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  • Introducing Syntax

    by Olaf Koeneman, Hedde Zeijlstra ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics
    Syntax is the system of rules that we subconsciously follow when we build sentences. Whereas the grammar of English (or other languages) might look like a rather chaotic set of arbitrary patterns, linguistic science has revealed that these patterns can actually be understood as the result of a small number of grammatical principles. This lively introductory textbook is designed for undergraduate ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

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  • English for the Natives

    Discover the Grammar You Don't Know You Know

    by Harry Ritchie ...
    'My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she banged on about the ING part of the verb. I sat there, vibrating with fear, desperately trying to figure out what on earth she could mean. Irregular Negative Gerund? Intransitive Nominative Genitive? It ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Teacher's Guide to Grammar

    by Deborah Cameron ...
    The Teacher's Guide to Grammar is unique in focusing directly on the aspects of grammar that teachers need to know. Assuming little or no formal linguistic education, this concise and accessible book provides the necessary background knowledge required in the classroom context. There are detailed chapters on the nuts and bolts of language: words, morphology, sentences, phrases, verbs, and clauses. ... Read more

    $27.99 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

  • 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

  • Clause Structure

    by Elly van Gelderen ...
    Series series Key Topics in Syntax
    Clause structure is the most widely-studied phenomenon within syntactic theory, because it refers to how words and phrases are embedded within a sentence, their relationships to each other within a sentence, and ultimately, how sentences are layered and represented in the human brain. This volume presents a clear and up-to-date overview of the Minimalist Program, synthesizes the most important ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Foundations of Language

    Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

    by Ray Jackendoff ...
    How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray Jackendoff begins by surveying the developments in linguistics over the years since Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. He goes ... Read more

    $35.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $48.59 USD

  • Locality Domains in the Spanish Determiner Phrase

    by M. Emma Ticio ...
    Series Book 79 - Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
    Examining its subject from a generative perspective, this highly detailed text deals with the syntax of nominal expressions. It focuses on empirical data taken from the Spanish language, though the author goes further to draw conclusions of wider theoretical interest from material culled from other languages too.The book considers crucial phenomena in the nominal domain, such as extraction out of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Symmetry in Syntax

    Merge, Move and Labels

    by Barbara Citko ...
    Series Book 129 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    While much has been written on asymmetric aspects of sentence structure, symmetric aspects have been largely ignored, or claimed to be non-existent. Does symmetry in syntax exist, and if it does, how do we account for it? In this book, Barbara Citko sets out to tackle these questions and offers a unified approach to a number of phenomena that have so far been studied only in isolation. Focusing on ... Read more

    $118.89 USD