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Writing for the Internet: A Guide to Real Communication in Virtual Space
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Writing for the Internet: A Guide to Real Communication in Virtual Space Intended for students—and everyone else who writes for online media—Writing for the Internet: A Guide to Real Communication in Virtual Space is a landmark collection of grounded and practical applications about writing effectively and concisely. It covers just about everything one needs to know about a broad array of topics including online , new media news writing, blogging, micro-blogging, Internet writing technologies, and social media/ownership. At the same time, it addresses theories, methods, and practices used by Internet writers and online journalists from a wide range of backgrounds.

 
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История английского языка
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История английского языка

Проверенный временем учебник по истории английского языка. Автор описывает фонетический и грамматический строй языка, развитие лексической системы с общегерманского по новоанглийский период.

FOR RUSSIAN SPEAKERS ONLY

 
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Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems
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Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems An introduction to the general linguistic study of aspect. Topics covered include the relation of tense and aspect, the morphology and the semantics of aspect, and structuralist and philosophical approaches. Dr Comrie draws his examples particularly from English and the Slavonic and Romance languages, but also from Arabic, Chinese, Welsh, Greek and a variety of others. This is the first study of aspect, considered as a general linguistic phenomenon. It is intended for students of individual languages as well as for students of linguistics.
 
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The English Verb (Linguistics Library)
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The English Verb (Linguistics Library)A long established and highly regarded account of all aspects of the English verb taking account of recent work on tense, phase and aspect, and of the author's own research. Theoretical discussion is kept to a minimum, but the arguments are always presented within a modern theoretical framework.
 
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Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface by Robert D. van Valin Jr.
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Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface by Robert D. van Valin Jr. While all languages can achieve the same basic communicative ends, they each use different means to achieve them, particularly in the divergent ways that syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact across languages. Written within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar, which proposes a set of rules to link semantic and syntactic relations to each other, this book discusses in detail how structure, meaning, and communicative function interact in human languages It will be welcomed by all those working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
 
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