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FREEDOM TO THE BOOKS!!

If I advocated 'freedom of access to knowledge and society', I could not candidly tender expensive or unobtainable books. Those here below are available for free, scanned, edited, reformatted, and devided into webpages rarely above 400 KB.

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A Friendly Grammar of English

Somewhat Expanded and Much Corrected

March 2008

An honest, fun, and funny grammar-book for all ages and places

Interesting, authentic data, famous faces, and creative pix!

"We are looking forward to the Friendly Grammar of English."

-- Michael Halliday

"Your new grammar seems bright and sharp."

-- John Sinclair

Part I. Managing data for a “grammar”

Part II. In search of “grammar” and GRAMMAR

II.A Three sides

II.B The double-bind of “English teachers”

II.C Some precepts for “grammar”

II.D The term “grammar”

II.E A “bref historie” of English GRAMMAR versus “grammar’

II.F “Grammar”, “lexicon”, “lexicogrammar”, and “usage”

ii.G Six criteria for a “friendly grammar”

Part III. ORTHOGRAPHY and PRONUNCIATION

Part IV. WORDS and PHRASES in a “grammar”

IV.A What’s in a WORD?

IV.B WORD-PIECES

IV.C MULTI-WORD UNITS

IV.D “Naming the Parts of Speech” revisited

IV.E WORD-CLASSES

IV.F. MAJOR WORD-CLASSES

IV.F.1 NOUNS

IV.F.2 NOMINALS

IV.F.3 NOUN PHRASES

IV.F.3.1 DETERMINERS in NOUN PHRASES

IV.F.3.2 ARTICLES

IV.F.3.3 DEMONSTRATIVES

IV.D.3.4 POSSESSIVES

IV.F.3.5 INTERROGATIVES and EXCLAMATORIES

IV.F.3.6 QUANTIFIERS and ENUMERATORS

IV.F.3.7 PRE-MODIFIERS and POST-MODIFIERS

IV.F.4 PRO-NOUNS and PRO-NOMINALS

IV.F.5 ADJECTIVES

IV.F.5.1 PRO-ADJECTIVES

IV.F.6 VERBS

IV.F.7 VERBALS

IV.F.7.1 PRO-VERBS

IV.F.8 VERB PHRASES

IV.F.9 ADVERBS and ADVERBIALS

IV.F.9.1 PRO-ADVERBS and PRO-ADVERBIALS

IV.G. MINOR WORD-CLASSES

IV.G. 1 INTERJECTIONS

IV.G.2 PREPOSITIONS

IV.G. 3 JUNCTIONS

Part V. A LEXICOGRAMMAR of PROCESSES in CLAUSES

V.A. GRAMMAR, LEXICON, and LEXICOGRAMMAR revisited

V.B; A LEXICOGRAMMAR of PROCESSES

V.B.1 OUTER PROCESSES

V.B.2 INNER PROCESSES

Part VI. PROSODY and GRAMMAR

VI.A Four units

V.B The spontaneity of real conversation

VI.C STRESSES and TONE GROUPS

VI.D PROSODY and GRAMMAR in MAJOR CLAUSE TYPES

VI.D.1 The DECLARATIVE CLAUSE TYPE forSTATEMENTS

VI.D.2 The INTERROGATIVE CLAUSE TYPE for QUESTIONS

VI.D.3 The EXCLAMATORY CLAUSE TYPE for EXCLAMATIONS

VI.D.4 The IMPERATIVE CLAUSE TYPE for COMMANDS

VI.E MINOR CLAUSE TYPES

VI.E.1 DEPENDENT CLAUSES

VI.E.2 NON-FINITE CLAUSES

VI.E.3 NON-CLAUSES

Part VII. PUNCTUATION in LEXICOGRAMMAR and PROSODY

Part VIII. On the future of GRAMMAR and “grammar”

No file exceeds 400 MB in size.

Poetic Translation Revisited

2007

1. Preliminaries

1.A A not-so-modest proposal

1.B The “text” on the horizon

1.C The vintage of our discontent

2. Translation Studies and Language Studies Then and Now

2.A A “linguistic theory of translation”?

2.B From equivalence to convergence and coincidence

3. Poetic Translation Then and Now

3.A Poetics between modernism and post-modernism

3.B Quality Control in Preview

4. Word-Classes, Word-Pieces, and Word-Formation

4.A Word-classes

4.B Word-class: Pronouns

4.C Word-class: Verbs and verbal complements

4.D Word-pieces: Prefixes

4.E Word-formation versus word-order

5. Thematics

5.A Systematic or polysystematic?

