Usage & grammar guides books

Make your ailing vocabulary go from merely good to exceptionally splendid and stupendous ! Your brain holds an...  Read More >>

The study sees itself as a strictly empirical investigation into light verb constructions (LVC) in present-day German...  Read More >>

Pied-piping, the phenomenon that wh-movement may target categories not marked with the feature [wh], has generally...  Read More >>

Minimalist Syntax is a collection of essays that analyze major syntactic processes in a variety of languages, all...  Read More >>

This short book is intended for two groups of readers, and so is two books in one. First, it is a genuinely introductory...  Read More >>

Examines analyses across a range of theoretical frameworks from Rosenbaum's classic Standard Theory analysis (1967)...  Read More >>

Explains the relevant terms which students of linguistics and English language are likely to encounter during their...  Read More >>

This book is a detailed high-quality descriptive grammar of the endangered Cavinena language of the Amazonian rainforest...  Read More >>

The present work contributes to a better understanding of the English system of degree by means of a study of a...  Read More >>

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If you are either learning Wolof, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Wolof speaker, this book is...  Read More >>

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The volume presents insights from cognitive linguistics with respect to grammar and their potential relevance to...  Read More >>

This volume contains a collection of studies that analyse the noun phrase within the framework of Functional Discourse...  Read More >>

This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical. Using tools from formal semantics...  Read More >>

This book offers a welcome contribution to phonology and morphology, which have been understudied in cognitive linguistics....  Read More >>

This is the first book that deals primarily with vocabulary learning strategies as a specific and integral subgroup...  Read More >>

The Grammar of the English Tense System forms the first volume of a four-volume set, The Grammar of the English...  Read More >>

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What is most strikingly new about the transcultural is its sudden ubiquity. Following in the wake of previous concepts...  Read More >>

Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader is a collection of readings on this important new theory by leading figures...  Read More >>

This collection of original papers presents a survey of recent theoretical and cross-linguistic work on reciprocity...  Read More >>

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