Category: Linguistics 473

Historically, the English language was assimilated, reworked, and modified by the Native American peoples colonized by the English. The migrations had the most critical linguistic effect because species isolation occurred in addition to the mixing of languages and the formation of new ones. This continuity has set a phenomenal precedent in which American English has…

Verbs The English language is spoken all over the world. Wherever it is not spoken people are trying to learn it or become better at it because it has many advantages and provides a common method to communicate with the world. Learning the English language though is no easy task. It is comprised of many…

Every language represents a culture and the speakers unique perspective of viewing the world. From this standpoint, the mother tongue defines who the people are, just like their hair color or personal identity. In this case, the local tongue is regarded as a way to easily understand individuals backgrounds and histories. One of the most…

Table of Contents Introduction Biological Influence Environmental Influence Interactionist Influence Reference Introduction Language constitutes an essential part of human development and is one of the most critical aspects of human ability that sets us apart from animals. Linguists and psychologists have long debated the origins of human language acquisition, hence, have presented a range of…

Use of English and Hindi Prepositions Unlike Hindi, where a postposition is used, the English language is more likely to apply to prepositions. For instance, in the English language, this part of speech is placed before the identified noun whereas Hindi postposition is put after the noun or pronoun. In case there is a special…

Introduction To carry out the comparative and contrastive analysis of the development course of translation theory during the period of the second half of the 20th century, it would be relevant to suggest regarding two theoretical perspectives of translation theories which represent different approaches to translation of this particular period of time, comparing and contrasting…

While in the last century, bilingualism was considered, for the most part, a hindrance to language learning, nowadays, it is more of an advantage. There are different approaches to who is considered a bilingual, but the prevailing view is that two language systems are always active in a bilingual. The fundamental myth about the harm…

Language is one of the most important and most ancient phenomena of human culture. Peoples words in everyday life form a fascinating and peculiar world with its secrets and mysteries. Speaking in detail about the English language, it occupies a unique position in its completeness and strength. Today more than 300 million people in the…

There is a widely held opinion among many linguists that conversion is one of the most productive ways of word formation in the modern English language. It should be mentioned that other languages, such as for instance French, German, or Russian, usually give preference to the derivational processes, such as affixation or compounding. However, the…

Samoan language can said to be a deleting or a separating language. It uses various supplementary morphemes in tenses and sentence constructions. For example, to denote present continuous tense  oloo is used. Although Samoan language uses the isolation rule, the morphological process of reduplication is also used to repeat whole or section of a…