In this humorous and educational book, Dennis Baron—a.k.a. Dr. Grammar—answers the questions that he is most frequently asked about what is right and what is wrong with English. His answers will convince you that English is as lively and elastic as ever and that reading about language can delight as well as instruct. This book won't tell you whether to use that or which, but after reading it, you won't want to know that anyway. Instead, it addresses timely topics: Is there a language police? Is there a politically correct term for the president's spouse? Can a doll write like a person? Is "Make my day" a clichй?
Нестандартный подход к освоению английского языка с учетом логики русского человека. Автор учебника получила высшее филологическое образование в США, но осталась русской по национальности. Она использует принципиально новый подход к обучению, сочетая глубину изложения теоретического материала с непринужденностью практических занятий. Книга рассчитана на базовый уровень владения языком. (сделано в форме: 1. html документов 2. формате doc)
Тесты, включенные в пособие, предназначены для подготовки к Единому государственному экзамены по английскому языку в России. Практикум ЕГЭ может использоваться как для работы в классе, так и для самoстоятельного контроля знаний. В сборнике приведены подробные ответы на все варианты тестов. Для учащихся средних школ, абитуриентов, преподавателей.
Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction is unlike any other
introductory textbook on the market. Targeting students with strong
formal/mathematical skills, but assuming no particular previous
background, this book focuses on the development of precisely
formulated grammars whose empirical predictions can be directly tested.
The book begins with the inadequacy of context-free phrase structure
grammars, motivating the introduction of feature structures, types and
type constraints as ways of expressing linguistic generalizations. Step
by step, students are led to discover a grammar that covers the core
areas of English syntax that have been central to syntactic theory in
the last quarter century, including: complementation, control, 'raising
constructions', passives, the auxiliary system, and the analysis of
long distance dependency constructions. Special attention is given to
the treatment of dialect variation, especially with respect to African
American Vernacular English, which has been of considerable interest
with regard to the educational practice of American school systems.
