Designed to complement the existing, widely acclaimed Collins Easy Learning range, Collins Easy Learning Irish Grammar offers beginners a clear and easy-to-understand guide to the verbs and grammar of Irish. Collins Easy Learning Irish Grammar has been designed for all those learning Irish at school, work or home. It provides easily accessible information in an attractively presented layout. Key grammatical points are highlighted throughout as a means of reinforcement. In addition, a full glossary gives clear explanations of grammatical terminology.
Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing
Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle the nature of grammatical complexity, demonstrating that embedded phrasal structures are as important as embedded dependent clauses.
This book builds on R. M. W. Dixon's most influential work on the indigenous languages of Australia over the past forty years, from his trailblazing grammar of Dyirbal published in 1972 to later grammars of Yidiñ (1971) and Warrgamay (1981). Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders includes further studies on these languages, and the interrelations between them.
In these exciting videos, co-produced by the BBC and the British Council, learn how English works as the hosts explore British culture around the UK. Each lesson includes two essential Scenes accompanied by Language Focus sections in which Rob Lewis highlights the grammatical points. Also, you can find a related bonus clip in the end. Transcripts and supportive activities have been provided in PDF files.
Objects have traditionally taken a back seat to subjects in most research into grammatical relations-and justifiably so, it could seem, in as much as subject is the primary grammatical relation outranking the relationally secondary objects in overall significance. Indeed one might have hoped that almost all that is to be known about objects would conveniently be obtained as a by-product of work, much intensified in recent years,on subjects, all objects being essentially nothing but non-subjects...
