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  • Reciprocity in English

    Historical Development and Synchronic Structure

    by Florian Haas ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
    Although the grammatical expression of reciprocal (or ‘mutual’) situations in the languages of the world has received a surprising amount of attention in recent years, so far no comprehensive study specifically dealing with the historical development and synchronic structure of English reciprocal constructions has been published. This book takes into consideration insights from the three major ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

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  • 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

    $29.99 CAD

  • English for Academic Research: Grammar, Usage and Style

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

    $34.99 CAD

  • 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 CAD

  • 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

    $94.81 CAD

  • Comparative Constructions in Spanish and French Syntax

    by Susan Price ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Syntax
    This study, first published in 1990, presents a comprehensive description of the comparative constructions of Spanish and French, and shows that the apparently numerous differences in their syntactic realisations can be accounted for by general constraints on the expression of comparison. There is also a discussion of parallel constructions in other Romance languages, showing that these languages ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Elements of Control

    Structure and Meaning in Infinitival Constructions

    by Idan Landau ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS OF CONTROL Imagine you are a child faced with the daunting task of acquiring the grammar of control in your language. You toddle around buoyantly (you should be past 3 by now), occasionally bumping into acoustic signals that miraculously map to "linguistic input". Some of them sound like this: (1) a. Robin, do you want _ to play with Kittie together? b. Come on, let me ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Perspectives on Complementation

    Structure, Variation and Boundaries

    Edited by M. Höglund, P. Rickman, J. Rudanko, J. Havu ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies. Leading scholars and upcoming researchers in the area approach complementation from various perspectives and different frameworks, such as Cognitive Grammar and construction grammars, to offer a broad survey of the field and provide thought-provoking reading. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Jokes

    Have a Laugh and Improve Your English

    by Adrian Wallwork ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Jokes are a perfect format for learning vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and grammar. Jokes are also designed to be retold. If you learn a joke by heart and tell it to other people, then by doing so you will also learn the grammar and vocabulary involved.The book also contains exercises designed to reveal whether you have understood the joke or not:A joke is presented to you but with the ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • A Reference Grammar of Chinese

    Edited by Chu-Ren Huang, Dingxu Shi ...
    Series series Reference Grammars
    A Reference Grammar of Chinese is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the linguistic structure of Chinese, covering all of the important linguistic features of the language and incorporating insights gained from research in Chinese linguistics over the past thirty years. With contributions from twenty-two leading Chinese linguists, this authoritative guide uses large-scale corpora to provide ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • A Reference Grammar of French

    by R. E. Batchelor, M. Chebli-Saadi ...
    Series series Reference Grammars
    A Reference Grammar of French is a lively, wide-ranging and original handbook on the structure of the French language. It includes new information on register, pronunciation, gender, number, foreign words (Latin, Arabic, English, Spanish, Italian), adjectives and past participles used as nouns, texting, word order, frequency of occurrence of words, and usage with all geographical names. Examples ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of Language

    by Milan Rezac ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This monograph investigates the modular architecture of language through the nature of "uninterpretable" phi-features: person, number, gender, and Case. It provides new tools and evidence for the modular architecture of the human language faculty, a foundational topic of linguistic research. At the same time it develops a new theory for one of the core issues posed by the Minimalist Program: the ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD