Grammar Students Research Articles

The Navajo Verb: A Grammar for Students and Scholars

The verb is the most important and the most complex part of Navajo grammar. For the first time, students and scholars interested in the Navajo language have a book that presents the verb system in a step-by-step and thorough fashion. By providing easy-to-follow descriptions with abundant examples, this book unravels the complexity of Navajo and reveals its expressiveness. In Navajo, numerous prefixes combine with verb roots to form single words that, in English translation, require a phrase or even a sentence to convey their meaning. Therefore, verb stems and prefixes must be mastered piece by piece to understand the language. This volume leads the reader carefully and systematically through the complexities of the Navajo verb system. By doing so, the book makes Navajo more accessible to all those interested in this American Indian language.

Morton, Jacqueline, English Grammar for Students of French. London: Arnold, 1999, viii + 176 pp. 0 340 73202 X. (Fourth edition. Originally published in the United States of America by The Olivia and Hill Press.)

Morton, Jacqueline, English Grammar for Students of French. London: Arnold, 1999, viii + 176 pp. 0 340 73202 X. (Fourth edition. Originally published in the United States of America by The Olivia and Hill Press.) - Volume 10 Issue 2

English Grammar for Students of Latin: 2nd edition

English Grammar for Students of Latin: 2nd edition

English Grammar for Students of Italian: The Study Guide for Those Learning Italian

English Grammar for Students of Italian: The Study Guide for Those Learning Italian

A functional grammar for students of English

A functional grammar for students of English

English Grammar for Students of Japanese

English Grammar for Students of Japanese

English Grammar for Students of French

English Grammar for Students of French

Collins Cobuild Student's Grammar

Collins Cobuild Student's Grammar

A Student's Grammar of the English Language

The English language a general framework verbs and auxiliaries the semantics of the verb phrase nouns and determiners pronouns adjectives and adverbs the semantics and grammar of adverbials prepositions and prepositional phrases the simple sentence sentence types and discourse functions pro-forms and ellipsis co-ordination the complex sentence syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses complementation of verbs and adjectives the noun phrase theme, focus and information processing from sentences to text.

MORTON, JACQUELINE. English Grammar for Students of French: A Study Guide for Those Learning French. 2nd ed., English Grammar Series. Ann Arbor: The Olivia & Hill Press

MORTON, JACQUELINE. <i>English Grammar for Students of French:</i> A Study Guide for Those Learning French. 2nd ed., English Grammar Series. Ann Arbor: The Olivia &amp; Hill Press

Die schwarze Zaubertasche: Magical Cure for the Adjective-Ending Woes

One of the most difficult points of German grammar for students to master is adjective endings. We cannot expect the students to proceed too quickly to successful use of these endings in real communicative activities without adequate experience at the practice stage. The usual textbook approach of explanation followed by mechanical drill does not seem to lead to fluency or accuracy on this point. It is thus left to the skills of the instructor to devise remedies. In the follow-

English Grammar for Students of Russian

English Grammar for Students of Russian

REVIEW

Book reviewed in this articles:The Student's Grammar of English. Jan A. van Ek and Nico J. Robat.

TERRI: A CALL lesson simulating conversational interaction

This paper describes TERRI, a CALL simulation lesson on English imperatives for students of English as a Foreign Language. The simulation was suggested by Winograd's (1976), which used a display with a table, a box, blocks, pyramids, and a ‘robot hand’. His program responded to questions about the objects and to commands to move them (using the ‘robot hand’). TERRI is a much-simplified adaptation of Winograd's simulation. The scene with several objects remains. The program sets a goal (in terms of object locations) for the student. The student gives commands in English, ordering TERRI to relocate individual objects. The program checks the student's grammar, vocabulary, and ‘sense’, requesting corrections and/or more information if needed. The lesson continues until the student achieves the goal or quits. As TERRI demonstrates, small-scale natural language processing permits the creation of CALL simulations of actual language use.

English Grammar for Students of Latin

English Grammar for Students of Latin

English Grammar for Students of Italian

English Grammar for Students of Italian

Standard Albanian: A Reference Grammar for Students

Standard Albanian: A Reference Grammar for Students

English Grammar for Students of Italian

English Grammar for Students of Italian

English Grammar for Students of Italian

English Grammar for Students of Italian

English Grammar for Students of Latin

English Grammar for Students of Latin