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The Hutchinson Dictionary of Word Origins
Helicon Publishing 2006; US$ 9.88Authoritative etymologies of thousands of English words, including recently coined terms. more...
The Briefest English Grammar Ever!
University of NSW Press 2005; US$ 12.95Did you miss out on learning the basics of grammar at school? Are you learning a foreign language and need to sort out your verbs, nons, adjectives, and adverbs? Ruth Colman's highly successful, user-friendly The Briefest English Grammaer Ever! comes to the rescue. It clearly and simply explains how language works and functions. It is designed for... more...
From Corpus to Classroom
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 34.00This book summarises and makes accessible recent work in corpus research, focusing on spoken data and on the place of lexis in grammar and discourse. more...
Race And Education
McGraw-Hill Education 2008; US$ 172.00Offers information on educational issues and conflicts in Britain, starting from the 1960s. This title uses examples such as political and media reactions to Afro hairstyles in the 1970s through to hijabs and niquabs, to illustrate how misplaced are the simplistic arguments that blame minorities for segregation or lack of community cohesion. more...
Word for Word
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 13.95An ingeniously handy guide to help you transform chew into masticate, rainy into pluvian -or antediluvian into plain old old . Attorney James Snyder didn't set out to write a book about words. But one day he looked up the word animadversion. The definition said it means the same thing as aspersion. He wasn't quite sure what that meant, so... more...
Children's Illustrated Dictionary
Dorling Kindersley 2009; US$ 19.99A child?s perfect dictionary Thousands of fascinating entries, definitions, photographs and pictures make this dictionary essential reference for readers, writers and curious minds of all ages. Organised like a traditional dictionary from A to Z, clear descriptions and examples explain and illustrate everything from Astronaut to Zoo. Perfect for... more...
Cardinal Numerals
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00The book embeds an analysis of the Old English numeral system and its particularities into a broader, cross-linguistic discussion and provides a theoretical framework for the general study of numeral systems. A novel perspective on the morphosyntactic behaviour of numerals allows the author to test and refine some long standing tenets in the study... more...
THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH: A STUDENT'S GUIDE
Taylor & Francis Ltd 2005; US$ 35.00By explaining language change with close reference to literary and other textual examples and emphasising the integral link between a language and its society, this text is especially useful for students of literature as well as linguistics. more...









