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11. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

    Volume 7. Syntax

    By Otto Jespersen

    Edited by Niels Haislund

    Series: Otto Jespersen

    This book was first published in 1954....

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
12. Progress in Language, with special reference to English

    Series: Otto Jespersen

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
13. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

    Volume 1, Sounds and Spellings

    By Otto Jespersen

    Series: Otto Jespersen

    This book was first published in 1954....

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
14. Syllable Weight

    Phonetics, Phonology, Typology

    By Matthew Gordon

    The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight. Drawing on a typological survey of 400 languages, it is shown that the traditional conception that languages are internally consistent in their...

    Published May 2nd 2013 by Routledge
15. Typological Studies

    Word Order and Relative Clauses

    By Guglielmo Cinque

    Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

    In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis à vis the relative clause in relation to the position of the verb vis à vis his object; a general...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
16. Telicity and Durativity

    A Study of Aspect in Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan) and German

    By Andrea Luise Wilhelm

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    This book studies the linguistic representation of events by examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics-- telicity and durativity-- to the grammatical system of natural language. The study of events, and of event characteristics, is an important testing ground for theories on the...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
17. Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure

    A Study of Word Order and the Left Periphery in Mexican Spanish

    By Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
18. Discourse Adjectives

    By Gina Taranto

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
19. Language Online

    Investigating Digital Texts and Practices

    By David Barton, Carmen Lee

    In Language Online, David Barton and Carmen Lee investigate the impact of the online world on the study of language. The effects of language use in the digital world can be seen in every aspect of language study, and new ways of researching the field are needed. In this book the authors look at...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
20. Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation

    Current Applications and New Directions

    Edited by Mark D. Shermis, Jill Burstein

    This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook reviews the latest methods and technologies used in automated essay evaluation (AEE) methods and technologies. Highlights include the latest in the evaluation of performance-based writing assessments and recent advances in the teaching of writing,...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge