Language: en
Pages: 364

Colloquial Romanian (eBook And MP3 Pack)

Author(s): Ramona Gönczöl, Dennis Deletant

Categories: Foreign Language Study

Type: Book
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Published: 2014-10-14
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Publisher: Routledge

This fourth edition of Colloquial Romanian has been completely updated to make learning Romanian easier and more enjoyable than ever before. Written by experienced teachers of Romanian, this course offers a step-by-step approach to spoken and written Romanian. No previous knowledge of the language is required. What makes this new edition of Colloquial Romanian you best choice in language learning? lively dialogues reflecting life in contemporary Romania a range of stimulating exercises with full answer key clear grammar notes and summary extensive English-Romanian and Romanian-English glossaries. Audio material on CDs or in MP3 format is available to purchase separately or comes included in the great value Colloquial Romanian pack. Recorded by native speakers, this material will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills. For the eBook and MP3 pack, please find instructions on how to access the supplementary content for this title in the Prelims section.

Language: en
Pages: 670

The Negative Existential Cycle

Author(s): Ljuba Veselinova, Arja Hamari

Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

Type: Book
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Published: 2022-12-20
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Publisher: Language Science Press

In 1991, William Croft suggested that negative existentials (typically lexical expressions that mean ‘not exist, not have’) are one possible source for negation markers and gave his hypothesis the name Negative Existential Cycle (NEC). It is a variationist model based on cross-linguistic data. For a good twenty years following its formulation, it was cited at face-value without ever having been tested by (historical)-comparative data. Over the last decade, Ljuba Veselinova has worked on testing the model in a comparative perspective, and this edited volume further expands on her work. The collection presented here features detailed studies of several language families such as Bantu, Chad...

Language: en
Pages: 1014

The Cambridge Handbook of Role and Reference Grammar

Author(s): Delia Bentley, Ricardo Mairal Usón, Wataru Nakamura, Robert D. Van Valin, Jr

Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

Type: Book
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Published: 2023-06-07
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Publisher: Unknown

Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) is a theory of language in which linguistic structures are accounted for in terms of the interplay of discourse, semantics and syntax. With contributions from a team of leading scholars, this Handbook provides a field-defining overview of RRG. Assuming no prior knowledge, it introduces the framework step-by-step, and includes a pedagogical guide for instructors. It features in-depth discussions of syntax, morphology, and lexical semantics, including treatments of lexical and grammatical categories, the syntax of simple clauses and complex sentences, and how the linking of syntax with semantics and discourse works in each of these domains. It illustrates RRG's contribution to the study of language acquisition, language change and processing, computational linguistics, and neurolinguistics, and also contains five grammatical sketches which show how RRG analyses work in practice. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for anyone who is interested in how grammar interfaces with meaning.

Language: en
Pages: 515

Attitude and Stance in Discourse

Author(s): Liliana Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu, Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu, Gabriela Stoica, Șerban Hartular

Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

Type: Book
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Published: 2022-01-27
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Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Stancetaking is inherent in verbal communication, as it is connected with the expression of subjectivity and the construction of intersubjectivity in discourse. This book presents theoretical findings in this field and their practical implications, exploring the variations in time and space of meaning negotiation processes in a large variety of communicative forms, including political and judicial discourse, journalism, fiction, private letters, informal conversations, and school debates. Some articles refer to events with a strong impact on social and political life, such as the COVID-19 pandemic or Ceaușescu’s trial. The volume’s approach is mainly pragma-rhetoric and interactional, but also interdisciplinary, promoting dialogue between stance researchers in different fields. There is a specific focus on possible applications of some key findings of stance research in improving inter-ethnic communication and the teaching of foreign languages, as well as students’ communicative abilities.

Language: en
Pages: 378

Romanian Grammar

Author(s): Mika Sarlin

Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

Type: Book
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Published: 2014-09-30
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Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

This book is an advanced grammar of Romanian for English speakers. Romanian is a Romance language, meaning that it has developed from Latin just like Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian. Romanian is spoken by ca. 24 million people and it is the official language of both Romania and Moldova. It also has an official status in the province of Vojvodina in Serbia and in few villages in Ukraine. Romanian is also one of the official languages of the European Union.

Language: en
Pages: 1104

Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax

Author(s): Andreas Dufter, Elisabeth Stark

Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

Type: Book
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Published: 2017-09-25
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Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects. We define syntax as being the linguistic component that assembles linguistic units, such as roots or functional morphemes, into grammatical sentences, and morphosyntax as being an umbrella term for all morphological relations between these linguistic units, which either trigger morphological marking (e.g. explicit case morphemes) or are related to ordering issues (e.g. subjects precede finite verbs whenever there is number agreement between them). All 24 chapters adopt a comparative perspective on these two fields of research, highlighting cross-linguistic grammatical similarities and differences within the Romance language family. In addition, many chapters address issues related to variation observable within individual Romance languages, and grammatical change from Latin to Romance.