Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity: Causative constructions in English PDF
Fusing insights from cognitive grammar, systemic-functional grammar and Government & Binding, the present work elaborates and refines Davidse’s view that the English grammar of lexical causatives is … Read More
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