Название: Focus on Advanced English: Cae Grammar Practice: With Pull-out Key
Автор: Richard Walton
Издательство: Longman
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 111
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

* The Grammar Practice Book includes study tips to help with common grammatical problems * Exam style exercises and progress tests keep students focussed on the demands of the CAE exam..

Название: Elsevier's economics dictionary: in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and German
Автор: J.L. De Lucca
Издательство: Elsevier Science
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 978
Размер: 57 MB
Язык: English

This dictionary contains terms covering the following fields and subfields: Business economics, economic development and growth, economic history, economic systems, economic thought, financial economics, general economics, industrial organization, international economics, labor and demographic economics, law and economics, macroeconomics and monetary economics, mathematical an quantitative methods, microeconomics, natural resource economics, public economics, social economics, urban, rural and regional economics, welfare. The dictionary is supplemented by an exhaustive list of abbreviations in several languages. It will be an essential reference tool for business people operating within a new economic world order, who wish to understand global trade relations

Название: Elsevier's dictionary of chemistry: including terms from biochemistry in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German
Автор: A.F. Dorian
Издательство: Elsevier Science
Год: 1983
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 692
Размер: 32 MB
Язык: English

This dictionary covers the basic body of knowledge which constitutes chemistry and from which all scientific work in this field must proceed. Also included is a large number of terms specifically relating to biochemistry, thus providing a link between organic chemistry, physiology, genetics and medicine and greatly increasing the usefulness and range of this reference volume for research workers, scientists, students, translators and technical editors.

Название: NTC's super-mini English idioms dictionary
Автор: Richard Spears, Betty Kirkpatrick, Richard A. Spears PhD
Издательство: McGraw-Hill
Год: 2000
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 290
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

This includes more than 1,800 of the most frequently used idioms in contemporary British English, each with at least two example sentences. Compiled with non-native speakers in mind, the entire collection is compressed into a pocket-size edition.

Название: The words of mathematics: an etymological dictionary of mathematical terms used in English
Автор: Steven Schwartzman
Издательство: The Mathematical Association of America
Год: 1996
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 270
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

The Words of Mathematics explains the origins of over 1500 mathematical terms used in English. While other dictionaries of mathematics define technical terms, this book concentrates on where those terms come from and what their literal meanings are. This dictionary is easy to use

Название: St. Helenian English: origins, evolution and variation
Автор: Daniel Schreier
Издательство: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 331
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

This volume provides the first-ever sociolinguistic analysis of English on the island of St Helena, the oldest variety of English in the Southern Hemisphere

Название: One language, two grammars?: differences between British and American English
Автор: Gunter Rohdenburg, Julia Schl?ter
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 487
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

It is well known that British and American English differ substantially in their pronunciation and vocabulary - but differences in their grammar have largely been underestimated. This volume focuses on British-American differences in the structure of words and sentences and supports them with computer-aided studies of large text collections. Present-day as well as earlier forms of the two varieties are included in the analyses

Название: Analysing English sentences: a minimalist approach
Автор: Andrew Radford
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 542
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Analysing English Sentences provides a concise and clear introduction to current work in syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomskys Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior knowledge of syntax or minimalism, Radford outlines the core concepts and leading ideas and how they can be used to describe various aspects of the syntax of English. A diverse range of topics is covered, including syntactic structure, null constituents, head movement, case and agreement and split projections

Название: The Cambridge guide to English usage
Автор: Pam Peters
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 621
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

Providing an indispensable new A-Z reference to English usage for the twenty-first century, this guide covers more than 3000 points of word meaning, spelling, punctuation, grammar and style on which students, teachers, writers and editors regularly require guidance. It also addresses larger issues of inclusive language, and effective writing and argument, and provides guidance on grammatical terminology. Based on large international corpora, it differentiates clearly between U

Название: The Oxford companion to the English language
Автор: Tom McArthur
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 1992
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 1216
Размер: 33 MB
Язык: English

Language is the life blood of a culture, and to be interested in culture is in some sense to be interested in language, in the shapes and sounds of words, in the history of reading, writing, and speech, in the endless variety of dialects and slangs, in the incessant creativity of the human mind as it reaches out to others. It is surprising then that until now there has been no major one-volume reference devoted to the most widely dispersed and influential language of our time: the English language. A language-lover's dream, The Oxford Companion to the English Language is a thousand-page cornucopia covering virtually every aspect of the English language as well as language in general