Analyzing multimodal interaction : a methodological framework / by Norris, Sigrid

Table of Contents: “…Levels of attention/awareness -- 6. Semantic/pragmatic means -- 7. Modal density foreground background continuum as a methodological framework : complex interactions -- 8. …”

Typology and universals / by Croft, William

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction -- 2 Typological classification -- 3 Implicational universals and competing motivations -- 4 Grammatical categories: typological markedness, economy and iconicity -- 5 Grammatical hierarchies and the semantic map model -- 6 Prototypes and the interaction of typological patterns -- 7 Syntactic argumentation and syntactic structure in typology -- 8 Diachronic typology -- 9 Typology as an approach to language.…”

Subjectification : various paths to subjectivity /

Table of Contents: “…Langacker -- Logic, subjectivity, and the semantics/pragmatics distinction / Frank Brisard -- Toward a typology of linguistic subjectivity: A cognitive and cross-linguistic approach to grammaticalized deixis / Satoshi Uehara -- Section II: Case studies I. …”

Contemporary linguistics : an introduction /

Table of Contents: “…Language : a preview -- Phonetics : the sounds of language -- Phonology : the function and patterning of sounds -- Morphology : the study of word structure -- Syntax : the analysis of sentence structure -- Semantics : the study of meaning -- Historical linguistics : the study of language change -- The classification of languages -- Brain and language -- Language acquisition : the emergence of a grammar -- Second language acquisition -- Language in social contexts -- Writing and language -- Animal communication -- Computational linguistics.…”

Contemporary linguistics : an introduction /

Table of Contents: “…Language : a preview -- Phonetics : the sounds of language -- Phonology : the function and patterning of sounds -- Morphology : the analysis of word structure -- Syntax : the analysis of sentence structure -- Semantics : the analysis of meaning -- Historical linguistics : the study of language change -- The classification of languages -- Indigenous languages of North America -- First language acquisition -- Second language acquisition -- Psycholinguistics : the study of language processing -- Brain and language -- Language in social contexts -- Writing and language -- Animal communication -- Computational linguistics.…”

Contemporary linguistics : an introduction /

Table of Contents: “…Language : a preview -- Phonetics : the sounds of language -- Phonology : contrasts and patterns -- Morphology : the analysis of word structure -- Syntax : the analysis of sentence structure -- Semantics : the analysis of meaning -- The classification of languages -- Historical linguistics : the study of language change -- First language acquisition -- Second language acquisition -- Psycholinguistics : the study of language processing -- Brain and language -- Language in social contexts -- Writing and language -- Indigenous languages of North America -- Sing languages -- Animal communication -- Computational linguistics.…”

Statistics in psychological research / by Ray, William Samuel, 1917-

Table of Contents: “…Moments -- 5. Measurement (semantics) -- 6. Describing data by means of moments (pragmatics) -- 7. …”

Discourse in society : systemic functional perspectives : meaning and choice in language : studies for Michael Halliday /

Table of Contents: “…Fries -- Generic expectancies and discoursal surprises : John Donne's The good morrow / Michael Gregory -- Intertextuality and text semantics / Jay L. Lemke -- The social production of language : history and structures of domination / Gunther Kress -- Knowledge and laughter : an approach to a socio-cognitive linguistics / Elissa D. …”

Borrowed words : a history of loanwords in English / by Durkin, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Introducing concepts -- Introducing the data -- Historical and cultural background to c.1150 -- Very early borrowings into Germanic -- Old English in contact with Celtic -- An overview of Latin loanwords in Old English -- Interrogating the data from chapter 6 -- Methodologies : sound change; word geography; loanwords versus semantic borrowing -- Introduction to Scandinavian loanwords in English -- Identifying Scandinavian borrowings and assessing their impact -- Exploring the contact situation and identifying loans -- Quantifying French and Latin contributions to Middle English -- Example passages from English and multilingual texts -- Borrowing from Latin and French after 1500 -- Loanwords from other languages : test cases -- Long-term effects of loanwords on the shape of the English Lexicon -- General conclusions and pointers for futher investigation.…”
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Linguistic studies of text and discourse / by Halliday, M. A. K. (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), 1925-2018

Table of Contents: “…The Linguistic Study of Literary Texts ; 2. Text as Semantic Choice in Social Contexts -- Part Two: Highly-valued Texts (Novel, Drama, Science in Poetry, Poetry in Science) ; 3. …”

Vocabulary myths : applying second language research to classroom teaching / by Folse, Keith S.

Table of Contents: “…An Introduction to second language vocabulary -- Myth 1: In learning another language, vocabulary is not as important as grammar or other areas -- Myth 2: Using word lists to learn second language vocabulary is unproductive -- Myth 3: Presenting new vocabulary in semantic sets facilitates learning -- Myth 4: The use of translations to learn new vocabulary should be disouraged -- Myth 5: Guessing words from context is an excellent strategy for learning second language vocabulary -- Myth 6: The best vocabulary learners make use of one or two really good specific vocabulary learning strategies -- Myth 7: The best dictionary for second language learners is a monolingual dictionary -- Myth 8: Teachers, textbooks, and curricula cover second language vocabulary adequately.…”

Explorations in English historical syntax /

Table of Contents: “…Exploring English historical syntax / Hubert Cuyckens -- "Permissive" subjects and the decline of adverbial linking in the history of English / Bettelou Los -- Cognate noun constructions in Early Modern English: The case of Tyndale's New Testament / Nikolaos Lavidas -- On the differential evolution of simple and complex object constructions in English / Günter Rohdenburg -- Finite causative complements in Middle English / Brian Lowrey -- Causative make and its infinitival complements in Early Modern English / Yoko Iyeiri -- Semantic and lexical shifts with the "into-causative" construction in American English / Mark Davies and Jong-Bok Kim -- Free adjuncts in Late Modern English: A corpus-based study / Carla Bouzada Jabois -- Complexity and genre distribution of left-dislocated strings after the fixation of SVO syntax / David Tizón-Couto -- Why Scotsmen will drown and shall not be saved: The historical development of will and shall in Older Scots / Christine Elsweiler -- A study of Old English dugan: Its potential for auxiliation / Kousuke Kaita -- Sequentiality and the emergence of new constructions: That's the bottom line is (that) in American English / Reijirou Shibasaki.…”
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The Oxford handbook of linguistic fieldwork /

Table of Contents: “…Audio and video recording techniques for linguistic research / Anna Margetts and Andrew Margetts -- A guide to stimulus-based elicitation for semantic categories / Asifa Majid -- Morphosyntactic analysis in the field : a guide to the guides / Ulrike Mosel -- Linguistic data management / Nicholas Thieberger and Andrea L. …”

The influence of Spanish on the English language since 1801 : a lexical investigation / by Schultz, Julia

Table of Contents: “…The Chronological Distribution of Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Spanish Borrowings; 3. The Semantic Analysis of Spanish Borrowings; 4. The Stylistic Function and Contextual Usage of Spanish Borrowings; 5. …”

Temas actuales de terminología y estudios sobre el léxico /

Table of Contents: “…Azahara Veroz González -- Exploring the semantics of multi-word terms by means of paraphrases / Melania Cabezas-García, Pamela Faber.…”
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