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West Germanic language which has approx. 325 million native speakers, in England (56 million), the United States (232 million), Canada (24 million), and Australia and New Zealand (17 million). It is the sole official language in more than two dozen...

See also CD-ROMs, diagrams, factual genres, genre, information books, language across the curriculum, non-fiction reading and writing In science, like other lessons, children and their teachers use language – speaking, listening, reading and...

A type of phrase structure construction. A constituent forms a multiple-branching construction if it directly dominates similar constituents which do not relate to it in any other way. For example, in Sam, Louis, and the neighborhood children gathered...

English is a West Germanic language originating in England, and the first language for most people in Australia, Canada, the Commonwealth Caribbean, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America (also commonly known as the...

Tom McArthur. Cambridge University Press. [pounds]8.95 p.b. 247 pages. ISBN 0-521-48582-7. Accustomed as we are to think of a language as a single distinct unit, most readily associated with a noun, it is difficult to grasp those factors that reveal it as...

The English languages by Tom McArthur. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. Pp. 247. Recent years have witnessed the growing unpopularity of traditional and conservative approaches towards language study, which used to treat languages as distinct and clear-cut phenomena, with neat grammars, phonologies and vocabulary...

Communist authorities have shut down a newsletter that monitored non-government groups working to improve China's record on environmental and labor issues, the publication's British founder said Wednesday.The closure of the Beijing-based China Development Brief, which published Chinese and English-language versions, comes amid efforts to limit...

This document attempts to describe important events in time, which have influenced the English language.

An undergraduate's study of the English language as a discipline. This essay examines English as a communicative tool that transcends boundaries that divide disciplines. It questions the philosophies and psychology of language and the place of the English language in society.

Essay explains why I want to study English and not a different language.