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Dutch grammar / by Quist, Gerdi.(CARDINAL)532449; Strik, Dennis.(CARDINAL)420520;
Subjects: Textbooks.; Programmed instructional materials.; Dutch language; Dutch language; Dutch language;
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Conversational Arabic [sound recording].
Presents a short course in conversational Arabic, featuring seven units, each including a dialogue on topics such as saying hello and goodbye, reserving accommodations, ordering food, banking, shopping, and sightseeing, with Arabic and English translations of words and phrases used, grammar tips, and activities.Compact disc.
Subjects: Arabic language; Arabic language; Arabic language; Arabic language; Audiobooks.;
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The story of human language [sound recording] / by McWhorter, John H.,author,teacher.(CARDINAL)342022; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
What is language? -- When language began -- How language changes: sound change -- How language changes: building new material -- How language changes: meaning and order -- How language changes: many directions -- How language changes: modern English -- Language families: Indo-European -- Language families: tracing Indo-European -- Language families: diversity of structures -- Language families: clues to the past -- The case against the world's first language -- The case for the world's first language -- Dialects: subspecies of species -- Dialects: where do you draw the line? -- Dialects: two tongues in one mouth -- Dialects: the standard as token of the past -- Dialects: spoken style, written style -- Dialects: the fallacy of blackboard grammar -- Language mixture: words -- Language mixture: grammar -- Language mixture: language areas -- Language develops beyond the call of duty -- Language interrupted -- A new perspective on the story of English -- Does culture drive language change? -- Language starts over: Pidgins -- Language starts over: Creoles I -- Language starts over: Creoles II -- Language starts over: signs of the new -- Language starts over: the Creole continuum -- What is Black English? -- Language death: the problem -- Language death: prognosis -- Artificial languages -- Finale: master class.Lecturer, John McWhorter, Manhattan Institute.Professor McWhorter delivers lectures tracing the origins and history of language.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Lectures.; Language and languages.; Historical linguistics.;
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You can't always say what you want : the paradox of free speech / by Baron, Dennis(Writer on Freedom of speech)Author(DLC)n 2022027468;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-275) and index.Free speech, but ... -- Guns and grammar -- Clear and present danger -- Strong language -- Threat leve l : orange -- America's war on language -- Repeat after me -- Will free speech survive?"This book outlines the historical context of laws regulating rights to freedom of speech, and explores future threats to these freedoms. Now more than ever, we are living in a free speech paradox: powerful speakers weaponize their rights in order to silence those less-powerful speakers who oppose them. "--.
Subjects: Freedom of speech; Freedom of speech.;
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Beginner's Italian grammar / by Bowles, Vittoria.(CARDINAL)640170;
Subjects: Programmed instructional materials.; Textbooks.; Italian language; Italian language; Italian language;
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French sentence builder / by Kurbegov, Eliane,author.(CARDINAL)293325;
Declarative sentences and word order -- Interrogative sentences and word order -- Precise questions -- Exclamatory sentences -- Imperative clauses -- Independent clauses -- Dependent clauses and the indicative mood -- Dependent clauses and the subjunctive mood -- Relative clauses -- Infinitive and past infinitive clauses -- Using nouns -- Using personal pronouns -- Special uses of pronouns -- Using adverbs and adverbial phrases -- Using prepositions and prepositional phrases -- Using present and past participles -- Making transitions -- Letter writing and messaging -- Using colloquial expressions and structures -- Writing -- Review and extension -- Answer key.The go-to guide to helping you make the leap from French language basics to composing well-structured sentences--now with new streaming audio recordings via the McGraw Hill Language Lab app. Once you've learned the rudiments of French grammar and a core vocabulary, the next challenge is to put together well-structured sentences. You'll find everything you need to help you break out of a compartmentalized understanding of the language and build your confidence in writing and speaking French. Progressing gradually from putting words together into clauses through writing your own sentences and eventually entire paragraphs, Kurbegov presents clear explanations on how to apply grammar, numerous examples that demonstrate correct word order, and helpful exercises to practice. With new audio recordings of the answer key to more than 50 exercises, you'll gain the skills you need to be able to speak, understand, and write French with confidence. Features > Presents grammar elements in the context of sentence building, supported by numerous examples > Includes numerous exercises in a variety of formats to build writing skills > A review chapter tests your comprehension of everything covered in the book > An answer key provides correct responses to closed exercises and example answers for creative questions NEW: Audio recordings of the answer key to more than 50 exercises, available via the McGraw Hill Language Lab app.
