First Language Attrition by Herbert W. Seliger,Robert M. Vago

Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory (Routledge Leading Linguists)

Professor Howard Lasnik is among the world's top theoretical linguists. He has produced influential and significant paintings in components similar to syntactic thought, logical shape, and learnability. This selection of essays attracts jointly a few of his top paintings from his giant contribution to linguistic thought.

Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration

Opposed to a backdrop of the ethnic strife within the Balkans and the cave in of Yugoslavia in 1991, Robert Greenberg describes how the languages of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro got here into being and exhibits how their genesis displays ethnic, spiritual, and political id. His first-hand observations sooner than and after Communism provide insights into the character of language switch and the relation among language and identification.

Learning Languages, Learning Life Skills: Autobiographical Reflexive Approach to Teaching and Learning a Foreign Language: 8 (Educational Linguistics)

Studying Languages, studying existence abilities deals an autobiographical reflexive method of international language schooling. The orientation of the ebook is useful, containing wealthy descriptions of language studying occasions together with real language use and pupil tales. educating, together with making plans, tools, lecture room paintings and assessment, and case stories of 'good' language studying and the way discussion in line with reminiscing can be utilized to advertise scholars’ healthiness within the language lecture room are defined intimately.

The Welsh Language in the Digital Age (White Paper Series)

This white paper is a part of a sequence that promotes wisdom approximately language know-how and its capability. It addresses educators, reporters, politicians, language groups and others. the provision and use of language know-how in Europe varies among languages. accordingly, the activities which are required to extra aid learn and improvement of language applied sciences additionally range for every language.