Edited by: Michael D. Linn This Second Edition provides a comprehensive set of readings for both the beginning and advanced student of dialects, language variation, and sociolinguistics. With more than 80 percent new material, Handbook of Dialects and Language Variation, Second Edition takes into account recent work in...

Edited by: Peter Trudgill and J. K. Chambers This collection consists of 15 articles by an international group of linguists and 7 essays by the editors, tackling a broad range of issues and representing some of the most authoritative work in English dialect grammar. Individual chapters cover the...

By: Carroll E. Reed Examines regional differences in pronunciation and vocabulary, explaining their origins in the Eastern colonies and their development during Westward expansion Download http://usafiles.net/G6q/Dialects_of_American_English_Revised_Edition.pdf

By: Clive Upton and J. D. A. Widdowson Written in a style that is accessible and to the non-specialist, this book presents the findings of the Survey of English Dialects at Sheffield University. An introductory essay sets the work in context, both historically and linguistically. The 90 maps...

by Ann Hogue First Steps in Academic Writing, provides pre-intermediate students with essential tools to master basic academic writing. It looks at sentence structure, paragraph organisation, grammar, mechanics and vocabulary Download http://usafiles.net/G6o/First_Steps_in_Academic_Writing_Level_2.pdf

by David Crystal The groundbreaking history of the English language, fusing chronological with anecdotal and etymological accounts of individual word-histories, to create not one story, but many stories. The English language is now accepted as the global lingua franca of the modern age, spoken or written in by...

by David Crystal It’s the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: to be. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other English word. As he reveals be’s multiple incarnations, David Crystal takes us to the heart of our flexible and changing language. He...

by Max Brown The Tenses, the Aspects, and the Voices of the English Language: Abridged Edition 1.4′: (1) explains the contrast between the tenses and the aspects; (2) expounds the difference between the active voice and the passive voice; (3) elucidates the types of verbs, i.e. the main...

By: Michael Shapiro Download http://usafiles.net/G5w/The_Sense_of_Grammar___Language_as_Semeiotic.pdf