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A demonstration of the continuity of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. Using the comparative method, the traditional poetic formulae can be reconstructed back to the original common languages, thus revealing the tenacity of the poetic tradition.

Poetics --- Comparative linguistics --- Indo-European philology --- Philologie indo-européenne --- Linguistique comparée --- Linguistique comparée --- Comparative linguistics. --- Indo-European philology. --- Poetics. --- Poétique --- Philologie indo-européenne --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- Historical linguistics --- Poetry --- Aryan philology --- Technique

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The aim of this edited volume is to demystify corpus linguistics for use in English language teaching (ELT). It advocates the inclusion of corpus linguistics in the classroom as part of an approach to ELT in which students engage with naturally occurring language. The first chapter provides a basic but essential introduction to corpus linguistics, including sections on corpora and corpus methods, and this is followed by a review of the use of corpus linguistics in ELT. Chapters on the traditional ELT strands of skills, vocabulary and grammar as well as chapters on pluricentric approaches (on language and culture, World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca) flow naturally from the second chapter, which reports on a survey of the attitudes of trainee teacher to the use of corpus linguistics in the ELT classroom. The final two chapters show how the work of corpus linguists can benefit classroom teacher preparation, materials development and textbook writing. This book will be of interest not only to academics in fields such as English Language Teaching, Applied Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics, but also to educators of teacher-trainees and teacher-trainees themselves, as well as teachers who are looking for new interactive approaches to ELT. --

Science --- Didactics of languages --- Mass communications --- Comparative linguistics --- Linguistics --- onderzoeksmethoden --- talenonderwijs --- linguïstiek --- interculturele communicatie --- Computational linguistics. --- Corpora (Linguistics)

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Zanuttini characterises the range of variations in the way that negation functions in the syntax of the Romance languages. She reduces the differences to a set of choices available to the particular grammars of these languages.

Romance languages --- Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- Italian language --- Dialects. --- Clauses. --- Grammar, Comparative. --- Negatives. --- Neo-Latin languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Dialects --- Clauses --- Grammar, Comparative --- Negatives

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This book presents rich information on Romanian mythology and folklore, previously under-explored in Western scholarship, placing the source material within its historical context and drawing comparisons with European and Indo-European culture and mythological tradition. The author presents a detailed comparative study and argues that Romanian mythical motifs have roots in Indo-European heritage, by analyzing and comparing mythical motifs from the archaic cultures, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Sanskrit, and Persian, with written material and folkloric data that reflects the Indo-European culture. The book begins by outlining the history of the Getae-Dacians, beginning with Herodotus' description of their customs and beliefs in the supreme god Zamolxis, then moves to the Roman wars and the Romanization process, before turning to recent debates in linguistics and genetics regarding the provenance of a shared language, religion, and culture in Europe. The author then analyzes myth creation, its relation to rites, and its functions in society, before examining specific examples of motifs and themes from Romanian folk tales and songs. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of folklore studies, comparative mythology, linguistic anthropology, and European culture. Ana R. Chelariu is an independent researcher and retired former library director from New Jersey, USA. She has published several books and a number of articles on the topic of comparative mythology, and presented papers at international conferences. .

Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Historical linguistics --- Comparative linguistics --- Sociolinguistics --- Linguistics --- Comparative literature --- Literature --- taalfamilies --- literatuur --- linguïstiek --- antropologie --- literatuurwetenschap --- Mythology, Indo --- Mythology, Romanian. --- European.

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This book presents comprehensive and rigorous research on the acquisition of Chinese negation by L1-English and L1-Korean learners within the theoretical framework of the Interface Hypothesis and the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis. The results from grammaticality judgment data (N=182) and learner corpus data (overall scale: 15.19 million characters) reveal multiple factors contributing to the variability in L2 acquisition at the interfaces involved with Chinese negative structures, including L1 influence, the quantity (input frequency) and the quality of the target input (input consistency and regularity), as well as L2 proficiency. These factors also underlie the detectability and reassembly of the [±realis] features encoded with bu and mei, the two primary negation markers in Mandarin Chinese, in different licensing contexts. Task modality (written vs. aural) seems to play a role in L2 learners’ access to explicit and implicit knowledge about Chinese negation, but the effect of task modality is constrained by other factors such as structural/feature complexity, L2 proficiency, and L1-L2 similarity. The approach of employing both elicited experimental data and authentic learner corpus data furnishes new evidence for the acquisition Chinese negation by L2 learners. The findings of this study are of significance to the examination of the Interface Hypothesis and the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis in generative-oriented SLA research.

Language acquisition. --- Linguistics—Methodology. --- Linguistics. --- Comparative linguistics. --- Language Acquisition and Development. --- Research Methods in Language and Linguistics. --- Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar. --- Comparative Linguistics. --- Historical linguistics --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Chinese language. --- Chinese language --- Study and teaching --- English speakers. --- Korean speakers. --- Sino-Tibetan languages