An approachable and engaging introduction to Historical Linguistics with up-to-date pedagogy including exercises, further reading and online support material.

Historical Linguistics is a core part of most linguistics programmes. With the more experienced linguistics student in mind, this book covers many subjects in considerable depth while not sacrificing an appreciation of the whole.

Includes examples and datasets from a wide variety of languages and language families, whereas most historic...

Subtitling: Concepts and Practices provides students, researchers and practitioners with a research-based introduction to the theory and practice of subtitling. It offers access to a professional desktop subtitle editor, Wincaps Q4, and a leading cloud-based subtitling platform, OOONA.

In dit boek komen alle vaardigheden aan bod op A2-niveau en worden Lezen en Luisteren op B1-niveau aangeboden. De context is ‘Spaans in het beroepsonderwijs’. Het boek bevat veel gevarieerde opdrachten op basis van de ERK descriptoren zoals o.a. jezelf voorstellen. Daarnaast wordt ook ingegaan op de verschillende skills, kennis en ervaringen van de studenten. Natuurlijk komen ook grammatica en idioom aan bod.

This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues, recent advances and current debates. It presents familiar or classic data in new ways, and supplements the familiar with fresh examples from a wide range of languages and social settings. It clearly explains the patterns and systems that underlie language variation in use, as well as the ways in which alternati...

Introducing English Grammar introduces readers to the methodology and terminology needed to analyse English sentences. Written for readers with no previous experience of grammatical analysis, Introducing English Grammar is suited to anyone beginning a study of linguistics, English language or speech pathology, as well as to students with primary literary interests who need a better understanding of the structure of English.

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* eentalig leer- en oefenboek zakelijk Duits

* praktijkgerichte vaardighedentrainer

* met voorbeeldbrieven en overzichten van veelvoorkomende tekstbouwstenen

* boek met audio-cd

* geschikt voor in de les, voor zelfstudie en als naslagwerk

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages --in the case of bilinguals-- have already been acquired. Understanding Second Language Acquisit...

Third revised edition of Genki: an integrated course in elementary Japanese. This is the second textbook in the series that includes 11 lessons in which the student will learn all the aspects that complete the basic level of Japanese. Each of the units contains a specific topic in which vocabulary and grammar are practiced. One of the peculiarities of this method is that it seeks to have a balance between all communication skills. Therefore, the student must perform listening and speaking com...