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

"Rediscover Grammar" von David Crystal ist ein umfassendes Werk, das sich mit den Grundlagen und Feinheiten der englischen Grammatik beschäftigt. Crystal, ein angesehener Linguist, bietet in diesem Buch eine zugängliche und detaillierte...

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...

"The Cambridge Biographical Dictionary" von David Crystal ist ein umfassendes Nachschlagewerk, das eine Vielzahl von biografischen Einträgen über bedeutende Persönlichkeiten aus verschiedenen Bereichen und Epochen bietet. Das Buch deckt...

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...

This revised and updated edition of the dictionary adds around 300 new words or senses which have developed in linguistics during the 1980s, chiefly in relation to the newer models of linguistic theory, including a full account of the...

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...

A popular reference book which aims to provide the quickest and most accurate answers to the widest possible range of questions. The book is a storehouse of general and not-so-general knowledge for anyone needing information in a hurry -...

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