Author: Mark Liberman
Publisher: William, James
ISBN: 9781590280553
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log
Author: Mark Liberman
Publisher: William, James
ISBN: 9781590280553
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: William, James
ISBN: 9781590280553
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language
Author: Geoffrey K. Pullum
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226685349
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Contains a collection of twenty-three essays originally appearing in the journal "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory."
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226685349
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Contains a collection of twenty-three essays originally appearing in the journal "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory."
The Word Detective
Author: Evan Morris
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Dispatches
Author: Michael Herr
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307814165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307814165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.
Language as a Complex Adaptive System
Author: Nick C. Ellis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 144433400X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Explores a new approach to studying language as a complex adaptive system, illustrating its commonalities across many areas of language research Brings together a team of leading researchers in linguistics, psychology, and complex systems to discuss the groundbreaking significance of this perspective for their work Illustrates its application across a variety of subfields, including languages usage, language evolution, language structure, and first and second language acquisition "What a breath of fresh air! As interesting a collection of papers as you are likely to find on the evolution, learning, and use of language from the point of view of both cognitive underpinnings and communicative functions." Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 144433400X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Explores a new approach to studying language as a complex adaptive system, illustrating its commonalities across many areas of language research Brings together a team of leading researchers in linguistics, psychology, and complex systems to discuss the groundbreaking significance of this perspective for their work Illustrates its application across a variety of subfields, including languages usage, language evolution, language structure, and first and second language acquisition "What a breath of fresh air! As interesting a collection of papers as you are likely to find on the evolution, learning, and use of language from the point of view of both cognitive underpinnings and communicative functions." Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Late Modern English
Author: Merja Kytö
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027261431
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, spelling and pragmatics; this makes the collection attractive to any scholar or student interested in the history of English. Each of the four thematic sections in the book represents a core area of Late Modern English studies. This division makes it easy for specialists to access the chapters that are of immediate relevance to their own work. An introductory chapter establishes connections between chapters within as well as between the four sections. The volume highlights recent advances in research methodology such as spelling normalization and other areas of corpus linguistics; several contributions also shed light on the interplay of internal and external factors in language change.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027261431
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, spelling and pragmatics; this makes the collection attractive to any scholar or student interested in the history of English. Each of the four thematic sections in the book represents a core area of Late Modern English studies. This division makes it easy for specialists to access the chapters that are of immediate relevance to their own work. An introductory chapter establishes connections between chapters within as well as between the four sections. The volume highlights recent advances in research methodology such as spelling normalization and other areas of corpus linguistics; several contributions also shed light on the interplay of internal and external factors in language change.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 0465072704
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 0465072704
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Garner's Modern English Usage
Author: Bryan A. Garner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190491485
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1113
Book Description
The authority on grammar, usage, and style.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190491485
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1113
Book Description
The authority on grammar, usage, and style.
Garner's Modern English Usage
Author: Bryan Garner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190491507
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2652
Book Description
With more than a thousand new entries and more than 2,300 word-frequency ratios, the magisterial fourth edition of this book-now renamed Garner's Modern English Usage (GMEU)-reflects usage lexicography at its finest. Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary with thoroughness, finesse, and wit. He discourages whatever is slovenly, pretentious, or pedantic. GMEU is the liveliest and most compulsively readable reference work for writers of our time. It delights while providing instruction on skillful, persuasive, and vivid writing. Garner liberates English from two extremes: both from the hidebound "purists" who mistakenly believe that split infinitives and sentence-ending prepositions are malfeasances and from the linguistic relativists who believe that whatever people say or write must necessarily be accepted. The judgments here are backed up not just by a lifetime of study but also by an empirical grounding in the largest linguistic corpus ever available. In this fourth edition, Garner has made extensive use of corpus linguistics to include ratios of standard terms as compared against variants in modern print sources. No other resource provides as comprehensive, reliable, and empirical a guide to current English usage. For all concerned with writing and editing, GMEU will prove invaluable as a desk reference. Garner illustrates with actual examples, cited with chapter and verse, all the linguistic blunders that modern writers and speakers are prone to, whether in word choice, syntax, phrasing, punctuation, or pronunciation. No matter how knowledgeable you may already be, you're sure to learn from every single page of this book.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190491507
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2652
Book Description
With more than a thousand new entries and more than 2,300 word-frequency ratios, the magisterial fourth edition of this book-now renamed Garner's Modern English Usage (GMEU)-reflects usage lexicography at its finest. Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary with thoroughness, finesse, and wit. He discourages whatever is slovenly, pretentious, or pedantic. GMEU is the liveliest and most compulsively readable reference work for writers of our time. It delights while providing instruction on skillful, persuasive, and vivid writing. Garner liberates English from two extremes: both from the hidebound "purists" who mistakenly believe that split infinitives and sentence-ending prepositions are malfeasances and from the linguistic relativists who believe that whatever people say or write must necessarily be accepted. The judgments here are backed up not just by a lifetime of study but also by an empirical grounding in the largest linguistic corpus ever available. In this fourth edition, Garner has made extensive use of corpus linguistics to include ratios of standard terms as compared against variants in modern print sources. No other resource provides as comprehensive, reliable, and empirical a guide to current English usage. For all concerned with writing and editing, GMEU will prove invaluable as a desk reference. Garner illustrates with actual examples, cited with chapter and verse, all the linguistic blunders that modern writers and speakers are prone to, whether in word choice, syntax, phrasing, punctuation, or pronunciation. No matter how knowledgeable you may already be, you're sure to learn from every single page of this book.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
Author: E. Cobham Brewer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734093228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734093228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer