Centres and Peripheries in Celtic Linguistics

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 8
• This book examines aspects of Celtic linguistics, including Irish initial mutations from a linguistic universal and contrastive perspective. It also a... Lees meer

Polish consonant clusters in the British mouth

Marek Radomski

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 7
• The book focuses on online adaptation of Polish initial and final CC and CCC clusters by native speakers of British English. It offers an Optimality T... Lees meer

Motivating the Symbolic

Hubert Kowalewski

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 1
• The book outlines a new approach to motivation in language. The approach proposes a cognitive theory of the linguistic sign, partly in opposition to c... Lees meer

On Reading in Trilingual Learners

Izabela Olszak

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 16
• Reading is considered as one of the most challenging and difficult abilities in learning a foreign language which also serves as a basis for developin... Lees meer

Studies in Formal Linguistics

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 6
• This book focuses on current issues in formal linguistics. The twelve chapters explore the nature and role of universal principles and language-specif... Lees meer

From Jazz" and Rap" to Dzhaz" and Rep"

Kateryna Laidler

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 15
• The book offers an in-depth analysis of English loanword adaptation process in Russian. It is based on a rich body of data presenting the major nativi... Lees meer

Phonetics and Phonology in Action

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 10
• The present collection of 14 papers is written by several international scholars who examine a variety of theoretical and descriptive issues topical i... Lees meer

English 'Joyful' Vocabulary - Semantic Developments

Angelina Żyśko

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 3
• The book offers a novel exploration into the semantic development of English terms concerning the concept of 'joy' (bliss, cheer, delight, dream, game... Lees meer

Valency in Verbs and Verb-Related Structures

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 9
• The volume deals with valency phenomena in verbs and complex deverbal lexical structures (nominalizations, adjectivizations and synthetic compounds) i... Lees meer

Collective Memory and Oral Text

Marta Wójcicka

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 12
• The aim of this monograph is an attempt to examine the relationship between collective memory and oral texts. The material basis for this presentation... Lees meer

In Search of the Cultural Motivation in Language; Girl and Woman in James Joyce's "Dubliners"

Izabela Jarosz

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 11
• This book aims to expose a panchronic outlook on motivation behind the word within the paradigm of cognitive linguistics. On the example of girl and w... Lees meer

Receptive and Productive L2 Vocabularies

Malgorzata Krzemińska-Adamek

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 5
• The author reviews both theory and research concerning learning foreign language lexis, and reports on a study into the dynamics of advanced learners'... Lees meer

Improving Academic Listening and Note-Taking Skills

Karolina Kotorowicz-Jasińska

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 13
• The book investigates the effectiveness of long-term strategy training on how successfully and efficiently students listen to lectures and take notes.... Lees meer

Constraints on Structure and Derivation in Syntax, Phonology and Morphology

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 4
• The papers collected in this volume explore and discuss the major mechanisms, that is derivations and constraints, claimed to be responsible for vario... Lees meer

Phonology, its Faces and Interfaces

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 2
• The papers collected in this volume examine selected aspects of the interaction of phonology with phonetics, morphosyntax and the lexicon in a variety... Lees meer

The Syntax of Deverbal Compound Adjectives in English

Sebastian Wasak

• Hardcover | Engels | Sounds - Meaning - Communication | nr. 14
• The study shows that adjectival synthetic compounds in English come in two categories. Eventive compounds behave in a way pointing to the presence of ... Lees meer