ilość książek w kategorii: 5554
Word-Hoard: An Introduction to Old English Vocabulary
ISBN: 9780300035063 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed for introductory courses in Old English, Word-Hoard offers a vocabulary of some 2000 words drawn from the poems that beginning students normally read. Exploiting the natural curiosity we feel about our own language, Stephen Barney draws etymological connections, provides mnemonic aids, and introduces the student to cultural and literary concepts as well as words. This second edition of his valuable book has been completely reset in a format that improves its clarity and conciseness.
Reviews of the earlier edition: "An excellent piece of work. . . . It makes learning... Designed for introductory courses in Old English, Word-Hoard offers a vocabulary of some 2000 words drawn from the poems that beginning student...
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136,50 zł |
The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory
ISBN: 9780306307607 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work written by the noted American linguist two decades ago explains the basic principles of transformational generative grammar, its relation to the general structure of an adequate language theory, and its specific application to English.
The work written by the noted American linguist two decades ago explains the basic principles of transformational generative grammar, its relation to ...
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842,30 zł |
Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay: Practical Advice for the Grammatically Challenged*and That's No Lie
ISBN: 9780312263942 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For years Richard Lederer has entertained fans of the English language with his keen insights, commonsense advice, and witty patter. Now Lederer and Richard Dowis take readers on another journey through our most "wiggy" of languages. How many times have we all heard the word "viable" used in company meetings? The authors show us how "viable" was at one time extracted from medical books, where it is actually defined as "capable of living," and placed into our consumer marketplace. Then there is confusion between "lay" and "lie," which the authors clear up once and for all. These and dozens... For years Richard Lederer has entertained fans of the English language with his keen insights, commonsense advice, and witty patter. Now Lederer an... |
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86,69 zł |
The Bride of Anguished English: A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos
ISBN: 9780312300388 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fans of Richard Lederer's Anguished English series will cherish this newest installment of the author's latest chronicle of the gifts and gaffes of our oddball language. From headlines to menus, student papers to politicians' speeches, every embarrassing example is true-and wonderfully funny. Fans of Richard Lederer's Anguished English series will cherish this newest installment of the author's latest chronicle of the gifts and gaffes of... |
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86,69 zł |
Zounds!: A Browser's Dictionary of Interjections
ISBN: 9780312330804 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Geronimo to gesundheit to haminahamina to holy mackerel, and from abracadabra to zoinks, Mark Dunn and Sergio Aragones show you interjections like you've never seen them before. Often thought of as unnecessary verbal fringe or simply linguistic decoration, interjections (ahem, howdy, mamma mia, pshaw, tally-ho, whoop-de-do) may well be the most overlooked part of speech in the English language. ZOUNDS A Browser's Dictionary of Interjections focuses the spotlight on this... From Geronimo to gesundheit to haminahamina to holy mackerel, and from abracadabra to zoinks, Mar... |
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86,69 zł |
Understanding Complex Sentences: Native Speaker Variation in Syntactic Competence
ISBN: 9780333986394 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is native speaker variation in understanding complex sentences due to individual differences in working memory capacity or in syntactic competence? The answer to this question has very important consequences for both theoretical and applied concerns in linguistics and education. This book is distinctive in giving an historical and interdisciplinary perspective on the rule- based and experience-based debate and in supporting an integrated account. In the study reported here, variation was found to be due to differences in syntactic competence and the author argues that sentence comprehension...
Is native speaker variation in understanding complex sentences due to individual differences in working memory capacity or in syntactic competence? Th...
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382,84 zł |
The Syntax of Imperatives in English and Germanic: Word Order Variation in the Minimalist Framework
ISBN: 9780333993422 / Angielski / Twarda / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines several aspects of the syntax of imperative clauses in English and in a variety of other Germanic languages in the context of the challenge that apparent optional movement poses for the Minimalist Programme.
This volume examines several aspects of the syntax of imperative clauses in English and in a variety of other Germanic languages in the context of the...
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382,84 zł |
Resolving Semantic Ambiguity
ISBN: 9780387969060 / Angielski / Miękka / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Resolving Semantic Ambiguity arrrays the work of leading theorists on the issues surrounding the meaning and interpretation of ambiguous text. The chapters are organized around three major themes: (1) retrieval, (2) representation of words, and (3) text as a context. The book offers a number of new challenges to the role of context in language processing, some striking new evidence on the repetition of homographs in different contexts, and new approaches to resolution capable of being incorporated into either modular or network models. In several papers the problem of ambiguity is...
Resolving Semantic Ambiguity arrrays the work of leading theorists on the issues surrounding the meaning and interpretation of ambiguous text. ...
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382,84 zł |
Current Morphology
ISBN: 9780415009980 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Current Morphology provides a thorough and wide-ranging introduction to approaches to morphology within linguistic theory over the last twenty years. This comprehensive survey concentrates not only on the generative linguistic mainstream, discussing the lexicalist morphology initiated by Chomsky and the syntactically orientated approaches that have developed in the 1980s, but on approaches that are less fashionable or relatively unknown to English-speaking linguists. It highlights neglected European theoretical developments, focusing on German-speaking as well as English-speaking countries....
Current Morphology provides a thorough and wide-ranging introduction to approaches to morphology within linguistic theory over the last twenty years. ...
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700,25 zł |
Relational Grammar
ISBN: 9780415046602 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Well-presented and accessible, this book describes relational grammar's basic ideas, evaluates them and compares them with other approaches in other theories. This book should be of interest to advanced students and lecturers in linguistics.
Well-presented and accessible, this book describes relational grammar's basic ideas, evaluates them and compares them with other approaches in other t...
