Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunc Books

Ausführliche Theoretisch-praktische Grammatik Der Französischen Sprache, designed for school and private use, offers a comprehensive exploration of French grammar. Authored by Louis Reignier, this grammar book aims to provide a thorough understanding...

Navigating legal documents can be challenging, especially when faced with a plethora of abbreviations. "How To Read Law Abbreviations" serves as a comprehensive guide, demystifying the complex world of legal shorthand.Compiled by the esteemed Blackstone...

With more and more scientific language being applied -and misapplied- in our daily lives, this title from the Intertext series explores the use of scientific terms through hot topics from the MMR vaccine to AIDS and biological weapons

This book contains all kinds of real talks and exciting stories which can be shared among the teachers, parents, grand parents, siblings, friends, and relatives in various daily life environments like school activities, parties, traveling, fun games,...

Glottologia, written by Giacomo de Gregorio and published in 1896, is a significant work on linguistics. This book delves into the study of language, exploring its structure, evolution, and relationships. De Gregorio's work provides insights into the...

"College Preparatory French Grammar" by Charles P. Du Croquet is a comprehensive guide designed to equip students with a solid foundation in French grammar. This book offers clear explanations and practical exercises, making it an invaluable resource for...

"A Compendious German Grammar" by Adolphus Bernays offers a comprehensive guide to mastering the German language. Designed for both students and educators, this grammar book provides clear explanations of German grammatical rules and principles. The text...

A range of electronic corpora is increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improved standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book looks at developing similar standards for...

Japanese is well known for its array of argument encoding types - but how is speakers' choice of encoding types to be described? This book investigates the encoding of subject and direct object in conversational Japanese and attempts to explain Japanese...

Israeli Hebrew is a spoken language, 'reinvented' over the last century. It has responded to the new social and technological demands of globalization with a vigorously developing multisourced lexicon, enriched by foreign language contact. In this...

Cleft constructions occur across languages and are much analyzed in relation to syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Mika Kizu, working in a Principles and Parameters framework, with some consideration of the Minimalist Program, provides the first coherent...

The Extent of the Literal develops a strikingly new approach to metaphor and polysemy in their relation to the conceptual structure. In a straightforward narrative style, the author argues for a reconsideration of standard assumptions concerning the...

Dealing specifically with the origins and development of human language, this book is based on a selection of materials from a recent international conference held at the Center of Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld in Germany. The...

This study, first published in 1982, attempts to show that the foundations of a contextual grammar of English must be firmly based on an adequate definition of the sentence. This book will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.

The book aims to equip language teachers and professionals with a framework for dealing with the vocabulary needs of English language learners in a variety of contexts, for a range of learners.

Classification of parts of speech in Chinese is tough due to the lack of morphological differences, and thus is short of in-depth investigation and exploration. Based on the analysis and research of nearly 40,000 Chinese characters, this book elaborates...

Teach yourself the basic pronunciation and vocabulary of the Welsh language. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works...

An Elementary Latin Grammar, written by John Barrow Allen and first published in 1874, is a comprehensive guide to the basics of Latin grammar. The book is intended for beginners and covers all the essential elements of Latin grammar, including...

A Sequel to The Gradual Reader is a book written by David Bates Tower and published in 1853. The book is a continuation of the Gradual Reader series and is intended for students who have already completed the first book in the series. The book contains a...

""A Rational Grammar"" is a book written by Jenkin Thomas Philipps in 1731. The book serves as a guide to learning the Latin language, using easy-to-follow rules and comparisons to the best authors in multiple languages. The grammar is presented in a...

""A Reader For The Eighth Grade"" is a book written by Clarence Franklin Carroll and published in 1912. This book is intended for eighth-grade students and contains a collection of various literary works, including poems, short stories, and essays. The...

This book analyzes the structure of coordination from two perspectives: the symmetrical properties the construction imposes on its conjuncts, and how conjuncts interact with other categories outside coordination with respect to...

This book focuses on Abelard's logical-grammatical analysis of natural language. Tools of modern categorial grammar are employed to clarify many of the problems raised by historiography. The book's ample analysis of grammatical...

This volume discusses two distinct perspectives on the analysis of argumentative discourse: the dialectical and the rhetorical perspective. It intends to open a thorough discussion of the two approaches, their commonalities and...

Is googly a metaphor for surprises of all sorts? Can hat tricks turn contrarian to transform into a metaphor for successive defeats? Where do you use umpire and referee as metaphors? Are they really two different metaphors? As you sprint towards the...

The Parser's Manual is a book written by John Williams in 1870 that serves as a comprehensive guide to parsing in the English language. The book provides a detailed explanation of the rules and principles of parsing, which is the process of analyzing a...

The Normal Fifth Reader is a classic educational book written by Albert Newton Raub and first published in 1878. This book is designed for fifth-grade students and is part of a series of reading textbooks that were widely used in American schools during...

The New Franklin Second Reader is a book written by Loomis Joseph Campbell and published in 1886. It is an educational book that is designed to help young readers improve their reading skills. The book contains a variety of stories, poems, and other...

The Franklin Third Reader is a book written by George Stillman Hillard and published in 1878. It is a collection of stories, poems, and other literary works aimed at children in the third grade. The book is designed to help children improve their reading...

The Franklin Primer Or First Reader is a book authored by George Stillman Hillard and published in 1873. The book is intended as a reading primer for children, providing them with a basic introduction to the English language. The book is divided into...

The Franklin Second Reader is a book written by George Stillman Hillard and published in 1873. It is a collection of stories, poems, and other literary pieces designed to improve the reading skills of children in the second grade. The book is divided...

The Fourth Reader of the United States Series, written by Marcius Willson and originally published in 1872, is a textbook designed for elementary school students in the United States. The book contains a collection of stories, poems, and other literary...

The First Primary Reader is a book written by George Stillman Hillard in 1859. It is a collection of short stories, poems and exercises designed to teach young children how to read. The book is divided into several sections, each of which focuses on a...

""Fables From Aesop And Myths From Palaephatus: With A Vocabulary"" is a book published in 1876 by Aesopus. The book is a collection of fables and myths that were originally written by Aesop and Palaephatus, two ancient Greek storytellers. The fables and...

The Syntax of Vietnamese Tense, Aspect, and Negation investigates familiar grammatical phenomena including Tense, Aspect, and Negation in a theoretically under-studied language, Vietnamese.

SELF IMPROVEMENTWhat do getting a job, earning a promotion, making the right friends, and boosting your confidence all have in common? Doing each one of those things is a whole lot easier when you can speak and write without making grammatical mistakes...

This publication presents the transcription and translation of eight Syriac inscriptions from the Persian region of Salamas found in ancient cemeteries and church buildings. The inscriptions are accompanied by brief commentary and helpful introduction.

This volume introduces the letters of the Syriac alphabet a few at the time, and each set of letters is accompanied by guides to pronunciation and the correct way to write the letters, including helpful charts and illustrations. Practice exercises at the...

The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics. The Ergative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodox analytical paradigm. He re-examines both the theoretical imperative and the empirical evidence for that approach,...

One of the most common phenomena of language use among bilingual speakers is language alternation. Theoretically this is impossible, both grammatically and socio-functionally. Drawing on Ethnomethodology this book addresses the crucial question of how to...

Nuuchahnulth is known for its striking use of word-formation and complex inflection. This is the first book to provide a detailed description of the complex morphology of the language, based on material gathered when it was more viable than it is now...

Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics. The book includes a general introduction that overviews the foundations of this new research paradigm...

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...