To protect his new business, the Ames Land and Cattle Company, aristocratic easterner Darren Ames hires the Campbells, three extraordinary honest and loyal men, as line riders who will safeguard his borders from outsiders. Original.

The Line Riders/They Do the Lonely Work That Builds the New Frontier

Literature & Fiction

MILLER, JIM

Genre Fiction

Harpercollins

Now on the right side of the law and eager to prove it, former bank robber Tom Fargo rides into Caldwell, Kansas, where he assumes the recently dead marshal's identity as a law man. Original.

Border Marshal

A survey of the daily activities of farm animals throughout the four seasons

Seasons on Farm

Children's Books

Simon&Schuster Children's Publishing

The authors examine the types of clauses used by people when they are speaking off the cuff. They also analyze the devices speakers use when organizing larger chunks of language, such as conversations. Using data from English, German, and Russian, they develop a systematic analysis of spoken English and highlight cross-language properties. They argue that there are major and systematic differences between spoken and written language, and conclude by exploring the implications of their findings for typology, first-language acquisition, and education.

Spontaneous Spoken Language: Syntax and Discourse

Weinert, Regina

History & Criticism

Clarendon Press

Jim Miller and Regina Weinert investigate syntactic structure and the organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language. Using data from English, German, and Russian, they develop a systematic analysis of spoken English and highlight properties that hold across languages. The authors argue that the differences in syntax and the construction of discourse between spontaneous speech and written language bear on various areas of linguistic theory, apart from having obvious implications for syntactic analysis. In particular, they bear on typology, Chomskyan theories of first language acquisition, and the perennial problem of language in education. In current typological practice written and spontaneous spoken texts are often compared; the authors show convincingly that typological research should compare like with like. The consequences for Chomskyan, and indeed all, theories of first language acquisition flow from the central fact that children first learn spoken language before they are taught written language.

Spontaneous Spoken Language: Syntax and Discourse (Oxford Linguistics)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press

Rousseau: Dreamer of Democracy

This book is a nicely done study of Rousseau who suffers chronic mishandling by misinterpreters.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Yale Univ Pr

Through an unusual blend of biography, philosophy, and history, this fascinating book shows how Rousseau profoundly influenced the French Revolution and the rebirth of democratic ideals in modern politics.

Politics & Government

Syntax: A Linguistic Introduction to Sentence Structure

The second edition of this invaluable introductory text takes account of developments in syntactic studies. Dealing with the whole range of syntax, this book explains, in a lucid and approachable way, why linguists have adopted certain solutions to problems and not others. This book introduces the basic concepts used in the description of syntax, independently of any single model of grammar. Profusely illustrated with diagrams, there are sets of exercises for every chapter which can be used in class or by students working independently.

Brown, Keith

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge

MINOR WEAR ON EDGE OF COVER. LIGHT TANNING INSIDE COVER. NO WRITING OR MARKS ON PAGES.

Old-Timers/gun Sky

Dell

Old Timers in the Sangre De Cristos

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The Line Riders/They Do the Lonely Work That Builds the New Frontier

Border Marshal

Seasons on Farm

Spontaneous Spoken Language: Syntax and Discourse

Spontaneous Spoken Language: Syntax and Discourse (Oxford Linguistics)

Rousseau: Dreamer of Democracy

Rousseau: Dreamer of Democracy

Syntax: A Linguistic Introduction to Sentence Structure

Old-Timers/gun Sky

Old Timers in the Sangre De Cristos