This book is a basic guide to the grammar and usage of English for anyone learning or teaching the language. If you are a learner, it is a reference book in which to look up problems you encounter in using the language, as well as a book to find out more abou the way English works. If you are a teacher, it is a basic reference book to turn to when faced with something you ae not sure of, as well as a source book to help present grammar in class.
Contributions to the Science of Text and Language: Word Length Studies and Related Issues(Text, Speech and Language Technology)
This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of
language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. Within a
synergetic framework, the word turns out to be a central linguistic
unit, as is clearly outlined in the Editor’s preface. The book’s first
chapter is an extensive introduction to the history and state of the
art of word length studies.
The studies included unify contributions from three important
linguistic fields, namely, linguistics and text analysis, mathematics
and statistics, and corpus and data base design, which together give a
comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language
and word length studies.
The broad spectrum of word length studies covered within this volume
will be of interest to experts working in the fields of general
linguistics, text scholarship and related fields, and, understanding
language as one example of complex semiotic systems, the volume should
be of interest for scholars from other fields as well.
In this important study Ernst Cassirer analyzes the non-rational thought processes that go to make up culture. He demonstrates that beneath both language and myth there lies an unconscious "grammar" of experience, whose categories and canons are not those of logical thought. He shows that this prelogical "logic" is not merely an undeveloped state of rationality, but something basically different, and that this archaic mode of thought still has enormous power over even our most rigorous thought, in language, poetry and myth.
Cognitive Foundations of Grammar
The main function of language is to convey meaning. The question of why
language is structured the way it is, Heine here argues, has therefore
to be answered first of all with reference to this function. Linguistic
explanations in terms of other exponents of language structure, e.g. of
syntax, are likely to highlight peripheral or epi-phenomenal rather
than central characteristics of language structure. This book uses
basic findings on grammaticalization processes to describe the role of
cognitive forces in shaping grammar. It provides students with an
introductory treatment of a field of linguistics that has developed
recently and is rapidly expanding.
Personality Traits second edition The idea of personality traits may be as old as human language itself. Aristotle (384–322 BC), writing the Ethics in the fourth century BC, saw dispositions such as vanity, modesty and cowardice as key determinants of moral and immoral behaviour.He also described individual differences in these dispositions, often referring to excess, defect and intermediate levels of each.Allport and Odbert (1936) identified almost 18,000 English personality-relevant terms;
A-Z of English Grammar & Usage
