Here enclosed some information about: Chinese Ideas in the West The relationship between "Language contact" and "acculturation" can berealized by the linguistic characteristics.... http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/song/readings/inventions_ideas.htm#cinder &nb ...
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/cadre_en.asp Developed through a process of scientific research and wide consultation, this document provides a practical tool for setting clear s ...
Douglas Biber (1988,1995)discuss a multidimensional approach to register variation. The question is: How to search those linguistic features using different software? Here enclosed the search algorithms designed by the authors of "Corpus-based language studies: an advan ...
Douglas Biber (1988) quotes Akinnaso (1982) to explain the non-quantitative approaches to spoken and written languages (Biber 1988:51). Akinnaso claims that quantitative studies have not addressed the important issues relating to speech and writing, and that they are perhaps unable to do so. Thus, ...
Linguisitcs research: Douglas Biber (1988,1995) discuss the concept of "factor loading" which is very important for language variation analyses. We must know the concept of "factor analysis" before understand "factor loading", and here enclosed some explanations for "factor analysis": ...
I read an article named "Source language influence without the effect of ‘ shining through ’: over-representation of generic person reference in translation" this morning, and was confused by an item: "pro drop language". Thanks owe to the wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: From ...