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- Tue Dec 09, 2003 1:23 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: receipt or reception?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 33968
- Tue Dec 09, 2003 1:15 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Split infinitive
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11609
Then again, there ain't nothing wrong with double negatives either, linguistically , but those same wrong-headed purists get just as huffy about them, too. I certainly agree that the purists are wrong-headed, but it's still a fact (at least in the UK) that they have had, and continue to have, consid...
- Fri Dec 05, 2003 11:21 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Essential Readings in EFL methodology for non-newbies
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11025
- Fri Dec 05, 2003 11:16 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: How to get rid of "Lithuanian English"?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14742
- Fri Dec 05, 2003 11:09 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Evolution of language
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3044
Evolution of language
[warning] According to my graduate school, this topic doesn't even belong in this forum because "it isn't Applied Linguistics" ( I wanted to do my Masters thesis on the subject, but it was turned down). [/warning] The point, which Iain , Larry and I have vaguely discussed elsewhere, is where does la...
- Fri Dec 05, 2003 10:32 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Split infinitive
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11609
Re: Split infinitive
Having these sentences: (1) I told him to never come back again. (2) I told him never to come back again. Which one of them is correct? May I slipt the infinitive after all or not? José [/b] Um, am I the only one who thinks that both sentences are acceptable/syntactically correct, but that there is...
- Fri Dec 05, 2003 10:15 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: ESL Proficiency/Ability
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3058
- Fri Dec 05, 2003 10:07 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Krashen's Natural approach
- Replies: 15
- Views: 16043
Szwagier's Nutshell Approach :) Good - Conscious learning of a language is not the only, or even the most important, part of learning a language. Every coursebook in the last 20 years that even mentions a distinction between acquisition and learning owes a debt of thanks (however small) to Krashen. ...
- Wed Dec 03, 2003 7:50 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: receipt or reception?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 33968
- Wed Dec 03, 2003 7:43 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Essential Readings in EFL methodology for non-newbies
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11025
Actually, I don't completely disagree - the whole field of language evolution is, as Schmidt implies, fairly young, and I would think that Deacon himself would be happy with "an early pass", given that early passes are all that is possible at this stage. I think Schmidt does Deacon a bit of a disser...
- Mon Dec 01, 2003 5:20 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Essential Readings in EFL methodology for non-newbies
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11025
I'd be interested to hear, Szwagier, why you think Chomsky is wrong. I've read complaints from evolutionary linguists (they use computer analysis) claiming that there are other simpler theories that can explain the origins of language. And I have ideas of my own. Perhaps, we could start a new threa...
- Mon Dec 01, 2003 4:28 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: There is / are .....
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20959
- Mon Dec 01, 2003 8:22 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: There is / are .....
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20959
I believe it was in one of the Headway series, about 9 years ago, I saw a sentence attributed to Linda McCartney: "Breakfast is eggs." Is that a grammatical sentence or not? And what about: "Eggs are breakfast"? I firmly believe that a Cosmic Censor should hurl such utterances into a black hole, nev...
- Mon Dec 01, 2003 8:13 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Translator's pains
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10601
How much can you play around with word order and the like? What about: This article talks about the foundation of the Social Sciences Faculty, and of its major accomplishments during its five-year existence. PS I also translate (Pol -> Eng), and have the biggest problems with Polish adverbials and a...
- Sat Nov 29, 2003 10:11 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Applied sociolinguistics internet project
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3872