Linguistics

Contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards a subject must meet in order for a claim attributing knowledge to her to be true do vary with ...

Developmental research has long focused on regularities in language acquisition, minimizing factors that might be responsible for variation. Althou...

This volume is the first book length study into the essive, a relatively unknown case marker like English as (a child). It focuses on the distribut...

This book describes the emergence of new meanings in two languages, English and Chinese. Drawing on a corpus methodology, it presents metaphors as ...

This book provides a rich and unique longitudinal account of content and language integrated learning (CLIL). The chapters report on the findings f...

This book provides a rich and unique longitudinal account of content and language integrated learning (CLIL). The chapters report on the findings f...

Task-based language teaching is now a well-established pedagogic approach but problematic issues remain, such as whether it is appropriate for all ...

Applying the principles of facilitative teaching to mentorship, this book brings together well-established knowledge about mentoring with the exper...

Understanding the role of language within the formation of a sense of self has been revolutionised by developments in social theory, particularly p...

Providing a detailed and comprehensive account of the development of phrasal verbs from early modern to present-day English, this study covers almo...

Most of what we know about pidgin and creole languages is the result of research into contact languages that developed as a consequence of European...

Language and Power in Blogs systematically analyses the discursive practices of bloggers and their readers in eight English-language personal/diary...

In 1989, Bernard Spolsky published Conditions for Second Language Learning (Oxford University Press). At the 2012 Annual Conference of Asia TEFL, a...

Korean has proven to be an invaluable language to theoretical linguists, providing abundant examples of, and counterexamples to, key theoretical is...

The discovery and decryption of Ugaritic cuneiform tablets in the 1920s has given scholars an insight into the development of alphabetic writing an...

The author applies the comparative method for the reconstruction of earlier aspectual systems in the Afro-Asiatic phylum of languages. Moving upstr...

Binomials, such as for and against, dead or alive, to have and to hold, can be broadly defined as two words belonging to the same grammatical categ...