Jong-Bok Kim & Laura A. Michaelis 
Syntactic Constructions in English [PDF ebook] 

School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse — the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities. This occurs, for example, when …

At the heart of this volume lies an exploration of what actually happens to languages and their users when cultures come into contact. What actions do supra-national institutions, nation states, comm …

Originally published in 1980, this title looks at the mental processes involved in producing and understanding spoken language. Although there had been several edited volumes on speech in the previou …

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Cognition provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of how translation and cognition relate to each other, discussing the most important issues in …

In Linguistic Theory, Robert de Beaugrande analyses linguistic theories not as abstract ideas or theses, but as the process and product of theoretical discourse. He argues that the best documentation …

Maxime mei paenitet, vendidi uxorem tua in agora e Bay. I’m really sorry, I sold your wife on e Bay. (Shouted into a mobile phone) Sum in longus quadrigarus! I’m on the train! Nuntiis meis non respon …

Internationally, there is increasing research and interest in the processes of the production and reception of texts for specific purposes and in the historical development of genres and registers wi …

If you”ve ever wanted a quick and easy guide to verbs and adverbs, commas and apostrophes, clauses and prepositions, then this is a must-have book for you. Easing readers gently into the study of th …

By arranging frequently used characters under the phonetic element they have in common, rather than only under their radical, the Dictionary encourages the student to link characters according to the …

This volume, first published in 1960 to commemorate the one hundredth birthday of Jespersen, collects together as many of his writings as possible in order to allow students of the English language, …