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1	The Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book, the Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book more books like this by Carl William Hart add to wishlist Written primarily for ESL and EFL students preparing to take language exams in English, this book presents 400 common phrasal verbs and the ways in which they are used in everyday American English. Phrasal verbs are word groups that include a verb combined with a preposition or an adverb. They are not used only as verbs but as nouns, such as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.41!
2	The Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book more books like this by Carl W Hart add to wishlist Updated to reflect questions found on the most recent ESL tests, this book presents 400 common phrasal verbs as they are used in everyday English. Phrasal verbs are verbs combined with prepositions or adverbs. Familiarity with phrasal verbs and understanding their use as nouns (breakup, showoff, and many others), or adjectives (spaced-out, broken ... see all copies from $10.25! new only from $10.25! \| SVS
3	McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs more books like this by Richard A Spears, Ph.D. add to wishlist Learn the language of Nebraska ...and 49 other states. With more entries than any other reference of its kind, "McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs" shows you how American English is spoken today. You will find commonly used phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, proverbial expressions, and cliches. The dictionary contains ... see all copies from $11.21! new only from $16.59! \| SVS
4	American Heritage Dictionary more books like this by American Heritage Dictionary add to wishlist The third edition of this dictionary reflects changes in the language in the last ten years with an A-Z section of more than 16,000 new words. see all copies from $1.99! SVS
5	Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope: Word Formation in the Athapaskan Verb more books like this by Keren Rice, S R Anderson (Editor), J Bresnan (Editor) add to wishlist Athapaskan languages are well known for their intricate morphology, in particular the complexity of their verbs. The significance of these languages for linguistic theory is widely acknowledged. In this book, Keren Rice offers a rich typological survey of morpheme ordering in Athapaskan verbs, with implications for both synchronic grammar and ... see all copies from $6.91! new only from $9.98! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Verbal Complexes more books like this by Hilda Judith Koopman, Anna Szabolcsi add to wishlist In this book Hilda Koopman and Anna Szabolcsi propose a unified analysis of restructuring constructions in Hungarian, Dutch and German that involves only overt phrasal movement and derives variation from the varying sizes of pied piping constituents. Restructuring verbs in Hungarian exhibit three patterns: the "will begin up-climb" and the "up ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $6.98! \| first editions
7	Cambridge Phrasal Verbs Dictionary more books like this by Cambridge University Press (Creator) add to wishlist The new edition of the Cambridge Phrasal Verbs Dictionary covers around 6,000 phrasal verbs current in British, American and Australian English. Clear explanations and guidance help learners master this difficult yet essential aspect of the English language. * Fully updated with new phrasal verbs, e.g. cosy up to, copy in, sex up * Clear advice ... see all copies from $18.23! new only from $18.23!
8	Prolegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure more books like this by Kenneth L Hale, Samuel Jay Keyser add to wishlist This work is the culmination of an 18-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines the hypothesis that the behaviour of lexical items may be explained in terms of a very small number of very simple principles. In particular, a lexical item is assumed to project a syntactic ... see all copies from $12.98! new only from $12.98! \| SVS
9	Predicates and Temporal Arguments more books like this by Theodore B Fernald add to wishlist A distinction is made in formal semantics between "stage-level predicates," predicates that describe the general state of a noun, and "individual-level predicates," predicates that specify the specific properties of a noun. Fernald investigates various contexts in which this distinction is traditionally said to come into play. His aim is to show ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $17.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification: The Typology of Depictives more books like this by Nikolaus P Himmelmann (Editor), Eva F Schultze-Berndt (Editor) add to wishlist Depictive secondary predicates such as raw in George ate the fish raw are important for current issues in syntactic and semantic theory, in particular predication theory, phrase structure theories, issues of control and grammatical relations, and verbal aspect. This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication from a cross ... see all copies from $23.95! new only from $56.94!
11 view cover	Verb Phrase Patterns in Black English and Creole more books like this by Walter F Edwards (Editor), Donald Winford (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.50! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
12 view cover	Essential Phrasal Verb Dictionary more books like this by Richard A Spears, Ph.D. add to wishlist Make a splash with American English verbs. This concise, easy-to-use reference explains more than 2,400 contemporary American phrasal verbs and illustrates their use in real-life situations. Each entry includes a full-sentence example. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.00! \| SVS
13 view cover	Intransitive Predication more books like this by Leon Stassen add to wishlist Intransitive Predication constitutes a major contribution to the study of typological linguistics and theoretical linguistics in general. Basing his analysis on a sample of 410 languages, Leon Stassen investigates cross-linguistic variation in one of the core domains of all natural languages. The author views this domain as a 'cognitive space', ... see all copies from $50.59! new only from $65.58! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Spanish Verbpack more books like this by Valerie Grundy (Editor), John Butt add to wishlist This reissue in a new cover of 'Spanish Verbs', 'The Oxford Spanish Verbpack' provides quick and easy access to all the details needed to learn and use a Spanish verb correctly. There is a directory of 4000 verbs, with 75 model verbs conjugated in full It provides full coverage of Latin American Spanish. see all copies from $2.42! new only from $6.09! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Syntax of Argument Structure more books like this by Leonard H Babby add to wishlist Each verb in natural language is associated with a set of arguments, which are not systematically predictable from the verb's meaning and are realized syntactically as the projected sentence's subject, direct object, etc. Babby puts forward the theory that this set of arguments (the verb's 'argument structure') has a universal hierarchical ... see all copies from $71.45! new only from $93.49!