Subjects: Problems and exercises.; Programmed instructional materials.; Textbooks.; French language; French language; French language; French language; French language;
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Dreyer's English : an utterly correct guide to clarity and style / by Dreyer, Benjamin,author.(CARDINAL)783834;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A witty, authoritative guide to writing by the leading Twitter language guru and veteran Random House copy chief shares lessons on better writing that cover usage questions ranging from the series comma to split infinitives.
Subjects: Authorship; English language;
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Graded reader of Biblical Hebrew : a guide to reading the Hebrew Bible / by Van Pelt, Miles V.,1969-Author(DLC)n 2001058255; Pratico, Gary Davis,Author(DLC)n 87125979;
Includes bibliographical references (pages xvi-xvii).A structured introduction to the reading of Biblical Hebrew texts, giving second-year Hebrew students the necessary practice to gain greater proficiency in using the language for exegesis and preaching. The updated second edition of the Graded Reader of Biblical Hebrew: A Guide to Reading the Hebrew Bible by Miles V. Van Pelt and Gary D. Pratico is the ideal next-step resource for the student who has completed a year of elementary Hebrew or the pastor or scholar whose language skills need some refreshing. Through these readings, students will be able to review basic Hebrew grammar, become familiar with issues of intermediate grammar, and gain confidence in handling the Hebrew text. The readings chosen for inclusion--arranged in order of increasing difficulty--span the whole of the Old Testament and represent some of the most important Old Testament texts from the standpoint of biblical history, theology, and exegesis. Parsing exercises are included with each reading, and there is room for readers to write their own English translation. The many notes that accompany the text include information on: *Grammar *Exegetically significant constructions *Vocabulary words *Idioms *Bibliographic information *and much more. A vital resource for those wanting to take the next step in learning Biblical Hebrew, the Graded Reader of Biblical Hebrew guides students as they move beyond the basics and build competency in translating and exegeting the text of the Old Testament.
Subjects: Instructional and educational works; Hebrew language; Hebrew language; Hebrew language;
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REA's Handbook of English grammar, style, and writing.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; English language; English language; English language;
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The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences / by Foucault, Michel,1926-1984.(CARDINAL)142903;
Includes bibliographical references.Las meninas -- The prose of the world: The four similitudes ; Signatures ; The limits of the world ; The writing of things ; The being of language -- Representing: Don Quixote ; Order ; The representation of the sign ; Duplicated representation ; The imagination of resemblance ; Methesis and 'taxinomia' -- Speaking: Criticism and commentary ; General grammar ; The theory of the verb ; Articulation ; Designation ; Derivation ; The quadrilateral of language -- Classifying: What the historians say ; Natural history ; Structure ; Character ; Continuity and catastrophe ; Monsters and fossils ; The discourse of nature -- Exchanging: The analysis of wealth ; Money and prices ; Mercantilism ; The pledge and the price ; The creation of value ; Utility ; General table ; Desire and representation -- The limits of representation: The age of history ; The measure of labour ; The organic structure of beings ; Word inflection ; Ideology and criticism ; Objective syntheses -- Labour, life, language: The new empiricities ; Ricardo ; Cuvier ; Bopp ; Language become object -- Man and his doubles: The return of language ; The place of the king ; The analytic of finitude ; The empirical and the transcendental ; The 'cogito' and the unthought ; The retreat and return of the origin ; Discourse and man's being ; The anthropological sleep -- The human science: The three faces of knowledge ; The form of the human sciences ; The three models ; History ; Psychoanalysis and ethnology ; In conclusion.
Subjects: Learning and scholarship.; Civilization;
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