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The Lexicon by James Pustejovsky 9780521839327
RRP: $157.48$140.47What is the lexicon, what does it contain, and how is it structured? What principles determine the functioning of the lexicon as a component of natural language grammar? What role does lexical information play in linguistic theory? This accessible... -
English Syntax: An Introduction by Andrew Radford 9780521834995
RRP: $157.48$139.21This textbook, first published in 2004, provides a concise, clear, and accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior grammatical knowledge, Andrew Radford... -
Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English by Andrew Radford 9780521834971
RRP: $199.48$176.63Andrew Radford's textbook, Minimalist Syntax, provides a concise, clear, and accessible introduction to syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior knowledge of syntactic theory, Radford... -
Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction by Paul R. Kroeger 9780521816229
RRP: $151.18$133.77Analyzing Grammar is a clear introductory textbook on grammatical analysis, designed for students beginning to study the discipline. Covering both syntax (the structure of phrases and sentences) and morphology (the structure of words), it equips them... -
Case by Barry J. Blake 9780521807616
RRP: $151.18$132.93Case is an accessible introduction for students of linguistics to the ways relations between words in sentences are marked in languages. Case is fundamental to the whole system of language. One of its most interesting features is the recurrence of... -
Theories of Case by Miriam Butt 9780521797313
RRP: $81.88$72.16Case, a system which marks the relationships between words in a sentence, is fundamental to every language. Looking at how different theories of syntax have accounted for the distribution of case across languages, this accessible 2006 textbook introduces... -
The Syntax of Agreement and Concord by Mark C. Baker 9780521671569
RRP: $79.78$68.40'Agreement' is the grammatical phenomenon in which the form of one item, such as the noun 'horses', forces a second item in the sentence, such as the verb 'gallop', to appear in a particular form, i.e. 'gallop' must agree with 'horses' in number. Even... -
Analysing English Sentences by Andrew Radford 9780521660082
RRP: $157.48$140.47Andrew Radford has acquired an unrivalled reputation over the past thirty years for writing syntax textbooks in which difficult concepts are clearly explained without the excessive use of technical jargon. Analysing English Sentences continues in this... -
An Introduction to Syntax by Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. 9780521631990
RRP: $178.48$157.29This comprehensive textbook is an engaging introduction to syntax. Clearly organized and accessible, it provides students with a thorough grounding in the analysis of syntactic structure using data from a typologically wide variety of languages. The book... -
The Syntax of Icelandic by Hoskuldur Thrainsson 9780521597906
RRP: $90.28$77.95Icelandic 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... -
Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 2: Complex Constructions by Timothy Shopen 9780521581578
RRP: $172.20$156.11This 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,... -
An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles by John Holm 9780521584609
RRP: $209.98$184.40This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with an overview of the field's basic concepts, it surveys the new languages that developed as a result of the European expansion to the... -
Focus: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives by Peter Bosch 9780521583053
RRP: $231.00$187.53This book presents a collection of papers on the issue of focus in its broadest sense. While commonly being considered as related to phenomena such as presupposition and anaphora, focusing is much more widely spread, and it is this pervasiveness that... -
Language and Social Relations by Asif Agha 9780521571760
RRP: $151.20$137.53Language is closely linked to our social relationships and is the medium through which we participate in a variety of social activities. This fascinating study explores the important role of language in various aspects of our social life, such as... -
English Grammar: Understanding the Basics by Evelyn P. Altenberg 9780521518321
RRP: $167.98$148.24Looking for an easy-to-use guide to English grammar? This handy introduction covers all the basics of the subject, using a simple and straightforward style. Students will find the book's step-by-step approach easy to follow and be encouraged by its... -
Personal Pronouns in Present-Day English by Katie Wales 9780521471022
RRP: $228.90$192.89This is the first comprehensive book-length analysis of personal pronouns in present-day English. Drawing on the Survey of English (SEU) corpus and the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB), Katie Wales examines a wide range of discourse, types and... -
The Story of Webster's Third: Philip Gove's Controversial Dictionary and its Critics by Herbert C. Morton 9780521461467
RRP: $123.88$105.84The 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... -
Inheritance, Defaults and the Lexicon by Ted Briscoe 9780521430272
RRP: $210.00$174.28The lexicon is now a major focus of research in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), as more linguistic theories concentrate on the lexicon and as the acquisition of an adequate vocabulary has become the chief bottleneck in... -
Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication by Jan Firbas 9780521373081
RRP: $228.90$192.89Inspired by the ideas of the Prague School, the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) is concerned with the distribution of information as determined by all meaningful elements, from intonation (for speech) to context. A central feature of FSP... -
Definiteness by Christopher Lyons 9780521368353
RRP: $107.08$91.18This 1999 textbook investigates definiteness both from a comparative and a theoretical point of view, showing how languages express definiteness and what definiteness is. It surveys a large number of languages to discover the range of variation in... -
Syntactic Islands by Cedric Boeckx 9780521191463