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248,92 zł |
Functional Categories and Parametric Variation
ISBN: 9780415056410 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an attempt to make sense of the idea that functional categories are the flesh and blood of grammar. From within the context of the principles and parameters framework put forward by Chomsky and others, Jamal Ouhalla develops the argument that much of what we understand by the term grammar and grammatical variation involves functional categories in a crucial way.
This book is an attempt to make sense of the idea that functional categories are the flesh and blood of grammar. From within the context of the princi...
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700,25 zł |
The Meaning of Focus Particles: A Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780415060448 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focus particles (words such as even, only, also) play an important role in English, in various syntactic and semantic domains, but their characteristics pose numerous problems for current syntactic frameworks and semantic theories.
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the syntax, meaning and use of focus particles and related function words in English and many other languages. It also provides a historical perspective on their development. Focus particles (words such as even, only, also) play an important role in English, in various syntactic and semantic domai...
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700,25 zł |
Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English: Problems of Control and Interpretation
ISBN: 9780415063913 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presents a corpus-based syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis of free adjuncts and absolutes in present-day English. The major function of these constructions is to serve as adverbial clauses, most frequently without any overt specification of which semantic relation (time, cause or condition) they express in a given complex sentence. The main focus of the book is on central problems of their use and interpretation. These include the range of their semantic indeterminacy, the factors that help resolve it, and, for free adjuncts, the identification of their underlying subject...
This text presents a corpus-based syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis of free adjuncts and absolutes in present-day English. The major function...
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700,25 zł |
Language, Ideology and Point of View
ISBN: 9780415071062 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This systematic introduction to the concept of point of view in language explores the ways in which point of view intersects with and is shaped by ideology. It specifically focuses on the way in which speakers and writers linguistically encode their beliefs, interests and biases in a wide range of media. The book draws on an extensive array of linguistic theories and frameworks and each chapter includes a self-contained introduction to a particular topic in linguistics, allowing easy reference. The author uses examples from a variety of literary and non-literary text types such as, narrative...
This systematic introduction to the concept of point of view in language explores the ways in which point of view intersects with and is shaped by ide...
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700,25 zł |
Three Studies in Locality and Case
ISBN: 9780415108270 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text deals with a central issue in modern linguistic theory: that of locality as expressed in the behaviour of non-overt categories. Grosu presents a detailed study of free relatives, nominal phrases, and a variety of constructions in Rumanian involving mill operators. This work should be of interest not only to linguists working on theoretical issues, but also to linguists interested in descriptive issues. It is estimated that Grosu's original detailed studies of major constructions in Rumanian - a language not yet thoroughly investigated in modern linguistics - will prove formative.
This text deals with a central issue in modern linguistic theory: that of locality as expressed in the behaviour of non-overt categories. Grosu presen...
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700,25 zł |
The Grammar of Irish English : Language in Hibernian Style
ISBN: 9780415145244 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Irish English, also termed Anglo-Irish or Hiberno-English, as in this book, is not usually perceived as having a grammatical system of its own. Markku Filppula here challenges this misconception and offers a descriptive and contact-linguistic account of the grammar of Hiberno-English. Drawing on a range of materials documenting Hiberno-English dialects past and present, Filppula examines: the most distinctive grammatical features of these dialects; relationships with earlier and other regional varieties of English; the continuing influence of the Irish language on Hiberno-English; and...
Irish English, also termed Anglo-Irish or Hiberno-English, as in this book, is not usually perceived as having a grammatical system of its own. Markku...
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752,12 zł |
The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads: Collected Essays of Hilda J. Koopman
ISBN: 9780415161831 / Angielski / Twarda / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1980s there has been remarkable progress in syntactic theory and particularly in the understanding of the structure of the theory. This book brings together Hilda J. Koopman's essays in the field, written during this time of rapid theoretical development. It covers such topics as: interpretation and distribution of pronouns; ECP effects; specifiers and phrase structure; the role and functioning of head movement; and the architecture of grammar. Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic...
Since the 1980s there has been remarkable progress in syntactic theory and particularly in the understanding of the structure of the theory. This book...
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933,66 zł |
Urdu: An Essential Grammar: An Essential Grammar
ISBN: 9780415163804 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urdu: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of the language as it is used by native speakers today.
The complexities of Urdu are set out in short, readable sections. Explanations contain minimal jargon and emphasis has been placed on the aspects of Urdu that pose a particular challenge for English-speaking students. Features include: * language examples throughout in both Urdu script and romanization * user-friendly layout * detailed contents list * comprehensive index. Urdu: An Essential Grammar presents a fresh and... Urdu: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of the language as it is used by native speakers today.
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778,05 zł |
Essays in Syntactic Theory
ISBN: 9780415192354 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These essays explore wide ranging aspects of the syntax and semantics of human languages. They also examines methods in generative linguistics, and the role of rules vs. principles in syntactic theory. Key topics covered in the work include: DT movement phenomena and the syntax of logical form DT the representation and semantic interpretation of certain empty categories DT, and the formation and representation of A-chains, A-bar chains and verb-chains. The book presents a bold hypothesis concerning methods of determining unification vs. non-unification of syntactic principles, based on...
These essays explore wide ranging aspects of the syntax and semantics of human languages. They also examines methods in generative linguistics, and th...
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700,25 zł |
Comparative Syntax and Language Acquisition
ISBN: 9780415215497 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of essays, Rizzi addresses the central issues in syntax theory, comparative syntax and the theoretically conscious study of language acquisition.
In this collection of essays, Rizzi addresses the central issues in syntax theory, comparative syntax and the theoretically conscious study of languag...
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544,64 zł |