Studying Literature in English An Introduction PDF
This book is designed primarily as a point of entry for people who are engaged with British, American and postcolonial literature at university. It will be particularly useful to students in … Read More
Patterns for College Writing, Brief Edition: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide (13 edition) PDF
Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, authors with thirty years of experience teaching college writing, know what works in the classroom and have a knack … Read More
A Historical and Etymological Dictionary of American Sign Language PDF
The story of how American Sign Language (ASL) came to be is almost mythic. In the early 19th century, a hearing American reverend, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, met a … Read More
Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings, 11th Edition PDF
Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings has sustained its reputation as a leader in argumentation through 10 editions, and that’s no coincidence. Authors Ramage, Bean, and Johnson present argument … Read More
The Syntactic Process PDF
In this book Mark Steedman argues that the surface syntax of natural languages maps spoken and written forms directly to a compositional semantic representation that includes predicate-argument structure, quantification, and information structure without constructing … Read More
The Best of Writers and Company PDF
Eleanor Wachtel is one of the English-speaking world’s most respected interviewers. This book, celebrating her show’s twenty-five-year anniversary, presents her best conversations from the show, including Jonathan Franzen, Alice Munro, J.M. … Read More
Case: Its Principles and its Parameters PDF
In Case, Mark Baker develops a unified theory of how the morphological case marking of noun phrases is determined by syntactic structure. Designed to work well for languages of all alignment … Read More
The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics PDF
Formal semantics – the scientific study of meaning in natural language – is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. This Handbook offers a comprehensive, yet compact guide … Read More
Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, Global Edition (7th edition) PDF
For use in Elementary Reading Methods (K-8), Supplementary Reading Methods, or Phonological Awareness and Phonics courses.A hands-on, developmentally-driven approach to word study … Read More
Who Cares About English Usage? (2nd edition) PDF
Why can we all make use of “filler” phrases like “type of” and “you recognize”? what’s the distinction between “engaging” and “not engaging”? when is a preposition the right phrase … Read More