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CFP Eurosla 2014: Corpus Pragmatics and Second Language Research
EUROSLA 2014 3-6 September 2014 (University of York) CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE THEMATIC COLLOQUIUM “CORPUS PRAGMATICS AND SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH”
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Johnson: We are all friends now
MANY languages use different words for “you”, depending on the relationship between the speaker and the addressee. “You” tends to have two versions throughout Europe (tu and vous in French; du and Sie in German; tu and lei in Italian, etc), and knowing how to use them is a big part of linguistic savvy. Typically […]
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Phrases Gone Astray
Modifying phrases should usually be adjacent to what they are describing. When such a phrase pops up in an unlikely part of the sentence, the effect ranges from clunkiness to confusion to unintended comedy. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/misplaced-phrases/
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin via Tumblr http://jesusromerotrillo.tumblr.com/post/68465855261
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EU referendum: time for UK university leaders to speak out?
Universities have as much to lose as major companies from a ‘no’ vote in any forthcoming EU referendum, says Paul White The chief executive of the Confederation of British Industry has done it. Firms involved in inward investment in the UK (such as Nissan) have done it. But, as yet, British university leaders have not […]
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Tricky Little Things
Tiny as they are, misplaced commas form an outsize blot on a sentence. In the spectrum of grammatical lapses, they seem particularly amateurish. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/too-many-commas/