How New Languages Emerge by David Lightfoot

Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory (Routledge Leading Linguists)

Professor Howard Lasnik is among the world's top theoretical linguists. He has produced influential and critical paintings in components equivalent to syntactic thought, logical shape, and learnability. This choice of essays attracts jointly a few of his most sensible paintings from his vast contribution to linguistic conception.

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 identification. His first-hand observations sooner than and after Communism provide insights into the character of language swap 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 lifestyles talents deals an autobiographical reflexive method of international language schooling. The orientation of the e-book is sensible, containing wealthy descriptions of language studying events together with genuine language use and scholar tales. instructing, together with making plans, equipment, school room paintings and assessment, and case experiences 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, newshounds, politicians, language groups and others. the provision and use of language expertise in Europe varies among languages. as a result, the activities which are required to extra help study and improvement of language applied sciences additionally fluctuate for every language.