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“nicholas sobin”

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  • 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

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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

  • 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

  • Rethinking Parameters

    Edited by Luis Eguren, Olga Fernandez-Soriano, Amaya Mendikoetxea ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
    Parameters of linguistic variation were originally conceived, within the chomskyan Principles and Parameters Theory, as UG-determined options that were associated with grammatical principles and had a rich deductive structure. This characterization of parametric differences among languages has changed significantly over the years, especially so with the advent of Minimalism. This book collects a ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood

    Edited by Jan Nuyts, Johan van der Auwera ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Parts 1 and 2 of the volume present the basic linguistic facts about the systems of modality and mood in the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Predicates and Their Subjects

    by Susan Rothstein ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Predicates and their Subjects is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation. Starting from where the author's 1983 dissertation left off, the book argues that there is syntactic constraint that clauses (small and tensed) are constructed out of a one-place unsaturated expression, the predicate, which must be applied to a syntactic ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Practical Orthography of African Languages

    Bound with: Orthographe Pratique des Langues Africaines; The Distribution of the Semitic and Cushitic Languages of Africa; The Distribution of the Nilotic and Nilo-Hamitic Languages of Africa; and Linguistic Analyses

    by International African Institute ...
    Series series Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    The first edition of the Practical Orthography of African Languages was a best-seller and this and the following volume re-issues the second edition, in English and French. Originally published in 1930, it provided an invaluable solution to the problem of finding a practical and uniform method of writing African languages. The volume is bound with a small pamphlet which analyses the information on ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • A Study of the Àcoólî Language

    Grammar and Vocabulary

    by J. P. Crazzolara ...
    Series series Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    This volume re-issues the second, revised edition of 1955. This grammar and vocabulary of the Àcoólî language (here spoken by the central group Patíko-AlƐƐro-Payïïra) contains numerous examples partly to illustrate rules, partly to supply phrases relevant for daily life. The vocabulary also contains many phrases in order to show the various uses of words. In addition, the substantial introduction ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Comment Clause in English

    Syntactic Origins and Pragmatic Development

    by Laurel J. Brinton ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Although English comment clauses such as I think and you know have been widely studied, this book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment, focusing on comment clauses formed with common verbs of perception and cognition in a variety of syntactic forms. It understands comment clauses as causal pragmatic markers that undergo grammaticalisation, and acquire pragmatic and politeness ... Read more

    $41.89 USD

  • Semiotic Perspectives

    by Sándor Hervey ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology
    First published in 1982, this book looks at a wide variety of issues concerning the vast field of study that is ‘semiotics. It begins by tracing the beginnings of modern semiotics in the works two pioneering figures — Saussure and Peirce — in order to present fundamental assumptions, notions and distinctions which provide an essential background to the more recent developments. The author then ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Preposition Placement in English

    A Usage-based Approach

    by Thomas Hoffmann ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Preposition placement, the competition between preposition stranding (What is he talking about?) and pied-piping (About what is he talking?), is one of the most interesting areas of syntactic variation in English. This is the first book to investigate preposition placement across all types of clauses that license it, such as questions, exclamations and wh-clauses, and those which exhibit ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Control in Generative Grammar

    A Research Companion

    by Idan Landau ...
    The subject of nonfinite clauses is often missing, and yet is understood to refer to some linguistic or contextual referent (e.g. 'Bill preferred __ to remain silent' is understood as 'Bill preferred that he himself would remain silent'). This dependency is the subject matter of control theory. Extensive linguistic research into control constructions over the past five decades has unearthed a ... Read more

    $38.59 USD