Author(s): Frank Robert Palmer Series: Longman linguistics library Publisher: Longman, Year: 1988 ISBN: 9780582297142,0582014700,0582297141 Description: A long established and highly regarded account of all aspects of the English verb taking account of recent work on tense, phase and aspect, and of the author’s own research. Theoretical discussion is...
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Author(s): Andrew Radford Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 1997 ISBN: 9780521581226,0521581222 Description: Radford is well known for his comprehensible textbooks of generative syntax. This book is very helpful for beginners to get access to Chomsky’s revolutionary ideas in his minimalist program (MP), which is radically different from his...
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Author(s): Randi Reppen, Susan M. Fitzmaurice, Douglas Biber Series: Studies in corpus linguistics 9 Publisher: J. Benjamins, Year: 2002 ISBN: 1588112837,9781588112835,9027222797,9789027222794 Description: This title illustrates the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation. Two major kinds of research questions are considered: variation in the...
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Author(s): Joanne Scheibman Series: Studies in Discourse & Grammar Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, Year: 2002 ISBN: 1588112322,9781588112323,9027226210,9789027226211,9789027296153 Description: This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most...
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Author(s): Masayoshi Shibatani (Ed.) Series: Typological Studies in Language 48 Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Year: 2002 ISBN: 1588111199,9781588111197,9027229538,9789027229533,1588111202,9781588111203,902722952X,9789027229526,9789027297228 Description: The grammar of causation has long been an intensely scrutinized area of language studies. For one thing, no grammatical description can be complete without a discussion of causative...
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Author(s): Esam N. Khalil Series: Linguistik aktuel =, Linguistics today 43 Publisher: J. Benjamins, Year: 2001 ISBN: 9027227640,9789027227645,9789027298249,1588110699 Description: Part of the “Linguistics Today” series which provides a platform for original monograph studies into synchronic linguistics, this work examines the subject of empty categories in sentence processing. It...
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Author(s): T. Givón Series: Varieties of English Around the World Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co, Year: 1999 ISBN: 9027225907,9789027225900,9789027296061 Description: Is human language an evolutionary adaptation? Is linguistics a natural science? These questions have bedeviled philosophers, philologists and linguists from Plato through Chomsky. Givon suggests that the answers...
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Author(s): David Lockwood, William Spruiell, Peter Fries, Michael Cummings Series: Open linguistics series Publisher: Continuum, Year: 2005 ISBN: 0826478751,9780826478757,0826453686,0826453694 Description: This book describes language as a network of functional relations involving a context which is also a network of functional relations. The essays in Part I present several...
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Author(s): Geoff Williams, Annabelle Lukin Series: Open Linguistics Publisher: Continuum, Year: 2006 ISBN: 0826488781,9780826488787,0826457584,9780826457585 Description: This book presents a unique range of interdisciplinary work on questions of language development and evolution. It makes visible the significant contribution which meaning-oriented linguistics is making to debates about the origins of...
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