Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Symmetry in syntax Symmetry in syntax Barbara Citko "While there has been a lot of research on asymmetry and antisymmetry in syntax, symmetry has been mostly ignored or claimed to be outright impossible (Kayne 1994, Di Sciullo 2002, 2005). This is som… OL15921496W
Preposition Placement in English Preposition Placement in English Thomas Hoffmann "Preposition placement, the competition between preposition stranding (What is he talking about?) and pied-piping (About what is he talking?), is one of the most interesting areas of syntactic variat… OL15976517W
The Construction of English The Construction of English John Gray "This book takes the view that ELT global coursebooks, in addition to being curriculum artefacts, are also highly wrought cultural artefacts which seek to make English mean in highly selective ways a… OL16113807W
Key concepts in second language acquisition Key concepts in second language acquisition Shawn Loewen "What does it mean to acquire a language? What is considered a "second" language in multilingual settings? This practical and comprehensive guide provides an opportunity to consider these issues, pro… OL16126679W
The language of gaming The language of gaming Astrid Ensslin "The Language of Gaming examines the complex language of videogames and gaming from a discourse analytical perspective. Astrid Ensslin studies the discourses inscribed in videogames by their producer… OL16415718W
What is a book? What is a book? Joseph A. Dane "Joseph A. Dane's What Is a Book? is an introduction to the study of books produced during the period of the hand press, dating from around 1450 through 1800. Using his own bibliographic interests as… OL16489930W
Features Features Greville G. Corbett "Features are a central concept in linguistic analysis. They are the basic building blocks of linguistic units, such as words. For many linguists they offer the most revealing way to explore the natu… OL16607419W
Typewriters, bombs, jellyfish Typewriters, bombs, jellyfish Tom McCarthy "Essays on literature, pop culture, and more from the cult novelist and critic Tom McCarthy Fifteen brilliant essays written over as many years provide a map of the sensibility and critical intellige… OL20058181W
A sociolinguistics of diaspora A sociolinguistics of diaspora Luisa Martín Rojo,Rosina Márquez-Reiter "This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora. … OL23195439W
Keywords Keywords Raymond Williams Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a book by the Welsh Marxist academic Raymond Williams published in 1976 by Croom Helm. Originally intended to be published along with the author's … OL260934W