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Examines language acquisition and addresses the question of what it takes to set parameters defined in universal grammar. Lightfoot asserts that parameter-setting is not sensitive to embedded material, and that it is triggered only by robust elements that are structurally simple.

(Hardback)

Demonstrates how animals are represented in contemporary English, drawing on data from a wide range of genres and contexts.

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(Paperback)

(Paperback)

An examination of literacy in relation to a range of technology and media, such as talking books, email, video dating, interactive multimedia and on-line materials. In each case, the writers draw on state-of-the-art research to explain the implications for educational practice and policy.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

With globalization and the ever-increasing migration of professionals, issues related to learning an additional language and culture in professional contexts are prominent in many contemporary societies. This book examines the relationship between identity, agency, and second language acquisition through the experiences of immigrant professionals.

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Demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language. By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital corpus of English and German, this volume shows how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time, and suggests possible triggers for this change.

(Hardback)

Demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language. By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital corpus of English and German, this volume shows how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time, and suggests possible triggers for this change.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

An investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible "fingerprint" of human language.

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A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core.

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(Paperback)

Suitable for trainees and practicing teachers supporting learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL), this title provides practical suggestions for good practice. It discusses the issues in the context of social inclusion and the Every Child Matters agenda, and identifies some differences in policy between England and Wales.

(Hardback)

Suitable for trainees and practicing teachers supporting learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL), this title provides practical suggestions for good practice. It discusses the issues in the context of social inclusion and the Every Child Matters agenda, and identifies some differences in policy between England and Wales.

(Paperback)

A novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects.

(Hardback)

This book is a study in universal grammar. rules called chopping rules, which reorder some part of sentence, and rules of influence. While the book is primarily an investigation within the subfields of generative syntax, it should also be of interest to cognitive scientists, philosophers of language, and social scientists.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

This book advocates for a stronger role for young-adult literature in ELA classrooms, compellingly documenting how this body of work meets both the needs of adolescent students and the demands of the common core for complex texts and tasks.

(Hardback)

After discussing the shortcomings of earlier intentionalist theories, Irwin proposes a new, normative approach, urinterpretation, which is based on an author construct, the urauthor, that includes several elements traditionally seen as separate from the author.