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11. George Crabbe

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by Arthur Pollard

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
12. Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors

    2nd Edition

    By P.R. Wilkinson

    This fascinating collection of traditional metaphors and figures of speech, groups expressions according to theme. The second edition includes over 1,500 new entries, more information on first known usages, a new introduction and two expanded indexes. It will appeal to those interested in cultural...

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
13. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

    Volume 4. Syntax (third volume)

    By Otto Jespersen

    Series: Otto Jespersen

    This book was first published in 1954....

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

    Volume 5, Syntax (fourth volume)

    By Otto Jespersen

    Series: Otto Jespersen

    This book was first published in 1954....

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
15. 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
16. Progress in Language, with special reference to English

    Series: Otto Jespersen

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
17. 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
18. 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
19. Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor

    A Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland, Africa and America

    By Patsy J. Daniels

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This book examines works from twelve authors from colonized cultures who write in English: William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Maxine Hong Kinston, Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, Alic Walker, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko. The book fins...

    Published May 2nd 2013 by Routledge
20. 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