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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757517839Author Jason McfaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806345482Author WaldenmaierFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 129g

It has been a difficult, sometimes painful, story to tell in its entirety, but I have done my best to be accurate both in facts and in dates, for I feel that l owe the truth to the many who have become valued acquaintances, and sometimes friends. All...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919948938Author Eric NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Breakwater Books,CanadaPublisher Breakwater Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 229g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674365711Author George Coffin TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 386g

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Contemporary linguistic theories distinguish the principal element of a phrase - the 'head' - from the subordinate elements it dominates. This pervasive grammatical concept has been used to describe and account for linguistic phenomena ranging from...

Mr Norbury describes the ways in which nouns and adjectives are built up in Russian. He deals at length with the most useful and important of these: affixation, deaffixation, compounding. Each of the affixes in common use is discussed, the structure of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674281141Author Charles Hall GrandgentFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674435377Author Robert RenehanFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674288751Author Elihu RootFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 635g

The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust advances the idea that the Holocaust undermined confidence in basic beliefs about human rights and shows steps of salvage and retrieval that need to be taken if ethics is to be a significant presence in a...

When Lord Byron identified the periodical industry as the "Literary Lower Empire," he registered the cultural clout that periodicals had accumulated by positioning themselves as both the predominant purveyors of scientific, economic, and social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648793717Author Deng Akol JuachFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Africa World Books Pty LtdPublisher Africa World Books Pty LtdWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983055945Author Alexander SperberFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Borromean BooksPublisher Borromean BooksWeight(grams) 567g

English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora. It begins with a discussion of the role that corpus linguistics plays in linguistic theory, demonstrating that corpora have proven to be very useful...

Why use examples from the world of law to learn how to write a college essay? By the power of language, rights are given or taken away, people are sent to jail, millions of dollars are awarded, families are altered, and the rules by which we live are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674432048Author George Kingsley ZipfFormat HardbackPage Count 51Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820486765Author S. J. MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 257Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 380g

Because of the increasing influence of Hip hop music and culture on a generation raised during its dominance, it is important to address Hip hop and African American vernacular not merely as elements of folk and popular cultures but as rhetoric worthy of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674423428Author Sir Denys PageFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 390g

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Grammatical categories (e.g. complementizer, negation, auxiliary, case) are some of the most important building blocks of syntax and morphology. Categorization therefore poses fundamental questions about grammatical structures and about the lexicon from...

Ellipsis 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...

This book is a guide to the development of English syntax between the Old and Modern periods. Beginning with an overview of the main features of early English syntax, it gives a unified account of the grammatical changes occurring in the language during...

This book was first published in 2010. The study of Romance languages can tell us a great deal about sentence structure and its variation in general. Focusing on the dialects of Italy - including the islands of Sardinia and Sicily - the authors explore...

This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field sheds new light on the verb in English. The central concern of the volume is to illustrate that verbs can only be adequately and properly understood if studied from both a theoretical...

This major thesaurus, first published in 1994 is carefully designed and easy-to-use. It contains an original collection in A-Z format of over 200,000 synonyms and antonyms. It has been compiled by William Lutz, author of Doublespeak and a renowned expert...

There are a number of persistent anomalies in binding theory. One is the lack of an integrated view of long distance anaphora. Anaphors generally require an antecedent, but languages have been shown to show striking differences as to where such...

This second volume of John Holm's Pidgins and Creoles provides an overview of the socio-historical development of each of some one hundred known pidgins and creoles. Each variety is grouped according to the language from which it drew its lexicon -...

There are a number of persistent anomalies in binding theory. One is the lack of an integrated view of long distance anaphora. Anaphors generally require an antecedent, but languages have been shown to show striking differences as to where such...

Speakers of British and American English display some striking differences in their use of grammar. In this detailed survey, John Algeo considers questions such as: *Who lives on a street, and who lives in a street? *Who takes a bath, and who has a bath?...

This first volume of Holm's major survey of pidgins and creoles provides a readable introduction to a field of study that has become established only in the past few decades. Written for both students and general readers with a basic knowledge of...

One of the major arenas for debate within generative grammar is the nature of paradigmatic relations among words. Intervening in key debates at the interface between syntax and semantics, this book examines the relation between structure and meaning, and...

This book proposes a radical revision in the definition of phrase markers, the fundamental object in the generative theory of syntax. Phrase markers have traditionally been defined in such a way that each node in the phrase marker must satisfy a relation...

Auxiliaries are one of the most complex areas of English syntax. Disagreement over both the principles and details of their grammar has been substantial. Anthony Warner here offers a detailed account of both their synchronic and diachronic properties. He...

This book is concerned primarily with certain constructions in English, often referred to as 'stylistic,' whose use is restricted to particular contexts to discourse. Within the general framework of Chomskyan Government-Binding Theory, Michael Rochemont...

Apposition in Contemporary English is a full-length treatment of apposition. It provides detailed discussion of its linguistic characteristics and of its usage in various kinds of speech and writing, derived from the data of British and American computer...