Grammar & Punctuation

Once again available in paperback, Quirk and Wrenn's Old English Grammar is a convenient reference tool to complement readings in Old English. Appropriate for basic or advanced study of Old English language and literature, this brief modern grammar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982127404Author Gyles BrandrethFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 147mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900416354Author A.H. GardinerFormat HardbackPage Count 646Imprint Griffith InstitutePublisher Griffith Institute

Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789979336990Author Gudrun TheodorsdottirFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Mal Og Menning,IcelandPublisher Mal Og Menning,IcelandWeight(grams) 290g

An expanded and updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to linguistic morphology. The text guides the reader from the very first principles of the internal structure of words through to advanced issues of current controversy. The first part...

Despite a history of hundreds of years of research analysing aspects of English grammar, there are still open problems which continue to baffle language researchers today. Such 'grammar mysteries' arise for a number of reasons: because the language is...

Few people can write with as much authority on the English language as Bryan A. Garner. The author of "The" "Chicago Manual of Style" s popular Grammar and Usage chapter, Garner is adept at explaining the vagaries of English with absolute precision and...

This core textbook helps readers get to grips with the fundamentals of English grammar so that they can critically engage with a wide variety of texts. Combining contemporary linguistic approaches with the familiar terminology of traditional grammar,...

'Punctuation is not only an important part of our language code; an advanced system of punctuation has been a driving force in our entire Western Civilisation. Nothing less.'With the invention of printing, reading books moved from being an act only...

This book develops a minimalist approach to cross-linguistic morphosyntactic variation. Ian Roberts argues that the essential insight of the principles-and-parameters approach to variation can be maintained - albeit in a somewhat different guise - in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788360229491Author Anna SeretnyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PrologPublisher Prolog

This book explores the many factors that influenced syntactic change in English. Aimed at advanced students, this book discusses a number of approaches to charting the major developments in the syntax of English. It does not assume any knowledge of Old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540632418Author Jacqueline MelvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

This grammar provides a comprehensive overview of Middle Egyptian and illustrates its grammatical features with extensive examples from various sources. Exercises at the end of each chapter, along with a sign list and a hieroglyphic word list, provide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788074700057Author J. HarperovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Akropolis, NakladatelstviPublisher Akropolis, NakladatelstviWeight(grams) 457g

Making New Words provides a detailed study of the 200 or so prefixes and suffixes which create new words in today's English. Alongside a systematic discussion of these forms, Professor Dixon explores and explains the hundreds of conundrums that seem to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493715572Author Maren AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912159055Author M. Amelia EikliFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Ink & Locket Press LimitedPublisher Thought Library Media Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580082280Author Edith Hope FineFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

This is a pencil-sharp book about English for anyone who ever needs to write. In an easy-to-read style, it offers accessible and constructive advice to help you improve your English skills. It targets common pitfalls and those troublesome areas of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781717548023Author Annabelle JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782278109210Author DidierFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Didier EditionsPublisher Didier EditionsWeight(grams) 436g

In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning influences its syntactic behavior and develops it into a powerful tool for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786185554071Author Maria Angela CernigliaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Ornimi EditionsPublisher Ornimi EditionsWeight(grams) 341g

The ultimate test of grammar rules - the grammar book serialised in the Times feature 'Grammar for Grown-ups'.About the AuthorJohn Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus, UCL, is the author of over 30 works of scholarship and writes, regularly,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767920780Author Ben YagodaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A Division of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692228760Author Sheldon Lawrence Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Stillwaters PressPublisher Stillwaters PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)...

In a new collection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's columns, the author examines and comments on language trends while tracing the origins of timely words and phrases in pieces that discuss such topics as technology, entertaining, and everyday...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786185554019Author Eleonora FragaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint Ornimi EditionsPublisher Ornimi EditionsWeight(grams) 546g

Nearly everyone has trouble remembering the difference between 'affect' and 'effect', whether it's 'supposedly' or 'supposably', or which form of 'hear' you use in 'Hear, hear!' (Or is it 'Here, here!'?). Each word pair entry contains a straightforward...

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Do you ever search in vain for exactly the right word? Perhaps you want to articulate the vague desire to be far away. Or you can't quite convey that odd urge to go outside and check to see if anyone is coming. Maybe you're struggling to express there...

Stan Malles and Jeff McQuain have written this brief, yet very important glossary in the spirit of E.D. Hirsch's bestselling Cultural Literacy. Here is a dictionary of basic terms for literature, composition, and grammar that every American, no matter...

Learn to dot your I's and cross your T's with this hands-on grammar practice The rules of grammar can seem abstract and confusing. But putting them into practice will help you understand and retain grammatical conventions. In Grammar: 1001 Practice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517358686Author Hilda HenrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496093554Author Suzanne R RoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789630599597Author Gyongyosi LiviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Akademiai KiadoPublisher Akademiai KiadoWeight(grams) 401g

This is the second of the two closely linked but self-contained volumes that comprise James Hurford's acclaimed exploration of the biological evolution of language. In the first book he looked at the evolutionary origins of meaning, ending as our distant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989008044Author Thomas FasanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Coyote Canyon PressPublisher Coyote Canyon PressWeight(grams) 1030g