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An Introduction to English Language: Word, Sound and Sentence by Koenraad Kuiper 9781350380127
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $59.43Refreshed and updated, the fifth edition of this core textbook offers a clear and engaging introduction to the building blocks of the English language, namely its words, sounds and sentences. Assuming no prior knowledge, it combines accessibility with... -
Prose and Cons: The English Language in Just a Minute Gyles Brandreth 9781785946820
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.62'A whirlwind tour of the joys of English, by the master of concision and wit.' - Susie Dent'Gyles is very funny - and never lost for words!' - Dame Judi DenchAs fans of Just a Minute know, the key to the game is knowing your way around the English... -
Social Perspective: An Intermediate-Advanced Chinese Course: Volume II by Yi Ning
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $67.49Social Perspective is a course set over one academic year for intermediate learners of Chinese. In two volumes, it focuses on developing learners' language competency to a high advanced plus/advanced level (ACTFL/CEFR B2-C1) through exploring social... -
First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing ... and Life. by Joe Moran
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.65A STYLE GUIDE BY STEALTH - HOW ANYONE CAN WRITE WELL (AND FULLY ENJOY GOOD WRITING)'Joe Moran is a wonderfully sharp writer, calm, precise and quietly comical' Craig BrownAdvanced maths has no practical use, and is understood by few. A symphony can be... -
The Wonders of Language: Or How to Make Noises and Influence People by Ian Roberts
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $43.55Ian Roberts offers a stimulating introduction to our greatest gift as a species: our capacity for articulate language. We are mostly as blissfully unaware of the intricacies of the structure of language as fish are of the water they swim in. We live in a... -
A Latin Grammar by James Morwood
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $15.44A Latin Grammar offers: The most accessible students' guide: clearly written explanations of key Latin grammar points in an easily navigable layout Hundreds of example sentences: illustrating every grammar point Vocabulary list: covering all... -
Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film by Seymour Benjamin Chatman
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $47.57"For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story-whatever the medium. Chatman, whose approach here is at once dualist and structuralist, divides his... -
Treigladur, Y - A Check-List of Welsh Mutations (Argraffiad Newydd) D. Geraint Lewis 9781859024805
Booksplease Price: $20.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859024805Author D. Geraint LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer Press -
A Frequency Dictionary of British English: Core Vocabulary and Exercises for Learners Vaclav Brezina 9781032272696
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $67.91A Frequency Dictionary of British English provides information about the frequency and distribution of words in British English.The dictionary presents rich information about word frequencies and distributions in an accessible manner. In addition to... -
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French Grammar, Premium Fifth Edition by Annie Heminway 9781266005596
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $31.58All the practice and instruction you need to communicate effectively in French-now with an enhanced app featuring text-to-speech!If you are a beginning to intermediate French language learner, getting a handle on grammar is your key to communicating... -
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.31Steven Pinker, the bestselling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st centuryWhat is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age... -
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar by Rodney Huddleston
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $53.89A new edition of a successful undergraduate textbook on contemporary international Standard English grammar, based on Huddleston and Pullum's earlier award-winning work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002). The analyses defended there... -
A Word a Day: 365 Words to Augment Your Vocabulary by Joseph Piercy
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.88A Word a Day contains 365 carefully selected words that will enhance and expand your vocabulary, along with their meanings, origins and sample usage and fascinating word-related facts and trivia.It is estimated that on average an English-speaking adult... -
Scottish Gaelic: A Comprehensive Grammar William Lamb 9780367189181
RRP: $69.28Booksplease Price: $62.77Scottish Gaelic: A Comprehensive Grammar is a definitive description of contemporary Gaelic.The volume presents an authoritative account of modern Gaelic grammar, attending to both idealised usages - as typically taught in formal education - and more... -
The Truth About English Grammar by Geoffrey K. Pullum 9781509560547
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.51Do you worry that your understanding of English grammar isn't what it should be? It may not be your fault. For hundreds of years, vague and confused ideas about how to state the rules have been passed down from one generation to the next. The available... -
On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and by Noam Chomsky 9781565844759
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.89An attractive new edition of two of Chomsky's most popular books on language - an ideal introduction to his pioneering work in modern linguistics. In Part I, Language and Responsibility, the legend discusses his political, moral and linguistic thinking... -
Socio-syntax: Exploring the Social Life of Grammar by Emma Moore 9781108843973
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $178.02How do we adapt our grammar to communicate social detail? Do all working class people have a local dialect or are we free to use language in ways that transcend our place in the social hierarchy? Seeking to answer these questions, this pioneering book is... -
Grammar: A Student's Guide by James R. Hurford 9780521456272
RRP: $69.28Booksplease Price: $61.38This introductory guide to grammar explains one hundred basic grammatical terms. A knowledge of such terms, and how they interconnect, is crucial for an understanding of the structure and function of language. The explanations are listed alphabetically... -
500 Words You Should Know by Caroline Taggart
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.30'This "essential cornucopia" aims to inspire you to use uncommon words in their original contex'- BooksellerEver wanted to ameliorate your atavistic lexicon, engage in a little intellectual badinage or been discombobulated by tricky diction? 500 Words... -
Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar Alan Prince (Rutgers University) 9781405119337
RRP: $88.10Booksplease Price: $78.14This book is the final version of the widely-circulated 1993 Technical Report that introduces a conception of grammar in which well-formedness is defined as optimality with respect to a ranked set of universal constraints. Final version of the widely... -
Metaphors We Live by by George Lakoff
RRP: $33.60Booksplease Price: $29.78People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use without even realizing... -
Practical Manx by Jennifer Kewley Draskau 9781846311314
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $58.36There has been a revival of interest in Manx Gaelic of late, with the number of Manx speakers rising tenfold over the last twenty years. Jennifer Kewley Draskau has now produced the first definitive guide to the language, drawing on a wide range of... -
The Queen's English: And How to Use It by Dr Bernard C. Lamb
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.88'Having been asked many times if he could recommend a definitive guide to use of our glorious language and not satisfied that the right book existed, Lamb wrote it himself' - Yorkshire PostWritten by the President of the Queen's English Society and... -
Vulgar Latin by Jozsef Herman
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $56.99"Vulgar Latin" refers to those features of Latin language that were not recommended by the classical grammarians but existed nonetheless. Although "Vulgar Latin" is not well documented, evidence can be deduced from details of the spelling, grammar, and... -
Modern English Syntax by C. T. Onions
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $73.63This standard introductory textbook presents in systematic form an account of current English practice. The introduction provides a full scheme of sentence analysis. Part I contains a treatment of syntactical phenomena based on the analysis of sentences;... -
500 Beautiful Words You Should Know by Caroline Taggart
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.30CRESTFALLEN at CHICANERY and CIRCUMLOCUTION? Have no TRUCK with TOMFOOLERY and TRUMPERY? Or OMNISCIENT about OBLOQUIES and OPSIMATHS?Whether you've answered yes, no or 'sorry, I didn't catch that', 500 Beautiful Words You Should now is for you. It offers... -
A Parliament of Owls: A Book of Collective Nouns by Chloe Rhodes 9781789295955
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.37Why are geese in a gaggle? Are lions actually proud? And do crows deserve their murderous moniker? Collective nouns are one of the most bizarre and baffling aspects of the English language, and this absorbing book tells the stories of these evocative... -
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English by Patricia T O'Conner
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525533054Author Patricia T. O'ConnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
English for the Natives: Discover the Grammar You Don't Know You Know Harry Ritchie 9781848548398
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.17'My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she banged on about the ING part of the verb. I sat there,... -
Stories from the Tain by John Strachan
Booksplease Price: $27.45'The Tain' (meaning 'The driving-off cows of Cooley') is a legendary Irish tale set in the first century AD. It tells of a war against Ulster by the Connacht queen Medb and her husband Ailill, who intend to steal the stud bull Donn Cuailnge and are... -
Keys to Academic English by Adrian Hale
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $57.29Developing the research, writing and referencing skills vital to achieving success in an academic environment is a necessary part of university study. Keys to Academic English presents Academic English, a distinct form of the language used at a tertiary... -
Exploring English Grammar: From formal to functional by Caroline Coffin 9780415478168
RRP: $92.38Booksplease Price: $81.56This engaging textbook bridges the gap between traditional and functional grammar. Starting with a traditional approach, students will develop a firm grasp of traditional tools for analysis and learn how SFG (Systemic Functional Grammar) can be used to... -
Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach by David Adger 9780199243709
RRP: $64.03Booksplease Price: $61.66This is an introduction to the structure of sentences in human languages. It assumes no prior knowledge of linguistic theory and little of elementary grammar. It will suit students coming to syntactic theory for the first time either as graduates or... -
Syntactic Theory by Geoffrey Poole 9780230243941
Booksplease Price: $80.09This is a highly recommendable book. It elegantly introduces generative grammar as an empirical science. Written in a clear and friendly tone, it is extremely readable and makes complicated linguistic theory accessible to students' - Ken Ramshoj... -
Discover Grammar by David Crystal
Booksplease Price: $58.13Product Description An enthusiastic and practical approach to language learning A riveting and valuable combination of David Crystal's language expertise and Geoff Barton's sound, practical classroom experience. Essential reference for every student... -
Making Sense of Grammar by David Crystal
Booksplease Price: $88.64Moves the analysis of grammar and language structure onto the next stage - interpreting it from a semantic and pragmatic point of view. Clearly shows how grammar works in different literary contexts - literary, non-literary, spoken and written. Explores... -
Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 1: Methodology by R. M. W. Dixon 9780199571062
RRP: $89.23Booksplease Price: $79.13In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he describes how best... -
Thinking Welsh: Signposts on the Road to Fluency by Gareth King 9781032281285
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $67.07Thinking Welsh focuses on how common English words, phrases and constructions map onto Welsh, and highlights the key areas of difference and difficulty in these mapping operations. 150 English words and grammatical and communicative concepts are listed... -
Introduction to Attic Greek by Donald J. Mastronarde 9780520275713
Booksplease Price: $82.85Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available. The text features: full exposure to the grammar and morphology that... -
Languages of the World: An Introduction by Asya Pereltsvaig 9781009338653
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $65.81Are you curious to know what all languages have in common and how they differ? Do you want to find out how language can be used to trace different peoples and their past? Now in its fourth edition, this fascinating book guides beginners through the rich...