A new edition of the popular course for young beginners - now available at three levels. New Chatterbox brings this much loved series up-to-date with brand-new content reflecting changes in teaching practice and an increase in cross-cultural awareness. The core syllabus, structure, and approach remain the same. The new Starter level makes the course ideal for complete beginners.
This study deals with syntactic structure both in the board sense(as opposed to semantics)and the narrow sense(as opposed to phonemics and morphology). It forms part of an attempt to construct a formalized general theory of linguistic structure and to explore the foundations of such a theory.
Academic : for researcher not for normal learner, but ... you are special !
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 8, 2007)
Nomi Erteschik-Shir is
Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Foreign
Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Her
publications include The Dynamics of Focus Structure (1997) and The
Syntax of Aspect (2005) co-edited with Tova Rapoport. She is currently
working on a book with Tova Rapoport on the lexicon-syntax interface,
The Atoms of Meaning.
"English Words: History and Structure" by Robert Stockwell, Donka Minkova
The subject of this book is the origin of words in the English language, primarily those borrowed from the classical languages, namely Latin and Greek, either directly, or via French. A secondary theme is the internal structure of English words. Exercises to accompany each of the ten chapters are available to download from the web. The text is very accessible to all levels of reader; no knowledge of linguistics or linguistic terminology is assumed. For the reader unfamiliar with historical linguistics, or the influences which have shaped the English language, it will bring a new dimension to the understanding of the words that form the basis of our language. The once-baffling relationships between pronunciation, spelling, and meaning will become a source of enjoyment in themselves in the light of what can be learned from this book.
Academic : for researcher not for normal learner, but ... you are special ! 
