In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; change in power relations between groups is linked to modifications in the status of their language. The Quebec language laws provide a case in point of the relation between social change and language planning. This comprehensive analysis of the Quebec language issue exposes the material and symbolic causes of these legislative measures and assesses their effects. This detailed appraisal also provides answers to more general questions of the nature of language laws and the...
In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; change in power relations between ...
This volume offers insights on experimental andempirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing onhow negation is marked andhow negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored in the volume.Leading specialists in the field presentnovel ideas by employing variousexperimental methods in felicity judgments, eye tracking, self-paced readings, prosody and ERP. Particular attention is given to extensive crosslinguistc data from French,...
This volume offers insights on experimental andempirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing...
In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; The Quebec language laws provide a case in point of the relation between social change and language planning.
In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; The Quebec language laws provide a...
This volume offers insights on experimental andempirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing onhow negation is marked andhow negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored in the volume.Leading specialists in the field presentnovel ideas by employing variousexperimental methods in felicity judgments, eye tracking, self-paced readings, prosody and ERP. Particular attention is given to extensive crosslinguistc data from French,...
This volume offers insights on experimental andempirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing...