The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language von Crystal, David

David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. He is one of the most highly respected commentators on the English Language. He lives in Holyhead. His titles for Penguin include Words on Words,...

From the best-known authority on the English language, this reveals the secrets and subtleties of its grammar. Explains grammar's rules and irregularities, and shows how to navigate its snares and pitfalls. von Crystal, David

That's the Ticket for Soup! von Crystal, David

It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other English word. As he reveals be's multiple incarnations, David Crystal takes us to the...

Das Standardwerk bietet in seiner sechsten Auflage zahlreiche Aktualisierungen, die neue Entwicklungen innerhalb des Forschungsgebietes reflektieren. Zusätzliche Services sind ein Abkürzungs- und Symbolverzeichnis sowie das vollständige...

Steven Pinker meets Bill Bryson in this landmark exploration of language. In the author's own words, "How Language Works is not about music, cookery, or sex. But it is about how we talk about music, cookery, and sex-or, indeed, anything...

Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'),...

David Crystal answers fifty questions about language usage, from general enquiries to specific points of grammar, pronunciation, orthography, vocabulary, idiom, and style. In this compact, user-friendly book, David Crystal draws on his...

It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ...There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language, and Britain's most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record...

English as a Global Language - Second Edition von Crystal, David

Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it...