Language

Samoan is a rich language that remains the principal language of the people of Samoa. The Samoan language is exquisite and quite easy to learn and is similar to other languages in the pacific region. Samoan is a branch of the Austronesian Language, formerly called Malayo-Polynesian language, one of the words largest language families, both…

Java is a high-level programming language that is rapidly growing advanced technologies in the field of computer and information fields. With the other machine, languages we can either compile or infer a program to run the program on the system, but the profit of using is that it can be both compiled and interpreted. In…

Old English Words The Angles came from an angle-shaped land area in contemporary Germany. Their name “Angli” from the Latin and commonly-spoken, pre-5th Century German mutated into the Old English “Engle”. Later, “Engle” changed to “Angel-cyn” meaning “Angle-race” by A.D. 1000, changing to “Engla-land”. Some Old English words which have survived intact include: feet, geese,…

Covers three ranges of styles known as concrete words, abstract words, and general language. Specific language refers to objects or conditions that can be perceived or imagined. Concrete words describe qualities of immediate perception and abstract words refer to broader less palpable qualities (diction refers to qualities that are rarefied and theoretical). General language signifies…

Compounds can be created from individual words of various parts of speech. Probably the most common type is noun noun pattern: hometown, boyfriend, music box, tennis court, etc. Other popular and ordinary parts are adjective +noun pattern: short story, heavy water, heavy traffic, big toe, etc, and noun verb pattern: placekick, home run, baby- sit,…

A living language such as English is a dynamic flow of spoken and written terms, eternally evolving. Whenever people use the language they cause it to flow in and around itself, creating new meanings, ways to express. Term “slang” reflects the dynamics of the language and therefore is very obscure and ambiguous. Although it is…

The Caribbean School System When the Caribbean was discovered by Columbus in 1492 the Europeans quickly invaded the area. With the invasion came their way of life. The Europeans eventually killed off the natives of the Caribbean and thus needed to import new labor. With that came the African American and the African American culture….

Characteristics of Optimal Input for Second Language Acquisition Abstract This paper is an attempt to shed light on the notion of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) in general, and the characteristic features of optimal input that accelerate the process of L2 acquisition in particular. Here, reference is made to Krashen’s theory of SLA which emphasizes the…

Superlative is the grammatical term used when comparing three or more things. For example, looking at melons you can compare their size, determining which is big, which is bigger, and which is biggest. The comparative ending (suffix) common adjectives is generally “-er”; the superlative suffix is generally “-est.” For most longer adjectives, the comparative is…

Linguistics as a study endeavors to describe and explain the human faculty of language. The history of linguistics is a branch of intellectual history, for it deals with history of ideas- ideas about language- and not directly with language itself (Law, 2003, p. 2). Many histories of linguistics have been written over the last two…