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Researchers in Romance languages will find this book a stimulating and broad-ranging treatment of the development of grammar, demonstrating the relevance of markedness for both linguistic theory and language teaching. A substantial and original account...

This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim that there-sentences' form is distinct from that of ordinary subject-predicate sentences, and that this...

The focus of this volume is on how language is used between adults and children. The results is a volume that will appeal to readers in language development and narrative discourse. Has the potential to become a classic graduate-level text/reference.

This book presents a comprehensive, data-rich, theory-neutral description of English word formation, including inflection and derivation, compounding, conversion, and such minor processes as subtractive morphology. It also offers analyses of the...

This volume provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Gothic, the earliest attested language of the Germanic family (apart from runic inscriptions), dating to the fourth century. The bulk of the extant Gothic corpus is a translation of the Bible, of...

The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical...

Tense and aspect are means by which language refers to time--how an event takes place in the past, present, or future. They play a key role in understanding the grammar and structure of all languages, and interest in them reaches across linguistics. The...

An instructional guide to proper Estonian grammar and writing style.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United...

This grammar book is aimed at beginners and provides a solid foundation in English grammar. Through clear explanations and helpful exercises, Grammar for Beginners is the perfect resource for students and teachers alike.This work has been selected by...

This Latin-language grammar book was written by Cledonius in the late 4th century AD. It includes a comprehensive introduction to Latin grammar, as well as discussions of a range of literary topics, including prosody, meter, and figurative language. It...

This comprehensive guide to French language and literature is an invaluable resource for both students and native speakers. It covers all aspects of French grammar, including verb conjugations, sentence structure, and common idioms and expressions. In...

In recent decades it has been increasingly recognized that the forms of the verb in ancient Greek, including that of the New Testament, do not signal time (past, present, future), but aspect (the way each activity is viewed in relation to its context)...

The past decade has brought important new advances in the fields of genetics, behavioral genetics, linguistics, language acquisition, studies of language impairment, and brain imaging. Although these advances are each highly relevant to the determination...

Corpus Linguistics for Grammar provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistics to analyse grammar, demonstrating the wider application of corpus data and providing readers with all the skills and information they need...

This book uses a clear format to set out the key stages of communication development in babies and young children.

This book investigates the nature and properties of roots, the core elements of word meaning. In particular, chapters examine the interaction of roots with syntactic structure, and the role of their semantic and morpho-phonological properties in that...

French Sentence Builders: Trilogy-Part I -GRAMMAR BOOKLET has been conceived as a supplement to our French Sentence Builders: Trilogy - Part I bookIt is divided into 15 units, with matching Sentence Builders from the main Trilogy book...

This is the answer booklet for the French Sentence Builders: Trilogy-Part I -GRAMMAR BOOK has been conceived as a supplement to our French Sentence Builders: Trilogy - Part I bookIt is divided into 15 units, with matching Sentence Builders from...

The Date / Sastanak (2. Edition) from the series 'Croatian Made Easy' is a reader for learners of the Croatian language. It consists of three short stories as well as the English introduction and vocabulary list at the end of the book.Level 5: Perfection...

This book presents a new analysis of both the German impersonal passive and the actional passive, in general. The study challenges previous analyses and uses a theoretical framework derived from Saussure and Beedham.

Created as the text book for the Speaking Canadian English course at Sheridan College, English is Crazy (EiC), (Originally English is Stupid), is a manual for learning spoken English. English conversation follows different rules from...

A Spanish translation of George Kiraz's popular Syriac Primer. A truly useful introduction to the Syriac language is a rare find. Honed by years of personal experience with the language, George Kiraz's introduction to the ancient language of the...

Why You Say It by WEBB B. GARRISON. Illustrated by Henry R. Martin. FOREWORD: Words and phrases are like persons. Some are dull and stodgy, while others are very good company indeed. It is from the ranks of the latter group that the words in this volume...

GRAMMAR GREMLINS is a book about the little devils that sneak into our writing and speaking, twisting our words so that the message is different from what we intend. If you haven't seen a grammar book in recent years (and have no desire to do so!),...

Support your child's education with an integrated Language Arts Curriculum for 7th and 8th graders (Ages 12-14). This comprehensive textbook combines spelling, writing, and reading into one experience, offering lessons and engaging activities. Key...

Uncover a fresh approach to mastering English grammar with All English Tenses in One Simple Chart by Igor Ostapenko. Drawing from his engineering background and years of experience in instructional design and training management, Igor presents a...

Reading books is considered to be one of the best ways to enhance English language as well as to widen reader's world outlook. Reading this book, readers will not only enjoy discovering different words in English, but also they will learn different...

Learning the alphabet is amazing because it allows you to read books. Education starts with learning the alphabet.This stunning book contains the alphabet and numbers sign language.This book is suitable also for teens and adults that care for others that...

This is the answer booklet for the German Sentence Builders: Trilogy-Part 1 has been conceived as a supplement to our German Sentence Builders: Trilogy - Part I book

Anna ist ein 13-jähriges Mädchen aus München, das sich entschlossen hat, ein Tagebuch über seinen Alltag zu führen. In Ihrem Tagebuch erfahren wir mehr über ihre Freunde, ihre Schulklasse, ihre Familie und ihre Probleme. Dass eine bevorstehende Party das...

Sophie, eine geschwätzige und lebensfreudige Kindergärtnerin aus Frankfurt am Main, will ihre Freundin in Luzern besuchen. Im Zug begegnet Sophie Lukas, einen introvertierten Bankangestellten aus Zürich. Sophie entwaffnet ihn und seine höfliche Distanz...

La sintaxis de los determinantes específicos y definidos es una monografía que estudia el resultado de la combinación de los dos rasgos de la identificación de referentes en español y en otras familias lingüísticas. Los lectores encontrarán una...

Die Metonymie im Deutschen ist ein bislang vernachlässigtes Thema. Bei dieser Forschungslücke setzt das Buch an und befasst sich mit dem deutschsprachigen Migrationsdiskurs. Die Arbeit ist interdisziplinär ausgerichtet und verbindet...

Die Analyse untersucht die fragesatztypischen Modalpartikeln denn, eigentlich, etwa, wohl, überhaupt, bloß, doch und schon. Diese werden in ihrer Funktion analysiert und in zwei Gruppen nach ihrer Bedeutung unterteilt. Für jede Partikel werden...

Halliday has claimed that neither spoken nor written language is more complex than the other per se, but that the two mediums show different degrees of complexity on different levels. He argues that written language uses more lexical items within the...

Über Sprechakte reden bedeutet für Sprechakttheoretiker in der Regel über Illokutionen reden. Seltsamerweise, denn sprechend zu wirken ist der wesentliche Antrieb für verbale Kommunikation. Eine der interessantesten Fragen dürfte doch wohl sein, wie...

When we use a language we are always aware of our audience. This awareness is reflected, for example, in changes to the way we speak to the same person in different contexts or to different people in the same context. This book explores the way in which...

Das Thema des Buches befasst sich mit diachronischer Syntaxforschung. Speziell geht es um klitische und nichtklitische Objektpronomen bei Infinitivkomplementen. Das Thema wird im Grenzbereich zwischen Morphologie und Syntax behandelt. Es wird der Frage...

In der fast zweihundertjährigen Tradition wissenschaftlicher Dialektforschung spielt die Syntax nur eine marginale Rolle. Das liegt nicht nur an mangelndem Interesse, sondern auch an methodischen Problemen, wie hier am Beispiel der Beiträge zum...