The Verb Phrase in English: Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora
The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers from around the world on recent changes in the English verb phrase. Drawing on authentic corpus data, the papers consider both spoken and written English in several genres. Each contribution pays particular attention to the methodologies used for investigating short-term patterns of change in English, with detailed discussions of controversies in this area. This cutting-edge collection is essential reading for historians of the English language, syntacticians and corpus linguists.
Controversies in Second Language Writing is not a how-to book, but one that focuses on how teachers in L2 writing can be helped to make reasoned decisions by understanding some of the key issues and conflicting opinions about L2 writing research and pedagogy. This book will assist teachers in making informed decisions about teaching writing in the ESL classroom.
Vitamin Discoveries and Disasters: History, Science, and Controversies
Vitamin Discoveries and Disasters: History, Science, and Controversies describes the emergence of nutritional science and its contributions to our understanding of how the body functions. It is an absorbing look at the men and women, many little known in their lifetimes, whose medical detective work helped us conquer a number of devastating health conditions, including some forms of mental illness.
Popular Controversies in World History: The High Middle Ages to the Modern World
This selection of ongoing historical debates lets readers analyze some of the most captivating controversies of the era from 1000 C.E. to 1900 C.E. Did the Chinese reach North America 70 years before Columbus? Did Kind Richard III murder his adolescent nephews? Is it true that Lincoln provoked the South into the attack on Fort Sumter? These are just a few of the questions from the second millennium C.E. that have raised more than a shadow of a doubt and caused heated debate among historians.
This essential guide offers a succinct, easy-to-read introduction to the key issues and historiography of British imperialism from the late 18th century to the present. Each chapter addresses questions posed by the nature of imperialism in its various military, economic, political, and cultural forms, while current controversies--including the impact of Orientalism and post-colonialism--are explained and set in the context of previous debates. The first book in the new Histories and Controversies series, British Imperialism enables readers to rapidly assimilate both historiography and key aspects of Britain's imperial power and influence.
