Grammar & Punctuation

Exploring Nanosyntax provides the first in-depth introduction to the framework of nanosyntax, which originated in the early 2000s as a formal theory of language within Principles and Parameters framework. Deploying a radical implementation of the...

This book explores the topics of English accents and pronunciation. It highlights their connections with several important issues in the study of English in the world, including intelligibility, identity, and globalization. The unifying strand is...

This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimality Theory, Network Morphology, Cognitive Grammar, and Canonical Typology. Following an introduction from...

The proceedings of FDSL 7, Leipzig 2007, offer current formal investigations into Slavic morphology, semantics, syntax and information structure. In addition to the main conference, FDSL 7 saw the first special Workshop on Slavic Phonology initiated by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631385814Author Hannes KniffkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 637Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 810g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566080637Author Tom ReadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 265g

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate, describe what is conceptualized as a single event. The verbs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554814541Author Cindy L. VittoPage Count 240Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 450g

This textbook provides an innovative introduction to core areas of grammar: a systematic guide to the structure of English, arranged hierarchically from the word to the sentence to the paragraph level. Using a linguistic framework, activities and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788360229422Author Ewa KolaczekFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint PrologPublisher Prolog

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825309472Author Joseph J. DiorioFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Beaufort BooksPublisher Beaufort BooksWeight(grams) 55g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639364374Author Lane GreeneFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Economist Books, an Imprint of Pegasus BooksPublisher Economist Books, an Imprint of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063061248Author Michael ArndtFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

In this daring book, the author proposes that artistic and literary forms can be understood as modulations of wave forms in the physical world. By the phrase "natural syntax," he means that physical nature enters human communication literally by way of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767922708Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 326gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This volume provides a detailed account of the syntax of expressive language, that is, utterances that express, rather than describe, the emotions and attitudes of the speaker. While the expressive function of natural language has been widely studied in...

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate, describe what is conceptualized as a single event. The verbs...

This volume presents a crosslinguistic survey of the current theoretical debates around copular constructions from a generative perspective. Following an introduction to the main questions surrounding the analysis and categorization of copulas, the...

This volume presents theoretical and empirical research on the syntax of events within the broader framework of generative grammar, focusing on the central question of how conceptual meaning interacts with narrow syntactic computation. Xuhui Hu proposes...

Do you commit apostrophe atrocities? Are you tormented by the lie/lay conundrum? Do you find yourself stuck between floaters and danglers? Do your subjects and your verbs refuse to agree? If so, you're not alone. Some of the most prominent...

This book explores the boundaries of the category of gender and their theoretical significance within the framework of Canonical Typology. Grammatical gender is a famously puzzling category: although it has been widely explored from a typological...

This book explores the results of language contact in Michif, an endangered Canadian language that is traditionally claimed to combine a French noun phrase with a Cree verb phrase, and is hence usually considered a 'mixed' language. Carrie Gillon and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991167449Author Arlene MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Bigwords101Publisher Bigwords101Weight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of British Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9781592402038Author Lynne TrussFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams)...

A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles provides a detailed, comprehensive description of the morphology, grammar, and syntax of a selected number of English creoles, including those spoken on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564142047Author Constance ImmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Career PressPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787352926Author Bruno EstigarribiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 740g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786188458673Author Tina ZogopoulouFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ornimi EditionsPublisher Ornimi EditionsWeight(grams) 407g

The academic vocabulary covered by the series is sourced from the Academic Word List, and the Oxford Corpus of Academic English. The Corpus is an 85-million-word corpus of academic sources, developed by Oxford University Press, the world's authority on...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996398220Author Pin-Chih ChiFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Bite-Size TaiwanesePublisher Bite-Size TaiwaneseWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of "Mandarin Chinese", the official spoken language of China and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures...

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...

With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced learners of English who need to understand how the English language really works without getting lost in the...

A Student Grammar of German is an invaluable reference guide for undergraduates and other intermediate and advanced students. Written with the needs of the learner very much in mind, it sets out the grammar of the language in a clear and jargon-free way...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684892983Author My Daily RussianFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint My Daily RussianPublisher My Daily RussianWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he describes how best...

The revised and expanded third edition of Common Errors in English Usage remains a useful and fun guide to mixed-up, mangled expressions, foreign language faux pas, confusing terms, and commonly mispronounced words. Reviews: "I rarely take a Grammar Girl...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486476155Author Heather MccoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Category mistakes are sentences such as 'Green ideas sleep furiously', 'Saturday is in bed', and The theory of relactivity is eating breakfast. Such sentences strike most speakers as highly infelicitous but it is a challenge to explain precisely why they...