Books from John Benjamins Publishing
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Cameroon
By Loreto ToddContains a good deal of useful information on Cameroon Pidgin English, ... A collection of CamP proverbs, which are compared with Hancock's Krio proverbs ...
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The Categories of Grammar: French Lui and Le
By Alan HuffmanHarris's disenchantment with the view of language as a code, once again, can be attributed to the fractional view of ... with the bath because he misses the underlying problem of correctly identifying the nature of linguistic meaning.
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The Whorf Theory Complex: A critical reconstruction
By Penny LeeIn a different area, Johanna Nichols (1988) has demonstrated the value of Whorf's approach to grammatical analysis in typological work. She has found that across languages it is the formal or "structural fact of ...
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Chicano English: An Ethnic Contact Dialect
By Joyce PenfieldChicano English can rightly be said to be, in its different varieties, the most widespread ethnic dialect of U.S. English, spoken by large sections of the population in the American Southwest.
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A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi
By William B. McGregordrinking at an earlier time in the day (he had been seen), and in (6-188), it was part of the common knowledge of everyone in the town that, as of recently, the islands in the river were still under the floodwaters.
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Toddler and Parent Interaction: The organisation of gaze, pointing and vocalisation
By Anna FilipiHillsdale, N]: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Furrow, David and Nelson Katherine. 1984. “Environmental correlates of individual differences in language acquisition.” journal ofChild Language 19 (3): 523—534.
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Morphology: A Study of the Relation Between Meaning and Form
By Joan L. BybeeThis is a textbook right in the thick of current interest in morphology.
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Deixis, Grammar, and Culture
By Revere D. PerkinsThis study reviews some of the literature supporting vocabulary connections, hypotheses for other connections, and critical views of this type of hypothesis.
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Deixis, Grammar, and Culture
By Revere Dale PerkinsRevere Dale Perkins. Buhler, Karl. 1990. Theory of Language: The Representational Function of Language. Translated by Donald Fraser Goodwin. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Burris, Harold W. Jr. 1979.
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Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech
By Sandra Götz... in the variances in the two corpora turn out not to be significant (med x2 I 27.01, p > 0.05). This looks very similar to the findings for you know, with most learners not using it at all and some outliers using it quite frequently.
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Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning
By Laura GavioliBarber's attempt (1962) to calculate items to teach in a course of English for science was an important step in the direction of producing an ESP syllabus, but Barber too, focused primarily on grammar structures, overlooking lexis ...
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Cameroon
By Loreto ToddDis tam na wic- kendcommot 1e ckey nyiou cibilals ting wen5 oll man moss dou.Ifyou nokell youa wuman fo wickend dat by say you no by po'po cibilaïs and djendley man. 10 Bot dam wickend sèp- sèpdon bigin bring plenty plaba bik oss ...
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'You Know': A discourse-functional study
By Jan-Ola ÖstmanRoss & Cooper (1979) also assign a very important function to the interaction of pauses with like. In fact, they argue that like with pauses and like without pauses syntactically behave very differently. -- James (1973:148) even ...
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Aspects of a Cognitive-Pragmatic Theory of Language: On cognition, functionalism, and grammar
By Jan NuytsCooper, DE. 1972 "Innateness". Philosophical Review 81: 465-483. 1975 Knowledge of language. London: Prism. COOper, WE. and E.C.T.Walker (eds.) 1979 Sentence processing. Hillsdale: Erlbaum. Cooper, WE. and E.B.Zurif 1983 "Aphasia: ...
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You Know: A Discourse Functional Approach
By Jan-Ola ÖstmanThe fact that you know is even used when the addressee is assumed not to know what the speaker is talking about, suggests that it functions at the deference level of politeness, as a striving towards attaining a camaraderie relationship ...
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Cameroon
By Loreto ToddLoreto Todd. a stable variety of CamE. Such people 24 often find that their approximations to English allow them to communicate fairly easily with other Cameroonians, and so there is little or no pressure on them to increase their ...
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Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation
By Douglas N. WaltonIn Ionathan Barnes (ed.), The Complete Works ofAristotle. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Atkinson, Katie, Bench-Capon, Trevor and McBurney, Peter 2004. “Computational Representation Of Persuasive Argument”.
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Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge
By D. Gary MillerWatt (1987:1fi) states: (1) the number of empty cells is minimal; (2) the chance of just any random order of letters fitting such a grid is infinitesimally small; (3) reversing any two letters would complicate the matrix; ...
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Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge
By D. Gary MillerThe book's value is further enhanced by thorough discussion of the issues from a broad range of theoretical and applied viewpoints, including language play and change, cognition, literacy, and cultural history.
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Dialect Death: The case of Brule Spanish
By Charles E. Holloway... language maintenance and language shift“. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 251493-511. Paunonen, H. and M. Suojanen (eds). Central Problems in Bilingualism. Turku, Finland: Suomen Kielen Seura. Pearson, Lynn. 1992.