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Oxford Guide to Plain English

Oxford Guide to Plain English

Author: Martin Cutts
ISBN: 9780198610113
Format: Paperback
$21.95

Provides guidance on how to write plain English using guidelines, which cover language, sentence length, active...  Read More >>

Official Notings and Draftings

Official Notings and Draftings

Author: Chaturvedi Shivram (Dr.)
ISBN: 9788122302790
Format: Paperback
$23.26

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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms

The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms

Author: Judith Siefring
ISBN: 9780198527114
Format: Hardback
$49.95

Where do phrases such as 'take the rap', 'off the cuff', and 'flavour of the month' come from? And what exactly...  Read More >>

Gateways to Academic Writing

Gateways to Academic Writing

Author: Alan Meyers
ISBN: 9780131408883
Format: Paperback
$77.95

Gateways to Academic Writing: Effective Sentences, Paragraphs, and Essays, by Alan Meyers, provides a fully integrated...  Read More >>

Grammars with Context Conditions and Their Applications

Grammars with Context Conditions and Their Applications...

Author: Alexander Meduna (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) ,  Martin Vec
ISBN: 9781280277337
Format: Electronic book text
$308.88

The essential guide to grammars with context conditions This advanced computer science book systematically and compactly...  Read More >>

Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions

Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions...

Author: Sebastian Hoffmann
ISBN: 9781281158048
Format: Electronic book text
$516.38

This book offers a diachronic and synchronic description of complex prepositions (e.g. in view of, by way of) in...  Read More >>

Aspectual Inquiries

Aspectual Inquiries

Author: Paula Kempchinsky ,  Dr Roumyana Slabakova (University of Iowa)
ISBN: 9781280283208
Format: Undefined
$314.16

Represents the results of a workshop on the syntax, semantics and acquisition of aspect held in 2002. A number of...  Read More >>

Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Author: Robert D Valin
ISBN: 9781280458071
Format: Undefined
$514.80

Language is a system of communication in which grammatical structures function to express meaning in context. While...  Read More >>

Movement and Silence

Movement and Silence

Author: Richard S Kayne (New York University)
ISBN: 9781280428449
Format: Electronic book text
$170.86

This volume collects important recent articles by Richard Kayne, one of the top formal linguists in the world. Although...  Read More >>

Grammar and Context: An Advanced Resource Book

Grammar and Context: An Advanced Resource Book

Author:
ISBN: 9781280167829
Format: Electronic book text
$372.24

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive resource books, providing students and researchers with...  Read More >>

Word Grammar: New Perspectives on a Theory of Language Structure

Word Grammar: New Perspectives on a Theory of Language...

Author: Kensei Sugayama ,  Richard A Hudson (University College London)
ISBN: 9781281294982
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

An introduction to Word Grammar, this is a collection that will interest academics encountering Word Grammar for...  Read More >>

A Theory of Ellipsis

A Theory of Ellipsis

Author: Marjorie McShane
ISBN: 9781280534591
Format: Electronic book text
$263.74

This book presents a comprehensive theory of ellipsis that supports the formal, cross-linguistic description of...  Read More >>

Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech

Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech

Author: Reinaldo Elugardo ,  Reinaldo Elugardo
ISBN: 9781280263583
Format: Undefined
$237.57

Address two main topics: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural language? What are...  Read More >>

Urdu: An Essential Grammar

Urdu: An Essential Grammar

Author: Ruth Laila Schmidt
ISBN: 9781280256455
Format: Electronic book text
$382.80

This is a reference guide to the most important aspects of the language as it is used by native speakers today....  Read More >>

Genetic Linguistics: Essays on Theory and Method

Genetic Linguistics: Essays on Theory and Method

Author: Joseph Greenberg ,  Professor William Croft (University of New Mexico University of Manchester University of Manchester University of Manchester University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9781280845772
Format: Electronic book text
$178.04

Collects Joseph Greenberg's most important writings on the genetic classification of the world's languages. This...  Read More >>

Introduction to Language and Linguistics

Introduction to Language and Linguistics

Author: Christopher J Hall (York St. John University, UK)
ISBN: 9781306846899
Format: Electronic book text
$422.40

'Christopher Hall's book is the best new introduction to linguistics that I have seen in decades. It is engagingly...  Read More >>

Syntactic Analysis and Description

Syntactic Analysis and Description

Author: Professor of Sociology and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Academic) David Lockwood, Dr (University of Essex)
ISBN: 9781306846844
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

This book is designed to teach undergraduate and beginning graduate students how to understand, analyse and describe...  Read More >>

Focus on Wh-Questions

Focus on Wh-Questions

Author: Maja Lubanska
ISBN: 9780820476780
Format: Paperback
$100.19

This book is a minimalist study of wh-questions in Polish, which aims at providing a homogeneous account for the...  Read More >>

Altarmenische Kurzgrammatik

Altarmenische Kurzgrammatik

Author: D. Van Damme
ISBN: 9783727814624
Format: Paperback
$105.60

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The McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage

The McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage...

Author: Mark Lester ,  Larry Beason
ISBN: 9780071441339
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Shows how to fix everyday English language mistakes. With commonsense, easy-to-remember usage tips throughout, this...  Read More >>

One Writing . . . Numerous Readings

One Writing . . . Numerous Readings

Author: J.-L. Cunchillos
ISBN: 9781593332310
Format: Hardback
$406.24

This work aims at explaining how the recension of the Ugaritic text--based on the Northwest Semitic Philological...  Read More >>

Co-Compounds and Natural Coordination

Co-Compounds and Natural Coordination

Author: Bernhard Walchli
ISBN: 9786610755301
Format: Electronic book text
$1210.02

A typological survey and analysis of co-compounds - for example, as when in some varieties of English mother-father...  Read More >>

Principles and Parameters in a Vso Language: A Case Study in Welsh

Principles and Parameters in a Vso Language: A Case...

Author: Ian G Roberts
ISBN: 9786610704163
Format: Electronic book text
$320.21

This is the first book-length study of Welsh syntax in English using minimalist theory. The central empirical issue...  Read More >>

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