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Of all of the different types of words in English, people have the most trouble using articles, in particular the definite article ‘the’. Most grammar books provide a series of rules that you are expected to learn. These ‘rules’...

The Bender Primer is a book written by Ida C. Bender and published in 1907. It is a comprehensive guide to teaching children how to read and write using phonics. The book is divided into several sections, each focusing on a different aspect of phonics...

This book presents a corpus-based investigation of verbal projection in detective stories and their translations. Adopting both diachronic and synchronic approaches to compare two different Chinese translations, the book is one of the first attempts to...

This book examines in detail the forms and functions of clause combination in English. Using a corpus linguistics methodology, it describes how the English clause system currently behaves, how it has developed over the history of the language, and how...

Learn beginner French grammar painlessly with step-by-step lessons that focus on the essentials and help you build a learning habit.Inside "French Grammar for Beginners" you'll find:30 beginner-level French grammar lessons: This reference and...

Learn Japanese grammar with ease, even if you are an absolute beginner.This book is designed to address the key areas where students frequently struggle.It provides a step-by-step learning method that anyone can follow and will take your Japanese to new...

كتاب "توّضيح الجليل في شرح ابن عقيل" رحلة في عالم النحو العربي،مع شرح ابن عقيل لألفية ابن مالك،ومزجٍ من أوضح المسالك لابن هشام.رحلةٌ شيّقةٌ مع مُؤلّفٍ مُدركٍ لجمالِ اللغةِ،تُسلّط الضوءَ على دقائقِ النحوِ،وتُقدّمُ فهمًا عميقًا للقواعدِ العربيةِ.للراغبين...

Not only are these stories fun to read, but they also help A1 and A2 level students practice their English skills.Words used in daily life were used in the stories for beginners to understand and learn new words, thus making it easier for them to...

"Historias Cortas en Alemán para Principiantes" es una colección de 20 historias fáciles de leer, creadas especialmente para aquellos que están comenzando a aprender alemán. Las historias están escritas en un lenguaje sencillo y presentan personajes y...

This book is based in large part on fieldwork that I conducted in Brittany and Wales in 1983 and 1985. I am thankful for a Fulbright Award for Research in Western Europe and a Faculty Development Award from the University of...

This collection of papers investigates two specific linguistic phenomena from the point of view of first- and second-language acquisition. While observations on the acquisition of scrambling or pronominal clitics can be...

"...this work represents a key case study in the study of the prosody and syntax interactions." (Pilar Prieto, Lingua 115, 2005)  

Austronesian languages have long raised interesting questions for generative theories of syntax and morphology. The papers in this volume encompass some of these traditional questions and place them in newer theoretical...

The Mandarin VP deals with a number of constructions in Mandarin Chinese which involve the main verb and the material following it, like the object NPs, resultative phrases, durative expressions and other elements. The basis...

Noun Phrases and Nominalizations: The Syntax of DPs is a theoretical study of nominal expressions which covers central aspects of their syntax that have not been approached with concurrent tools in recent years. The study...

This book is an extensively revised version of the core part of my 1993 MIT doctoral dissertation, which seeks to provide a Minimalist theory of Case absorption and support it through empirical investigation. The central idea...

Tense, Attitudes, and Scope is a model-theoretic inquiry into the semantics of tense in natural language. The book presents the view that the semantic contribution of tense is made in relation to structurally higher...

Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface starts by analyzing the interpretation of interrogative phrases in single and multiple constituent questions, including their interpretation under adverbs of...

o. COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX This volume contains 13 papers that were prepared for the Seventh Workshop on Comparative Germanie Syntax at the University of Stuttgart in November 1991. In defining the theme both of the...

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...

Since 1970-ties in the theory of syntax of natural language quite a number of competing, incommensurable theoretic frameworks have emerged. Today the lack of a leading paradigm and kaleidoscope of perspectives deprives our general understanding of syntax...

This book grew out of a concern we have had that very many theoretical and descriptive work on the Kwa languages were not accessible to the general linguistic community. As a result, these languages were only referred to in the context of very specific...

Carlota S. Smith was a key figure in linguistic research and a pioneering woman in generative linguistics. This selection of papers focuses on the research into tense, aspect, and discourse that Smith completed while Professor of Linguistics at the...

