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Changes in Complementation in British and American English
Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English

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Arguing that a corpus-based approach is indispensable for the study of changes of complementation in British and American English, the author examines several...
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Politeness Across Cultures

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This is the first edited collection to examine politeness in a wide range of diverse cultures. Most essays draw on empirical data from a wide variety of...
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Spanish at Work
Analysing Institutional Discourse across the Spanish-Speaking World

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A state-of-the-art collection of works on institutional discourse across the Spanish-speaking world. This volume focuses on how language is used in the media,...
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Developing Courses in English for Specific Purposes

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Presented in two parts, this book firstly introduces core considerations in ESP course development drawing on examples from a wide range of ESP and EAP...
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Assertion
Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

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Assertion is a term frequently used in linguistics and philosophy but rarely defined. This in-depth study surveys and synthesizes a range of philosophical,...
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Language and Style

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Inspired by Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose, Mick Short’s classic introduction to stylistics, Language and Style represents the...
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Language, Thought and Reference
Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

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How should we analyse the meaning of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives and definite descriptions? What relation do such expressions stand to the objects...
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English Grammar
An Introduction

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This new edition of a successful text has been thoroughly revised to make it even more accessible to those without any prior grammatical knowledge. There is...
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Studying the History of Early English
Perspectives on the English Language

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This accessible book introduces students to the latest linguistic approaches and methodologies for studying the history of English. Horobin shows the...
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Semantics and Pragmatics
From Experiment to Theory

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This volume explores the themes of implicatures, negation and presupposition. It is an up-to-date account of current research as well as an overview of what is...

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From Old English to Standard English
A Course Book in Language Variations Across Time

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An approachable and practical course book which examines the development of the English language from Old English to the establishment of Standard English.
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Accentuation and Active Interpretation
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Hans-Christian Schmitz argues that a speaker has to utter a sentence in a way that makes the hearer perceive at least those words that are sufficient for...
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Diachronic Change in the English Passive

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In this volume on the historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals not only with the passive per se, but also with its...
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Collocation
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A History of English Literature, Second Edition
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The second edition of this best-selling book has been completely updated and revised throughout to take into account new authors and new scholarly developments...
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Contrastive Analysis in Language
Identifying Linguistic Units of Comparison

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This is a book about comparison in linguistics in general, rather than "contrastive analysis" as a distinct branch of linguistics. It addresses the question...
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Language Matters

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This book provides a lively introduction to the study of language for students without prior experience in linguistics. It addresses the core areas of language...
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The Language of Sexual Crime

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Drawing together a diverse but focused group of international researchers for the first time in a single volume, The Language of Sexual Crime explores the role...
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Locality and the Architecture of Syntactic Dependencies

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A study on minimalist syntax develops an empirical argument for a crash-proof computational system. A crash-proof system is obtained if syntactic dependencies...
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Morpho-Lexical Alternation in Noun Formation

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This book proposes a novel analysis of the structure of complex nouns in English, placing the focus on noun pairs that share single roots but end in different...
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Working in Language and Law
A German Perspective

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Working in Language and Law is a detailed account of the forensic linguistic work done by the author in the last 35 years. It provides exemplary insights into...
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Morphology, Second Edition
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This is a lively, comprehensive introduction to current morphological theory and analysis is designed to take absolute beginners to a point where they can...