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Greek Prepositions
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 119.99This is the most comprehensive history of the Greek prepositional system ever published. It is set within a broad typological context and examines interrelated syntactic, morphological, and semantic change over three millennia. By including, for the first time, Medieval and Modern Greek, Dr Bortone is able to show how the changes in meaning of Greek... more...
Insights into Non-native Vocabulary Teaching and Learning
Channel View Publications 2010; US$ 49.95In a field like L2 vocabulary teaching and learning where interest and research studies are burgeoning, this book offers a useful collection of papers that contains new ways of investigating vocabulary development, techniques for vocabulary teaching such as the Focus on Form hypothesis, word associations, and the use of concordance data. In addition,... more...
The Event Structure of Perception Verbs
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 109.99This book makes an original contribution to the understanding of perception verbs and the treatment of argument structure, and offers new insights on lexical causation, evidentiality, and processes of cognition. Perception verbs - such as look, see, taste, hear, feel, sound, and listen - present unresolved problems for theories of lexical semantics.... more...
Vowel Prosthesis in Romance
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 124.99This book presents for the first time an in-depth historical account of vowel prosthesis in the Romance languages. Vowel prosthesis is a change which involves the appearance of a non-etymological vowel at the beginning of a word: a familiar example is the initial e which appears in the development of Latin sperare to Spanish esperar and French esp--eacute--;rer... more...
Understanding Syntax
Taylor & Francis Ltd 2011; US$ 37.95Provides a complete introduction to the syntax of human language - ideal for students with no prior knowledge of the subject. more...
Premodifiers in English
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 82.00Synthesises research into premodifiers and provides a new explanation of their behaviour, order and use. more...
The Syntax of Russian
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 100.00An essential guide to Russian syntax, which examines major syntactic structures and grammatical puzzles of the language. more...
Network Morphology
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 88.00A study of word structure using a specific theoretical framework known as 'Network Morphology'. more...
The Modular Architecture of Grammar
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 84.00A model of grammar using several independent, simultaneous modules, which allows each module to be simpler than the current theory. more...
The Art of Punctuation
OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 15.99Punctuation can make all the difference between a good piece of writing and a superb piece of writing. In The Art of Punctuation, Noah Lukeman explores and demystifies each punctuation mark in turn. From the punchiness of the full stop to the unacknowledged flexibility of the question mark, the manifold powers of punctuation are revealed in this practical... more...