5.B Thematics for the Elegies: Suffering and death

5.C Thematics for the Elegies: Childhood

5.D Thematics for the Elegies: Dissemination

5.E Thematic word-pieces

5.F Realigning the conception of “elegy”

6. A Map of Strategies for Quality Control

6.A Dedications

6.B Superficial errors and oversights

6.C Rearranging the word-order

6.D Metre, euphony, and intonational flow

6.E Varieties of meanings

6.F Off-targets

6.G Special creations

7. Translation Quality out of Control

7.A. Carlyle Ferran Maclntyre

7. B James Blair Leishman (and Stephen Spender)

The Duino Elegies - 2007 version

Die Duineser Elegien - Original German Text

The Duino Elegies - 1997 version

Bibliography

Text, Discourse, and Process

Toward a Multidisciplinary Science of Texts

1980

I. Basic Issues

II. Sequential Connectivity

III. Conceptual Connectivity

IV. Informativity

V. Textual Efficiency

VI. Frames, Schemes, and Plans

VII. Further Issues in Text Processes

VIII. Conversation and Narration

IX. Applications for a Science of Texts

Introduction to Text Linguistics

1981

I. Basic notions

II. The evolution of text linguistics

III. The procedural approach

IV. Cohesion

V. Coherence

VI. Intentionality and acceptability

VII. Informativity

VIII. Situationality

IX. Intertextuality

X. Research and schooling

Text Production

1984

I. The Context of Communication

II. Scientific Precursors

III. The Procedural Approach

IV. The Linearity of Text Production

V. Writing vs. Spelling, Grammar, and Speech

VI. Style, Stages, and Steps Toward Progress

Critical Discourse

A Survey of Contemporary Literary Theorists

1988

Rene Wellek and Austin Warren

Northrop Frye

Leslie Fiedler

E.D. Hirsch

Wolfgang Iser

Hans Robert Jauss

Norman Holland

David Bleich

Bernard Paris

Jonathan Culler

Paul de Man

Harold Bloom

Geoffrey Hartman

Kate Millett

Luce Irigaray

Linguistic Theory:

The Discourse of Fundamental Works

1991

Ferdinand de Saussure

Edward Sapir

Leonard Bloomfield

Kenneth Lee Pike

Louis Hjelmslev

Noam Chomsky

John Rupert Firth

Michael Halliday

Terry Winograd (previously unpublished)

Teun van Dijk and Walter Kintsch

Peter Hartmann

New Foundations

for a Science of Text and Discourse

1997

I Getting Started

II Toward a Science of Text and Discourse

III Designing Models of Cognition and Communication in Society

IV Functionality and Textuality

V Intermediary Control Systems between Virtual and Actual

VI Interlingual Discourse in Theory and Practice

VII Discourse in Socialization and Education

VIII Discourse and the "Whole Human Being"

A NEW INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY

OF TEXT AND DISCOURSE

2004

0. Getting Started

I. Theory and Practice

II. Theory and Practice in Studies of Language

III. Lexicogrammar in the Study of Text and Discourse

IV. Prosody in the Study of Text and Discourse

V. Visuality in the Study of Text and Discourse

VI. Style in the Study of Text and Discourse

VII. Discursive Themes of Social Division

The "New Racism"

Worker safety

Consumer health

Environmentalism

Civil asset forfeiture

"American interests"

The "Patriot Acts"

VIII. The Standards of Textuality Revisited

IX. A Final Word

NUEVA INTRODUCCIÓN BÁSICA

AL ESTUDIO DEL TEXTO Y DEL DISCURSO

VERSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL

Language Policy and Language Education

in Emerging Nations

Focus on Slovenia and Croatia

Functionalism and Corpus Linguistics

in the "Next Generation"

(A) The relation between language versus language use

(B) The role of linguists in accessing language

(C) The status of intuition and introspection

(D) The "proper" size of a corpus

(E) The relation between grammar and lexicon

(F) The relation between syntagmatic and paradigmatic

(G) The relation among syntax, semantics, and pragmatics

(H) The status of "linguistic rules"

(I) The status of the "word"

(J) The status of the "sentence"

(K) The status of "meaning"

(L) The evolution of language and discourse

(M) The production of reference works, such as dictionaries

(N) The teaching and learning of languages

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This volume constitutes a truly impressive achievement. After Ilham Abu Ghazaleh finished her academic degree with us at the University of Florida , she returned to her native Palestine. There, she shouldered the heavy job as Head of the English Department at Birzeit University.

It was in fact a post once held by the illustrious Palestinian patriot and diplomat Hanan Ashrawi: "the Voice of Palestine” (Barbara Victor of CBS), whose book This Side of Peace is indispensable to understand the "situation" of Palestine.

Compared to the original book in English, my diligent translators also acted as co-authors in the recognition they accorded to Arab and Arabic traditions of rhetoric and language study, as documented in the "Arabic References" at the end.