16 view cover	The Raising of Predicates: Predicative Noun Phrases and the Theory of Clause Structure more books like this by Andrea Moro, S R Anderson (Editor), J Bresnan (Editor) add to wishlist One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally identified as containing a verb phrase, playing the role of predicate, and a noun phrase, playing the role of subject. In this study Andrea Moro identifies a new category of copular sentences, namely inverse copular sentences, where the noun phrase which ... see all copies from $49.95! new only from $50.80! \| SVS
17 view cover	Test your phrasal verbs. more books like this by Jake Allsop add to wishlist Offers the student a firm grounding on the formation and use of phrasal verbs, by getting the student to work through 50 tests. Crosswords and cartoons are included to make learning entertaining. see all copies from $9.31! new only from $18.31!
18 view cover	Relators and Linkers: The Syntax of Predication, Predicate Inversion, and Copulas more books like this by Marcel Den Dikken, Marcel Den Dikken add to wishlist This work presents a syntax of predication and Predicate Inversion that emphasises meaningless elements - called RELATORS and LINKERS - that play an essential role in the establishment and syntactic manipulation of predication relationships. In "Relators and Linkers", Marcel den Dikken presents a syntax of predication and the inversion of the ... see all copies from $23.00! new only from $26.50! \| SVS
19 view cover	Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages more books like this by Sten Vikner add to wishlist This book is the study of two different kinds of variation across the Germanic languages. One involves the position of the finite verb, and the other the possible positions of the "logical" subject in constructions with expletive (or "dummy") subjects. The book applies the theory of principles and parameters to the study of comparative syntax. ... see all copies from $44.95! new only from $64.90! \| SVS
20 view cover	McGraw-Hill's Super-Mini Phrasal Verb Dicitonary more books like this by Richard A Spears, Ph.D. add to wishlist This book helps you learn how verbs work in American English. Here are more than 2,500 definitions of two-word verbs, prepositional verbs, and verbal collocations. see all copies from $2.19! new only from $2.28! \| SVS
21 view cover	A Theory of Predicates more books like this by Farrell Ackerman, Gert Webelhuth add to wishlist Lexicalism is a theory of information associated with words and what exactly a word is. The authors propose a different idea of what can be contained in words. Lexicalism is first and foremost a hypothesis about functional-semantic information and secondly a hypothesis about the formal expression of this information. Grammar rules cannot change ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $31.00!
22 view cover	Japanese Verbs at a Glance more books like this by Naoko Chino add to wishlist A reference to the use and function of Japanese verbs for students of all levels. It has been categorized in a variety of ways so as to render verb conjugations, functions and meanings clear to all levels of ability. It offers examples of use in English, romanized and full Japanese script, along with common and many less common verbs. An easy-to ... see all copies from $7.19! new only from $10.19! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Theory and Description in Generative Syntax: A Case Study in West Flemish more books like this by Liliane M V Haegeman add to wishlist This book offers a detailed description and analysis of WestFlemish, a dialect of Dutch, within the framework of Government and Binding Theory. The study focusses on two constructions: the doubling of subject pronouns, and the order of verb phrase constituents. For each construction the book gives a rigorous account of the data, and a theoretical ... see all copies from $29.87! new only from $29.87! \| SVS
24 view cover	Longman Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs more books like this by Rosemary Courtney add to wishlist Phrasal verbs - like "break down" and "look after" are common in English, but their meanings are often different from the meaning of the base verb. This dictionary aims to provide all the information a learner needs in order to understand phrasal verbs and to use them appropriately. Where necessary it contains stylistic features and regional usage ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $99.00!
25 view cover	Oxford Phrasal Verbs Dictionary: For Learners of English more books like this by Oxford University Press (Creator) add to wishlist Presents the information students need to understand common British and American phrasal verbs. This dictionary shows common subjects and objects to help learners use the verbs. It includes 25 pages of tips and photocopiable exercises for practice. 'Guide to the Particles' explains the important meanings of the main adverbs and prepositions. see all copies from $13.50! new only from $20.05! \| SVS

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