Mistakes can be seen as an integral and natural part of learning. This is true of the
development of a child's first language as well as of second language learning by children …

This thesis presents a study of the hybrid scientific discourse developed by a group of
Mexican researchers in the area of materials science. The study focuses on the discursive …

Ever since the Chomskyan views revolutionised the scientific study of language, we have
been expecting to see groundbreaking results relative to the workings of the human …

This thesis investigates the acquisition of the spatial and figurative meanings of five Spanish
spatial particles, namely sobre, encima, debajo, bajo and en, by a group of Chinese …

Interest in spatial language has a wide and diverse history, ranging from early attempts to
characterise the meaning of spatial adpositions (cf. Talmy, 1983, Landau & Jackendoff …