Grammar category: 1029 books

Dutch is a peculiar language in that certain nouns have more than one gender. This first academic study of double gender nouns (DGNs) in the Dutch language investigates this anomaly. First assigned a lexicological classification, the DGNs are then analysed contextually by means of a corpus study....

This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one. This working definition sets “middle construction” apart from “middle voice” in that it can be instantiated by various constructions...

The New Utopia by Jerome K. Jerome I had spent an extremely interesting evening. I had dined with some very "advanced" friends of mine at the "National Socialist Club". We had had an excellent dinner: the pheasant, stuffed with truffles, was a poem; and when I say that the...

My First Book by Jerome K. Jerome My First Book is a short story by Jerome K. Jerome. About The Author :- Jerome K. Jerome, born on May 2, 1859, in Staffordshire, England, was an actor and teacher before becoming a popular novelist with The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Three...

This volume brings together new research from different theoretical paradigms addressing the acquisition of French. It focuses on the acquisition of French in combination with English, German, Russian or Spanish and enriches our understanding of the particularities of French and the role of language...

Las 101 cagadas del español es un ameno bestiario de desafueros lingüísticos escrito por María Irazusta, en colaboración con un grupo de periodistas, que han salido al rescate de nuestra maltratada lengua siguiendo la consigna platónica de que aprender es recordar. Una obra didáctica, entretenida...

Concord is an agreement that exists on the correct use of subjects, verbs, genders, tenses, voice and mood in speaking and writing English. It is in this lucid manner that this book will teach you concord. It clearly explains the subject-verb agreement as the first rule of concord. The...

This book investigates various aspects of the distribution of nominal arguments, and in particular the cross-linguistic variation that can be found among the Germanic languages in this domain of the syntax. The empirical topics discussed include variable vs. fixed argument order, the distribution...

Fanny And The Servant Problem by Jerome K Jerome The Lady Bantock's boudoir, Bantock Hall, Rutlandshire, a spacious room handsomely furnished (chiefly in the style of Louis the Fourteenth) and lighted by three high windows, facing the south-west. A door between the fireplace and the windows...

This title, first published in 1985, provides a detailed analysis of aspects of the semantics and the syntax of some wh-constructions. The first part of the book deals with the semantics of questions, whilst the other part discusses the syntax of que and quoi (what) in questions in French and the...

The present volume presents scholarly study into Old French as it is practiced today, in all of its forms, within a variety of theoretical frameworks, from Optimality Theory to Minimalism to Discourse Analysis.  Many of the chapters are corpus-based, reflecting a new trend in the field, as more electronic...

300 cápsulas aclarando el uso correcto del idioma español. Incluye los errores más comunes que cometen los hispanohablantes en EEUU. Con un tono simpático y acompañado de ilustraciones, la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE) nos ofrece un manual para que el español sobreviva...

The Observations Of Henry by Jerome K. Jerome A popular turn-of-the-century humorist, Jerome K. Jerome is perhaps better known for his plays than his novels and short stories. The main character of the The Observations of Henry is a waiter who meets a variety of odd people in the coffee shop...