In this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith.org), presents an all-new collection of unusual, intriguing words and real-life anecdotes that will thrill writers, scholars, and word buffs everywhere. Another Word A Day celebrates the English language in all its quirkiness, grandeur, and fun, and features new chapters ranging from ""Words Formed Erroneously"" and ""Red-Herring Words"" to ""Kangaroo Words,"" ""Discover the Theme,"" and ""What Does That Company Name Mean?"" In them, you'll find a treasure trove of curious and compelling words, including agelast, dragoman, mittimus, nyctalopia, quacksalver, scission, tattersall, and zugzwang. Each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example, interspersed with illuminating quotations.
Praise for a word a day
""Anu Garg's many readers await their A Word A Day rations hungrily. Now at last here's a feast for them and other verbivores. Eat up "" --Barbara Wallraff, Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly and author of Word Court
""AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approach to words: words are fun and they have fascinating histories."" --John Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary
Автор: Mar?a Jose L??pez-Couso, Belen Mendez-Naya, Paloma N???±ez-Pertejo, Ignacio M. Palacios-Mart?nez Название: Corpus linguistics on the move: Exploring and understanding English through corpora ISBN: 9004308075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004308077 Издательство: Brill Цена: 142120.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Honoured with the 2017 AESLA Research Award of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics.Corpus linguistics on the move: Exploring and understanding English through corpora comprises fourteen contributions by leading scholars in the field of English corpus linguistics, covering areas of central concern in corpus research and corpus methodology. The topics examined in the different chapters include issues related to corpus compilation and annotation, perspectives from specialized corpora, and studies on grammatical and pragmatic aspects of English, all these examined through a broad range of corpora, both synchronic and diachronic, representing both EFL and different native varieties of English worldwide. The volume will be of primary interest to students and researchers working on English corpus linguistics, but is also likely to have a wider general appeal.Contributors are: Bas Aarts, Sian Alsop, Anita Auer, Jill Bowie, Eduardo Coto-Villalibre, Pieter de Haan, Johan Elsness, Moragh Gordon, Hilde Hasselgard, Turo Hiltunen, Magnus Huber, Marianne Hundt, Mikko Laitinen, Martti Makinen, Beatriz Mato-Miguez, Mike Olson, Antoinette Renouf, and Bianca Widlitzki.
Автор: Rubino Antonia Название: Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families ISBN: 1137383674 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137383679 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in the context of the family migrant experience and the shifting attitudes towards immigrant languages in Australia.
Автор: Pountain Название: A History of the Spanish Language through Texts ISBN: 0415707129 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415707121 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 53070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A History of the Spanish Language through Texts examines the evolution of the Spanish language from the Middle Ages to the present day. Includes chapters on Latin American Spanish, US Spanish, Judeo-Spanish and Creoles.
Автор: Briscoe Название: Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition ISBN: 0521078938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521078931 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 40130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is a groundbreaking study of how children acquire language and how this affects language change over the generations. The book is written by an international team of experts and is distinctive in utilizing computational simulation and modelling to help ensure the theories constructed are complete and precise.
Название: Approaching language variation through corpora ISBN: 3034312644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034312646 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 126850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A collection of papers using samples of real language data (corpora) to explore variation in the use of English. It celebrates the achievements of Toshio Saito, a pioneer in corpus linguistics within Japan and founder of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (JAECS).
Автор: A. Rubino Название: Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families ISBN: 1349480622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349480623 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 81050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in the context of the family migrant experience and the shifting attitudes towards immigrant languages in Australia.
Автор: Drinka Название: Language Contact in Europe ISBN: 0521514932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521514934 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 144660.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of language contact as a motivator for change. It will appeal to students and researchers of historical linguistics, contact linguistics, language typology, and sociolinguistics, as well as to specialists in Romance, Germanic, Slavic, and other language families of Europe.
Автор: Gelderen, Elly Van Название: Analyzing syntax through texts ISBN: 1474420389 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474420389 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This textbook invites the student to explore early English syntax by looking at the linguistic characteristics of well- known texts throughout the early history of English. It shows how that piece of the language fits in to the broader picture of how English is developing and introduces the student to the real writing of the period.
Автор: Knowles, Elizabeth (editor Of The Oxford Dictionary Of Quotations; Historical Lexicographer And Author) Название: `and i quote...` ISBN: 0198766750 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198766759 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 20050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How and why do we quote? And how do quotations develop and morph over time? Elizabeth Knowles draws on over twenty years` experience editing the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations to illuminate this essential part of the fabric of our language.
Автор: Drinka Bridget Название: Language Contact in Europe: The Periphrastic Perfect Through History ISBN: 1108731910 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108731911 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 46470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of language contact as a motivator for change. It will appeal to students and researchers of historical linguistics, contact linguistics, language typology, and sociolinguistics, as well as to specialists in Romance, Germanic, Slavic, and other language families of Europe.
Автор: Anna Cermakova, Marketa Mala Название: Variation in Time and Space: Observing the World through Corpora ISBN: 3110601923 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110601923 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 136310.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Variation in Time and Space: Observing the World through Corpora is a collection of articles that address the theme of linguistic variation in English in its broadest sense. Current research in English language presented in the book explores a fascinating number of topics, whose unifying element is the corpus linguistic methodology. Part I of this volume, Meaning in Time and Space, introduces the two dimensions of variation – time and space – relating them to the negotiation of meaning in discourse and questions of intertextuality. Part II, Variation in Time, approaches the English language from a diachronic point of view; the time periods covered vary considerably, ranging from 16th century up to present-day; so do the genres explored. Part III, Variation in Space, focuses on global varieties of English and includes a contrastive point of view. The range of topics is again broad – from specific lexico-grammatical structures to the variation in academic English, combining the regional and genre dimensions of variation. This is a timely volume that shows the breadth and depth in current corpus-based research of English.
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