All language teachers benefit from understanding of how language in general works. This course is designed to help students to understand and use in their language teaching the basic concepts, methods ...

Linguistics invites us to explore language from a scientific perspective, including how we learn to speak first and additional languages, how languages evolve, and how humans use language to ...

Some syntactic approaches to argument structure posit small clause constituents to represent what they take to be the semantics of the constructions being analyzed. For example, this approach would ...

Introduction -- 1. Lexicons and meaning -- 2. Syntax Part 1. Verbal markers in AAE -- 3. Syntax Part 2. Syntactic and morphosyntactic properties in AAE -- 4. Phonology of AAE -- 5. Speech events and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract As an Introduction to the Special Issue on "Formulation, generalization, and abstraction in interaction," this paper discusses key problems of ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...