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  • English Infinitive, The

    by Patrick Joseph Duffley ...
    This is a series which aims to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative. The texts are ideal for the scholar, the teacher, and the student, but especially for English speaking students in overseas universities where English is the language of instruction, or advanced specialist students of English in foreign universities. Although English is probably the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Saving our Prepositions

    A Guide for the Perplexed

    by David Thatcher ...
    Prepositions (words like above, from, in, of and with which relate one part of a sentence to another) are, though few in number, among the most frequently used words in English. They are also among the most frequently misused: writers and speakers alike seem to have endless trouble in choosing the right or acceptable preposition. The sad result is widespread uncertainty, confusion and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Generative Grammar

    Theory and its History

    by Robert Freidin ...
    Series series Routledge Leading Linguists
    Generative Grammar presents a substantial contribution to the field of linguistics in drawing together for the first time the author's most significant work on the theory of generative grammar.The essays collected here display Freidin's role in moving the theory forward in terms of new proposals, and analyse the efforts to understand the evolution and history of the theory by careful investigation ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Structural Design of Language

    by Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam ...
    Although there have been numerous investigations of biolinguistics within the Minimalist Program over the last ten years, many of which appeal to the importance of Turing's Thesis (that the structural design of systems must obey physical and mathematical laws), these studies have by and large ignored the question of the structural design of language. They have paid significant attention to ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Preparing and Delivering Scientific Presentations

    A Complete Guide for International Medical Scientists

    by John Giba, Ramón Ribes ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The latest in Springer's "Medical English" series, aimed at health care professionals who need English for their work but do not speak English on a day-to-day basis. Although much of the information provided will be useful for scientists of all backgrounds and nationalities, the book is aimed especially at non-native English-speaking physicians and biomedical scientists. It offers clear advice on ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

    Edited by Marcel den Dikken ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Clitics

    An Introduction

    by Andrew Spencer, Ana R. Luis ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    In most languages we find 'little words' which resemble a full word, but which cannot stand on their own. Instead they have to 'lean on' a neighbouring word, like the 'd, 've and unstressed 'em of Kim'd've helped'em ('Kim would have helped them'). These are clitics, and they are found in most of the world's languages. In English the clitic forms appear in the same place in the sentence that the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Constructions

    by Paul Hirschbuhler ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Syntax
    This title, first published in 1985, provides a detailed analysis of aspects of the semantics and the syntax of some wh-constructions. The first part of the book deals with the semantics of questions, whilst the other part discusses the syntax of que and quoi (what) in questions in French and the syntax of free relatives in French and other languages. This title will be of interest to students of ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Phrase Structure in Natural Language

    by M.J. Speas ...
    Series Book 21 - Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

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  • Morphosyntactic Change

    A Comparative Study of Particles and Prefixes

    by Bettelou Los, Corrien Blom, Geert Booij, Marion Elenbaas, Ans van Kemenade ...
    Series Book 134 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    Particle verbs (combinations of two words but lexical units) are a notorious problem in linguistics. Is a particle verb like look up one word or two? It has its own entry in dictionaries, as if it is one word, but look and up can be split up in a sentence: we can say He looked the information up and He looked up the information. But why can't we say He looked up it? In English look and up can only ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Events and Narratives in Language

    Edited by Janusz Badio ...
    Series Book 52 - Lodz Studies in Language
    This book analyzes events and narratives from the points of view of literature, grammar, discourse, and semantics. The contributors explore the issues related to the ways of portraying stories and their events within a cultural and literary framework. They also examine the role of prefixes in construing events and asymmetries that exist in time-creating event markers from a contrastive perspective ... Read more

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  • A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

    Volume 6

    by Otto Jespersen, Paul Christophersen, Niels Haislund, Knud Schibsbye ...
    Series series Otto Jespersen
    In Morphology the first thing to be considered is the form, and second to that comes the use made of it, in Syntax the order is exactly the reverse, but it is essential that in both parts of the grammar form and use should be mentioned in every case. Volume 6 looks at English Morphology including subjects such as personal endings in verbs, tense formation in verbs, the naked word, compounds, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD