What makes a place so memorable that it survives for ever in a word? In this captivating round-the-world jaunt, Paul Anthony Jones reveals the intriguing stories of how 80 different places came to be immortalised in our language. Beginning in London and heading through Europe, A…
This book deals with one of the central problems for theories of word-formation, the productivity of morphological processes. The productivity of these processes is assessed, using both text-based and dictionary - based measures (Cobuild corpus vs. Oxford English Dictionary). Im…
"Speak and write perfect English! BBI teaches you how to combine words with words to form phrases (so you can say "mortgaged to the hilt; I want something badly"). BBI also teaches you how to combine words into structures to form clauses and sentences (so you can say "I want you…
