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• Author(s): David Lockwood • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book is designed to teach undergraduate and beginning graduate students about the varieties of syntactic phenomena in d...

• Author(s): Miriam Urgelles-Coll • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsExamining the syntax and semantics of discourse markers, this book employs a syntactic approach to describe discours...

• Author(s): Hamid Ouali • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book presents a study of various important aspects of Tamazight Berber syntax within the generative tradition. Work on...

• Author(s): Miriam Urgelles-Coll • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsExamining the syntax and semantics of discourse markers, this book employs a syntactic approach to describe discours...

• Author(s): Kensei Sugayama • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book is an introduction to Word Grammar, a theory of language structure founded and developed by Dick Hudson. In t...

• Author(s): Gordon Tucker • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationAdjectives are the third most important class of words (after verbs and nouns), yet this is the first book-length study i...

• Author(s): Monika Bednarek • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsNew Discourse on Language addresses the need for innovative analyses of multi-modal discourse, identity and affiliation w...

• Author(s): Suzanne Eggins • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralNew edition of a best-selling introduction to systemic functional linguistics explores the social semiotic approach to langu...

• Author(s): Monika Bednarek • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsNew Discourse on Language addresses the need for innovative analyses of multi-modal discourse, identity and affiliation w...

• Author(s): Peter H. Fries • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book describes language as a network of functional relations involving a context which is also a network of functional ...

• Author(s): David Wood • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsFormulaic sequences are more or less fixed word combinations such as idioms, collocations, lexical bundles, phrasal verbs and ...

• Author(s): Lynne Young • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsAny piece of primary research ought to be preceded by a systematic review. The key advantage of a systematic review ov...

• Author(s): Peter H. Fries • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralCurrently there is a movement in linguistics towards careful use of corpora in linguistic and text analysis, which has invol...

• Author(s): Alessandro G. Benati • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralProcessing Instruction is an approach to grammar instruction for second language learning, contrasting with traditiona...

• Author(s): Stefan Thomas Gries • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book presents a new analysis of the word-order alternation of English transitive phrasal verbs (aka Particle Movem...

• Author(s): Lynne Young • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsAny piece of primary research ought to be preceded by a systematic review. The key advantage of a systematic review ov...

• Author(s): Michael a. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationFor nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his...

• Author(s): David Wood • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis volume presents a comprehensive look at the phenomenon of formulaic language (multi-word units believed to be mentally st...

• Author(s): Dalila Ayoun • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book provides a broad overview of parameter-setting theory in first and second language acquisition and refines the theor...

• Author(s): Maggie Charles • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralContemporary research into written academic discourse has become increasingly polarised between two approaches: corpus lingu...

• Author(s): Goodith White • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAcross the social and behavioural sciences there has been an increased interest in identity as a subject of inquiry. Despite ...

• Author(s): Christiane Fellbaum • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis book demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given lan...

• Author(s): Rachel Whittaker • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: LiteracyThis volume examines the relationship between language and literacy from a systemic functional perspective. The book starts with a retr...

• Author(s): Julia Lavid • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book offers a systemic-functional account of Spanish, and analyses how Spanish grammatical forms compare and contrast ...

• Author(s): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralPerspectives in Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics offers an introduction to words and corpus linguistics. From this found...

• Author(s): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is the seventh volume in the Collected Works of Professor M. A. K. Halliday: Studies in English Language. Topics cov...

• Author(s): Frances Christie • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book offers a model of classroom discourse analysis that uses systemic functional linguistic theory and associated ge...

• Author(s): Frances Christie • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book explores the nature of knowledge, language and pedagogy from the perspective of two complementary theor...

• Author(s): Li Wei • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Study & TeachingWritten by internationally renowned academics, this volume provides a snapshot of the field of applied linguistics, and illustrates h...

• Author(s): Claire Kramsch • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - General'This is an outstanding collection of papers by top scholars in a range of disciplines who shed stimulating, complementary i...

• Author(s): Gerard O'Grady • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyDavid Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at A Grammar Of Speech (1995) due ...

• Author(s): Fred C. C. Peng • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book assesses current assumptions about how language is acquired, remembered and retained as impulses in the brain, fr...

• Author(s): Gerard O'Grady • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyDavid Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at A Grammar Of Speech (1995) due ...

• Author(s): Li Wei • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Study & TeachingWritten by internationally renowned academics, this volume provides a snapshot of the field of applied linguistics, and illustrates h...

• Author(s): Maggie Charles • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralContemporary research into written academic discourse has become increasingly polarised between two approaches: corpus lingu...

• Author(s): Ian Bruce • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe focus of this book is the use of genre-based approaches to teaching academic writing. Genre-based courses enable second lan...