This book investigates the content of the grammar syllabuses typically employed in mainstream English Language Teaching. Using a mixed-methods approach, the author examines how the syllabuses used in coursebooks are actually constructed, how they evolved and how valid their contents are as a basis for teaching.
Bringing together research from a global team of scholars, this innovative volume explores the morphosyntactic features of verbal aggression, an aspect of hate speech that has been hitherto overlooked. It will be essential reading for researchers and students of hate speech and verbal aggression.
This book explores how language and linguistic knowledge can be encountered through walks, shared meals, conversations, and daily life rather than being written about in the style and genre of western academic grammar. Appealing to academics in liminality studies and those interested in alternative approaches to language documentation.
In this revised edition, a recognized expert in biblical Hebrew offers a readable and linguistically savvy guide to navigating basic grammatical concepts.
Explains how grammatical relations are characterized in competing theories of grammar and reveals the different theories' merits and limitations. This book compares mainstream generative-transformational theory with formalist and functionalist approaches, showing points of convergence and divergence.
The Greek Language after Antiquity offers an in-depth look at the diachrony of the Greek language, focusing on a period relatively neglected by modern scholarship: the more than 1,000 years between the end of Antiquity and the early modern period.