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  • Oral Narration in Modern French Oral Narration in Modern French
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    Oral Narration in Modern French

    This book introduces 'performed' oral storytelling into the debate, using data from traditional and contemporary storytellers in French to explore the narrative tenses, the discourse-pragmatic effects of tense switching, as well as broader questions...
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  • Aspects of Grammatical Architecture Aspects of Grammatical Architecture
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    Aspects of Grammatical Architecture

    This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of grammar in a minimalist perspective. The phenomena that are brought to bear on the architectural issue come...
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  • Downward Entailing and Chinese Polarity Items Downward Entailing and Chinese Polarity Items
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    Downward Entailing and Chinese Polarity Items

    Polarity phenomena are pervasively observed in natural languages. Previous studies on Chinese polarity items are mainly in line with the non-veridicality approach. This book, however, employs the downward-entailing hypothesis as its analytical...
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  • Evolution of Morphology Evolution of Morphology
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    Evolution of Morphology

    Examining the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the contexts of human evolution and the origins of language, this text challenges the conventional views of the relationship between syntax and morphology, the adaptationist view of...
    $92.96

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  • Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects
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    Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects

    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish. More precisely, it covers Spanish theoretical syntax that takes as its data source non-standard grammatical phenomena.Approaching the syntactic variation of...
    $91.26

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  • Transformations of African Marriage Transformations of African Marriage
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    Transformations of African Marriage

    Originally published in 1987, this book shows that there is still considerable continuity in the practices and ideas of marriage in Afican against a background of social and economic change. This book discusses the diverse marriage forms in Africa and...
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  • Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology
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    Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology

    The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology is intended as a companion volume to the Oxford Handbook of Compounding (OUP 2009), aiming to provide a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of derivational morphology. Written by distinguished...
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  • Allomorphy in Inflexion (Routledge Revivals) Allomorphy in Inflexion (Routledge Revivals)
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    Allomorphy in Inflexion (Routledge Revivals)

    First published in 1987, this book broke new ground in research on inflectional morphology. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of languages, it shows that this was not just a phenomenon left over from obsolete phonological processes but a subject...
    $73.10

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  • A New Approach to English Pedagogical Grammar A New Approach to English Pedagogical Grammar
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    A New Approach to English Pedagogical Grammar

    This book proposes Meaning-order Approach to Pedagogical Grammar (MAP Grammar) as a practical pedagogical approach in ESL and EFL contexts. Teaching grammar through an easy-to-understand three-dimensional model, MAP Grammar establishes the clause as the...
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  • The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English
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    The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English

    This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günther examines the structure of elliptical noun phrases to account for the conditions on noun ellipsis and...
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  • Second Language Sentence Processing Second Language Sentence Processing
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    Second Language Sentence Processing

    This addition to the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition series presents a comprehensive review of the latest research findings on sentence processing in second language acquisition. The book begins with a broad overview of the core issues...
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  • Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language
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    Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language

    This book comprehensively introduces Cognitive Linguistics and applies its tools to religious language. Drawing on authentic samples from a range of faiths, text types, and modes of interactive discourse, the authors accessibly define concepts like...
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  • Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese II Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese II
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    Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese II

    Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increasing popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar that's...
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  • Externalization Externalization
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    Externalization

    This book explores theoretical issues of the syntax-phonology interface within the Minimalist Program of linguistic theory and proposes an entirely new approach to prosodic categories. Conceptual as well as empirical questions are addressed, concerning...
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  • Typological Studies Typological Studies
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    Typological Studies

    In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis à vis the relative clause in relation to the position...
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  • The Equilibrium of Human Syntax The Equilibrium of Human Syntax
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    The Equilibrium of Human Syntax

    This book assembles a collection of papers in two different domains: formal syntax and neurolinguistics. Here Moro provides evidence that the two fields are becoming more and more interconnected and that the new fascinating empirical questions and...
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  • Language and the Modern State Language and the Modern State
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    Language and the Modern State

    Originally published in 1991, this book examines the process whereby a modern colloquial style of written Japanese was developed in the context of the overall modernization of Japan. The book examines the process whereby this strategic simplification...
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  • Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese I Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese I
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    Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese I

    Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increased popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar...
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  • Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese IV Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese IV
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    Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese IV

    Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increased popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar that's...
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  • Exploring Grammar Through Texts Exploring Grammar Through Texts
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    Exploring Grammar Through Texts

    This textbook provides an innovative introduction to core areas of grammar: a systematic guide to the structure of English, arranged hierarchically from the word to the sentence to the paragraph level. Using a linguistic framework, activities and...
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  • Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese III Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese III
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    Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese III

    Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increased popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar that's...
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  • The Study of Words The Study of Words
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    The Study of Words

    The Study of Words introduces the study of word structure, also known as morphology, without assuming any prior knowledge of linguistics. Introducing concepts in an accessible way, Gebhardt illustrates how to understand and produce both existing and new...
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  • Standardization, Ideology and Linguistics Standardization, Ideology and Linguistics
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    Standardization, Ideology and Linguistics

    It is not easy to have the confidence and competence to manage a pension scheme successfully. In this book, Andrew Clare and Chris Wagstaff provide a uniquely objective and practical guide to the range of markets, investments, tools and techniques to...
    $226.80

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  • Speech Rate, Pause, and Sociolinguistic Variation Speech Rate, Pause, and Sociolinguistic Variation
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    Speech Rate, Pause, and Sociolinguistic Variation

    Speech Rate, Pause, and Sociolinguistic Variation examines the confluence of psycholinguistic factors and social factors in linguistic variation through corpus-based analyses of speech rate and silent pause in US English. In particular, based on a large...
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    Javanese Grammar for Students
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    Javanese Grammar for Students

    This is a 3rd Revised Edition -- the first published in 1992, and the second in 2002, by the Monash Asia Institute. It contains a guide to the grammar of the Javanese language, which is spoken by around 80,000,000 speakers on the island of Java. The book...
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  • Grammar 3 Pupil Book
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    Grammar 3 Pupil Book

    The Grammar 3 Pupil Book (in print letters) is the fourth year of the Jolly Phonics and Grammar programme. Designed to follow on from the Jolly Phonics Pupil Books 1, 2 and 3, the Grammar Pupil Books build on the skills taught in Jolly Phonics, and...
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  • An Introduction to English Morphology
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    An Introduction to English Morphology

    What exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of these different approaches to words in English. He explains the various...
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  • The Little Green Grammar Book
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    The Little Green Grammar Book

    What really goes on inside a sentence? What is your subject, and where is your verb, and what is its tense, and where is your modifier, and why does it matter? Where do you need a comma, and where do you not? Why are dashes and semicolons so...
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