Grammar & Punctuation

This book addresses the problems of the nature of the category of aspect, its formal expression and its relation to Action modes, to the Aorist/Imperfect and Perfect/Non-Perfect distinctions. The discussion is largely based on data from Bulgarian - a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789348012968Author Ashwini Kumar AggarwalFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Devotees of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar AshramPublisher Devotees of Sri Sri Ravi...

Studies in Linguistics and Cognition offers a comprehensive collection of essays in the interdisciplinary fields of linguistics and cognition. These essays explore the connections between cognitive approaches and different theoretical and applied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039101092Author Concha CastilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 620g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039103676Author Christian Heyde PetersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 320g

This is a book about comparison in linguistics in general, rather than 'contrastive analysis' as a distinct branch of linguistics. It addresses the question 'Does the analytical apparatus used by linguists allow comparisons to be made across languages?'...

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

In grammar design, a basic distinction is made between derivational and modular architectures. This raises the question of which organization of grammar can deal with linguistic phenomena more appropriately. The studies contained in the present volume...

The colloquium Perspectives on Prescriptivism (20-22 April 2006) was hosted by the University of Catania - Faculty of Foreign Languages - in Ragusa. Until very recently, the received view among linguists was that prescriptivism was a 'bad thing',...

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

Halliday has claimed that neither spoken nor written language is more complex than the other per se, but that the two mediums show different degrees of complexity on different levels. He argues that written language uses more lexical items within the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039101290Author Ping Alvin LeongFormat PaperbackPage Count 329Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 490g

The articles collected in this volume present different aspects of the use of typed feature structures in theoretical and computational linguistics. It covers a wide range of linguistics theories (CCG, Construction Grammar, HPSG, LTAG), a wide range of...

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...

This book aims to clarify some puzzles that have been topical in formal linguistics for many decades now. It concerns the status of English and, for comparison, Czech infinitives, as opposed to finite clauses and marginally also gerunds. The book...

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

For nearly forty years, Understanding and Using English Grammar has been the go-to grammar resource for students and teachers alike. Its time-tested approach blends direct grammar instruction with carefully sequenced practice to develop all language...

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...

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...

No detailed description available for "Functional Grammar and the Computer".Book InformationISBN 9783110130591Author Simon C. DikFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 759g

The genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a decades-old linguistic conundrum. Shedding new light on this perplexing object-case alternation in Russian, this volume analyzes two variants of genitive objects that alternate with accusative...

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...

This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety of innovative ways, and is dedicated to Jacques Moeschler, professor at University of Geneva, to mark the occasion of his 60th birthday...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110133066Author Johan van der AuweraFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639873326Author Shelby ParrishFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Murphy & Moore PublishingPublisher Murphy & Moore PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647266882Author Antonio MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye InternationalWeight(grams) 866gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632409744Author David PruittFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye InternationalWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639872084Author Rubie DunlapFormat HardbackPage Count 358Imprint Murphy & Moore PublishingPublisher Murphy & Moore PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639892440Author Alvin PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint States Academic PressPublisher States Academic PressWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm)...

Excuse Me, Your Participle's Dangling will give you all the bare essentials of grammar that you need to write like a pro. The book also offers a simple yet foolproof method of writing under pressure, the key to success in any college program or workplace...

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Many otherwise competent adults are wobbly writers, whether they're college students or already thriving in a job. They probably exhibit a "go get 'em" attitude for most of their lives, but find themselves stumped by a blank computer screen or a piece of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554815067Author K. Aaron SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm)...

Modern English Structures is a clear and accessible text that follows a structural approach to teaching basic English grammar. The book is divided into three parts: what a sentence constituent is, what a sentence constituent does, and where a sentence...