Grammar & Punctuation

This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex words through different theoretical frameworks. Contributions by experts in the field, both morphologists and psycholinguists, identify crucial areas of...

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 9783110130492Author Casper de GrootFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789027923868Author Jurij D. ApresjanFormat HardbackPage Count 349Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 675g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129118059Author Terry O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 171Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

This book represents the culmination of an extended period of field work on the Palauan language, carried out while I was a graduate student at the University of California at San Diego. The book was born as a short term paper written in 1982; from a...

This book analyzes the structure of coordination from two perspectives: the symmetrical properties the construction imposes on its conjuncts, and how conjuncts interact with other categories outside coordination with respect to agreement and other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781796863Author Gordon TuckerFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm)...

This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639037227Author Birgit WaibelFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789392201912Author Ashwini Kumar AggarwalFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Devotees of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar AshramPublisher Devotees of Sri Sri Ravi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504320702Author Matumayini Lilia MbolezaFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Balboa Press AuPublisher Balboa Press AuWeight(grams) 127g

This volume includes eleven papers pertaining to different areas of linguistics and organised into three sections. Part I contains diachronic studies which cover data from Middle English to Present-Day English and which explore phenomena such as the...

This book sheds new light on the nature of gerunds in English, utilizing data from very large electronic corpora in order to compare pairs of patterns viewed as constructions. It serves as a contribution to the study of complementation, an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781433101397Author Christopher I. BeckwithFormat HardbackPage Count 223Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 560g

The zero article is a staple element of any description of English article usage from advanced research publications down to student grammars, but there has been very little inquiry into its meaning and its other properties. There are copious amounts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227286611Author Cemal YazıcıFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Cemal YazıcıPublisher Cemal YazıcıWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783112423332Author Vincenzo Lo CascioFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 477g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904768005Author G. David MorleyFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110132953Author Jan NuytsFormat HardbackPage Count 217Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602352506Author Professor of English Judith RodbyFormat PaperbackImprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 607g

The recent rapid development of transformational grammars has incorpo rated some strong claims in the areas of semantics and co-occurrence. The earlier structuralists relied on a minimum of information about the meaning of strings of a language. They...

Grammar Without the Teacher comprises a technique that uses a 'flipped classroom' or reverse instruction as a method to enhance the learning of English grammar. However, instead of utilizing video, as many flipped classrooms do, I have had a web-enhanced...

This book is an introduction to Word Grammar, a theory of language structure founded and developed by Dick Hudson. In this theory, language is a cognitive network - a network of concepts, words and meanings containing all the elements of a linguistic...

The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics. The Ergative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodox analytical paradigm. He re-examines both the theoretical imperative and the empirical evidence for that approach,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789392201530Author Ashwini Kumar AggarwalFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Devotees of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar AshramPublisher Devotees of Sri Sri Ravi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224470075Author Rick TauboldFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Rick TauboldPublisher Rick TauboldWeight(grams) 472g

The book addresses one of the key controversies in teaching foreign language grammar, which is the utility of production-oriented instruction, as exemplified in the PPP sequence, and comprehension-based teaching, as implemented in interpretation tasks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897009505Author Fr Pacifique BuissonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)Weight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789528300168Author Emsal KararFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint OppianPublisher OppianWeight(grams) 100g

Examining its subject from a generative perspective, this highly detailed text deals with the syntax of nominal expressions. It focuses on empirical data taken from the Spanish language, though the author goes further to draw conclusions of wider...

This book is an extensively revised version of the core part of my 1993 MIT doctoral dissertation, which seeks to provide a Minimalist theory of Case absorption and support it through empirical investigation. The central idea pursued is that...

This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be...

The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics. The Ergative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodox analytical paradigm. He re-examines both the theoretical imperative and the empirical evidence for that approach,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789351285601Author William StrunkFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Kalpaz PublicationsPublisher Kalpaz PublicationsWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec, an endangered and little-examined indigenous language of Mexico, shows a range of syntactic and morphological phenomena incompatible with standard Minimalist accounts of verb movement: verbs and clearly phrasal constituents...

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 9781789871678Author William H MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 191g

I should like to express my gratitude to my supervisor, Professor H. Schultink, whose criticisms and careful reading helped me to improve considerably upon the clarity of exposition while I wrote this study, and whose seemingly innocent requests to...

One of the core challenges in linguistics is elucidating compounds-their formation as well as the reasons their structure varies between languages. This book on Modern Greek rises to the challenge with a meticulous treatment of its diverse, intricate...