Genitives in Early English – Typology and Evidence
This book examines the evidence for the development of adnominal genitives (the knight’s sword, the nun’s priest’s tale, etc.) in English. During the Middle English period the genitive inflection -es...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
It explores issues in corpus design and explains how corpora are compiled. There is a wide-ranging overview of corpus-based lexical and grammatical studies of varieties of English and of techniques...
View ArticleDeep Trouble (level 1)
Amy and Matt are bored. They don’t want to study for their exams – they want to have a good time. So they drive to the marina at West Palm Beach, and Matt jumps onto one of the boats. ‘We can go...
View ArticleMore Greek and Latin Roots: Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading...
This book helps students learn to break down the parts of words they don’t know in order to figure them out instead of just skipping over them. The activities in this book incorporate all levels of...
View ArticleEnglish for Telephoning: Your Key to Success on the Telephone (CD-ROM)
English for Telephoning is an interactive CD-ROM, aimed at working professionals with an intermediate level of English. Telephoning in a foreign language can be a daunting task but one which many...
View ArticleEnglish Colour Terms
There are many different colour terms in most languages of the world. This study examines how English colour terms are used in an extensive computerised text corpus. Focusing on those occasions when a...
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