In the three volumes of Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the editors guide the reader through a well-selected compendium of works, presenting a fresh look at contemporary linguistics. Aimed at specialists or anyone interested in languages, this publication deals with both theoretical issues and applied linguistics, looking closely at discourse analysis, gender and lexicography, language acquisition and language disorders.

Nikolaos Lavidas (first editor) is a Lecturer in Historical Linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

In English.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed May 26, 2011).

Pavlidou, Theodossia-Soula ; Alvanoudi, Angeliki -- The Song Remains the Same... or Not? A Pragmatic Approach to the Lyrics of Rock Music / Sophiadi, Angelina -- Verbs and Events in Discourse: A Synergy / Tantos, Alexandros -- Do We Always Speak of What We Mean? (Non)Referring Expressions in Discourse / Tsaroucha, Efthymia -- Section 4: Language Acquisition -- "Automatically Arises the Question Whether...": A Corpus Study of Postverbal Subjects in L2 English / Agathopoulou, Eleni -- Multilingualism in Greece: A Study of Speech Production of Trilingual Children / Anastassiou, Fotini ; Andreou, Georgia -- Non-Target Long-Distance Wh-Questions: Crosslinguistic Typological Distinctions in Early L1 Production / Asproudi, Evangelia K. -- Common Characteristics in Compound Formation: Evidence from Bilingual Acquisition and L2 Language Learning / Kalligiannaki, Styliani S. ; Tzakosta, Marina -- ^

Pronominal Subjects in English L2 Acquisition and in L1 Greek: Issues of Interpretation, Use and L1 Transfer / Prentza, Alexandra -- Linguistic Structure and Narrative Quality in Child L1 Production / Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria ; Papakonstantinou, Maria ; Nicolopoulou, Ageliki -- Section 5: Language Disorders -- Modality-Specific Noun-Verb Dissociations in L1 but No Effect in L2: Evidence from Bilingual Aphasia / Kambanaros, Maria -- Can Vocabulary Size Predict Narrative Abilities in Children with SLI? / Kambanaros, Maria ; Grohmann, Kleanthes K. ; Theodorou, Eleni ; Michaelides, Michalis -- Testing the Relativized Minimality Approach. Evidence from Wh-Question Production and Comprehension in Greek Aphasia / Nerantzini, Michaela ; Papadopoulou, Despina ; Varlokosta, Spyridoula -- Linguistic Processing and Executive Control: Evidence for Inhibition in Broca's Aphasia / Peristeri, Eleni ; Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria.

Added to collection customer.56279.3