Speaking and instructed foreign language acquisition [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mirosław Pawlak, Ewa Waniek-Klimczak and Jan Majer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781765403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-22473-9; 9786613224736; 1-84769-412-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Collana: Second language acquisition ; ; 57
• Altri autori (Persone): PawlakMirosław; Waniek-KlimczakEwa; MajerJan
• Disciplina: 418.0071
• Soggetti: Language and languages - Study and teaching; Second language acquisition
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Theoretical perspectives on instructed acquisition of speaking -- pt. 2. Speaking and individual variables -- pt. 3. Research into instructed acquisition of speaking.
• Sommario/riassunto: Developing the ability to speak in a foreign language is an arduous task. This is because it involves the mastery of different language subsystems, simultaneous focus on comprehension and production, and the impact of a range of social factors. This challenge is further compounded in situations in which learners have limited access to the target language. Thus, there is a need to explore issues related to teaching, learning and testing speaking with a view to translating the guidelines based on theoretical positions and research findings into feasible and context-specific pedagogical recommendations. This is the rationale behind this book, which considers speaking from leading theoretical perspectives, investigates individual variables which affect its development, and reports the results of studies focusing on different aspects of its instructed acquisition.

Negation patterns in West African languages and beyond / / edited by Norbert Cyffer, Erwin Ebermann, Georg Ziegelmeyer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959089603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009
• ISBN: 9786612312267; 9781282312265; 128231226X; 9789027289391; 9027289395
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 368 p
• Collana: Typological studies in language ; ; v. 87
• Classificazione: 18.92
• Altri autori (Persone): CyfferNorbert; EbermannErwin <1953->; ZiegelmeyerGeorg
• Disciplina: 496
• Soggetti: African languages - Africa, West - Negatives; Africa, West Languages Negatives
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Negation of non-indicative mood in Hausa, Fulfulde and Kanuri / Georg Ziegelmeyer -- The impact of clause types and focus control, aspect, modality, and referentiality on negation in Lamang and Hdi (Central Chadic) / H. Ekkehard Wolff -- Quantification and polarity : negative adverbial intensifiers ("never ever", "not at all", etc.) in Hausa / Philip J. Jaggar -- Negation patterns in Kanuri / Norbert Cyffer -- Songhay verbal negation in its dialectal and areal context / Petr Zima -- Negation in Jukun / Anne Storch -- Negation marking in Igbo / Ozo-mekuri Ndimele -- Aspects of discontinuous negation in Santome / Tjerk Hagemeijer -- Negation in Gur : genetic, areal, and unique features / Kerstin Winkelmann and Gudrun Miehe -- Double negation-marking : a case of contact-induced grammaticalization in West Africa? / Klaus Beyer -- Negation in South Mande / Valentin Vydrine -- From double negation to Portmanteau : comparative sentence negation in Northern Samo / Erwin Ebermann -- The system of negation in Berber / Amina Mettouchi -- Verb-object-negative order in Central Africa / ; Matthew S. Dryer.
• Sommario/riassunto: Crosslinguistically, SVO languages most commonly place negative particles before the verb, employing SNegVO order. This paper documents an area in central Africa which deviates from this pattern, in which the negative follows the verb, typically occurring at the end of the clause, in SVONeg order. The languages in which this order is found do not form a natural class genetically, since they belong to three different families: Niger-Congo (including Adamawa-Ubangian, Platoid, northern Bantoid among others), Nilo-Saharan (especially Bongo-Bagirmi, but also Kresh and a few other groups), and Afro-Asiatic (specifically Chadic, but found widely throughout Chadic). The area stretches from Nigeria across to the Central African Republic and down into the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo.