The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management

Edited by: Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller, Lauren B. Collister A guide to principles and methods for the management, archiving, sharing, and citing of linguistic research data, especially digital data. “Doing language science” depends on collecting, transcribing, annotating, analyzing, storing, and sharing linguistic research data. This...
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Principles of Pragmatics

by Geoffrey N. Leech Over the years, pragmatics – the study of the use and meaning of utterances to their situations – has become a more and more important branch of linguistics, as the inadequacies of a purely formalist, abstract approach to the study of language have become...
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Understanding English Grammar, Tenth Edition

By: Martha Kolln, Loretta Gray, Joseph Salvatore The acclaimed Understanding English Grammar fosters students’ innate language expertise as they study sentence grammar. It offers a practical blend of the most useful elements of both traditional and new linguistic grammar, beginning with an overview of English as a world...
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The A to Z of Correct English, 2nd Edition

By: Angela Burt The A-Z of Correct English is a reference book which has been written for the student and the general reader. It aims to tackle the basic questions about spelling, punctuation, grammar and word usage that the student and the general reader are likely to ask....
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May I Quote You on That? : A Guide to Grammar and Usage

By: Stephen Spector “A guide to English grammar and usage for the twenty-first century, pairing grammar rules with interesting and humorous quotations from American popular culture”– We all use language in different ways, depending on the situations we find ourselves in. In formal contexts we are usually expected...
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Good Grammar

By: Joanne Suter Anatomy of a Sentence, Sentence Structure and Syntax, Subjects and Predicates , Compounds: subjects; Predicates and Sentences, Eight parts of speech, Nouns: Singular and Plural; Proper and Common, Self-assessment and Proofreading, Subject-verb agreement, Personal Pronouns and Antecedents, Adjectives and Adverbs: Comparative and Superlative, and more...
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