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The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters
ISBN: 9780226555928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lauded by Calvin Trillin as a man who "does not have to make to with translations like 'Shredded Three Kinds' in Chinese restaurants," in "The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters," James D. McCawley offers everyone a guide to deciphering the mysteries of Chinese menus and the opportunity to enjoy new eating experiences. An accessible primer as well as a handy reference, this book shows how Chinese characters are written and referred to, both in script and in type. McCawley provides a guide to pronunciation and includes helpful exercises so users can practice ordering. His novel system of...
Lauded by Calvin Trillin as a man who "does not have to make to with translations like 'Shredded Three Kinds' in Chinese restaurants," in "The Eater's...
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115,58 zł |
Everything That Linguists Have Always Wanted to Know about Logic . . . But Were Ashamed to Ask
ISBN: 9780226556116 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. McCawley supplements his earlier book which covers such topics as presuppositional logic, the logic of mass terms and nonstandard quantifiers, and fuzzy logic with new material on the logic of conditional sentences, linguistic applications of type theory, Anil Gupta's work on principles of identity, and the generalized quantifier approach to the logical properties of determiners."
McCawley supplements his earlier book which covers such topics as presuppositional logic, the logic of mass terms and nonstandard quantifiers, and fuz...
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283,92 zł |
The Syntactic Phenomena of English
ISBN: 9780226556291 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 834 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This second edition of James D. McCawley's classic textbook offers in one volume a complete course in the syntactic structure of English. New to this edition are sections on appositive constructions, parasitic gaps, contrastive negation, and comparative conditional sentences, as well as expanded coverage of cleft sentences and free relatives. The presentation is coherent, comprehensive, and systematically organized, beginning with an overview of McCawley's approach to syntactic analysis and progressing through the major constructions and processes of English grammar. No prior special...
This second edition of James D. McCawley's classic textbook offers in one volume a complete course in the syntactic structure of English. New to this ...
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382,20 zł |
Notes from the Linguistic Underground
ISBN: 9789004368538 / Angielski / Twarda / 1976 / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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The Philosophy of Grammar
ISBN: 9780226398815 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This study grew out of a series of lectures Jespersen gave at Columbia
University in 1909-10, called An Introduction to English Grammar. It is the connected presentation of Jespersen's views of the general principles of grammar based on years of studying various languages through both direct observation of living speech and written and printed documents. "The Philosophy of Grammar" and "Analytic Syntax"] set forth the most extensive and original theory of universal grammar prior to the work of Chomsky and other generative grammarians of the last thirty years.... This study grew out of a series of lectures Jespersen gave at Columbia
University in 1909-10, called An Introduction to English Grammar. It is ... |
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196,56 zł |
The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language
ISBN: 9780226685342 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How reliable are all those stories about the number of Eskimo words for snow? How can lamps, flags, and parrots be libelous? How might Star Trek's Commander Spock react to Noam Chomsky's theories of language? These and many other odd questions are typical topics in this collection of essays that present an occasionally zany, often wry, but always fascinating look at language and the people who study it.
Geoffrey K. Pullum's writings began as columns in "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory" in 1983. For six years, in almost every issue, under the banner "TOPIC. . .COMMENT," he... How reliable are all those stories about the number of Eskimo words for snow? How can lamps, flags, and parrots be libelous? How might Star Trek's Com...
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163,80 zł |