Not all sentences encode their subjects in the same way. Some languages overtly mark some subjects depending on certain features of the subject argument or the sentence in which the subject figures. This is known as Differential Subject Marking (DSM)...

This book examines the problem of linearization from a new perspective: that of the linearization of affixes. The author's driving proposition is that affixation provides a means of satisfying the universal requirement to linearize linguistic outputs...

DOES DISCOURSE HAVE A 'STRUCTURE'? HARRIS'S REVOLUTION IN LINGUISTICS As a freshman back in 1947 I discovered that within the various academic divisions and subdivisions of the University of Pennsylvania there existed a...

¡Descubre el desafío perfecto para ejercitar tu mente! Presentamos "Sopa De Letras para adultos Letra Grande" - un paquete de 50 rompecabezas de sopa de letras diseñados específicamente para adultos con letras grandes y legibles.Sumérgete en la diversión...

The book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses with parallel French-English texts. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, studying, job searches, working etc. The...

Augmented Transition Network Grammars are at present the most widely used method for analyzing natural languages. Despite the increasing po­ pularity of this method, however, no extensive papers on ATN-Grammars have been...

This study is concerned with the use of the English modals (may, might,can, could, shall, should, will, would and must) in adverbial, relative and complement clauses. It employs synchronic data from the British National Corpus and quantitative methods to...

Les textes réunis dans ce volume examinent les mécanismes d'émergence des marqueurs métalinguistiques, leur fonctionnement sémantico-pragmatique dans différents types de discours et leur rapport à la variation.

En esta investigación se analizan expresiones reactivas negativas propias del español coloquial desde un enfoque macrosintáctico

A hunter tries to kill a beautiful but annoying bird, but learns that you cannot kill freedom! This graded reader for Elementary level ESL or EFL students is fun to read and especially to read out loud. A glossary, comprehension and discussion questions,...

Gen Z slang is everywhere!There's no point denying it. It's not like Klingon, either. You can't ignore it into oblivion. It's here to stay (and evolve).Pop culture, digital marketing, movies, TV shows, books, and the entire internet, in general, is...

"The Rise of the Monkey King" is the first book in the "Journey to the West" series of stories by Jeff Pepper and Xiao Hui Wang. Other titles include "Trouble in Heaven", "The Immortal Peaches" and "The Young Monk".Sun Wukong, the Handsome Monkey King,...

Ready to conquer the German verb tense challenge?Famous for its unique sentence structures, lengthy nouns and sometimes "harsh" tones, the German language is actually a wonderful and very expressive language, and one absolutely worth learning. Not only...

Learning to read, speak and write French like a native?Your journey begins here.Oh là là! C'est une grande nouvelle! Up to 300 million people across the globe speak French, so it makes a lot of sense that you would want to learn it. After all, the French...

So, you want to master the verbs and conjugations of the Spanish language?Learning a new language involves dedication and hard work, and a language such as Spanish is no different. Spoken by over 500 million people across the world and used as an...

Do you know what the hardest thing for a Korean learner is? Finding PROPER reading material that they can handle...which is precisely the reason we've written this book! You may have found the best teacher in town or the most incredible learning app...

Do you know what the hardest thing for a Japanese learner is? Finding PROPER reading material that they can handle...which is precisely the reason we've written this book! You may have found the best teacher in town or the most incredible learning...

Is conversational Dutch turning a little too tricky for you? Do you have no idea how to order a meal or book a room at a hotel?If your answer to any of the previous questions was 'Yes', then this book is for you!If there's even been something tougher...

Would you like to learn to write and speak better English and gain an advantage in your professional and personal life? Do you want to better communicate with an international audience and forge stronger relationships? If you answered "yes" to any of...

The 4000 Words Essential for an Educated Vocabulary. English offers perhaps the richest vocabulary of all languages, in part because its words are culled from so many languages. It is a shame that we do not tap this rich source more often in our daily...

Improve Your Child's Italian Skills in no Time with the Most Amusing Book for Kids and Beginners!Would you like your child to:Help your child improve their Italian?Learn proper Italian pronunciation?Discover the most commonly used phrases in daily...

A tried-and-true grammar-based approach that will have you speaking Korean confidently in no time, even if you are an absolute beginner.This book is designed to address the key areas where students frequently struggle.It provides a step-by-step learning...