Grammar & Punctuation

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...

This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful. The author analyses errors in grammar, word choice, phrasing and sentences that even the finest writers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643990118Author Richard De A'MorelliFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Spectrum Ink PublishingPublisher Spectrum Ink PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805476641Author Frank Edgar FarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Intell Book PublishersPublisher Intell Book PublishersWeight(grams) 304g

Dutch is a peculiar language in that certain nouns have more than one gender. This first academic study of double gender nouns (DGNs) in the Dutch language investigates this anomaly. First assigned a lexicological classification, the DGNs are then...

Based on original research and novel concepts, this book investigates the nature and use of terminology from linguistic and applied viewpoints. Throughout, problems with terminology, such as overuse by teachers and cases of synonymy and polysemy, are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789350126332Author H.S. BhatiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Ramesh Publishing HousePublisher Ramesh Publishing House

This book is the first extensive study on French Quantification in the field of Syntax. It provides a typology of four main quantified noun phrases in French (existential, universal, negative and wh-), detailing their syntactic, semantic and prosodic...

The present collection of papers grew out of a Workshop on Scandinavian Syntax and Theory of Grammar, held in Trondheim in 1982. Five of the contributions - those by Maling, Herslund, Cooper, Platzack and Thniinsson - are developments of papers read at...

This book addresses the three fundamental properties of V-V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese: their generation, their syntactic structure, and their alternations. This book is original and new in the following aspects. First, adopting the...

The volume comprises papers that were presented at the 14th European conference on "Formal Description of Slavic Languages 10.5" at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. The conference focuses on formal approaches to Slavic phonology,...

This volume examines how the displacement property of language is characterized in formal terms under the Minimalist Program and to what extent this proposed characterization of it can explain relevant displacement properties. The birth of the Principles...

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the syntax of Palauan that will appeal to anyone interested in Austronesian languages or formal syntactic and morphological theory. This volume proposes that words in Palauan are not drawn directly from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836459266Author Angela CarpenterFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789313160182Author Roshan TolaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Arihant PublishersPublisher Arihant Publishers

Japanese is well known for its array of argument encoding types - but how is speakers' choice of encoding types to be described? This book investigates the encoding of subject and direct object in conversational Japanese and attempts to explain Japanese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949074642Author Giacomo GiammatteoFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Inferno Publishing CompanyPublisher Inferno Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527225893Author Emojigraphy TeamFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Emojigraphy.comPublisher Emojigraphy.com

How can teachers make grammar fun to learn really, really fun and memorable? Offering a fresh perspective for teaching English grammar, the authors present essentials on the structure of the English language, a wealth of practical strategies, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480838673Author C Beth BurchFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 807g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461402414Author Stuart StuartFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress Ltd

Speak and write English as if it were your native tongue! Are you tired of making the same mistakes in English again and again? End the bad habits that can leave the people you talk to confused. Correct Your English Errors warns you of hundreds of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873630556Author Laurence LernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Georgian Press (Jersey) LtdPublisher Georgian Press (Jersey) LtdWeight(grams)...

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 9780814258101Author Torsa GhosalFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

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 is the first thoroughly comprehensive study of tense and aspect, linguistic markers signifying relations in time. Tense and aspect have been peculiarly resistant to linguistic classification and explanation. There continue to be many competing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615964874Author D MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Deitsh Books, LLCPublisher Deitsh Books, LLCWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Language Between Description and Prescription is an empirical, quantitative and qualitative study of nineteenth-century English grammar writing, and of nineteenth-century language change. Based on 258 grammar books from Britain and North America, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998552934Author Don HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Four Cats PublishingPublisher Four Cats PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs. The introduction sets out the cross-linguistic parameters of variation, and the final chapter draws out a set of conclusions. These frame fourteen explorations of serial verb...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780960117703Author Grace FredsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Home & Abroad USA PublishingPublisher Home & Abroad USA PublishingWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997502794Author Dave BastienFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Gooberly PressPublisher Gooberly PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990552901Author Sarah Louise ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Blue Sky DaisiesPublisher Blue Sky DaisiesWeight(grams) 912g

In this book, Peter Culicover introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works - of how people use languages to configure words and morphemes in order to express meanings. He focuses both on the syntactic and...

This edited volume presents the first results of a long term research project, funded by the Italian Government, which aims at mapping out the fine functional structure of sentences, nominal phrases, and other major phrases making up sentences...

Ever since Chomsky's Barriers, functional heads have been the privileged object of research in generative linguistics. But over the last two decades, two rival approaches have developed. The cartographic project, as represented by the collections in this...

This volume focuses on the internal structure of prepositional phrases, an area that has so far received little attention from the standpoint of cartography. Despite the wide range of data and considerations presented in these essays, the contributors...

This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's Extended Projection Principle and its relationship to subjects and expletives (words like 'it' that stand for other words). Re-examining Chomsky's proposition that each clause...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985573119Author Et Al J ImpecovenFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Just a PublisherPublisher Just a PublisherWeight(grams) 372g