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English Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction (2002)

Author(s): Charles F. Meyer Series: Studies in English Language Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2002 ISBN: 9780521004909,052100490X Description: This step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora discusses the role that corpus linguistics plays in linguistic theory. It demonstrates that corpora have proven to be very useful resources...
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Grammars in Contact: A Cross-Linguistic Typology (2007)

Series: Explorations in Linguistic Typology Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, Year: 2007 ISBN: 0199207836 Description: The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation. It contains an encyclopaedic introduction, which sets out a general theory of contact-induced change, and twelve subsequent...
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Constructional Approaches to English Grammar (2008)

Author(s): Trousdale, Graeme, Graeme Trousdale, Nikolas Gisborne Series: Topics in English Linguistics 57 Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter, Year: 2008 ISBN: 3110196263,9783110196269 Description: This collection of articles brings together new research from both established and emerging international experts in the study of English grammar, all of whom have engaged...
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An Introduction to French Pronunciation, Revised Edition (2005)

Author(s): Glanville Price Series: Blackwell Reference Grammars Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2005 ISBN: 1405132558,9781405132558 Description: In order to speak French as it is spoken by native-speakers, one needs not only to hear the language, but to know what to listen for. This comprehensive and accessible guide to current French...
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The Acquisition of Complex Sentences (2004)

Author(s): Holger Diessel Series: Cambridge studies in linguistics 105 Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2004 ISBN: 0521831938,9780521831932,9780511231315 Description: This new and pathbreaking study provides the first ever comprehensive account of how children acquire complex sentences. Drawing on observational data, Holger Diessel investigates the spontaneous speech of English-speaking children...
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Student Writing: Access, Regulation, Desire (2001)

Author(s): Theresa M. Lillis Series: Literacies Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2001 ISBN: 9780415228015,0415228018 Description: Student Writing explores: Access to higher education and to its representational resources-the language and literary resources available for making meaning Regulation of meaning making in academic literacy practices Desire for participation in higher education and...
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Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity (1994)

Author(s): Ray Bradbury Publisher: Joshua Odell Editions, Year: 1994 ISBN: 9781877741098,1877741094 Description: The third edition of Bradbury’s much-loved classic adds three new exuberant essays on the pleasures of writing from one of the most creative, imaginative, and prolific artists of the 20th century–an author who truly enjoys his...
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