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A revised and updated edition of the iconic grammar guide for the 21st century. In this expanded and updated edition of Woe Is I, former editor at The New York Times Book Review Patricia T. O'Conner unties the knottiest grammar tangles with the same insight and humor that have charmed and enlightened readers of previous editions for years. With fresh insights into the rights, wrongs, and maybes of English grammar and usage, O'Conner offers in Woe Is I down-to-earth explanations and plain-Englis...

A new, exciting, and intuitive way to learn business English, this comprehensive self-study course--now available in a beautifully packaged box set--is uniquely visual, engaging, and easy to follow. English for Everyone: Business English is the easiest way to teach yourself workplace English. The course combines innovative visual teaching methods with the best of DK design to make workplace English easy to learn. The most useful English grammar and business vocabulary are tied into everyday wo...

Mastering the details of English grammar and style can be a slow and painful process. With clear, no-nonsense explanations and examples, Idiot's Guides: Grammar and Style makes learning the finer points of the English language easy. The book focuses on what people really need to know — the mechanics of writing, the parts of speech, proper punctuation and capitalization, and the most common errors (and how to avoid and fix them). Exercises that reinforce learning are also packed into this helpful...

The Philosophy of Grammar, a radical innovation in linguistics research when it was first published, is now a standard reference work and all students in the field should be familiar with it. The topics covered are living grammar, systemic grammar, parts of speech, the three ranks, junction and nexus, nexus-substantives, subject and predicate, object, case, number, person, sex and gender, comparison, time and tense, direct and indirect speech, classification of utterances, moods, and negation. B...

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In dieser Arbeit werden theoretische Zielsetzungen verfolgt, die der Autor unter dem Begriff der semantischen Valenztheorie seit Beginn der Valenzforschung bearbeitet. Die Problemfelder der drei Studien "Modifikatoren als Komponenten der Wortbedeutung", "Wortbildung und Valenz" und "Pronomen und Valenz" erweisen sich dabei keineswegs als nur marginal. Mit ihrer Untersuchung wird die Tragfahigkeit des erweiterten semantischen Valenzkonzeptes des Autors gepruft und prazisiert, das u.a. eine Valenz...

The Rhetoric of Tenses in Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" examines the tenses of the predicates in the famous and typical passages of the monumental work to explore the intricacies of the rhetoric and argument they support, paying particular attention to the question of temporality. Smith's subtle modulation of language attests to his reluctance to offer a mere theory of economics and to his refusal to ignore the complicated challenges history and actuality offer to his beliefs in the natur...

Dutch: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Dutch grammar. It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Dutch. The book will be the standard reference work for years to come. This Grammar is an essential reference source for the learner and user of Dutch, irrespective of level. It is ideal for use in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types. The volume is organized to pro...

By relating grammar to cognitive architecture, John T. Hale shows how incremental parsing works in models of perceptual processing and how specific learning rules might lead to frequency-sensitive preferences. Along the way, Hale reconsiders garden-pathing, the parallel/serial distinction, and information-theoretical complexity metrics, such as surprisal. This book is a must for cognitive scientists of language.