This study shows how English provides its speakers with a great variety of ways of being vague and draws on naturally-occurring data to examine syntactic
Billy is the hardest kid in school and a horrible bully
The Only Thing Worth Dying For
Hailed by Galbraith as a "brilliant achievement"
From deadly animal battles and futuristic spy technology to super volcanoes and other coldest places in the universe
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories Manipulatives This study shows how EnglishThe Caribbean is the source of one of the richest, most accessible, and yet technically adventurous traditions of contemporary world literature. This collection of Caribbean short stories is pan Caribbean, including stories from the four main languages of the region: English, Spanish, French, and Dutch. Stories by major figures in the English language tradition such as V. S. Naipaul, Sam Sevlon, and Jean Rhys are set alongside their Spanish and French