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  • The Syntax of Imperatives

    by Asier Alcázar, Mario Saltarelli ...
    Series Book 140 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and interrogatives, the imperative type has received diverse analyses in the literature. This cutting-edge study puts forward a new linguistic theory of imperatives, arguing that categories of the speech act, specifically Speaker and Addressee, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • Reading Greek

    Text and Vocabulary

    by Joint Association of Classical Teachers ...
    Series series Reading Greek
    First published in 1978, Reading Greek has become a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used widely in schools, summer schools and universities across the world. It has also been translated into several foreign languages. This volume contains a narrative adapted ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • English for Academic Research: Grammar, Usage and Style

    by Adrian Wallwork ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This guide is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on the reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problems with English usage, style and grammar. It draws on English-related errors from around 5000 papers written by non-native authors, 500 abstracts by PhD students, and over 1000 hours of teaching researchers how to write and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Functional Grammar in the ESL Classroom

    Noticing, Exploring and Practicing

    by R. Jones, G. Lock ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    A set of easy to use techniques helps students discover for themselves how grammar works in real world contexts and how grammatical choices are not just about form but about meaning. Sample teaching ideas, covering a wide range of grammatical topics including verb tense, voice, reference and the organization of texts, accompanies each procedure. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects

    A Study in Corpus-Based Dialectometry

    by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Variation within the English language is a vast research area, of which dialectology, the study of geographic variation, is a significant part. This book explores grammatical differences between British English dialects, drawing on authentic speech data collected in over thirty counties. In doing so it presents a new approach known as 'corpus-based dialectometry', which focuses on the joint ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Null Subjects

    by José A. Camacho ...
    Series Book 137 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    The null subject has always been central to linguistic theory, because it tells us a great deal about the underlying structure of language in the human brain, and about the interface between syntax and semantics. Null subjects exist in languages such as Italian, Chinese, Russian and Greek where the subject of a sentence can be tacitly implied, and is understood from the context. In this systematic ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Word Order

    by Jae Jung Song ...
    Series series Research Surveys in Linguistics
    Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date, critical overview of this widely debated topic, exploring and evaluating word order research carried out in four major theoretical frameworks – linguistic typology, generative grammar, optimality theory and processing-based ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Word Meaning

    by Richard Hudson ...
    Series series Language Workbooks
    In Word Meaning, Richard Hudson introduces readers to the techniques of lexical semantic analysis.Word Meaning:* is based on a problem-solving approach to language* introduces readers to the technical terminology and basic principles associated with the analysis of word meaning* shows students how to apply these terms and principles to English* includes suggestions for further work ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Hyperbole in English

    A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration

    by Claudia Claridge ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Non-literal language is ubiquitous in everyday life, and while hyperbole is a major part of this, it has so far remained relatively unexplored. This volume provides the first investigation of hyperbole in English, drawing on data from genres such as spoken conversation, TV, newspapers, and literary works from Chaucer to Monty Python. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, it uses ... Read more

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  • The Phonology and Morphology of Arabic

    by Janet C.E. Watson ...
    Series series The Phonology of the World's Languages
    This book is the first comprehensive account of the phonology and morphology of Arabic. It is a pioneering work of scholarship, based on the author's research in the region. Arabic is a Semitic language spoken by some 250 million people in an area stretching from Morocco in the West to parts of Iran in the East. Apart from its great intrinsic interest, the importance of the language for ... Read more

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  • Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures

    Edited by Manfred Krifka, Chungmin Lee, Ferenc Kiefer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    A group of authors containing both leading authorities and young researchers addresses a number of issues of contrastiveness, polarity items and exhaustivity, quantificational expressions and the implicatures they generate, and the interaction between semantic operators and speech acts. The 19 contributions provide insights on the interplay between semantics and pragmatics. The volume’s reach is ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Entrenchment of the «unus alterum» Pattern

    Four Essays on Latin and Old Romance Reciprocal Constructions

    by Mikołaj Nkollo ...
    Series Book 49 - Lodz Studies in Language
    In this book, the author presents that although various Old Romance grammars can be traced back to the common Latin ancestor, the functional domain of reciprocity shows divergent paths of development. In this regard, each of the languages have worked up their unique solutions, with grammatical and semantic mechanisms underlying their diversity. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD