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Spelling Essentials Pupil's Book by Shireen Shuster 9780582308480 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.68$4.81Spelling Essentials gives students full control over their own spelling progress, through step-by-step lessons and the very best modern teaching methods.Book InformationISBN 9780582308480Author Shireen ShusterFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint... -
Bond No Nonsense English 5-6 Years by Frances Orchard 9780748795628 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.58$4.81General skills practice for Key Stage 1 and 2, matched to the National Curriculum. Bond No Nonsense English 5-6 years includes: *54 carefully structured step by step lessons that cover all the key skills *'How to do' explanations and quick tips... -
Chambers Slang Dictionary by Jonathon Green 9780550104397 [USED COPY]
RRP: $63.00$7.43Chambers Slang Dictionary is a brand-new edition of Jonathon Green's magisterial slang dictionary, first published in 1998. Covering the full range of slang over five centuries and from all parts of the English-speaking world, this collection has won... -
Business Focus Pre-intermediate: Student's Book with CD-ROM Pack by David Grant 9780194385480 [USED COPY]
RRP: $59.85$7.18A two-level foundation course in business English. 100 hours of teaching material, supported by a further 100 hours of self-study materials on CD-ROM, on audio CD, in the Student's Book and Workbook, and on the Business Focus website.Book InformationISBN... -
Reading Is Fun With Dr. Seuss by Dr. Seuss 9780001720350 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.41In his highly acclaimed Beginner Book series Dr. Seuss combines rhyme, rhythm and repetition with his unique style of zany artwork and off-the-wall humour to create a range of books that make learning to read fun. Here, combined in one volume, are four... -
POCKET FACTS YEAR 6 PREHISTORIC PREDATORS by Haydn Middleton 9780602243180 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.67$7.31Pocket Facts is part of Pocket Reads, a superb collection of quality books that really capture children's imaginations! Pocket Reads have fantastic breadth and variety of genre, with Pocket Sci-Fi, Pocket Tales and Pocket Chillers making up the rest of... -
English Grammer Composition and Correspondence by PINK & THOMAS 9781408630501 [USED COPY]
RRP: $56.68$45.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781408630501Author PINK & THOMASFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 650g -
Feminist Critique of Language: second edition by Deborah Cameron 9780415164009 [USED COPY]
RRP: $96.58$5.57The Feminist Critique of Language provides a wide-ranging selection of writings on language, gender, and feminist thought. It serves both as a guide to the current debates and directions and as a digest of the history of twentieth-century feminist ideas... -
Critical Thinking: A Shepherd's Guide to Tending Sheep: A Text and Reader by Jason McFaul 9780757529399
$234.51Critical Thinking: A Shepherd's Guide to Tending Sheep portrays people as sheep. Not a wholly original idea. As anthropomorphic as it may be, human beings tend to follow various shepherds, and they tend to do so in herds. The irony, however, is that most... -
Understanding Minimalism by Norbert Hornstein 9780521824965
RRP: $167.98$148.24Understanding Minimalism, first published in 2005, is an introduction to the Minimalist Program - the model of syntactic theory within generative linguistics. Accessibly written, it presents the basic principles and techniques of the minimalist program,... -
Typology and Universals by William Croft 9780521808842
RRP: $188.98$166.32Comparison of the grammars of human languages reveals systematic patterns of variation. Typology and universals research uncovers those patterns to formulate universal constraints on language and seek their exploration. In this essential textbook,... -
Syntax: Basic Concepts and Applications by Robert Freidin 9780521844277
RRP: $157.48$139.21Syntax: Basic Concepts and Applications provides a systematic introduction to core topics in syntax, focusing on how the basic concepts apply in the analysis of sentences. Assuming no background in linguistic analysis, the book gives students a working... -
Binding Theory by Daniel Buring 9780521812801
RRP: $157.48$139.21Binding theory seeks to explain how different kinds of nominal expressions such as names, noun phrases and pronouns have anaphoric relations amongst one another, and how they come to have reference to things in the world. This textbook provides a... -
The Syntax of Icelandic by Hoskuldur Thrainsson 9780521591904
RRP: $216.30$196.43Icelandic is a syntactically interesting language, with aspects of its word order, clause structure, agreement patterns and case system arousing much theoretical interest and debate in recent years. This is an informative and accessible guide to the... -
Rethinking Linguistic Relativity by John J. Gumperz 9780521448901
RRP: $115.48$98.87Linguistic relativity is the claim that culture, through language, affects the way in which we think, and especially our classification of the experienced world. This book reexamines ideas about linguistic relativity in the light of new evidence and... -
Grammar in Interaction: Adverbial Clauses in American English Conversations by Cecilia E. Ford 9780521418034
RRP: $218.40$184.61Cecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in conversational interaction? Her analysis of this predominating conjunction strategy in English conversation is based on the assumption that grammars reflect recurrent patterns of... -
Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English: A Minimalist Approach by Andrew Radford 9780521471251
RRP: $188.98$167.58Andrew Radford's textbook is written for students with little or no background in syntax, and introduces them to key concepts of Chomsky's minimalist programme (e.g. merger and movement, checking, economy and greed, split VPs, agreement projections), as... -
Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Alice C. Harris 9780521478816
RRP: $125.98$107.58In this major new work Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of linguistic change. Systematic cross-linguistic comparison of syntactic change across a wide variety of languages is used to construct... -
Planning English Sentences by Douglas E. Appelt 9780521438032
RRP: $75.58$64.93This book is an investigation into the problems of generating natural language utterances to satisfy specific goals the speaker has in mind. It is thus an ambitious and significant contribution to research on language generation in artificial... -
Grammatical Voice by M.H. Klaiman 9780521360012
RRP: $249.90$222.66Categories of the verb in natural languages include tense, aspect, modality (mood) and voice. Among these, voice, in its rich and diverse manifestations, is perhaps the most complex. But most prior research concentrates on only certain types,... -
Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar by William A. Foley 9780521269049
RRP: $83.98$70.69The key argument of this book, originally published in 1984, is that when human beings communicate with each other by means of a natural language they typically do not do so in simple sentences but rather in connected discourse - complex expressions made... -
Natural Language and Universal Grammar: Volume 1 by John Lyons 9780521246965
RRP: $209.98$184.40John Lyons is recognized internationally as one of the most influential scholars in modern linguistics. This volume contains essays spanning many years of his thought and research, in addition to previously unpublished pieces. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 make... -
Introducing Language Typology by Edith A. Moravcsik 9780521193405
RRP: $140.68$123.21Language typology identifies similarities and differences among languages of the world. This textbook provides an introduction to the subject which assumes minimal prior knowledge of linguistics. It offers the broadest coverage of any introductory book,... -
Arguments in Syntax and Semantics by Alexander Williams 9780521190961
RRP: $153.28$129.38Argument structure - the pattern of underlying relations between a predicate and its dependents - is at the base of syntactic theory and the theory of the interface with semantics. This comprehensive guide explores the motives for thematic and... -
Analysing English Grammar: A Systemic Functional Introduction by Lise Fontaine 9780521190664
RRP: $132.28$116.03A practical step-by-step introduction to the analysis of English grammar, this book leaves the reader confident to tackle the challenges analysing grammar may pose. The first textbook to take an integrated approach to function and structure in... -
Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: Volume 4: Language: The Socio-Cultural Context by Frederick J. Newmeyer 9780521308342
RRP: $197.40$177.20Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey is a comprehensive introduction to current research in all branches of the field of linguistics, from syntactic theory to ethnography of speaking, from signed language to the mental lexicon, from language acquisition to... -
Syntax by P. H. Matthews 9780521297097
RRP: $107.08$93.66This is a textbook of a fundamental kind, designed to introduce students to the basic concepts of syntax. Professor Matthews does not expound the model of any one theoretical school; nor does he attempt a straightforward synthesis of already published... -
Topics in Ellipsis by Kyle Johnson 9780521131049
RRP: $83.98$69.85Ellipsis occurs when certain portions of a sentence are not spoken - for example 'Mary has read more books than Bill has [read books]' and 'Jack called, but I don't know where [he called] from'. These constructions interest linguists because the meaning... -
An Introduction to Word Grammar by Richard Hudson 9780521896900
RRP: $199.50$164.79Word grammar is a theory of language structure and is based on the assumption that language, and indeed the whole of knowledge, is a network, and that virtually all of knowledge is learned. It combines the psychological insights of cognitive linguistics... -
Parametric Variation: Null Subjects in Minimalist Theory by Theresa Biberauer 9780521886956
RRP: $155.38$139.97Parametric variation in linguistic theory refers to the systematic grammatical variation permitted by the human language faculty. Although still widely assumed, the parametric theory of variation has in recent years been subject to re-evaluation and... -
The English Noun Phrase: The Nature of Linguistic Categorization by Evelien Keizer 9780521849616
RRP: $233.10$208.19English has an interesting variety of noun phrases, which differ greatly in structure. Examples are 'binominal' (two-noun) phrases ('a beast of a party'); possessive constructions ('the author's opinion'); and discontinuous noun phrases ('the review... -
The Language Organ: Linguistics as Cognitive Physiology by Stephen R. Anderson 9780521809948
RRP: $151.20$135.87The Language Organ treats human language as the manifestation of a faculty of the mind, a mental organ whose nature is determined by human biology and whose functional properties should be explored just as physiology explores the functional properties of... -
The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax by Marcel den Dikken 9780521769860
$249.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Syntax of Chinese by C. T. James Huang 9780521590587
RRP: $245.70$218.53The past quarter of a century has seen a surge in Chinese syntactic research that has produced a sizeable literature on the analysis of almost every construction in Mandarin Chinese. This guide to Chinese syntax analyses the majority of constructions in... -
Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 2: Complex Constructions by Timothy Shopen 9780521588560
RRP: $94.48$80.93This unique three-volume 2007 survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's languages. Clearly organized and broad-ranging, it covers topics such as parts-of-speech, passives,... -
Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 3: Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon by Timothy Shopen 9780521581585
RRP: $180.60$160.67Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Theory of Aspectuality: The Interaction between Temporal and Atemporal Structure by Henk J. Verkuyl 9780521564526
RRP: $104.98$89.12Sentences may pertain to states or processes or events. They may express duration, frequency, habituality, and many other forms of temporality. How do they do this? It is the aspectual properties of sentences in natural languages which allow the user to... -
The Story of Webster's Third: Philip Gove's Controversial Dictionary and its Critics by Herbert C. Morton 9780521558693
RRP: $81.88$67.81The publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary in 1961 set off a storm of controversy in both the popular press and in scholarly journals that was virtually unprecedented in its scope and intensity. This is the first full account of the... -
Language Contact in Europe: The Periphrastic Perfect through History by Bridget Drinka 9780521514934
RRP: $287.68$245.26This comprehensive new work provides extensive evidence for the essential role of language contact as a primary trigger for change. Unique in breadth, it traces the spread of the periphrastic perfect across Europe over the last 2,500 years, illustrating... -
Syntax and Parsing by Paul Gorrell 9780521452823
RRP: $210.00$168.08This book examines the role of syntax in theories of sentence comprehension, and argues for a distinct processing component which is devoted to the recovery of syntactic structure and which utilizes the contrasting types of information found within a...