Grammar & Punctuation

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...

Contains fully worked-out solutions to all of the odd-numbered exercises in the text, giving students a way to check their answers and ensure that they took the correct steps to arrive at an answer.Book InformationISBN 9781305269484Author Micheal...

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This comprehensive manual thoroughly covers every aspect of French grammar, from the basic to the most advanced level, and illustrates the grammatical structures with useful, practical and interesting examples. Up-to-date language and usage both on the...

Radical Construction Grammar presents a profound critique of syntactic theory and argumentation, and offers a genuinely new approach to syntax based on the fact of grammatical diversity. Recent syntactic theories are essentially formal models for the...

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...

This book documents the interrogative system of Ikpana, an endangered indigenous Ghana-Togo Mountain language of eastern Ghana also known as Logba. The system is notable in several respects. It exhibits features that buck certain typological trends, act...

The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology is intended as a companion volume to The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (OUP 2009) Written by distinguished scholars, its 41 chapters aim to provide a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of...

R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descriptions in the history of linguistics. In the fifty years since its publication, Dixon has continued his...

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...

Ronald W. Langacker created an approach to linguistics called Cognitive Grammar, which is essentially a system of symbols that can be used to organize and analyze how semantics and phonology interact with each other in human language. Cognitive Grammar...

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...

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Are you often left wondering whether to use "healthy" or "healthful"? Is that sugary treat a "doughnut" or a "donut"? Is "data" singular, plural, or both? Look no further for help than "New York Times" bestselling author Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl...

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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

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsRunner-up for British Book Design and Production Awards 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780957071223Author User Design, Illustration and TypesettingPage Count 36Imprint User...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156034432Author Kitty Burns FloreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468166637Author Ian Adamson ObeFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

This is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways. The hypothesis claims that there is an intrinsic interconnection between thought, language,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877799214Author Merriam-WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Merriam Webster,U.S.Publisher Merriam Webster,U.S.

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This textbook familiarizes students with grammatical concepts of the English language and develops skills to apply grammar to creative writing and the study of literature. Students take an interactive 'learn-by-doing' approach to the mechanics of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954874049Author Paul GeorgiouFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Panarc International LtdPublisher Panarc International Ltd

Useful to both students of Standard English in schools and colleges as well as learners of English as a foreign language. This book explains common mistakes in English and how to correct your use of the language. Useful to both students of Standard...

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...

Drawing on work in linguistics, language acquisition and computer science, this book proposes that grammatical constructions play a central role in the relation between the form and meaning of simple sentences. The author demonstrates that the syntactic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786185554217Author Maria Angela CernigliaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Ornimi EditionsPublisher Ornimi EditionsWeight(grams) 441g

How do hearers manage to understand speakers? And how do speakers manage to shape hearers' understanding? Lepore and Stone show that standard views about the workings of semantics and pragmatics are unsatisfactory. They offer a new account of language as...

This handy, engaging, and gently humorous guide tackles the important subject of word structure. It looks at a variety of topics, such as suffixes, prefixes, root words, and the use of dictionaries, and shows how understanding the structure of words can...

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