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English grammar : a function-based introduction

Part 1 Introduction: grammar and communication whose grammar? grammar for communication theme and variation in syntactic description parsing - tree diagrams deep structure, surface structure and…
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Adverbial subordination : a typology and history of adverbial subordinators based on European languages

Based on morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis of the complete inventories of adverbial subordinators of some 50 European languages, this monograph presents an account of adverbial…
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A Handbook of Varieties of English

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Together, the books and the CD-ROM are an indispensable reference work and research tool for sociolinguists, dialectologists, phonologists, grammarians, typologists, and specialists in contact languages and varieties of English around the world.
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Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English: Problems of Control and Interpretation

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This book is a non-formal, corpus based study of free adjuncts and absolutes current use in English and its particular focus is on a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of their semantic indeterminacy and the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors that help resolve it.
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Dynamic typology and vernacular universals

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Nigerian English: phonology

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Malaysian English: phonology

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Functional Discourse Grammar

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Functional Discourse Grammar is a typologically based structural-functional theory of language that is designed to interact with Conceptual, Contextual, and Output Components, so as to enhance its compatibility with a wider theory of verbal interaction.
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A comparative grammar of British English dialects : agreement, gender, relative clauses

This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on grammatical variation in the British Isles written from a typological perspective. All studies make use of the Freiburg…
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Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives

In this collection of original and innovative papers, new light is thrown on the nature and the expression of the four probably most-researched coherence relations.
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