cross-linguistic

Thanks, Rhalmi, for this very clearly articulated set of arguments in favour of cross-linguistic comparison.

T is for Translation « An A-Z of ELT 2010

She discovered a striking cross-linguistic difference in eyewitness memory.

Lost in Translation Lera Boroditsky 2010

Jesse Snedeker my PhD adviser as of Monday and her students recently completed a study of cross-linguistic late-adoptees -- that is, children who were adopted between the ages of 2 and 7 into a family that spoke a different language from that of the child's original home or orphanage.

Why is learning a language so darn hard (golden oldie) GamesWithWords 2010

Jesse Snedeker my PhD adviser as of Monday and her students recently completed a study of cross-linguistic late-adoptees -- that is, children who were adopted between the ages of 2 and 7 into a family that spoke a different language from that of the child's original home or orphanage.

Archive 2010-08-01 GamesWithWords 2010

One of the most powerful cross-cultural/cross-linguistic moments I ever witnessed was in Ann Arbor.

Guest blogger - Megan Abbott 2008

Believers in cross-linguistic differences counter that everyone does not pay attention to the same things: if everyone did, one might think it would be easy to learn to speak other languages.

HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? - By Lera Boroditsky William Harryman 2009

Learning Spanish will help those legal professionals who accept Spanish-speaking clients to be more effective, competent and ethical practitioners who can handle client matters in intercultural and cross-linguistic situations.

The Legal Underground: 2007

Witness page 56 of Archaic Syntax in Indo-European - The spread of transitivity 2000 where the theory is artfully destroyed in a pair of brief sentences:Yet cross-linguistic analysis has pointed out that ergative marking affects first of all inanimates, and only later animates.

Archive 2009-10-01 2009

A theory based on a cross-linguistic tendency is preferable over an analysis that resorts to ad hoc slicing of words, which is why I must reject the idle ka-u-de-ta - ka-u-do-ni comparison suggested by other commenters.

A new value for Minoan 'd' 2009

Witness page 56 of Archaic Syntax in Indo-European - The spread of transitivity 2000 where the theory is artfully destroyed in a pair of brief sentences:Yet cross-linguistic analysis has pointed out that ergative marking affects first of all inanimates, and only later animates.

Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud 2009