About this title: The author explores the many facets and varieties of the English language, bringing life to this large and complex subject. The structural features of English are throughly described, including grammar, pronunciation, writing systems, and vocabulary.
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Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade pb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 10/1997
ISBN-13:9780521596558ISBN:0521596556
Description: Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Unmarked inside except for bookstore price on first page. Moderate cover wear, with one corner of back cover and last fifty or so pages bent. Unknown printing. 500 p.; 1.22" x 10.89" x 8.66". read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780521401791ISBN:0521401798
Description: Very Good. Pages tight and clean. All books have issued dustcovers unless otherwise noted. Pictures always available upon request. All books wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard container. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1995-05-26
ISBN-13:9780521401791ISBN:0521401798
Description: Very Good. Cambridge University Press [Published date: 1995]. Soft cover, 489 pp. Reprint, 1996. Very good/ NO dust jacket. Glossy pictorial soft cover has light bumping to edges with a bit of peeling to the tips of the corners. Light overall rubbing. Binding tight. Pages crisp clean and bright with no markings. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780521401791ISBN:0521401798
Description: Fine. No DJ Issued. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Like New. No writing, Not ex-library. 500 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr, West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780521401791ISBN:0521401798
Description: Illustrated. Very Good + 9 x 11 trade paperback book. White lettering on the black spine with an illustrated cover. Superbly illustrated in color throughout, this is the most comprehensive general reference book on the history, structure and worldwide use of English ever written. 489 pages. 1996 reprint. Tight binding. Very Good + condition. read more
Description: Very Good. By Crystal, David. Cambridge, 1996, Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Small chips/tears along jacket edges. read more
Edition: Reprint, 1996
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780521401791ISBN:0521401798
Description: Fine. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. vii, 489 pp., illus., maps (chiefly col. ); 30 cm. Tight, clean copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "A revolution in language publishing Superbly illustrated in colour throughout, this is the most comprehensive reference book on the history, structure and worldwide use of English ever written. Clear and accessible, the book abounds with insights into how the language evolved and how it works. All aspects of English are covered: -the ... read more
"Don't know much about the English language? Here's your chance to negate that problem. Here we go back in time to middled English, old English and beyond. Way back to the Jutes, Angles, Saxons . . . So get your reading fedora out."
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