Create plausible and realistic languages for RPGs, fantasy and science fiction, movies or video games, or international communication... or just learn about how languages work from an unusual, light-hearted perspective. The Language Construction Kit on zompist.com has helped a generation of conlangers to understand and create languages. It's expanded here with coverage of semantics and ...

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Manufacturer: Yonagu Books
Written By: Mark Rosenfelder

Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE, Tenth Edition, is appropriate for a variety of fields--including education, languages, psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, English, and teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)--at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. This completely updated edition retains the clear descriptions, humor, and seamless ...

• The text has been thoroughly revised to reflect developments in linguistics and related fields, with topics clarified and many new exercises included--all to enhance students' understanding and insight. IPA symbols are used throughout.
• Discussions about the grammar and other linguistic characteristics of American Sign Language, and other sign languages of deaf people, are woven throughout to reveal the pervasive parallels with spoken languages.
• Each chapter ends with an array of helpful review materials, including a chapter summary, a comprehensive list of references, suggestions for further reading, and exercises.
• Exercises offer instructional options and learning opportunities designed to maximize students' comprehension and mastery of text material.
• The text's signature cartoons illustrate the authors' clear descriptions of complex linguistic points and principles.

Manufacturer: Cengage Learning
Written By: Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina Hyams

You're sitting at your desk in a classroom or in an airless cubicle, wondering how many minutes are left in a seemingly endless day, when suddenly your teacher or supervisor lowers the boom: She wants a research paper, complete with footnotes and a list of sources. She wants accuracy, originality, and good grammar. And – gasp! – she wants ten pages! You may be 16 years old or 60 years old, ...

Manufacturer: For Dummies
Written By: Geraldine Woods

The Writers at Work series prepares ESL students to tackle academic writing. This book teaches the basics of academic essay writing to intermediate-level students. In Writers at Work: The Essay, students use the process approach to write different genres of essays common at the post-secondary level, including one essay that cites outside sources ...

Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Written By: Dorothy Zemach, Lynn Stafford-Yilmaz

John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic How to Do Things with Words. For this second edition, the editors have returned to Austin's original lecture notes, ...

Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Written By: J. L. Austin

There are many reasons why you might need to learn a foreign language quickly. The author, a U.S. Army Green Beret, often travels to foreign countries on short notice and needs to be able to communicate with military and government officials, many of who do not speak English. He tried all types of schools, classes, books and tapes, but none delivered what he needed when he needed it. So he ...

Manufacturer: Paladin Press
Written By: A. G. Hawke

This book presents a highly practical approach to assessing children's spelling and word knowledge abilities and offering effective, appropriate instruction. Included is the Developmental Spelling Analysis (DSA), a dictated word inventory that enables teachers to quickly and easily evaluate students' stages of spelling development and their knowledge of important orthographic features. ...

Manufacturer: The Guilford Press
Written By: Kathy Ganske Phd, Kathy Ganske

John Langan's English Essentials offers guidance through the grammar, punctuation, and usage skills needed for success in college and beyond. In short, English Essentials is an efficient, accessible, and helpful guide to mastering practical English skills. The book is divided into four parts -- Part One covers fifteen basic skills; Part Two offers more in-depth information about those and other ...

Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Written By: John Langan

Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the engaging self-regard of Greek and to the struggles that gave ...

Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Written By: Nicholas Ostler

Second Language Learning Theories is a clear and concise overview of the field of second language acquisition (SLA) theories. Written by a team of leading academics working in different SLA specialisms, this book provides expert analysis of the main theories from multiple perspectives to offer a broad and balanced introduction to the topic. The book covers all the main ...

Manufacturer: Routledge
Written By: Rosamond Mitchell, Florence Myles, Emma Marsden