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Free Download Martin W Bowman, "The Men Who Flew the English Electric Lightning"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1526705648 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 4.4 mb
The early 1950s were a boom time for British aviation. The lessons of six years of war had been learned and much of the research into jet engines, radar and aerodynamics had begun to reach fruition. In Britain, jet engine technology led the world, while wartime developments into swept wing design in Germany and their transonic research program were used to give western design teams a quantum leap in aircraft technology. At English Electric, ‘Teddy’ Petter’s design team were keen to capitalize on the success of their Canberra jet bomber and rose to the challenge of providing a high speed interceptor for the RAF.

Free Download Sennrich, "The Many Faces of English -ing "
English | ISBN: 3110764385 | 2022 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 1205 KB
The book offers a new angle on long-standing questions about the categorial status of English participles and gerunds. The book makes a major point: participles are not verb forms which behave like adjectives, but actually are adjectives, linked with verbs via derivation. It argues that observed differences between participles and adjectives, which in the past have prompted linguists to draw a category distinction between them, are in reality due to the non-prototypical semantics of participles – a feature also found in other types of adjectives, with strikingly identical effects. This analysis then accounts for the word formation of adjectives such as boring, tired, drunk, which has always been mysterious. The book investigates the consequences of this analysis for our understanding of gerunds and

Free Download Virginia Pulcini, "The Influence of English on Italian: Lexical and Cultural Features "
English | ISBN: 3110754959 | 2023 | 280 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 6 MB
The volume explores the history of language contact between Italy and Anglophone countries and illustrates the phenomenon of lexical borrowing. Types of English-induced borrowings are presented on the basis of quantitative and qualitative information provided by Italian lexicographic sources and corpus-based evidence. Criteria of currency and frequency are discussed with reference to a multilingual project (GLAD – Global Anglicism Database), offering a contribution to loanword lexicography. The book is addressed to scholars and non-experts interested in the input of English borrowings into Italian.

Free Download The English Civil War: Fact and Fiction by James Hobson
English | November 12th, 2020 | ISBN: 1526734877 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 17.57 MB
Fascinating facts and debunked myths about Catholic vs. Protestant, King vs. Parliament, England vs. Scotland, Cromwell vs. Ireland, and more.

Free Download Daniela Pettersson-Traba, "The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English: A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy "
English | ISBN: 3110792206 | 2022 | 270 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 18 MB
The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy. In particular, recent distributional corpus-based approaches used for semantic analysis have successfully uncovered subtle distinctions in meaning between near-synonyms. However, most studies have dealt with the semantic structure of sets of near-synonyms from a synchronic perspective, while their diachronic evolution generally has been neglected. Against this backdrop, the aim of this book is to examine five adjectival near-synonyms in the history of American English from the understudied semantic domain of SMELL: fragrant, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, and sweet-smelling. Their distribution is analyzed across a wide range of contexts, including semantic, morphosyntactic, and stylistic ones, since distributional patterns of this type serve as a proxy for semantic (dis)similarity. The data is submitted to various univariate and multivariate statistical techniques, making it possible to uncover fine-grained (dis)similarities among the near-synonyms, as well as possible changes in their prototypical structures. The book sheds valuable light on the diachronic development of lexical near-synonyms, a dimension that has up to now been relatively disregarded.

Free Download Nicola Daniel, "SQA National 5 English: Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation"
English | 2020 | pages: 139 | ISBN: 1510471731 | PDF | 8,8 mb
Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: EnglishFirst teaching: September 2017First exam: Summer 2018Offer the best possible preparation for National 5 English RUAE. Building students’ confidence in reading unseen texts, this book focuses on the skills required for the exam before progressing to worked examples and full-length practice papers.- Teaches students how to answer every question type effectively and demonstrate their ability to understand ideas, analyse language and structure, and evaluate writers’ techniques- Enables students to put their RUAE skills into practice as they tackle a range of short extracts and questions accompanied by active learning approaches, group work and individual tasks- Tests the skills that students have developed through six full-length passages and practice assessments, with answers and marking guidelines available online at hoddergibson.co.uk/answers-N5-English-RUAE- Provides stretch and challenge opportunities, including extension activities and further reading that will broaden students’ Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation skills

Free Download RESTful Dictionary: English – HTTP
English | 2022 | ISBN: n/a | 177 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
This dictionary distills the collective knowledge of designers of many thousands of APIs to answer one question: Which HTTP method should be used for my API path representing actions?

Free Download Walkinshaw, "Pragmatics in English as a Lingua Franca: Findings and Developments "
English | ISBN: 1501517732 | 2022 | 220 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 667 KB
This volume addresses two current gaps in pragmatics research in English as a lingua franca (ELF): Firstly, the contexts, approaches and theories of pragmatics generally that remain under-explored in studies of ELF speakers; secondly, the paucity of ELF pragmatics studies investigating Asia, despite its economic and geo-political importance and the role of English as a region-wide lingua franca. The volume draws together a range of pragmatics-related chapters contributed by leading experts in pragmatics, both in English as a lingua franca and more broadly. These either present new research that extends the current state of the field, or introduce approaches and theories from other areas of pragmatics that translate readily to analysis of ELF interaction. Five of the chapters are Asia-focused, examining pragmatic aspects of communication among Asian ELF users. The volume therefore offers scope for ELF pragmatics researchers to further broaden the field’s theoretical and analytical horizons, and adds to the quantity of knowledge about pragmatics in ELF communication in Asia. Its publication raises the visibility of this research area within the broader field of pragmatics.

Free Download Dirk Wiemann, "Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism"
English | ISBN: 140945567X | 2014 | 238 pages | EPUB | 699 KB
Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century English republicanism by looking at the movements and schools of thought that have shaped the field over the decades: the linguistic turn, the cultural turn and the religious turn. While scholars of seventeenth-century republicanism share their enthusiasm for their field, they have approached their subject in diverse ways. The contributors to the present volume have taken the opportunity to bring these approaches together in a number of case studies covering republican language, republican literary and political culture, and republican religion, to paint a lively picture of the state of the art in republican scholarship. The volume begins with three chapters influenced by the theory and methodology of the linguistic turn, before moving on to address cultural history approaches to English republicanism, including both literary culture and (practical) political culture. The final section of the volume looks at how religion intersected with ideas of republican thought. Taken together the essays demonstrate the vitality and diversity of what was once regarded as a narrow topic of political research.

Free Download Perfect English Grammar: The Indispensable Guide to Excellent Writing and Speaking by Grant Barrett
English | January 1, 2016 | ISBN: 1435167066 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2.69 Mb
Expert linguist Grant Barrett gives you all the tools you need to improve your everyday communication-from perfecting your punctuation to polishing your speaking skills-with his accessible, go-to grammar guide.