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Language Teaching
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 34.95This book demonstrates the relevance of an integrational linguistic perspective to a practical, real-world need, namely the learning of languages. Integrational linguistics? shunning of both realist and structuralist theories of language, its commitment to an unwavering attention to the perspective of the language user, and its adherence to a semiology... more...
Signs of Weakness
Continuum International Publishing 2001; US$ 140.00Are early Irish stories influenced by the Bible or transcriptions of pre-Christian Celtic lore? Layzer explores the practical and theoretical difficulties of determining 'influence' in ancient writing, and the relationship between the oral and the written, literacy and literature and the disciplines of Irish Studies and Biblical Studies.<This... more...
Threshold 1990
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 30.00Threshold 1990 is a statement of language learning objectives for intermediate level learners. more...
Llên yr Uchelwyr
University of Wales Press 2005; US$ 65.00Gwaith Beirdd yr Uchelwyr yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar ddeg ar bymthegfed oedd uchafbwynt traddodiad barddol Cymraeg yr Oesoedd Canol. Hon ywr gyfrol gyntaf i gynnig darlun cynhwysfawr ac awdurdodol o lenyddiaeth y cyfnod hwnnw yn ei holl agweddau. Rhoddir ystyriaeth fanwl i rai o gewrir cywydd megis Dafydd ap Gwilym, Iolo Goch, Gutor... more...
Welsh in the Twenty-First Century
University of Wales Press 2010; US$ 35.00This book analyses the state of the Welsh language at the beginning of the twenty-first century, with contributions from leading scholars in the fields of sociology and language policy. more...
The Perfect Time Span
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 173.00This book is the first book-length study on the Swedish present perfect. It provides an in-depth exploration of the present perfect in English, German and Swedish. It is claimed that only a discourse-based ExtendedNow-approach fully accounts for the present perfect. The main claim is that the length of the ExtendedNow-interval varies cross-linguistically.... more...
Mapping the Territory
Parthian Books 2011; US$ 7.28This book may be considered as the second stage in the crucial campaign to raise the profile of Welsh writing in English both within Wales and in the wider world. The first stage was the foundation of the Library of Wales series. more...
Komposition und Kompositionalität
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00This book systematically applies the so-called principle of compositionality to substantive composition and investigates whether this semantic principle can be judged a sufficient basis for the understanding of unknown terms. The central question concerns how far the meaning of a substantive composite with two nominal elements can be ?calculated? from... more...
Comparative Studies in Word Order Variation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1998; US$ 195.00The present book is a typological study in crucial portions of the grammars of French/Romance and German/Germanic. It starts by asking: What do adverbs, pronouns and full noun phrases have in common? This question is tackled, on the one hand, from an empirical perspective by the description of relevant linguistic facts leading to significant and unexpected... more...
The Dialects of Irish
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 182.00The book offers an easy-to-grasp overview of forms of modern Irish within a general linguistic framework. Based on recordings of more than 200 speakers (accessible as supplementary material on the accompanying DVD), the book demonstrates the vitality and breadth of the present-day language. Maps and tables allow easy orientation among the varieties... more...









