Grammar category: 1029 books
Webster's Word Power Better English Usage
Express Yourself Clearly
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Explains common mistakes in English and how to correct your use of language effectively. Useful to students of Standard English in schools and colleges, as well as learners of English as a foreign language.
Murder Your Darlings
And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2020
From one of America's most influential writing teachers, a collection of 50 of the best writing strategies distilled from 50 writing and language books -- from Aristotle to Strunk and White.
With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look...
The Reader Over Your Shoulder
A Handbook for Writers of English Prose
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“The best book on writing ever published” (Patricia T. O’Conner, author of Woe Is I).
When Robert Graves and Alan Hodge decided to collaborate on this manual for writers, the world was in total upheaval. Graves had fled Majorca three years earlier at the start of the Spanish Civil War,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Recent trends in syntax and morphology have shown the great importance of doing research on variation in closely related languages. This book centers on the study of the morphology and syntax of the two major Romance Languages spoken in Latin America from this perspective. The works presented here...
Situations and Speech Acts
Toward a Formal Semantics of Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
First published in 1985, this book aims to develop an approach to speech acts that has the virtue of being straight-forward, explicit, formal and flexible enough to accommodate many of the more general problems of interactive verbal communication. The first chapter introduces situation semantics with...
by Susan Rothstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Predicates and their Subjects is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation. Starting from where the author's 1983 dissertation left off, the book argues that there is syntactic constraint that clauses (small and tensed) are constructed...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
A group of authors containing both leading authorities and young researchers addresses a number of issues of contrastiveness, polarity items and exhaustivity, quantificational expressions and the implicatures they generate, and the interaction between semantic operators and speech acts. The 19 contributions...
Noun Phrases and Nominalizations
The Syntax of DPs
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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 examines the functional structure, offers a structural definition of syntactic...
Subject Clitics in the Northern Italian Dialects
A Comparative Study Based on the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
0 INTRODUCTION This book provides an encompassing analysis of Subject Clitics (SCLs) by giving a detailed description of these elements in two varieties of Piedmontese, a Northern Italian Dialect: Astigiano and Turinese spoken in the areas of Asti and Turin respectively. It accounts for the structural...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology. Every technical term is an expression of the assumptions and theoretical presuppositions of its users; and in this introduction, we want to clarify some of the issues that have surrounded the assumptions behind...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of mass terms are easy to come by. 'Water', 'smoke', 'gold', etc. , differ in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties from count terms such as 'man', 'star', 'wastebasket', etc. Syntactically, it seems, mass terms do, but singular...
Die Sprache und ihre Wissenschaft zwischen Tradition und Innovation / Language and its Study between Tradition and Innovation
Akten des 45. Linguistischen Kolloquiums in Veszprém 2010- Proceedings of the 45 th Linguistics Colloquium, Veszprém 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Der Band enthält 34 Beiträge, die beim 45. Linguistischen Kolloquium in Veszprém (Ungarn) vom 16. bis 18. September 2010 präsentiert wurden. Die Autoren beschäftigen sich mit älteren und neueren Arbeitsfeldern der Sprachwissenschaft sowie ihren innovativen Ergebnissen. Die internationale Zusammensetzung...
by Ireneusz Bobrowski
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
The book is not only dedicated to linguists, but also to readers who are not familiar with notations developed in linguistics. The first part of the study presents philosophical justifications for linguistic settlements. These are based on the phenomenological reduction of Edmund Husserl, Karl R....
Materialitaet und Medialitaet der sprachlichen Kommunikation - Materiality and Mediality of Linguistic Communication
Akten des 47. Linguistischen Kolloquiums in Olsztyn 2012 - Proceedings of the 47 th Linguistics Colloquium in Olsztyn 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge des 47. Linguistischen Kolloquiums an der Universität Olsztyn (Polen) zum Thema Materialität und Medialität der sprachlichen Kommunikation. In den beiden letzten Jahrzehnten haben die Medien in allen Lebensbereichen immer mehr an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Wahl des...