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  • Wari

    by Daniel L. Everett, Barbara Kern ...
    Series series Descriptive Grammars
    This is the first major study of any Chapakuran language and makes an important contribution to linguistic theory. This study is especially timely as the Chapakuran languages of Western Brazil and Eastern Bolivia are endangered, and less than 2,000 known speakers of Wari and its related dialects are left in existence. ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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  • Can You Eat, Shoot and Leave? (Workbook)

    by Clare Dignall, Lynne Truss ...
    The punctuation workout for sticklers and rookies alike.The punctuation panda is back!Armed with a permanent marker, a smidgen of confidence, and a copy of ‘Can You Eat, Shoot and Leave?’, everyone now has the chance to become a member of the punctuation elite.Established punctuation sticklers:Fine-tune existing skills, taking guilty pleasure from testing your (already somewhat unsettling) seventh ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Advanced English Grammar

    A Linguistic Approach

    by Ilse Depraetere, Dr Chad Langford ...
    With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced learners of English who need to understand how the English language really works without getting lost in the complex specifics.Now fully updated and revised throughout, the second edition of this book pulls from linguistic theory all the relevant notions ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • English for Academic Research: Grammar Exercises

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

    $23.79 USD

  • The Syntax of Arabic

    by Joseph E. Aoun, Elabbas Benmamoun, Lina Choueiri ...
    Series series Cambridge Syntax Guides
    Recent research on the syntax of Arabic has produced valuable literature on the major syntactic phenomena found in the language. This guide to Arabic syntax provides an overview of the major syntactic constructions in Arabic that have featured in recent linguistic debates, and discusses the analyses provided for them in the literature. A broad variety of topics are covered, including argument ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Change in Contemporary English

    A Grammatical Study

    by Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair, Nicholas Smith, Geoffrey Leech ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Syntactic Analysis

    The Basics

    by Nicholas Sobin ...
    Highly readable and eminently practical, Syntactic Analysis: The Basics focuses on bringing students with little background in linguistics up to speed on how modern syntactic analysis works.A succinct and practical introduction to understanding sentence structure, ideal for students who need to get up to speed on key concepts in the fieldIntroduces readers to the central terms and concepts in ... Read more

    $32.00 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

    $38.59 USD

  • The Aesthetics of Grammar

    Sound and Meaning in the Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia

    Edited by Jeffrey P. Williams ...
    The languages of mainland Southeast Asia evidence an impressive array of elaborate grammatical resources, such as echo words, phonaesthetic words, chameleon affixes, chiming derivatives, onomatopoeic forms, ideophones and expressives. Speakers of these languages fashion grammatical works of art in order to express and convey emotions, senses, conditions and perceptions that enrich discourse. This ... Read more

    $38.59 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

    $38.59 USD

  • The Universal Structure of Categories

    by Martina Wiltschko ...
    Series Book 142 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    Using data from a variety of languages such as Blackfoot, Halkomelem, and Upper Austrian German, this book explores a range of grammatical categories and constructions, including tense, aspect, subjunctive, case and demonstratives. It presents a new theory of grammatical categories - the Universal Spine Hypothesis - and reinforces generative notions of Universal Grammar while accommodating ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Grammar of Japanese Mimetics

    Perspectives from structure, acquisition, and translation

    Edited by Noriko Iwasaki, Peter Sells, Kimi Akita ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in East Asian Linguistics
    Mimetic words, also known as ‘sound-symbolic words’, ‘ideophones’ or more popularly as ‘onomatopoeia’, constitute an important subset of the Japanese lexicon; we find them as well in the lexicons of other Asian languages and sub-Saharan African languages. Mimetics play a central role in Japanese grammar and feature in children’s early utterances. However, this class of words is not considered as ... Read more

    $63.99 USD