RRP: $132.30$118.44The phenomenon of the syntactic 'island' - a clause or structure from which a word cannot be moved - is central to research and study in syntactic theory. This book provides a comprehensive overview of syntactic islands. What are they? How do they arise?... -
The Syntax of Argument Structure by Leonard H. Babby 9780521182331
RRP: $77.68$63.69Each verb in natural language is associated with a set of arguments, which are not systematically predictable from the verb's meaning and are realized syntactically as the projected sentence's subject, direct object, etc. Babby puts forward the theory... -
A Grammar of Aspect: Usage and Meaning in the Russian Verb by J. Forsyth 9780521145008
RRP: $79.78$65.75This book was originally published in 1970. Aspect - the relationship between imperfective and perfective verbs - has always been one of the features of Russian grammar that English-speaking students find particularly difficult. It has in fact often... -
Languages in Contact: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars by John Holm 9780521068376
RRP: $79.78$65.75There is widespread agreement that certain non-Creole language varieties are structurally quite different from the European languages out of which they grew; however, until recently, linguists have found difficulty in accounting for either their genesis... -
Syntax and Parsing by Paul Gorrell 9780521024099
RRP: $77.68$63.69This 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... -
Natural Language and Universal Grammar: Volume 1 by John Lyons 9780521023092
RRP: $102.88$90.09John 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... -
Inheritance, Defaults and the Lexicon by Ted Briscoe 9780521028059
RRP: $88.18$73.94The lexicon is now a major focus of research in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), as more linguistic theories concentrate on the lexicon and as the acquisition of an adequate vocabulary has become the chief bottleneck in... -
The Syntax of Adjuncts by Thomas Ernst 9780521028189
RRP: $98.68$89.73This book proposes a theory of the distribution of adverbial adjuncts in a Principles and Parameters framework, claiming that there are few syntactic principles specific to adverbials; rather, for the most part, adverbials adjoin freely to any projection... -
Personal Pronouns in Present-Day English by Katie Wales 9780521025034
RRP: $98.68$82.13This is the first comprehensive book-length analysis of personal pronouns in present-day English. Drawing on the Survey of English (SEU) corpus and the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB), Katie Wales examines a wide range of discourse, types and... -
Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives by Mark C. Baker 9780521001106
RRP: $113.38$95.28For decades, generative linguistics has said little about the differences between verbs, nouns, and adjectives. This book seeks to fill this theoretical gap by presenting simple and substantive syntactic definitions of these three lexical categories... -
Junior Language: Book C (Classic Reprint) by Donalda Dickie 9780259865193
$27.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780259865193Author Donalda DickieFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books -
Functional Categories by Pieter Muysken 9780521853859
RRP: $126.00$113.76In every language there are descriptive lexical elements, such as evening and whisper, as well as grammatical elements, such as the and -ing. The distinction between these two elements has proven useful in a number of domains, but what is covered by the... -
The Cambridge Dictionary of English Grammar by Pam Peters 9780521863193
RRP: $245.70$205.30The most up-to-date A-Z resource available for English grammar, this dictionary provides concise, practical definitions and explanations of hundreds of terms. Each term includes examples and cross references to related concepts. All the currently... -
The Syntax of Agreement and Concord by Mark C. Baker 9780521855471
RRP: $153.30$139.38'Agreement' is the grammatical phenomenon in which the form of one item, such as the noun 'horses', forces a second item in the sentence, such as the verb 'gallop', to appear in a particular form, i.e. 'gallop' must agree with 'horses' in number. Even... -
Exploring Language Structure: A Student's Guide by Thomas Payne 9780521855426
RRP: $167.98$148.24Designed for those beginning to study linguistics, this is a lively introduction to two key aspects of the structure of language: syntax (the structure of sentences) and morphology (the structure of words). It shows students in a step-by-step fashion how... -
What's in a Name?: Reflections on Language, Magic, and Religion by George Albert Wells 9780812692396
RRP: $46.18$34.99We may smile to be told that, in some cultures, the eating of timid or ugly animals is believed to make the eater timid or ugly. Yet, equally fundamental misunderstandings of the relations between things, words and ideas are rife among Western thinkers... -
Translate or Communicate: English as a Foreign Language in Japanese Schools by George Moore 9781560724186
RRP: $178.48$144.71Translate Or Communicate English As A Foreign Language In Japanese SchoolsBook InformationISBN 9781560724186Author George MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 540g -
Words and Processes in Mambila Kinship: The Theoretical Importance of the Complexity of Everyday Life by David Zeitlyn 9780739108017
RRP: $212.10$172.35Words and Processes in Mambila Kinship presents a set of studies of the way that Mambila speakers in Cameroon talk about themselves and their kin. Author David Zeitlyn employs conversational analytic methods to further the study of kinship terminologies... -
Revising Shakespeare by Grace Ioppolo 9780674418691
RRP: $115.40$114.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674418691Author Grace IoppoloFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 540g -
Infinitival Complement Clauses in English: A Study of Syntax in Discourse by Christian Mair 9780521114721
RRP: $65.08$43.97This study, the first in the series Studies in English Language, is concerned with the functional and communicative foundations of English grammar, and takes as its specific focus the study of infinitival complement clauses. Much of the illustrative...