Spanish for English-speaking children. Futuro Imperfecto de Indicativo

Spanish for English-speaking children. Futuro Imperfecto de Indicativo

Author: Tatiana Oliva Morales

Publisher: Litres

Published: 2022-05-15

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13: 5041811016

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The tutorial examines Futuro Imperfecto de Indicativo with detailed explanations and examples. It contains 7 exercises for translation of negative, affirmative and interrogative sentences, including questions to the subject and the definition of the subject, from English into Spanish according to the adapted method © Linguistic Reanimator. It is an exercise book (each exercise contains lines to write). The exercises 3 – 7 have the keys. It is recommended for the children from the age of five.


To be a writer. Cuentos cortos en inglés con traducción paralela al español. Niveles A1—B2. Libro 1

To be a writer. Cuentos cortos en inglés con traducción paralela al español. Niveles A1—B2. Libro 1

Author: Tatiana Oliva Morales

Publisher: Litres

Published: 2022-05-15

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 504215146X

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En el libro hay 5 cuentos ingleses con la traducción paralela al español (en la columna izquierda está el texto inglés, en la derecha está el español). Se recomienda a una amplia gama de personas que estudian inglés de niveles A1 – B2. Para los principiantes, recomiendo practicar habilidades de lectura y memorizar nuevas palabras y expresiones idiomáticas. En un nivel superior, hay que además recontar el contenido cerca del texto. El libro contiene 1886 palabras y modismos ingleses.


The Evolution of Grammar

The Evolution of Grammar

Author: Joan Bybee

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1994-11-15

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0226086658

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Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages. Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths is in one direction only. This analysis reveals that lexical substance evolves into grammatical substance through various mechanisms of change, such as metaphorical extension and the conventionalization of implicature. Grammaticization is always accompanied by an increase in frequency of the grammatical marker, providing clear evidence that language use is a major factor in the evolution of synchronic language states. The Evolution of Grammar has important implications for the development of language and for the study of cognitive processes in general.


Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

Author: Joan Bybee

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006-12-07

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0198041292

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This volume collects three decades of articles by the distinguished linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles essentially argue for the importance off frequency of use as a factor in the analysis and explanation of language structure. Her work has been very influential for a broad range of researchers in linguistics, particularly in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, phonology, phonetics, and historical linguistics.


Universals of Language Today

Universals of Language Today

Author: Sergio Scalise

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-10-11

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1402088256

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This book collects the contributions presented at the international congress held at the University of Bologna in January 2007, where leading scholars of different persuasions and interests offered an up-to-date overview of the current status of the research on linguistic universals. The papers that make up the volume deal with both theoretical and empirical issues, and range over various domains, covering not only morphology and syntax, which were the major focus of Greenberg’s seminal work, but also phonology and semantics, as well as diachrony and second language acquisition. Diverse perspectives illustrate and discuss a huge number of phenomena from a wide variety of languages, not only exploring the way research on universals - tersects with different subareas of linguistics, but also contributing to the ongoing debate between functional and formal approaches to explaining the universals of language. This stimulating reading for scientists, researchers and postgraduate students in linguistics shows how different, but not irreconcilable, modes of explanation can complement each other, both offering fresh insights into the investigation of unity and diversity in languages, and pointing to exciting areas for future research. • A fresh and up-to-date survey of the present state of research on Universals of Language in an international context, with original contributions from leading specialists in the eld. • First-hand accounts of substantive ndings and theoretical observations in diff- ent subareas of linguistics. • Huge number of linguistic phenomena and data from diffferent languages a- lyzed and discussed in detail.