Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Started Sailing (Pocket)
avJohn Vigor, Thomas Payne, John Vigor
ISBN: 9781574092110 - UTGIVEN: 2005-08Aimed at sailboat owners of all kinds, this reference book contains 200 entries packed with solid practical advice and valuable tips. Each entry is categorized alphabetically and prefaced by an arresting statement such as "People always lie about how fast their boats are." The reference format offer[...]
Twins Stories, The: Participant Coding in Yapuga Narrative (Övrig)
avThomas E. Payne
ISBN: 9780520097742 - UTGIVEN: 1993-02-15This work is a quantitative discourse study of referential devices in Yagua, a relatively unstudied language of the Amazon basin. Of particular interest are folktales in which the major participants are matched pairs, and which involve extensive use of direct speech. A major finding is that the indi[...]
Describing Morphosyntax (Pocket)
avThomas E. Payne
ISBN: 9780521588058 - UTGIVEN: 1997-10-09This book is a guide for linguistic fieldworkers who wish to write a description of the morphology and syntax of one of the world's many under-documented languages.[...]
Exploring Language Structure (Pocket)
avThomas E. Payne
ISBN: 9780521671507 - UTGIVEN: 2006-01Designed for those beginning to study linguistics, this is a lively introduction to two key aspects of the structure of language: syntax (the structure of sentences) and morphology (the structure of words). It shows students in a step-by-step fashion how to analyze the syntax and morphology of any [...]
Understanding English Grammar (Pocket)
avThomas E. Payne
ISBN: 9780521757119 - UTGIVEN: 201012Language is primarily a tool for communication, yet many textbooks still treat English grammar as simply a set of rules and facts to be memorised by rote. This new textbook is made for students who are frustrated with this approach and would like instead to understand grammar and how it works. Why a[...]
Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays: The Textual Controversy (Pocket)
avNicholas Esterhazy Stephen Arm Hamilton, Thomas Duffus Hardy, John Payne Collier
ISBN: 9781108059459 - UTGIVEN: 2013-05-06An 1852 account of the discovery of a 'corrected' Shakespeare Second Folio, published here with three pieces from 1860 debating its authenticity.[...]
