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  • English Historical Syntax

    by David Denison ...
    Series series Longman Linguistics Library
    This study brings together many of the resources needed for the exploration of English historical syntax and deals with many of the important changes in English sentence structure from Old English to present. It also features a survey of published research from both classical and modern linguistic traditions, as well as new research by the author. Provides guidance on methodology, important ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Analysing Older English

    Edited by David Denison, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, Chris McCully, Emma Moore ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Is historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English, including the incomplete nature of the evidence and the dangers of misinterpretation or over-interpretation. Even so, gaps in the data can sometimes be filled. The volume brings together a team of leading English historical ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

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  • 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

  • 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

  • The History of Modern Chinese Grammar Studies

    by Peter Peverelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses the way Chinese scholars developed a national grammar. Chinese didn’t develop grammar until China’s contact with Western grammar books in the 19th Century. The first indigenous grammar was published in 1889. It included some traditional notions, but mainly imitated European grammar. It was followed by a number of other similar works. To move away from this imitation, a group of ... Read more

    $80.09 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 Languages of West Africa

    Handbook of African Languages Part 2

    by Diedrich Westermann, M. A. Bryan ...
    Series Book 2 - Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    This volume, originally published in 1970, presents a survey of the languages spoken in an area extending from the Atlantic coast at the Sengal River eastward to the Lake Chad region. The area covered by this volume is mainly a goegraphical one, so it follows that not all the languages included are related to one another, though a certain degree of homogeneity appears. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Standardization, Ideology and Linguistics

    by N. Armstrong, I. Mackenzie ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concepts such as grammaticality and structural change covertly rely on a false conceptualization of language, one that derives ultimately from standardization. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Book of Words

    by Tim Glynne-Jones ...
    Words have come a long way since they were invented as a nifty tool to help us communicate. We have played with them, made up rules for them, added bits to them and taken bits off. We've gathered them into languages, adopted and defined them. The words we use say so much about who we are, yet most of them slip from our mouths without a second thought.The Book of Words is a brief pause for ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • One Language, Two Grammars?

    Differences between British and American English

    Edited by Günter Rohdenburg, Julia Schlüter ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    It is well known that British and American English differ substantially in their pronunciation and vocabulary - but differences in their grammar have largely been underestimated. This volume focuses on British–American differences in the structure of words and sentences and supports them with computer-aided studies of large text collections. Present-day as well as earlier forms of the two ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Grammatical Collocations of Verbs and Prepositions

    by Marianna Hudcovičová ...
    This book presents empirical research of grammatical collocations of the type: verb and the prepositions «of» and «to». It is based on comparisons of English and Czech sentences containing verbs and prepositions that are followed by the object. The author creates English–Czech verbal prepositional counterparts and groups on the grounds of the similar semantic, syntactic features. She identifies ... Read more

    $36.39 USD

  • The Bantu Languages of Western Equatorial Africa

    Handbook of African Languages

    by Malcolm Guthrie ...
    Series series Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    The area covered by this book, originally published in 1953, is one that has long been recognized as presenting many problems from the point of view of Bantu linguistic studies. Almost all the material set out in this present work is based on notes taken in the field, and in many cases presented completely new facts. The sources of the information used are listed at the end of the linguistic ... Read more

    $48.99 USD