Language Arts & Linguistics & Literacy

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by Aviva Shimelman (Author)This book presents a synchronic grammar of the southern dialects of Yauyos, an extremely endangered Quechuan language spoken in the Peruvian Andes. As the language is highly synthetic, the grammar focuses principally on morphology; a longer section is dedicated to the language's unusual evidential system. The grammar's 1400 examples are drawn from a 24-hour corpus of transcribed recordings collected in the course of the documentation of the language. This work was p...

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SHSAT Prep Questions Book 2020-2021: Three SHSAT Practice Tests for the New York City (NYC) Specialized High School Admissions Test [4th Edition] - Paperback

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by Tpb Publishing (Author)SHSAT Prep Questions Book 2020-2021: Three SHSAT Practice Tests for the New York City (NYC) Specialized High School Admissions Test 4th Edition] Made by Test Prep Books experts for test takers trying to achieve a great SHSAT scores. This practice test book includes: Quick Overview Find out what's inside this product Test-Taking Strategies Learn the best tips to help overcome your exam Introduction Get a thorough breakdown of what the test is and what's on it ...

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by Alessandro Vietti (Author), Lorenzo Spreaficio (Author), Carmen-Florina Savu (Author)This book provides an insight into the patterns of variation and change of rhotics in different languages and from a variety of perspectives. It sheds light on the phonetics, the phonology, the socio-linguistics and the acquisition of /r/-sounds in languages as diverse as Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Kuikuro, Malayalam, Romanian, Slovak, Tyrolean and Washili Shingazidja thus cont...

Unity and Diversity in Grammaticalization Scenarios - Hardcover

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by Walter Bisang (Author), Andrej Malchukov (Author)The volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the symposium on "Areal patterns of grammaticalization and cross-linguistic variation in grammaticalization scenarios" held on 12-14 March 2015 at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. The papers, written by leading scholars combining expertise in historical linguistics and grammaticalization research, study variation in grammaticalization scenarios in a variety of language ...

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by Bastian Persohn (Author)Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which i...

Crossroads Between Contrastive Linguistics, Translation Studies and Machine Translation - Paperback

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by Oliver Czulo (Author), Silvia Hansen-Schirra (Author)Contrastive Linguistics (CL), Translation Studies (TS) and Machine Translation (MT) have common grounds: They all work at the crossroad where two or more languages meet. Despite their inherent relatedness, methodological exchange between the three disciplines is rare. This special issue touches upon areas where the three fields converge. It results directly from a workshop at the 2011 German Association for Language Technology and Comput...

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Teaching Your Child to Read: A Parent's Guide to Encouraging a Love of Reading - Paperback

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by Jessica Wang (Author), Lu Jun (Author)Is your young child often disinterested in the books you bring home for them? Do you wish they would develop a love for reading that they could take into middle school and beyond? Some children love reading, requesting the same books over and over again and giggling with delight each time, while others simply despise sitting down for story time. What makes the difference in these two types of children? No child is born knowing how to read, so where do...

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by Maria del Mar Vanrell (Author), Ingo Feldhausen (Author), Jan Fliessbach (Author)This book presents a collection of pioneering papers reflecting current methods in prosody research with a focus on Romance languages. The rapid expansion of the field of prosody research in the last decades has given rise to a proliferation of methods that has left little room for the critical assessment of these methods. The aim of this volume is to bridge this gap by embracing original contributions, in whi...

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by Claudio Fantinuoli (Author)Unlike other professions, the impact of information and communication technology on interpreting has been moderate so far. However, recent advances in the areas of remote, computer-assisted, and, most recently, machine interpreting, are gaining the interest of both researchers and practitioners. This volume aims at exploring key issues, approaches and challenges to the interplay of interpreting and technology, an area that is still underrepresented in the field o...

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The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information - Paperback

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by Craig Robertson (Author)The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifact, Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that infor...

Agreement, Case and Locality in the Nominal and Verbal Domains - Paperback

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by Matthew Reeve (Author), Mihaela Marchis Moreno (Author)This book explores the Agree operation and its morphological realisations (agreement and case), specifically focusing on the connection between Agree and other syntactic dependencies such as movement, binding and control. The chapters in this volume examine a diverse set of cross-linguistic phenomena involving agreement and case from a variety of theoretical perspectives, with a view to elucidating the nature of the abstract operations...

Sound Structure and Sound Change - Paperback

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by Rebecca L. Morley (Author)Research in linguistics, as in most other scientific domains, is usually approached in a modular way - narrowing the domain of inquiry in order to allow for increased depth of study. This is necessary and productive for a topic as wide-ranging and complex as human language. However, precisely because language is a complex system, tied to perception, learning, memory, and social organization, the assumption of modularity can also be an obstacle to understanding lan...

The Homeschool Learn to Write Color Activity Workbook: A Workbook For Kids to Practice Pen Control, Line Tracing, Letters, Shapes and More! (ABC Kids - Paperback

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by Romney Nelson (Author), The Life Graduate Publishing Group (Author)The Homeschool Learn-to Write Color Activity Workbook is the perfect resource that has been specifically designed for 3 - 5-year-old kids to build confidence with the development of pen control and learning the letters of the alphabet through repetition. The activity workbook has been split into 3 levels: Level 1 - Lines & Shapes: This section is all about building the confidence and enjoyment of the child through inter...

日本語now! Nihongo Now!: Performing Japanese Culture - Level 2 Volume 1 Textbook - Paperback

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by Mari Noda (Author), Patricia J. Wetzel (Author), Ginger Marcus (Author)NihonGO NOW! Level 2 is an intermediate-level courseware package that takes a performed-culture approach to learning Japanese. This approach balances the need for an intellectual understanding of structural elements with multiple opportunities to experience the language within its cultural context. From the outset, learners are presented with samples of authentic language that are context-sensitive and culturally coher...

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Cambridge Primary English Workbook 2 Second Edition: Hodder Education Group - Paperback

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by Sarah Snashall (Author)This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education - Reinforce learning, deepen understanding and encourage self-reflection in practical workbook activities. - Provide extra practice and self-assessment: Each Workbook is intended to be used by the learner for practice and homework, plus the completed workbooks can be used to help aid revision. - Build on what has taken place in the lesson: Challenge learners to develop their understanding fu...

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Cambridge Primary English Workbook 5 Second Edition: Hodder Education Group - Paperback

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by Marie Lallaway (Author)This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education - Reinforce learning, deepen understanding and encourage self-reflection in practical workbook activities. - Provide extra practice and self-assessment: Each Workbook is intended to be used by the learner for practice and homework, plus the completed workbooks can be used to help aid revision. - Build on what has taken place in the lesson: Challenge learners to develop their understanding fu...

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Cambridge Checkpoint Lower Secondary English Student's Book 9 Third Edition: Hodder Education Group - Paperback

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by John Reynolds (Author)This series has been endorsed by Cambridge International to support the curriculum framework from 2020. Put your trust in a market-leading approach that has been used by teachers for over 10 years. Written by experienced author John Reynolds, Cambridge Checkpoint Lower Secondary English offers full coverage of the new Cambridge Lower Secondary English curriculum framework (0861). - Boost confidence and test understanding: Questions within the chapters will help consol...

Explotación de géneros literarios en los niveles A1-B1 de ELE: Reflexiones didácticas y propuestas para la clase de Español como Lengua Extranjera - Hardcover

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by Christine Roell (Author)El libro se dedica a la teor a y las aplicaciones pr cticas del empleo de recursos literarios en la clase de ELE de niveles iniciales. En la parte te rica, se presentan los g neros literarios breves y se comentan las ventajas e inconvenientes de su uso como recurso did ctico en los niveles iniciales de ELE. Adem s, se plantea una metodolog a did ctica basada en la combinaci n de actividades cognitivas y creativas y la integraci n de destrezas a partir del modelo tri...

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Unfuck Your Writing: Write Better, Reach Readers, & Share Your Inner World: Write Better, Reach Readers, & Share Your Inner World - Paperback

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by Joe Biel (Author), Faith G. Harper (Author)Want to be a writer, but the words won't come? Do you have a lot to say but don't know how to write it so people will read it? Do you struggle with anxiety, procrastination, or feeling like an imposter around your writing? Microcosm's two most prolific authors teach you their tricks of the trade in this no-nonsense, practical guide to the craft of writing longform work. Learn skills like setting and sticking to goals, communicating effectively wit...

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by Birgit Hellwig (Author)This grammar is a first detailed description of Qaqet, a non-Austronesian language spoken in the mountainous interior of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Qaqet belongs to the small Baining language family (comprising six languages), but its wider genetic affiliations remain unclear. It is included among the geographically-defined East Papuan languages. The grammar presents a synchronic description of the language. From a language family perspective, the B...

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Playing with Language: Improving Elementary Reading Through Metalinguistic Awareness - Paperback

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by Marcy Zipke (Author)All students can benefit from a deeper understanding of how our language works. Playing With Language shows elementary school educators (K-6) how to think about, talk about, and manipulate language out of context. This cognitive skill set, known as metalinguistic awareness, is an important component of reading ability. This practical guide scales activities and teaching suggestions to students' age, linguistic background, and individual strengths and challenges. The aut...

Maximum Insight: Selected Columns - Paperback

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by Bill Maxwell (Author)"One of the most distinctive and independent voices in American journalism . . . a voice that can inspire and infuriate . . . a voice that must not be ignored, especially if we Americans hope to create in this next century something that looks vaguely like a multi-racial, multi-ethnic democracy."--Roy Peter Clark, Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg"Maxwell's level of erudition is unusual among columnists . . . he often alludes to history, philosophy, literature, and the...

