Teaching & Learning Guide for: Typology of Ergativity

Typology of Ergativity

Ergativity refers to patterning in a language whereby the subject of a transitive clause behaves differently to the subject of an intransitive clause, which behaves like the object of a transitive clause. Ergativity can be manifested in morphology, lexicon, syntax, and discourse organisation. This article overviews what is known about ergativity in the world’s languages, with a particular focus...

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the effect of explicit teaching of metacognitive vocabulary learning strategies on recall and retention of idioms

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Teaching & Learning Guide for: The Emerging Field of Language Dynamics

The field of language dynamics encompasses the study and modeling of how languages develop (language evolution), change, and interact (language competition). It contrasts with traditional historical linguistics in several ways: the focus is on the world’s linguistic diversity rather than just on specific languages or language families; methods are quantitative rather than qualitative; computer ...

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Linguistics in the Study and Teaching of Literature

Literary texts include linguistic form, as well as specialized literary forms (some of which also involve language). Linguistics can offer to literary studies an understanding of these kinds of form, and the ways by which a text is used to communicate meaning. In order to cope with the great variety of creative uses of language in literature, linguistics must acknowledge that some texts are ass...