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

Название: Mathematics for New Speakers of English
Автор: Неизвестен
Издательство: Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc.
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 156
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

This text is designed to help teachers work with beginning ESL students in grades 5 to 12. It provides lessons and activities that will develop the students' vocabulary, English usage, and mathematical understanding. A balance of high-interest activities, cultural sidebars, vocabulary review and chapter tests reinforce mathematical concepts in English

Название: Oxford Fowler's Modern English Usage Dictionary
Автор: H. W. Fowler, Sir Ernest Gowers
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Год: 1983
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 749
Размер: 24 MB
Язык: English

A standard reference work throughout the English-speaking world, this work is remarkable not only for the completeness of its information but for the wit and common sense with which it has been compiled.Amazon.com Review A guide to precise phrases, grammar, and pronunciation can be key; it can even be admired

Название: Elsevier's dictionary of computer science in English, German, French, and Russian
Автор: B. Delijska, P. Manoilov
Издательство: Elsevier Science
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 849
Размер: 43 MB
Язык: English

The dictionary contains 10,120 terms with about 4,000 cross references that are commonly used in the theory and practice of computers. The terminology covers the following fields and subfields: software and hardware engineering computer architecture theory of algorithms computer algebra information systems data processing and databases microprogramming computer graphics computer networks and communications multimedia office automation computer education.

Название: Modals and quasi-modals in English
Автор: Peter Collins
Издательство: Rodopi
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 204
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

Modals and Quasi-modals in English reports the findings of a corpus-based study of the modals and a set of semantically-related 'quasi-modals' in English. The study is the largest and most comprehensive to date in this area, and is informed by recent developments in the study of modality, including grammaticalization and recent diachronic change. The selection of the parallel corpora used, representing British, American and Australian English, was designed to facilitate the exploration of both regional and stylistic variation

Название: The mother tongue.. English and how it got this way
Автор: Bryson B.
Издательство: Springer
Год: 1990
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 270
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

«Материнский язык» - это книга Билла Брайсона, в которой собраны истории и истоки английского языка и различные причуд