The High School English Grammar Authorized For Use In The High Schools And Collegiate Institutes Of Ontario By The Department Of Education - Hardcover

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by John Seath (Author)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. Number of Pages: 418 Dimensions: 1.06 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: Octob...

300 Writing Prompts for Black Writers: Creative and Verbal Sparks to Ignite Your Story - Paperback

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by Stephanie Gadlin (Author)Nommo's creative writing prompts are a fun and stress-free way to jump start your creative writing experience and get through writer's block. This book is perfect for: storytellers writers screenwriters playwrights arts programs creatives interested in the Black Experience Created by a Black writer for Black writers, the Nommo writing prompts are a must have for your literary toolbox. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 04, 2020

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A Teacher's Guide to Mentor Texts, 6-12: The Classroom Essentials Series - Paperback

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by Allison Marchetti (Author), Katie Wood Ray (Editor), Rebekah O'Dell (Author)Using mentor texts from a range of high-interest sources and diverse authors can be a real game changer in secondary writing classrooms. Students learn to read like writers, deepening their understanding of quality writing and inspiring them in their own drafting and revision. In this foundational guide, you'll learn the what, why, and how of teaching with mentor texts in small ways as well as large-and discover th...

Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training: A Beginner's Guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork(r) - Paperback

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by Andrea Caban (Author), Julie Foh (Author), Jeffrey Parker (Author)Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training is a beginner's guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork(R), a method that focuses on universal and inclusive speech training for actors from all language, racial, cultural, and gender backgrounds and identities. This book provides a progression of playful, practical exercises designed to build a truly universal set of speech skills that any actor can use,...

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TABE Test Study Guide 2021-2022: TABE Test Level D 11/12 Study Guide and Practice Exam Questions [Book Includes Detailed Answer Explanations] - Paperback

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by Tpb Publishing (Author)TABE Test Study Guide 2021-2022: TABE Test Level D 11/12 Study Guide and Practice Exam Questions Book Includes Detailed Answer Explanations] Taking the TABE test? Want to get a good score? Written by Test Prep Books, this comprehensive study guide includes: Introduction Reading: Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure, Integration of Knowledge and Ideas, Practice Question and Answer Explanations Language: Conventions of Standard English, Knowledge of Languag...

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The 100 Most Traditional Chinese Characters - Paperback

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by Hui Xu (Author), Julie Loo (Translator)As well as its obvious visual appeal, China's millennia-old writing system is a carrier of the nation's culture and identity. In this book, Xu Hui selects and explains the 100 most traditional Chinese characters with the help of eye-catching illustrations that bring their meanings alive, and historic tracings through seal script all the way back to ancient oracle bone carvings. For novices and experts alike, this translation by Julie Loo offers Englis...

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The 100 Most Beautiful Chinese Characters - Paperback

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by Hui Xu (Author), Julie Loo (Translator)As well as its obvious visual appeal, China's millennia-old writing system is a carrier of the nation's culture and identity. In this book, Xu Hui selects and explains the 100 most beautiful Chinese characters with the help of eye-catching illustrations that bring their meanings alive, and historic tracings through seal script all the way back to ancient oracle bone carvings. For novices and experts alike, this translation by Julie Loo offers English ...

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Give Great Presentations: How to Speak Confidently and Make Your Point - Paperback

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by Bloomsbury Publishing (Author)Essential reading for anyone who has been asked to make a presentation, including advice on speech, using visuals, audience engagement, and how to deal with presenting online. Speaking in front of other people can be daunting if you've never had a lot of practice. Even if you know your stuff, it can be hard to get everything together in time, look confident, speak clearly, and get your message across well. And that's before you consider things like presenting ...

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by Zachary Michael Jack (Author)Today's professionals recognize the need to elevate written communication beyond argument-driven pedantry, political polemic, and obtuse pontification. Whether the goal is to write the next serious work of best-selling nonfiction, to develop a platform as a public scholar, or simply to craft clear and concise workplace communication, The Art of Public Writing demystifies the process, showing why it's not just nice, but necessary, to connect with those inside an...

Teaching English in Rural Communities: Toward a Critical Rural English Pedagogy - Paperback

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by Robert Petrone (Author), Allison Wynhoff Olsen (Author)Drawing upon classroom practices, Teaching English in Rural Communities articulates and develops a Critical Rural English Pedagogy.Author BiographyRobert Petrone is associate professor of literacy education and critical youth studies at the University of Missouri. His research focuses on the intersections of learning and literacy in youth cultures, textual representations and theoretical reconceptualizations of adolescence/adolescents,...