The Psychology of Language
... languages . Chomsky ( 1968 ) distin- guished between substantive and formal universals . Substantive universals include the categories of syntax , semantics ... languages . Pidgins are simpli- fied languages. 4. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 101.
Comparative Vocabularies of Bushman Languages
... language of the Naron I took down during my stay at Sandfontein mentioned above . It proved to be very different from all the Bushman tongues I had worked with and very nearly allied to Hottentot . For the delimitation of languages ...
... The Educational Value of the Study of Languages
... language or dialect differs not only in forms and meanings of words but also in forms of thought and structure from every other . Hence in spite of a gen- eral equivalence in disciplinary value , no two languages can be precisely commen ...
The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures
... languages may have had sway , even in ordinary intercourse , as they do to - day upon the border of territories where different languages are spoken , until finally Hebrew was preserved only as the language of the schools , and , at ...
Language, Culture, and Communication
... Languages Promotion Association (ZILPA) with the goal of obtaining government support for their native tongues. Zimbabwe has one official language, English, and two national languages, Shona and Ndebele. These African languages are ...
Questions About Language
... Languages in the World " provides a really accessible description of sign languages internationally and the types of communities in which they exist , with plenty of examples . They explain how and why some sign languages are closely ...
Modern Language Forum
THE COMMITTEE ON MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY The Modern Language Survey , suggested for some years by various ... Languages , Princeton Univer- sity ; E. B. Babcock , Professor of Romance Languages and Dean of Graduate School ...
The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact
... languages , we will distinguish these cases where such languages no longer coexist in a language community with one or both of their parents , these plain mixed languages , from those where this is still the case . The latter we will ...
Modern Language Teaching
modern languages , and helped to spread abroad a belief that modern languages cannot be made the basis of a liberal education . They have also encouraged fussy people to vent their garrulity in the pages of so - called educational ...
The American Cyclopaedia
... languages . b . Burmese , Rakhaing , and the Lohita languages . c . Siamese , Khamti , Khassia , and the language of the Miao - tse . d . Anamese . 6. Chinese : 1 , Kwanhoa ( dialect of Pe- king and Nanking ) ; 2 , Fukian ; 8 ...
Language, Cognition and Gender
... LANGUAGE. STRUCTURES. Although gender asymmetries exist in most, if not all, languages, they may be more or less conspicuous, depending on the structure of the language. Three types of languages can be distinguished: grammatical gender ...
Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India
... languages which belong to the Semitic branch are the Arabic , Hebrew , Syriac , etc. Now all who have studied these languages are well aware that they closely resemble each other in respect of their roots and general character ; while ...
Orthographies of Nigerian Languages
... language . Other languages of this group are Igbo , Ogbah , Ukwuani , Ekpeye . : Ikwere is one of the major languages of the Rivers State and is used in broadcasting and television . The language is spoken in the whole of Port Harcourt ...
List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology with Index to Authors and Titles ...
... languages , including the Chinook jargon ( Pilling ) ... В 15 . of the Eskimo language ( Pilling ) B 1 . of the Iroquoian languages ( Pilling ) B 6 . of the languages of the North American Indians , Proof- sheets of ( Pilling ) M 2 . of ...
An Introduction to Language
Includes bibliographies and index.
A dictionary of the leading technical and trade terms of architectural design and building construction, by the editor of 'The Technical journal and industrial self-instructor
... language was for a long course of generations the chief , almost the only language of civilised peoples ; and when other and what are called modern languages arose , Latin for a long time still remained the chief medium by which the ...
The Encyclopedia Americana
... language and Istriano dialect . 15 501 oldest English ...... 24 749 literature 5 5 italian dialects ... 9 57 science of 24 752 Castilian 25 349 language 15 498 Simile 25 22 Catalan language .. 6 37 Italic languages .... 15 426 25 381 ...
The New England Modern Language Association, an Historical Sketch
... languages between the colleges and the secondary schools . Although it was evident that French and German were the subjects par- ticularly contemplated , nevertheless the assembly was thoroughly repre- sentative of modern languages in ...
The Bombay University Calendar
... Languages derived from it . 1882 .. Latin and Greek 1883 .. Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages derived from it . 1884 .. Hebrew and the other Semitic Languages 1885 .. English viewed in connection with Anglo - Saxon and its other sources ...
The Linguistics of Sign Languages
Comparisons are also made with spoken languages. This book can be used as a self-study book or as a text book for students of sign linguistics.