Tag: Languages

Free Download Peter Schrijver, "Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages "
English | ISBN: 0415355486 | 2013 | 244 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in Northwestern Europe. This book aims to restore the key position of historical linguistics in this debate by treating the history of the Germanic languages as a history of its speakers. It focuses on the role that language contact has played in creating the Germanic languages, between the first millennium BC and the crucially important early medieval period. Chapters on the origins of English, German, Dutch, and the Germanic language family as a whole illustrate how the history of the sounds of these languages provide a key that unlocks the secret of their genesis: speakers of Latin, Celtic and Balto-Finnic switched to speaking Germanic and in the process introduced a ‘foreign accent’ that caught on and spread at the expense of types of Germanic that were not affected by foreign influence. The book is aimed at linguists, historians, archaeologists and anyone who is interested in what languages can tell us about the origins of their speakers.

Free Download Hiroki Nomoto, "Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume II "
English | ISBN: 1138482447 | 2023 | 278 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 6 MB
This volume is the second in a two-part collection of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics.

Free Download Elin McCready, "Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume I "
English | ISBN: 1138482439 | 2023 | 206 pages | EPUB | 1429 KB
This is the first of two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics.

Free Download Atlas of the World’s Languages, 2nd Edition by Christopher J. Moseley, R. E. Asher
English | May 24th, 2007 | ISBN: 0415310741 | 418 pages | PDF | 157.40 MB
Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World’s Languages in 1993, all the world’s languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction.

Free Download Anne Breitbarth, "The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean: Volume II: Patterns and Processes "
English | ISBN: 0199602549 | 2020 | 320 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines the linguistic and social factors that lie behind such changes. The aim of both volumes is to set out an integrated framework for understanding the syntax of negation and how it changes.

Free Download Judit Kormos, "Teaching Languages to Students with Specific Learning Differences Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1800418612 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book is intended to help language teachers to work effectively and successfully with students who have Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs). It enables teachers to gain a thorough understanding of the nature of SpLDs and how these affect both general learning processes and the mechanisms of second language acquisition. In addition, the book explores the particular inclusive methods and techniques of teaching and assessment that foster success in language learning. Language teaching is embedded in a wider social and educational context, and therefore the book also provides an in-depth discussion of general educational issues related to identifying and disclosing disabilities and to making transitions from one institution to the other.

Free Download Andre Zampaulo, "Palatal Sound Change in the Romance Languages: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 0198807384 | 2019 | 256 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book presents a thorough investigation of the main diachronic changes that have taken place in the palatal sounds of the Romance languages, as well as their current patterns of synchronic variation. Andre Zampaulo draws on extensive data not only from diachronic sources, but also from a range of current phonetic, phonological, and dialectal studies to motivate a formal, constraint-based account of palatal sound change. The analysis takes into account the role of phonetic information in the shaping of phonological patterns, approaching sound change from its inception during the speaker-listener interaction and formalizing it as the difference in constraint ranking between the grammar of the speaker and that of the listener-turned-speaker. The volume offers insights into how and why similar types of change may take place in different varieties and/or the same language at different times, and will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonology, Romance linguistics, and dialectology more broadly.

Free Download Jan Engberg, "Between Text, Meaning and Legal Languages: Linguistic Approaches to Legal Interpretation "
English | ISBN: 311079960X | 2023 | 300 pages | PDF | 25 MB
This collection on legal interpretation in a broad sense presents state-of-the-art linguistic approaches that are applied for studying interpretation and meaning generation in various legal settings. It covers different aspects of the concepts like judicial dissent, court argumentation, investigating sociological meaning, or comparing legal meaning in comparative law. Scholars can turn to the volume for methods and findings to ground their own inquiries, and students will find guides to topics and methods in the field of law, meaning generation, and language.

Free Download Teaching World Languages with the Five Senses: Practical Strategies and Ideas for Hands-On Learning
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032265752 | 119 Pages | PDF (True) | 16 MB
With this fun, practical guide, you will have everything you need to re-envision and reinvigorate your world language classroom. Author Elizabeth Porter draws on a brain-based approach to show how language learning is a sensory experience. Students can effectively learn languages and improve retention through activities and lessons that incorporate the five senses – sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. Chapters include real-world, research-backed examples and classroom strategies and activities ready for use. An essential resource for world language teachers, this book introduces language learning philosophy and an out-of-the-box, effective approach that uses neuroscience combined with best practices to promote a highly engaging language learning environment.

Free Download Programming-Based Formal Languages and Automata Theory: Design, Implement, Validate, and Prove
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031439724 | 530 Pages | PDF (True) | 13 MB
This textbook introduces formal languages and automata theory for upper-level undergraduate or beginning graduate students. While it contains the traditional mathematical development usually employed in computational theory courses, it is also quite different from many of them. Machines, grammars, and algorithms developed as part of a constructive proof are intended to be rendered as programs.