Grammar & Punctuation

Fundamental Structures of the Chinese Language is an exceptional resource for understanding how Chinese grammar functions in natural discourse.This book departs from the conventional approach of superimposing grammatical constructs from English onto...

A Complete Guide to the Spanish Subjunctive is the most complete reference guide to the use of the subjunctive in Spanish. After an exhaustive review of published literature on the subjunctive, and a thorough discussion of all the uses of the...

Supported by data from linguistic fieldwork conducted in the Faroe Islands and Iceland, this book presents a pioneering approach to syntactic analysis, 'Optimal Linking Grammar' (OLG), which brings together two existing models, Linking Theory and...

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

This book is a comprehensive grammar of Hausa, one of the largest and most important languages of Africa. Hausa is spoken by some 35 million people as a first language and approximately 15 million more as a second language. Paul Newman, a world authority...

When you read Shakespeare or watch a performance of one of his plays, do you find yourself wondering what it was he actually meant? Do you consult modern editions of Shakespeare's plays only to find that your questions still remain unanswered?A Grammar...

A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography. Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger ()-which alternately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988236506Author Richard De A'MorelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Spectrum Ink PublishingPublisher Spectrum Ink PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...

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 9780143113324Author June CasagrandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 179mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643241593Author Logophilia EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm)...

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...

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...

This volume features cutting-edge research from leading authorities on the nature and structure of the verbal domain and the complexity of the Verb Phrase (VP). The book is divided into three parts, representing the areas in which contemporary debate on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636408972Author Manikantan SuFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint White Falcon PublishingPublisher White Falcon PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...

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...

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 9780312330804Author Mark DunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 213g

Using sentence diagraming, Grammar by Diagram explains how ten basic sentence patterns can be expanded into more complex sentences, and how verbals can provide further versatility. The third edition includes more exercises at the foundational level, and...

The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). It provides a critical and practical guide to computational techniques for handling morphological and syntactic...

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

This book is a reference grammar to support any modern Standard Arabic course. It is particularly useful for those students starting out in the study of Arabic. Each chapter makes the fewest possible assumptions about the student's knowledge, aiming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789937572286Author Tony DuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Padma Karpo Translation CommitteePublisher Padma Karpo Translation CommitteeWeight(grams)...

The quadriliteral verbs in Arabic established a system, which compared to the triliteral verbs, add a new dimension and flexibility to the speakers of Arabic and facilitate meeting the daily demands of modern era for new modes of expression. The basic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867093759Author Constance WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Boynton/Cook Publishers Inc USPublisher Heinemann USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991167456Author Arlene MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Bigwords101Publisher Bigwords101Weight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

In this book Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the level of the phrase, clause, and complex sentence. Until now it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061132209Author Lecturer in Linguistics R L TraskFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780134276250Author Betty AzarFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Pearson Education (US)Publisher Pearson Education (US)Weight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)...

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...

What is grammar? Why does it exist? What difference, if any, does it make to the organization of meaning? This book seeks to give principled answers to these questions. Its topic is 'universal' grammar, in the sense that grammar is universal to human...

The two volume set Continuing Discourse on Language offers the reader a selective account of the evolution of important aspects of Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics over the last couple of decades. The range of topics covered includes not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786185554514Author Chiara LibertiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Ornimi EditionsPublisher Ornimi EditionsWeight(grams) 539g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788861828612Author Chiara CodatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Alma EdizioniPublisher Alma EdizioniWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786185554088Author Simona ConsolazioneFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Ornimi EditionsPublisher Ornimi EditionsWeight(grams) 827g

This book offers a long-awaited unified and precise treatise on construction-based grammar. The approach to grammar presented here is the union of Berkeley Construction Grammar, as represented by the early work of Charles J. Fillmore and Paul Kay, with...

If there’s a domain in linguistics which complexity calls for ever further research, it’s clearly that of tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, often referred to as ‘TAME’. The reason for which these domains of investigation have been connected so...