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Addressing the Language Description Deficit [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2010 Well-described language features are key to successful teaching and learning, especially for achieving advanced levels of proficiency. Other measures, such as simply increasing the number of reading and listening passages in a language program alone ...
M. Ali Bolgiin
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Language, creoles, varieties: From emergence to transmission [PDF]
, 2023 This book offers a selection of papers dealing with second language acquisition, foreign language teaching and creole linguistics inspired by the scientific legacy of Mauritian-born scholar Georges Daniel Véronique (Port-Louis, 1948).
Kihm, Alain +18 more
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Intensive language contact in the Caucasus: The case of Tsova-Tush [PDF]
Tsova-Tush is an East Caucasian language spoken in one single village in Eastern Georgia by approximately 300 speakers. Since its early description, scholars have been intrigued by the high degree of linguistic influence from the Georgian language.
Wichers Schreur, Jesse; Leiden University
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Universality of semantic frames and language specific Bulgarian data [PDF]
The book Universality of semantic frames and language specific Bulgarian data is devoted to the principles of data organisation in the Bulgarian FrameNet, which has been in development for more than 20 years and has gone through various phases ...
Koeva, Svetla; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences +6 more
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Reflections on language evolution: From minimalism to pluralism [PDF]
, 2021 This essay reflects on the fact that as we learn more about the biological underpinnings of our language faculty, the dominant evolutionary narrative coming out of the linguistic tradition most explicitly oriented towards biology ("biolinguistics ...
Boeckx, Cedric; Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies
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Language is a complex adaptive system: Explorations and evidence [PDF]
, 2022 The ASLAN labex - Advanced studies on language complexity - brings together a unique set of expertise and varied points of view on language. In this volume, we employ three main sections showcasing diverse empirical work to illustrate how language within
Baldauf-Quilliatre, Heike +19 more
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The clausal syntax of German Sign Language: A cartographic approach [PDF]
, 2019 This book presents a hypothesis-based description of the clausal structure of German Sign Language (DGS). The structure of the book is based on the three clausal layers CP, IP/TP, and VoiceP.
Bross, Fabian
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On the relationship between typology and the description of Uralic languages
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 Language typologists are dependent on data provided by descriptive linguists working on individual languages, who, in turn, benefit from typologists’ results, which give them new insights into the properties of their respective languages.
Matti Miestamo
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XML-Based Video Game Description Language
IEEE Access, 2020 This paper presents the XML-based Video Game Description Language (XVGDL), a new language for specifying Video games which is based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Jorge R. Quinones +1 more
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2019 This paper has one main goal: to provide a first description of the tense-aspect system of Mengaka. The paper indicates that Mengaka shows various tenses (past tenses, a present tense, a future tense) and aspects (perfective, habitual, progressive ...
Eliane Sonkoue Kamdem
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