New Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Grammar

[Helen Halva]

dumb question, I know:   "beginning to intermediate English 
learners":-----is this for English-speaking students who are learning BCS, 
or for speakers of BCS who are learning English?
Thanks!
HH


At 03:12 PM 6/6/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>A Comparative Reference Grammar of Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian
>
>      Author: Danko Sipka (Danko.Sipka at asu.edu, 
> http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsipka)
>      ISBN: 978-1-931546-31-7
>      Publisher: Dunwoody Press
>      Year Published: 2007
>      Detail: 740 pages
>
>      This grammar is laid out as a comprehensive yet user-friendly
>reference for beginning to intermediate English learners. The basic grammar
>text gives rules in a form of DECISION-TREES, tables and figures. Longer
>lists of exceptions are provided in the appendices. Most sections are
>divided into a STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTION and a CONTRASTIVE SECTION. Features
>that contrast with English are elaborated in detail. Along with the sections
>containing grammatical information in a narrower sense (PHONOLOGY with
>PROSODY, INFLECTIONAL and LEXICAL MORPHOLOGY, SYNTAX), the grammar contains
>practical META-GRAMMATICAL information such as that on the ORTHOGRAPHY and
>the use of PRAGMATIC OPERATORS, which the learner will need in everyday
>communication. Main differences between standard and substandard grammatical
>forms are also provided.
>
>      Three principal theoretical approaches deployed in the grammar include
>MINIMAL INFORMATION GRAMMAR, the application of DECISION THEORY in modeling
>language structures, and COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS. They were used in the first
>stage of preparing the text, followed by the application of a user friendly
>interface.
>
>      An overarching goal of this grammar is to equip its users with the
>heuristics which will enable a swift learning process and easy solutions to
>any problem in the use of the language.
>
>      Publisher's page: http://www.dunwoodypress.com/products/-/246
>
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