This book is a corpus-based university grammar with a Swedish perspective, written in English and aimed mainly at first-semester students of English at Swedish universities. It gives a thorough, yet easily accessible, introduction to the study of gr…

"Hennes grammatikböcker är små mästerverk av pedagogik och lustfylld läsning ... Det här är utan tvekan guldkornet i samlingen." Fokus"Lövestam fördummar inte, utan behandlar grammatiken med den respekt och leklust som hon uppenbarligen hyser och vi…

Hur kan grammatikundervisning bidra till att barn blir självständiga och säkra språkbrukare? Hur kan läraren ledsaga sina elever att göra språkliga upptäckter? Vilken språklig kompetens krävs av läraren?Kreativ grammatikundervisning, från förskolekl…

Grammatik i fickformat är en oumbärlig och praktisk handbok avsedd för andraspråksinlärare. Den är lika användbar i samband med studier som senare i samband med yrkesliv. Det behändiga fickformatet gör den lätt att alltid ha med sig – i fickan…

Människan är en språkvarelse som dagligen befinner sig i olika kommunikativa sammanhang. En förutsättning för att vi ska kunna kommunicera med varandra är att vi har ett fungerande språk, och en viktig del av språket är dess struktur, grammatiken. D…

"Pedagogisk skicklighet kombinerad med finurlig humor" (Språktidningen)"Tur då att Sara Lövestam finns. Efter de smarta böckerna "Grejen med verb", "Grejen med substantiv och pronomen" och "Grejen med ordföljd" dundrar hon nu vidare mer humoristiskt…

Det var en gång ett litet substantiv, som förnöjt meddelade varje främling som det mötte: ”Jag är ett substantiv!” En dag mötte det lilla substantivet en språkpolis. Vid den glada hälsningen höjde språkpolisen bara på ögonbrynet och svar…

Om verb vore medborgare, vilka skulle styralandet? Varför är particip som lustiga krabbor ochvad är likheten mellan preteritumsystemet ochStålmannen?Detta är boken för dig som älskar grammatik eller vill lära dig att älska det. Använd den iställetfö…

Vad är likheten mellan ett substantiv och en baguette? Hur säger man egentligen biceps i plural och varför kan inte vuxna människor ha ett sansat samtal om pronomen? Det är ett par år sedan Grejen med verb slog ned i Sverige och gjorde succé både bl…

Grammar in Use is the world's best-selling grammar series for learners of English. Essential Grammar in Use with Answers, authored by Raymond Murphy, is the first choice for elementary-level (A1-B1) learners and covers all the grammar required at th…

Bestselling introduction to English morphology, now revised and updatedWhat exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implication…

Grammatik är en helt central del av studierna när man lär sig om språk eller lär sig ett nytt språk. Samtidigt som grammatiken är viktig uppfattas den ofta som svår och problematisk – hur ska man tänka, var ska man börja och varför ska man gör…

This grammar reference is written for the advanced student. It combines explanations of English grammar with information on how, when and why we use different structures. It shows the differences between spoken and written grammar and includes frequ…

People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use without even realizi…

Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as sy…

Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as sy…

Grammar in Use is the world's best-selling grammar series for learners of English. Advanced Grammar in Use with Answers, authored by Martin Hewings, is the first choice for advanced (C1-C2) learners of English. It is a self-study book with clear exp…

Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to understand and apply them in any context. Halliday's innovative approach o…

A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish is a comprehensive, cohesive and clear guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as it is written and spoken today in Spain and Latin-America. It includes clear descriptions of all the main grammatical ph…

With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced learners of English who need to understand how the English language really works without getting lost in t…

Winner: AEDEAN Leocadio Martin Mingorance Book Award for Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics 2020This book investigates the syntactic phenomenon of ellipsis and the linguistic forces that trigger it. It presents the results of a corpus-based…

Looking for an easy-to-use guide to English grammar? This handy introduction covers all the basics of the subject, using a simple and straightforward style. Students will find the book's step-by-step approach easy to follow and be encouraged by its…

Looking for an easy-to-use guide to English grammar? This handy introduction covers all the basics of the subject, using a simple and straightforward style. Students will find the book's step-by-step approach easy to follow and be encouraged by its…

An Introduction to English Grammar provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of English grammar. The first part of the book ('The Grammar') provides a step-by-step introduction to the key topics in English grammar. The second part ('The Appli…

Language typology identifies similarities and differences among languages of the world. This textbook provides an introduction to the subject which assumes minimal prior knowledge of linguistics. It offers the broadest coverage of any introductory b…

Language typology identifies similarities and differences among languages of the world. This textbook provides an introduction to the subject which assumes minimal prior knowledge of linguistics. It offers the broadest coverage of any introductory b…

This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advances in linguistics made in recent decades, it provides students, teachers and academics with a comprehe…

This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advances in linguistics made in recent decades, it provides students, teachers and academics with a comprehe…

How does language work? What are the different elements? How do they all fit together? The Frameworks of English is a step-by-step guide through the various levels of language, describing the morphological, lexical, grammatical and phonological fram…

How does language work? What are the different elements? How do they all fit together? The Frameworks of English is a step-by-step guide through the various levels of language, describing the morphological, lexical, grammatical and phonological fram…

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Ian Roberts offers a stimulating introduction to our greatest gift as a species: our capacity for articulate language. We are mostly as blissfully unaware of the intricacies of the structure of language as fish are of the water they swim in. We live…

Ian Roberts offers a stimulating introduction to our greatest gift as a species: our capacity for articulate language. We are mostly as blissfully unaware of the intricacies of the structure of language as fish are of the water they swim in. We live…

Zerwick-Grosvenor has become, much to the surprise and gratification of its publishers, a minor classic in its genre. It is a brief verse-by-verse grammatical commentary on the Greek text of the entire New Testament. Originally published in Latin in…

`Translation has long needed a champion, and at last in George Steiner it has found a scholar who is a match for the task.' Sunday Times First published in 1975, After Babel constituted the first systematic investigation of the theory and processes…

An introduction to corpus linguistics for students of English language.

