Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced Spanish Grammar (repost)

Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced Spanish Grammar by Rogelio Alonso Vallecillos
English, Spanish | 2008-04-10 | ISBN: 0071472681 | 208 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB

Take your Spanish grammar skills to the next level and speak with more soltura!

To fully understand how to speak Spanish effectively you must move beyond the fundamental principles of grammar and tackle more sophisticated sentence constructions. Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced Spanish Grammar focuses on intermediate- to advanced-level topics to help you create more complex, meaningful sentences and communicate more naturally.

Instead of just applying sets of rules, Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced Spanish Grammar helps you better understand the nuances of the language and develop your skills and confidence as a Spanish speaker by providing easy-to-absorb explanatory materials, examples, and exercises. Inside you will find:

Thorough explanations of topics that often prove difficult for English speakers when they learn Spanish, such as the correct use of object pronouns.

Practical exercises that give you the opportunity to test what you’ve learned

Learn the ins and outs of:

Some/any and quantity determiners • Adverbs • Problematic prepositions • Relative pronouns • Idiomatic constructions • . . . and much more

Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin (Repost)

Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin By M. Weiss
2009 | 660 Pages | ISBN: 0974792756 | scanned PDF | 265 MB

Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin represents an altogether novel approach to its subject. Most innovative is the format: instead of technical prose acting as an obstacle to non-specialists, each of the forty-five chapters consists of an outline providing exactly the information essential to the student and simultaneously acting as a ready reference tool. But this is no bare-bones work. Supplementing the outline are numerous penetrating notes with a wealth of additional information and important new observations and ideas. After initial chapters on Indo-European comparative philology, the history of writing in Italy, and the pronunciation of Latin, the book treats the language’s entire historical phonology and morphology in detail, followed by a full and enlightening chapter on syntax—a topic that rarely receives the coverage it deserves. Thousands of textual citations from Roman authors of all periods firmly ground the data in their philological context. The broader linguistic milieu of ancient Italy is also covered, with a whole chapter devoted to Etruscan; and rounding out the book is a rich overview of the later evolution of Latin into the Romance languages. The result is the first truly comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date history of Latin from its prehistoric beginnings down to its medieval and modern descendants. Clear, thorough, and exhaustively researched, this Outline will be essential reading for students and specialists in Classics and Indo-European studies for many years to come.

The Grammar Devotional: Daily Tips for Successful Writing from Grammar Girl (Repost)

Mignon Fogarty, “The Grammar Devotional: Daily Tips for Successful Writing from Grammar Girl”
2009 | pages: 186 | ISBN: 0805091653 | EPUB | 1,4 mb

Millions of fans around the globe punctuate properly and communicate clearly thanks to Mignon Fogarty’s practical and easy-to-remember advice about writing style and word usage. Her first book, Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and her weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 20 million times and hailed by USA Today as “authoritative but warm.”

Now, in tip-of-the-day form, Grammar Girl serves up 365 lessons on language that are sure to inspire. Filled with new, bite-size writing tips, fun quizzes and puzzles, and efficient memory tricks, The Grammar Devotional gives you a daily dose of knowledge to improve your writing and also serves as a lasting reference you’ll use for years to come.

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Grammar of the Kabardian Language

Grammar of the Kabardian Language by John Colarusso
English | Dec. 30, 1992 | ISBN: 0919813968,0919813992 | 251 Pages | PDF | 7 MB

This is the first comprehensive grammar of a non-Indo-European language from the Northwest Caucasian family in a language other than Russian. Kabardian is complex at every level. The language treated is not the literary standard, but Kabardian as it was found in texts and in the mouths of Kabardians. This study is an advance over grammatical sketches of related languages in that it gives a complete account of the phonology and morphology of the language, accounting for what were previously known as “random variants.” A Grammar of the Kabardian Language also gives the reader the first account of the syntax of this language. It will give the area specialist access to the language. It will give the linguist interested in complex languages access to an extraordinarily difficult language, and it will give the theoretical linguist access to a language that exhibits topological exotica at every level of its grammar, from phonetics to the lexicon.