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Cambridge Syntax Guides eBook Series

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  • The Syntax of Dutch

    by Jan-Wouter Zwart ...
    Series series Cambridge Syntax Guides
    Dutch is a West-Germanic language closely related to English and German, but its special properties have long aroused interest and debate among students of syntax. This is an informative guide to the syntax of Dutch, offering an extensive survey of both the phenomena of Dutch syntax and their theoretical analyses over the years. In particular the book discusses those aspects of Dutch syntax that ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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  • The Complete Guide to Grammar

    by Rosalind Fergusson ...
    Many people find English grammar daunting: if you are one of them, then this is the book for you. The Complete Guide to Grammar is an indispensible guide for all native English speakers who were not taught formal grammar, and who have ever wondered about the correct use of a word or phrase. It is also an invaluable learning tool for students of English of lower intermediate standard and above.The ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Syntax of Arabic

    by Joseph E. Aoun, Elabbas Benmamoun, Lina Choueiri ...
    Series series Cambridge Syntax Guides
    Recent research on the syntax of Arabic has produced valuable literature on the major syntactic phenomena found in the language. This guide to Arabic syntax provides an overview of the major syntactic constructions in Arabic that have featured in recent linguistic debates, and discusses the analyses provided for them in the literature. A broad variety of topics are covered, including argument ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Case

    Its Principles and its Parameters

    by Mark Baker ...
    Series Book 146 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    In Case, Mark Baker develops a unified theory of how the morphological case marking of noun phrases is determined by syntactic structure. Designed to work well for languages of all alignment types - accusative, ergative, tripartite, marked nominative, or marked absolutive - this theory has been developed and tested against unrelated languages of each type, and more than twenty non-Indo-European ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Minimalist Program

    The Nature and Plausibility of Chomsky's Biolinguistics

    by Fahad Rashed Al-Mutairi ...
    Series Book 143 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    The development of the Minimalist Program (MP), Noam Chomsky's most recent generative model of linguistics, has been highly influential over the last twenty years. It has had significant implications not only for the conduct of linguistic analysis itself, but also for our understanding of the status of linguistics as a science. The reflections and analyses in this book contain insights into the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • From Literacy to Literature

    England, 1300-1400

    by Christopher Cannon ...
    The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was grammatical. The efflorescence of Ricardian poetry was not a direct result of this change, but it ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Rules and Dispositions in Language Use

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    Rules and Dispositions in Language Use explains how correct language use is governed by both rules and general human dispositions. It does so by bringing together themes from Ludwig Wittgenstein and Noam Chomsky, which for many years have been thought to be incompatible. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Text Linguistics and Classical Studies

    Dressler and De Beaugrande’s Procedural Approach

    by Mauro Giuffrè ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The work represents a significant scientific advancement on text linguistics from three different viewpoints. The first chapter provides an overview of the history of text linguistics from a broader perspective than usual, offering a complete reference framework. The second chapter presents the procedural approach to the study of text linguistics in a concise way, including a critical comparison ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • On the Semantics of Wh-Clauses

    by Stephen Berman ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology
    First published in 1994, this book is concerned with certain kinds of wh-clauses, whose interpretations are easily and, the author argues, plausibly rendered by a logicosemantic analysis on which *wh-*phrases translate as open sentences, that is, as expressions of the semantically interpreted representation which contain free variables. After a review of influential contemporary analyses of the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • New trends and methodologies in applied English language research III

    Synchronic and diachronic studies on discourse, lexis and grammar processing

    by Maurizio Gotti ...
    Series Book 209 - Linguistic Insights
    This volume includes eleven papers pertaining to different areas of linguistics and organised into three sections. Part I contains diachronic studies which cover data from Middle English to Present-Day English and which explore phenomena such as the status of extender tags, the distribution of free adjuncts, post-auxiliary ellipsis, and the use of ‘ephemeral’ concessive adverbial subordinators. ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Language in Tanzania (1980)

    Edited by Edgar C. Polomé, C. P. Hill ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1980, Language in Tanzania presents a comprehensive overview of the Survey of Language Use and Language Teaching in Eastern Africa. Using extensive research carried out by an interdisciplinary group of international and local scholars, the survey also covers Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. The book represents one of the most in-depth sociolinguistic studies carried out ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • A Study of the Kanuri Language

    Grammar and Vocabulary

    by Johannes Lukas ...
    Series series Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    Originally published in 1937, this book is a practical manual of Kanuri which will be of use to both the layman and the linguist. This analysis makes it clear that kanuri is a tone-language and the author urges the reader to observe the tone-system of the language so that the accidence can be fully understood, as grammatical tone sometimes forms an integral part of it. As this is a practical study ... Read more

    $48.99 USD