An introduction to corpus linguistics for students of English language.

Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that language is best understood as an association network; however while the network view of language has had a significant impact on the study of morphology and lexical semantics, it is only…

This is an introduction to the structure of sentences in human languages. It assumes no prior knowledge of linguistic theory and little of elementary grammar. It will suit students coming to syntactic theory for the first time either as graduates or…

Winner of the Swedish National Language Council's Erik Wellander Prize, 2003Swedish: A Comprehensive Grammar is an award-winning complete reference guide to modern Swedish grammar. Systematic and accessible, the volume is organised to promote a thor…

Winner of the Swedish National Language Council's Erik Wellander Prize, 2003Swedish: A Comprehensive Grammar is an award-winning complete reference guide to modern Swedish grammar. Systematic and accessible, the volume is organised to promote a thor…

This clear and concise introduction offers students of linguistics and English language a comprehensive overview of English grammar, including word structure, major and minor word classes, phrases, clauses and sentences. Based on twenty years' teach…

This clear and concise introduction offers students of linguistics and English language a comprehensive overview of English grammar, including word structure, major and minor word classes, phrases, clauses and sentences. Based on twenty years' teach…

Norsk grammatikk, 2. utgave er en grundig, men populær systematisk beskrivelse av moderne norsk språk, bokmål (moderate former)/riksmål. Boken er utarbeidet av språkeksperter i Det Norske Akademi for Språk og Litteratur. Utgangspunkt for fremstillin…

This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative alternation, which the authors take to be a Voice alternation, a…

This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative alternation, which the authors take to be a Voice alternation, a…

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events. The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morpho…

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events.The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morphol…

This book investigates the way grammar deals with the representation of aspectual (aktionsart) concepts, focussing on issues of the lexicon-syntax interface. The authors' innovative analyses of this interface significantly advance our understanding…

This collection of new work focuses on issues at the lexicon-syntax interface. It presents innovative analyses of theoretical issues of aspectual interpretation in a variety of languages. The authors address questions such as to what extent can vari…

Edible Alphabet (Table) (Russian) Poster Lähetetään taitettuna.

Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available. The text features: full exposure to the grammar and morphology tha…

Do you want a deeper understanding of syntax and grammar? Theories of Syntax: Concepts and Case Studies is an indispensable student companion. Starting with basic concepts of syntax, Kuiper and Nokes then delve deeper by explaining how we understand…

Introducing English Grammar introduces readers to the methodology and terminology needed to analyse English sentences. The approach taken is in line with current research in grammar, a particular advantage for students who may go on to study syntax…

En stor del av språkvetenskapen har under lång tid förlitat sig på distinktioner som delar upp språket i två huvudsakliga sidor. Till sådana distinktioner hör langue och parole, som föreslogs av Saussure, sprogbygning och sprogbrug, som föreslogs av…

The Greek language has a written history of more than 3,000 years. While the classical, Hellenistic and modern periods of the language are well researched, the intermediate stages are much less well known, but of great interest to those curious to k…

Varför kan vi säga såsig i svenskan men inte *senapig? Katastrofal men inte *olyckal? Det beror på morfemens prosodiska egenskaper. I tidigare beskrivningar av svenskans ordbildning och ordböjning har en systematisk sammankoppling mellan morfologi o…

Relative clauses play a hugely important role in analysing the structure of sentences. This book provides the first evidence that a unified analysis of the different types of relative clauses is possible - a step forward in our understanding. Using…

Relative clauses play a hugely important role in analysing the structure of sentences. This book provides the first evidence that a unified analysis of the different types of relative clauses is possible - a step forward in our understanding. Using…

This volume is a comprehensive grammar of the Turkish language, suitable both for students of the Turkish language and linguistic scholars. Gerjan van Schaaik draws on sound linguistic research and an extensive corpus of real-life data, alongside mo…

This is the first part of the brand new course Russian Grammar in Use, which is designed for those who begin studying Russian or revise their grammar skills, covered in the first 100-150 hours programme of study (level A1 CEFR).The material is provi…

Daabacadda 2aad ee buuggan, oo la sii tifaftiray waxna lagu kordhiyay, ujaaddadiisu waxay tahay in uu sharraxaad ballaaran ka bixiyo waxyaabaha gundhigga u ah naxwaha guud ee uu af yeelan karo, gaar ahaanna af Soomaaliga. Qayb walba ee ka mid ah nax…

Alle mennesker er utrustet med en medfødt språkevne - en slags «programvare» som gjør oss i stand til å lære et hvilket som helst språk. Det betyr at alle morsmålsbrukere har en fantastisk kunnskap om sitt eget språksystem. Allerede som barn er vi e…

Alle mennesker er utrustet med en medfødt språkevne - en slags «programvare» som gjør oss i stand til å lære et hvilket som helst språk. Det betyr at alle morsmålsbrukere har en fantastisk kunnskap om sitt eget språksystem. Allerede som barn er vi e…