Teachability and Learnability Across Languages [1 ed.] 9789027262592, 9789027203120

Teachability and Learnability across Languages addresses key issues in second, foreign and heritage language acquisition

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Teachability and Learnability Across Languages [1 ed.]
9789027262592, 9789027203120

This book addresses recent developments in the study of tense from a cross-paradigm and cross-linguistic point of view.

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This pioneering research brings a new insight into derivational processes in terms of theory, method and typology. The

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Modality is the way a speaker modifies her declaratives and other speech acts to optimally assess the common ground of k

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The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical seman

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Plural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute the main means of quantification marking in the domain

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The volume explores the syntax of nominalizations, focusing on deverbal and deadjectival nominalizations, but also discu

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In this influential study, Steven Pinker develops a new approach to the problem of language learning. Now reprinted with

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In constructionist theory, a constructicon is an inventory of constructions making up the full set of linguistic units i

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This volume centres around concepts of personal and cultural authenticity in foreign language teaching and learning. The

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