Anonymous wrote: Although Chinese syllable structure is as you suggest, this is completely different from the importance of word structure. Words in Chinese are composed of a single syllable, whereas words in English and Spanish can be composed

I'd like to ask somebody, how can you explain this term - complex system. I'm Czech and I do czech and english at university. In our seminary of english morphology I got question, how could we explain terms double articulation and complex

I am planning to take MA in applied linguistics. i studied so many subjects about semantics morphology, stylistics, and comparative linguistics in a College of Enlgish in my country. The problem is that I don't know what i can add in this field. I

Hi everyone, I'm an Italian student. I'm currently working on my final dissertation which will deal about derivational morphology. In particular it will be about the creation of new words in English through prefixes and suffixes. I find out

My high school Chinese teacher asked me to help her translate these two abstracts from Chinese into English. I have finished, but I need to correct them into better English. Please help me. I have to give my teacher the translation. She helped me

Anonymous wrote: It's all the more difficulty to see in that our tools for detecting significant change before and after Aristotle suggest that, basically, there wasn't any. Or that if there was, it was likely to be due to factors other than what

Forbes wrote: I am having difficulty believing that the ideas of philosophers, even so great a one as Aristotle, have an effect on the way non-philosophers speak. Either a language goes in for inherent reflexivity marking or it does not. I

.... -0- ok, let's put it this way: GB is nothing more than a module in the generative grammar, to be put on a par with such other modules of the theory as X', Case theory or the Theta Theory, although it has been quite incorrectly treated as

MrPedantic wrote: What are we to make of the fact that adult native speakers often "self-prescriptivise"? Example: "Oh, hello, MrP. MissQ was just telling Randy and me – Randy and I – about L1 acquisition." MrP I read your

'If prescriptivism is unnecessary in L1 acquisition, then dictionaries will only exist for L2 speakers, which isn't the case.' Your deduction appears to me fallacious. Using dictionaries do not necessarily mean the chap is prescribing a