A Survey of Modern English

By Michael Pátzold, Stephan Gramley, Michael P?tzold

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415049571
• ISBN13: 9780415049573
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Best book I've ever read.

Divided into three parts, this book sets up the stage, by discussing many of the topics which you might image that you would find in a book on english; grammar, phonetics, morphology, and syntax. But it goes on to do something amazing, which is to be expected from a book which appraises the use, users, geography and variation of the superhuman entity that is Modern English. All of the features of this 500-page book read like a good novel. Even topics as traditionaly boring as grammar will come to life, with recent examples of descriptive (as opposed to prescriptive) grammar. The people who could use this book are linguists or people who wish to learn about the language which has more non-native speakers than indigenous ones. If you do, however, fit these very minor prerequisites and have not yet come into contact with this book, I urge you to buy it at once (if you don't mind paperback). You will find that this book makes an extremely valuable addition to your library.Dr. Stephan Gramley is Senior Lecturer of English and Dr. Michael Pätzold is professor at Bielefeld University. Routledge is irrefutably the foremost publisher in the areas of intrinsic Linguistics and Philosophy.