A grammar of the Hindūstānī language, in the Oriental and roman character, with numerous copper-plate illustrations of the Persian and Devanāgarī systems of alphabetic writing. To which is added, a copious selection of easy extracts for reading, in the Persi-Arabic & Devanāgarī characters, forming a complete introduction to the Bagh-o-bahar; together with a vocabulary, and explanatory notes.

Mode of access: Internet.

A grammar of the Hindūstānī language, in the Oriental and roman character, with numerous copper-plate illustrations of the Persian and Devanāgarī systems of alphabetic writing. To which is added, a copious selection of easy extracts for reading, in the Persi-Arabic & Devanāgarī characters, forming a complete introduction to the Bagh-o-bahar; together with a vocabulary, and explanatory notes /

Mode of access: Internet.

An introduction to the Hindustani language : comprising a grammar, and a vocabulary, English and Hindustani : also short stories and dialogues, short stories in Persian and Nagari characters ... and military words of command, Nagari and English /

Mode of access: Internet.

Popular research narratives; stories of research, invention, or discovery, directly from the "men who did it," pithily told in language for laymen, young and old,

"The series was compiled by Alfred D. Flinn, director of Engineering foundation, and originally issued in semimonthly leaflet form [under title 'Research narratives'] for distribution to a small group."

A grammar of the Hindustani language in the Oriental and roman character : with numerous copper-plate illustrations of the Persian and Devanágari systems of alphabetic writing, to which is added, a copious selection of easy extracts for reading, in the Persi-Arabic and Devanágarí characters, forming a complete introduction to the Totá-kaháni and Bágh-o-bahár, together with a vocabulary of all the words, and various explanatory notes /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Hindee story teller, or Entertaining expositor of the Roman, Persian and Nagree characters, simple and compound, in their application to the Hindoostanee language, as a written and literary vehicle.

Mode of access: Internet.

A dictionary of the English language, pronouncing, etymological, and explanatory, embracing scientific and other terms, numerous familiar terms, and a copious selection of old English words,

Mode of access: Internet.

Syntax of the Hebrew language of the Old Testament /

"Translation of the third part of Ewald's Ausführliches Lehrbuch der hebräischen Sprache des alten Bundes"--P. v.

Anecdotes of the English language : chiefly regarding the local dialect of London and its environs; whence it will appear that the natives of the metropolis and its vicinities have not corrupted the language of their ancestors ; in a letter from Samuel Pegge ; to an old acquaintance, and co-fellow of the Society of antiquaries, London ; to which is added, a supplement to Grose's "Provincial glossary".

Testimonials: p. [xiv]-xx.

The Old Testament in the Hindi Language

Mode of access: Internet.

Enhancing foreign language learning through listening strategy delivered in L1: an experimental study

Listening used in language teaching refers to a complex process that allows us to understand spoken language. The current study, conducted in Iran with an experimental design, investigated the effectiveness of teaching listening strategies delivered in L1 (Persian) and its effect on listening comprehension in L2. Five listening strategies: Guessing, making inferences, identifying topics, repetition, and note-taking were taught over 14 weeks during a semester. Sixty lower intermediate female participants came from two EFL classrooms in an English language institute. The experimental class (n = 30) who listened to their classroom activities performed better (t value = 10.083) than the control class using a methodology that led learners through five listening strategies in Persian. The same teacher taught the students in the control class (n = 30), who listened to the same classroom listening activities without any of the above listening strategies. A pre and post listening test made by a group of experts in the language institute assessed the effect of teaching listening strategies delivered in L1. Results gathered on the post intervention listening test revealed that listening strategies delivered in L1 led to a statistically significant improvement in their discrete listening scores compared with the control group.

"Old-fashioned and forward looking" : neo-liberalism and nostalgia in the Daring Books for Girls

An apparent resurgence in gender-specific marketing of products for children has been linked to post-millennial anxieties about the destabilizing of categories such as gender and nationality. Although links can be traced to past patterns of gender segregation in print culture for children, in this paper we are interested in tracking incongruities in texts in the present context. In this paper we analyze critically the franchise anchored around Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz’s The Daring Book for Girls,

Old-fashioned and forward looking : Neoliberalism and nostalgia in the Daring Books for Girls

This paper interogates the international bestselling series, The Daring Books for Girls (Buchanan & Peskowitz, 2007, 2008), asking what kinds of girls are produced through these texts.

Non-finite constructions in Old English : with special reference to syntactic borrowing from Latin

My dissertation is a corpus-based study of non-finite constructions in Old English (OE). It revisits the question of Latin influence on the OE syntax, offering a new evaluation of syntactic interference between Latin and OE, and, more generally, of the contact situation in the OE period, drawing on methods used in studying grammaticalization and language contact. I address three non-finite constructions: absolute participial construction, accusative-and-infinitive construction, and nominative-and-infinitive construction, exemplified respectively in present-day English as - She looked like a pixie sometimes, her eyes darting here and there, forever watchful (BNC CCM 98); - My first acquaintance with her was when I heard her sing (BNC CFY 2215); - Charles the Bald was said to resemble his grandfather physically (BNC HPT 175). This study compares data from translated texts against the background of original OE writings, establishing dependencies and differences between the two. Although the contrastive analysis of source and target texts is one of the major methods employed in the study, translation and translation strategies as such are only my secondary foci. The emphasis is rather on what source/target comparison can tell us about the OE non-finite syntax and the typological differences between Latin and OE in this domain, and on whether contact-induced change can originate in translation. In terms of theoretical framework, I have adopted functional-typological approach, which rests on the principles of iconicity and event integration, and to the best of my knowledge, has not been applied systematically to OE non-finite constructions. Therefore one more aim of the dissertation is to test this framework and to see how OE fits into the cross-linguistic picture of non-finites. My research corpus consists of two samples: 1) written OE closely dependent on the Latin originals, based on editions of two gloss texts, five translations, and Latin originals of these texts, representing four text types: hymns, religious regulations, homily/life narrative, and biblical narrative (180,622 words); and 2) written OE as far independent from Latin as possible, based on a selection from the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose (YCOE) and representing five text types: laws, charters, correspondence, chronicle narrative, and homily/life narrative (274,757 words).

Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry

Review of Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry, by Jennifer Neville (Cambridge UP, 1999).