Today I was accused of being VDC-resistant. It's true, despite the smorgasbord of wonders they offer . They're famously unsubtitled, and, call me crazy, but I figure the spoken (and sung) words are pretty important to understanding a film. The ones I've seen also suffer from poor audio and visual quality, and the Moser Baer VCD of Rootha Na Karo was no exception, with the second disc sounding like it was being transmitted by a radio station just out of range. But when a very nice person... Read Full Story
Institution/Organization: Northwestern University Department: Lingusitics Web Address: http://www.linguistics.northwestern.edu/programs/graduate.html Level: PhD Specialty Areas: General Linguistics Description: In conjunction with our institutional partners, the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University invites applications for graduate fellowships in linguistics and interdisciplinary research in language. All admitted students receive a 5 year funding commitment (subject to... Read Full Story
While teaching my class last week I was looking for a better way to illustrate the difference between the "theta" and "eth" phonemes because they are particularly hard for some people to differentiate. I came across a wonderful post on Notes from a Linguistic Mystic that I have excerpted below: A Tale of Two TH’s Say “This thistle” a few times. Now, pay very close attention to the TH sounds at the beginning of each word. Put your hand on your Adam’s Apple (or equivalent area on your neck... Read Full Story
In Spanish, in constructions made up of two nouns that form one lexical unit in which the second noun modifies the first as if it were an adjective , usually only the first one will be expressed as plural .
Examples:
horas punta (peak hours)
bombas lapa (naval mines)
faldas pantalón (culotte shorts)
ciudades dormitorio (commuter cities)
pisos piloto (model apartments)
coches cama (sleeper buses)
hombres rana (scuba divers)
niños prodigio (prodigy children)
noticias bomba... Read Full Story
I am very pleased to announce that three new titles from the LNTS Series have been published recently. In Grammatical and Exegetical Study of New Testament Verbs of Transference Paul Danove carries out an exhaustive Case Frame analysis of the ditransitive verbs of transference in the New Testament. Danove uses this analysis to develop a set of descriptive guidelines for interpreting and translating the various usages of ditransitive verbs of transference and applies these rules in exegetical... Read Full Story
Happy Halloween "A paraprosdokian (from Greek "παρα-", meaning "beyond" and "προσδοκία", meaning "expectation") is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part." - Wikipedia
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Happy Halloween "A paraprosdokian (from Greek "παρα-", meaning "beyond" and "προσδοκία", meaning "expectation") is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part." - Wikipedia
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Stop stumbling in Spanglish – a Spanish-English Dictionary is the key to success! Master the languages. With a whopping five million total English-Spanish translations, this electronic dictionary from Franklin provides the help you need to express yourself in either language. Definitions, conjugations of English and Spanish verbs in all tenses, plus 4000 Spanish and English example sentences provide the tools to communicate. Built-in phonetic spelling correction lets you easily translate... Read Full Story
Here are some tips for improving your results learning Spanish. You can have the best Spanish language learning program available, but if you don't use it right, or don't have good study skills, your progress won't be as fast as it could be. Follow these tips: LISTEN A LOT: Do lots of listening, especially on tapes, DVDs, etc - and, most importantly, don't read while you are listening!! You need all your attention on what you are hearing. Listen to a passage as many times as possible... Read Full Story
A cranberry morpheme , according to Andrew Spencer in the book Morphological Theory , is a morpheme that has "neither meaning nor grammatical function, yet is used to differentiate one word from another". The term cranberry morpheme was chosed to describe this linguistic occurrence based on the comparison of the word 'cranberry' to other 'berry' words where the first morphemes do carry meaning (ex. blueberry, blackberry and loganberry). Cranberry morphemes are sometimes called "fossilized... Read Full Story
