By: William Rutherford Download http://usafiles.net/148Q/Whys_and_Therefores__A_rational_look_at_the_English_language.pdf
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By: Carl Bache This book is aimed at fellow practitioners and researchers in functional linguistics. It offers a friendly but critical appraisal of a major component of the ‘standard’ version of SFL, i.e. the account given by Halliday and Matthiessen of tense and aspect in English. Supporting his...
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By: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday, William S. Greaves Intonation in the Grammar of English is written for scholars who are interested in language, but not necessarily linguists or phoneticians. The introduction covers speech sound, locating it in relation to other phenomena and disciplines, discusses its representation and interpretation,...
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Edited by: Vyvyan Evans and Paul Chilton Spatial perception and cognition is fundamental to human abilities to navigate through space, identify and locate objects, and track entities in motion. Moreover, research findings in the last couple of decades reveal that many of the mechanisms humans employ to achieve...
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By: Pius ten Hacken Noam Chomsky is not only one of the most influential, but also one of the most controversial figures in Twentieth century linguistics. In view of the polarization of opinions on Chomsky, giving a balanced account of Chomskyan linguistics is an ambitious venture. This book...
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The Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of English Usage Download http://usafiles.net/148L/The_Hutchinson_Pocket_Dictionary_of_English_Usage.pdf
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Collection of English Authentic Texts Download http://usafiles.net/148K/Collection_of_English_Authentic_Texts.pdf
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By: Ian Collinson Book reading often seems to function as a barometer of cultural vitality. For those who wish to argue that we live in a dumbed-down age, the alleged decline in book reading often becomes the benchmark of falling cultural standards. Although pessimistic critics and commentators may...
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Edited by: John Baines, John Bennet, Stephen Houston This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. While the invention and decipherment of writing systems have long been focuses of research, their eclipse or...
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