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Zahra, Tehseen; Abbas, Akhtar – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2018
The advent of corpora has opened new vistas for language study and restructured linguists' and academicians' approaches to lexicography and English language teaching (ELT). After 1980s, the use of online language corpora and computer tools garnered tremendous attention of English language teachers and academicians. Keeping in view the modern…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
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Nadal, Gloria Claveria; Lancis, Carlos Sanchez – Hispania, 1997
Notes that the employment of databases to the study of the history of a language is a method that allows for substantial improvement in investigative quality. Illustrates this with the example of the application of this method to two studies of the history of Spanish developed in the Language and Information Seminary of the Independent University…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Databases, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Gesner, Edward – 1986
A bibliography of 430 books, journal articles, papers, and other references on Acadian French written in English or French is divided into two principal sections: an annotated bibliography of works focusing on the Acadian French dialect spoken in the Canadian Maritime Provinces, and an unannotated bibliography pertaining to Louisiana Acadian…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingualism, Dialect Studies, Ethnology
Hershberger, Henry D., Comp.; Hershberger, Ruth, Comp. – 1986
The Kuku-Yalanji language is spoken by 500-600 Australian Aboriginal people on the coast of southeastern Cape York and inland to Chillagoe. The dictionary is of the northern dialects of Kuku-Nyungkul, the Rossville/Shipton's Flats dialect, Kuku-Yalanji, the China Camp/Daintree dialect, and Kuku-Jalunji, the Bloomfield dialect. It has three…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Adjectives, Classification, Creoles
Cahill, Michael, Ed. – Notes on Linguistics, 2001
These four volumes of the journal present articles, review articles, abstracts, dissertation abstracts, and reports. Articles include the following: "The Linguist's Role in Archiving Linguistic Data Sources" (Joan Spanne); "The SIL Language and Culture Archive: An Interview with Joan Spanne" (Eugene Loos); "The Value of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Archives, Athapascan Languages, Bantu Languages
Laberge, Julie, Ed.; Vezina, Robert, Ed. – 1996
The 33 papers, all in French, from the 1996 conference on research in linguistics address a wide range of topics in linguistics, including: linguists as an endangered species; categorizing verb specifiers in Yoruba; socio-terminology as a framework for understanding the language of orthodontia; French-to-Arabic borrowings in the 19th and 20th…
Descriptors: Advertising, African Languages, Arabic, Bilingualism