Grammar & Punctuation

Readers of all levels will find this guide essential. Giving examples of real usage, this book provides the basic information about grammar and punctuation that people need on a day-to-day basis. Arranged A-Z, it contains entries for standard grammatical...

Have an interest in words? From the meaning of prefixes and suffixes to word origins and trivia, this book can help you build your vocabulary Someone just called you captious. Should you be flattered? Considering your extreme lactose intolerance, is it a...

It's important in our daily lives for us to write clear English which is easily understood. If we get the basics wrong, our words may be misinterpreted and cause confusion. To make sure our written words convey our exact meanings, we need to understand...

Enables students of biblical Hebrew to grasp the basic concepts of English grammar so that they can transfer those concepts to Hebrew.One of the biggest hurdles students encounter while learning biblical languages is that they've forgotten the English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786250080061Author Halit DemirFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Amazon Digital Services LLC - KdpPublisher Amazon Digital Services LLC -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399514330Author El Mustapha LahlaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643990033Author Jr William StrunkFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Spectrum Ink PublishingPublisher Spectrum Ink Publishing

This book shows how complex words and word-like phrasal lexical units can be analysed as constructions, as pairings of forms and meanings. It contributes to current work on the architecture of the grammar, the morphology-syntax interface, the shape and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788877158109Author Marco MezzadriFormat PaperbackImprint Guerra Edizioni GuruPublisher Guerra Edizioni Guru

A concise but unusually comprehensive handbook for the students of Old French. Based on Dr Einhorn's very successful introductory lecture course for undergraduates, this book describes the phonology, morphology and syntax of standard Old French, paying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788430733965Format PaperbackImprint Editorial Teide S.A.Publisher Editorial Teide S.A.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998995967Format PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Y Ganolfan Dysgu Cymraeg GenedlaetholPublisher Y Ganolfan Dysgu Cymraeg GenedlaetholDimensions(mm) 295mm *...

The book investigates the present and past verb forms in the Friulian dialect spoken in Tualis. It provides both a detailed empirical description and a theoretical account of thirteen inflection classes in the Friulian verb system within the framework of...

How does a parser, a device that imposes an analysis on a string of symbols so that they can be interpreted, work? More specifically, how does the parser in the human cognitive mechanism operate? Using a wide range of empirical data concerning human...

This collection of nine original syntactic studies carried out within the framework for syntactic theory and description known as Relational Grammar provides a state-of-the-art survey of this and allied fields. In relational theory, grammatical relations...

One of the major contributions to theoretical linguistics during the twentieth century has been an advancement of our understanding that the information-bearing units which make up human language are organized on a hierarchy of levels. It has been an...

For the past decade, the dominant transformational theory of syntax has produced the most interesting insights into syntactic properties. Over the same period another theory, systemic grammar, has been developed very quietly as an alternative to the...

This collection of work in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar focuses on interfaces between different grammatical components; its 15 papers explore interface phenomena such as auxiliary contraction in English, analysis of illocutionary force in HPSG,...

In this long-awaited book-the first in a three-volume work-David M. Perlmutter has co-authored and edited ten essays that introduce relational grammar, a novel conception of sentence structure that offers far-reaching conclusions for universal grammar...

In the early years of generative grammar it was assumed that the appropriate mechanism for generating syntactic structures was a grammar of context-free rewriting rules. The twelve essays in this volume discuss recent challenges to this classical...

Elegant analyses by linguists have been a point of pride since the time of the Neogrammarians. But ever since Chomsky's pioneering work on the goals of linguistic theory, this descriptive emphasis has shifted to focus on explanation. What, the...

This collection of work in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar focuses on interfaces between different grammatical components; its 15 papers explore interface phenomena such as auxiliary contraction in English, analysis of illocutionary force in HPSG,...

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...

This volume develops Functional Discourse Grammar's innovative and unique approach to constituent ordering, both by refining some of its theoretical tenets, and by applying it to data from a variety of languages (including Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch,...

Tricolore 6th edition is an extensive French course providing a systematic, grammar-focused approach with clear progression and a new international focus at its heart. The up-to-date content is rich in francophone culture emphasising French as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039111817Author Christiane Dalton-PufferFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 360g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782278111985Author DidierFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Didier EditionsPublisher Didier EditionsWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218037451Author Amanda HargenFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Super Ela!Publisher Super Ela!Weight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 3mm

Taking as a point of departure ideas and principles from the 18th and 19th century Danish tradition, and from 20th century traditions of the Copenhagen School of linguistics, this book attempts to set up a formal theory of syntax that addresses some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631922583Author Holger KusseFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AG

This invaluable reference work offers the best advice on English usage, drawing on the unrivalled resources of Oxford's English Dictionaries programme and language monitoring. This second edition of the 'Pocket Fowler' harks back to the original 1926...

Lobeck elaborates a theory of ellipsis which brings the phenomenon under the aegis of very general and universal principles. She argues that the Empty Category Principle (ECP) constrain the distribution of ellipsis just as it constrains the distributions...

Adriana Belletti here collects work presented by top scholars at a workshop at the University of Siena in connection with a visit by Noam Chomsky. These eight articles go beyond strictly mapping syntactic properties, touching on broader theoretical...

This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist Richard Kayne. The papers cover issues of comparative syntax as they are applied to French, Italian, and other Romance languages and dialects,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780792309147Author C. T. James HuangFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher Kluwer Academic PublishersWeight(grams)...

The main function of language is to convey meaning. Therefore, argues Bernd Heine in these pages, the question of why language is structured the way it is must first of all be answered with reference to this function. Linguistic explanations offered in...

Writers of any kind want readers to understand what they're writing. Too often, however, what one writes can leave readers baffled or misled as to what they intended their audience to know. Writers Mistakes: A Handbook of Common Blunders and Ways to Mend...

Writers of any kind want readers to understand what they're writing. Too often, however, what one writes can leave readers baffled or misled as to what they intended their audience to know. Writers Mistakes: A Handbook of Common Blunders and Ways to Mend...

The "Grammar Detective" invites readers to get to grips with English grammar by solving a series of short murder mysteries, each of them illustrated. There are then further exercises - word searches, crosswords and puzzles all come together to help...

This monograph gives a unified account of the syntactic distribution of subjunctive mood across languages, including Romance, Balkan (South Slavic and Modern Greek), and Hungarian, among others. Starting from a close scrutiny of the environments in which...