Mixed Categories

The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate

Highly Selective Reference

Righting the Mother Tongue

From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling

How to Write a Sentence

And How to Read One

Informal English

Puncture Ladies, Egg Harbors, Mississippi Marbles, and Other Curious Words and Phrases of North America

For the Love of Letters

A 21st-Century Guide to the Art of Letter Writing

The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives

For the Extraordinarily Literate

How Not to Write a Novel

200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide

Weeds in the Garden of Words

Further observations of the tangled histor y of the English language

Blooming English

Speaking of Journalism

Twelve Writers and Editors Talk About Their Work

Advanced English Grammar

A Linguistic Approach

Rogues, Widows and Orphans

Mischief and Misadventures in the World of Books

Syntax

A Cognitive Approach

Vocabulary Development

Expand Your Word Power Easily

Composite Predicates in English

Processes of Specialization

Constructions and Compositionality

Cognitive and Computational Explorations

Are languages institutions?

On material and form in language

The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar

Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics

The Tablets of The Law

Digressions on Language and On the Future

This Is a Book of Sentence Diagrams

A Journey Through the Sharpest, Strangest, and Most Stirring Lines Ever Constructed

Language, Culture, and Communication

The Meaning of Messages

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Vocabulary