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- Tue Dec 11, 2018 6:42 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: This new look is terrible
- Replies: 0
- Views: 147190
This new look is terrible
May I respectfully suggest that the old look of these Teacher Discussion forums (which is still used for the Job Discussion forums part of the cafe) be reinstated? That is, what are the reasons for the change?
- Wed May 09, 2018 7:51 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Any accent experts on here?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 58806
- Mon May 07, 2018 7:22 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Any accent experts on here?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 58806
Welcome to the forums! I think the link is fine (how else are we to hear the accent), even it it seems ultimately a rather trivial question (students are good at those sometimes LOL). Might've been better on the Pronunciation forum but the AL one's higher up and prolly still the more frequented, and...
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 4:06 pm
- Forum: Secondary School Education
- Topic: Teaching unmotivated students
- Replies: 61
- Views: 957904
... an address from Winston Churchill to parliament, and the story of the tower of Babel in Ogden's Basic English. Yours is a fascinating post and example to many, I'm sure. I, my self, have no knowledge of those moments quoted above. Please enlighten me. I know this reply is coming a decade late b...
- Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:43 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Should we liven this up a bit?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 52088
Always nice to hear what people have been getting up to, but let's face it, these forums have likely had their heyday. Use it (help keep things alive by contributing reasonably regularly) or lose it, I guess. Even the Job Discussion forums have become a shadow of their former self, and now just seem...
- Sat Aug 20, 2016 4:58 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic:
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- Views: 63082
- Tue Aug 16, 2016 9:18 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic:
- Replies: 3
- Views: 63082
six-figure (note the hyphen) is given in dictionaries as an adjective used only before a noun e.g. a six-figure salary (the adjectival nature of the unit there is evident in basic substitutions such as decent or handsome but not e.g. * handsomely ). In your first example meanwhile the yes, noun (we...
- Sat May 28, 2016 12:11 am
- Forum: Adult Education
- Topic: Tag questions Grammar
- Replies: 1
- Views: 37876
Most grammars deal primarily with standard forms e.g. the COBUILD Grammar in section 10.111 says "Note that the negative tag with 'I' is 'aren't I', when 'am' is the auxiliary or main verb in the main clause. I'm controlling it, aren't I? " (to which I'd add, if the tag forms are uncontracted then t...
- Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:07 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Passive verb list?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 38047
You can find reasonably representative starter lists in decent grammars (such as the COBUILD English Grammar, section 10.18 etc), and more comprehensive ones especially by searching the CD-ROMs that are nowadays sold along with print editions of advanced learner dictionaries (for example, from the '...
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 9:56 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Derivation and Inflection
- Replies: 4
- Views: 64116
(derivation usually involves a change in grammatical class not in meaning) Eh? You were postulating that without a change in class (even given the clear addition of affixes) derivation could not be involved, and said nothing (at least not explicitly) about changes in meaning (or the supposed lack t...
- Wed Sep 02, 2015 2:13 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Derivation and Inflection
- Replies: 4
- Views: 64116
Where did you get the idea that derivation necessarily had to involve a change in grammatical class? (Though it is easy enough to give examples that do show such changes, e.g. legal [adj] > legality [n]). Just because you've found (cherry-picked? LOL) some examples that don't show a change in class ...
- Thu Jul 23, 2015 6:57 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Brian Browser's book-filled trousers
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2538527
I bought the Ritchie book and am about halfway through it. Some thoughts (sort of half a review) here:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic ... 31#1216531
http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic ... 31#1216531
- Tue Jul 07, 2015 4:54 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Gapping vs. Ellipsis
- Replies: 5
- Views: 86742
I sent you the PM as a courtesy, as it had been several days since you posted your question and you might've stopped checking regularly for replies. If you want to reply to a PM, simply click the 'Reply' button within that PM (and doing so opens up a new PM back to the original sender, and doesn't a...
- Sun Jul 05, 2015 10:15 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Gapping vs. Ellipsis
- Replies: 5
- Views: 86742
"Bonus": One example that I found very unconvincing was this from Trask's Penguin Dictionary of English Grammar's entry on gapping: It is possible to have more than one gap in a single sentence: Rod gave the museum a T-shirt and Elton e e a pair of glasses . Here the two gaps represent gave and the ...
- Sun Jul 05, 2015 8:57 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Gapping vs. Ellipsis
- Replies: 5
- Views: 86742
The main area of overlap between the notions appears to be during medial ellipsis (less common than initial or final ellipsis), where there is an absence of a repeated verb in clauses that have been conjoined i.e. a 'gap' appears in the shortened clause. That is, this "overlapping-with-ellipsis" typ...