Instead of leaving an autobiography, the wonderful but very private playwright and novelist Somerset Maugham decided near the end of his life to "sum up" what he had learned from a life of reading and writing. The result can be read with profit by any writer on the order of once a year, and with pleasure by any lover of books and good writing. REUPLOAD NEEDED
This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar. However, as the papers in this collection show, word order variation is not random, but rather governed by principles which can be subjected to scientific investigation and are common to all languages.
Case, Word Order and Prominence: Interacting Cues in Language Production and Comprehension
Language users have access to several sources of information during the build up of a meaningful construction. These include grammatical rules, situational knowledge, and general world knowledge. A central role in this process is played by the argument structure of verbs, which establishes the syntactic and semantic relationships between arguments.
An exciting and unique new way for pupils and teachers to explore the meaning of words and the English Language as a whole, through a visual and easily interpreted representation. Simply enter a word, and an animated diagram of all similar meaning words is created, which can be explored dynamically.
This new version includes spell checker/ word suggestion, text-to-speech (requires internet connection) and ability to search the web.
