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  • English and Korean in Contrast

    A Linguistic Introduction

    by Jong-Bok Kim ...
    ENGLISH AND KOREAN IN CONTRASTEnglish and Korean in Contrast: A Linguistic Introduction is the first book of its kind to present a comprehensive yet student-friendly comparative review of the grammars of English and Korean. Author Jong-Bok Kim, an internationally-recognized expert, offers rigorous contrastive analyses of all major aspects of English and Korean while addressing common usage errors ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • The Syntactic Structures of Korean

    A Construction Grammar Perspective

    by Jong-Bok Kim ...
    Covering both core and peripheral phenomena, The Syntactic Structures of Korean is a concrete and precise grammar of the language. Based on the framework of Sign-based Construction Grammar, it provides a grammar of Korean which is computationally implementable and cognitively viable. Remarkably broad, yet in-depth, it is an outstanding analysis of Korean syntax and semantics which will be welcomed ... Read more

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  • Form and Function Mapping in English Syntax

    A Construction Grammar Perspective

    by Jong-Bok Kim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Linguistics
    This book presents a construction-based approach to understanding English syntactic constructions that challenge traditional form-function relationships, exploring complex linguistic phenomena that have posed empirical and analytical puzzles in grammatical research.The volume establishes theoretical foundations before examining how unusual mapping relations between form and function manifest in ... Read more

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  • Syntactic Constructions in English

    Construction grammar (CxG) is a framework for syntactic analysis that takes constructions - pairings of form and meaning that range from the highly idiomatic to the very general - to be the building blocks of sentence meaning. Offering the first comprehensive introduction to CxG to focus on both English words and the constructions that combine them, this textbook shows students not only what the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
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  • Change in Contemporary English

    A Grammatical Study

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    Variation in Romance Languages

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