-book Getting Others to do Things : A Pragmatic Typology of Recruitments

Research in the fields of conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, and inter-actional linguistics is perhaps closest to the approach taken here, for a few rea-sons. One is that the empirical source of data is recordings of informal interaction.Another is that the units of analysis are not clauses or sentences but moves in con-versational sequences (Wootton 1981;1997;Lindström 2005;Vinkhuyzen &…

E-book Seri Bahan Ajar: Bahasa Rusia

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E-book Language Dispersal Beyond Farming

Just as plant and animal lineages are not uniformly distributed around the world, the same is true for the distribution of language families. As of 2017 the Ethnologue list includes around 50 distinct language families covering 7099 living languages, some of which, like Austronesian, have spread over a huge geographical range while others, like Amuric, have only a single living member (i.e., Ni…

E-book Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi

The physical seclusion of the village and the social aloofness of the Kanashicommunity have contributed to the maintenance of its traditional culture and lan-guage,butrecentdevelopmentsarethreateningthetraditionallifestyle,includingthe language, where especially contact with Hindi4is becoming an integral partof the villagers’ daily lives. This is the latest episode in a long history of contin…

E-book German: An Essential Grammar

German: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern German. Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging grammar uses clear, jargon-free explanations and sets out the complexities of German in short, readable sections. Suitable for either independent study or for students in schools, colleges, universities …