Books in the Polish Studies in English Language & Literature series

This study tested the argument structure of ditransitives in Polish using quantifier scope interpretation. The experiment results showed that only the DO-IO order allowed for scope ambiguity, but to a different degree depending on the semantic class of the verb, which indicates that the merge position of objects is contingent upon that factor.

The author describes the psycho-linguistic therapy "touching the World" for the visually impaired and explores language as a therapeutic tool with great possibilities for a teaching-learning process.

The author addresses key questions of foreign language teaching: How does foreign language learning take place? What is the mechanism of foreign language use and learning? What are the sources of our understanding of these processes? What significance does our understanding have for foreign language teaching?

Is Kenyan English a new postcolonial variety of English developing in a multilingual environment of permanent language contact? Analysis of lexical, morphological and syntactic features in the International Corpus of English for East Africa (ICE-EA) is accompanied by a sociolinguistic perspective and summarized employing Schneider's Dynamic Model.

Conceptual Metonymy and Lexicographic Representation

This corpus-based study examines the orthographic systems in thirteen editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes (1506-1656), a comprehensive compendium of prose and verse texts of different length and on a variety of subjects, for example, astronomy, agriculture, medicine, and religion.

Form-Focused Instruction and the Advanced Language Learner

Achievements and Perspectives in SLA of Speech: New Sounds 2010

Achievements and Perspectives in SLA of Speech: New Sounds 2010

The book is a collection of critical essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850). The interpretations deal with its main characters, "The Custom-House", the Spanish sailors, the Book of Revelations, and the artist as adulterer. The authors apply different critical tools such as allegory or hermeneutical exposition.

This book presents a comprehensive picture of binding relations in Polish and specifically focuses on two problem areas: (a) subject orientation of reflexives, and (b) the fact that dative experiencers locally bind both reflexive possessives and pronominal ones. The analysis rests on current minimalist mechanisms such as Agree, Valuation and Move.

This volume concerns the morpho-syntax of numeral constructions in Polish, with references to other (Slavic) languages. It is set in the generative-minimalist framework, with elements of nano-syntax, and leads to a comprehensive understanding of how numeral phrases are built and why numeral subjects show exceptional case and agreement properties.

This book investigates the effectiveness of the use of a mobile version of a flashcard spaced-repetition learning platform (Memrise.com) in learning and teaching of English for Medical Purposes. It outlines design and core principles of the "Mobile Medical English Companion" - a mobile spaced-repetition medical vocabulary tutor.