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One of the well-known properties of Slavic languages is that they show subject-oriented reflexives. This book presents this phenomenon in Polish in great empirical detail and provides its up-to-date syntactic analysis, couched in the minimalist model of grammar. The...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-05-20
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This book offers one possible solution in the pursuit of linguistic equality by exploring how the Structural Inquiry of Stigmatized English (SISE) approach to linguistics pedagogy can be used to empower linguistics students and researchers as ambassadors for change. By...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-11
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This book offers a novel perspective on the intersection of translation and narration in literary translation by investigating how three translations of Shuihu Zhuan present the original narrative mode to the target readership in terms of four narrative elements—voice,...
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Springer
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2020-05-09
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This book employs a Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) framework to examine cycling mobility, marking a new turn in ecolinguistic discourse analysis. The author focuses specifically on environment-related arguments concerning the promotion of higher levels of cycling,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-07
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This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the sub-family of the Romance languages that includes French and Occitan: Gallo-Romance. Both standard and non-standard Gallo-Romance data can be of enormous value to studies of morphosyntactic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-07
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This book offers fresh critical insights to the field of children’s literature translation studies by applying the concept of transcreation, established in the creative industries of the globalized world, to bring to the fore the transformative, transgressional and...
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Springer
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2020-05-04
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This book offers innovative investigations of the concept of life in art and in theory. It features essays that explore biopoetics and look at how insights from the natural sciences shape research within the humanities. Since literature, works of art, and other cultural...
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Springer
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2020-04-24
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This is the first English-language guidebook geared at an interdisciplinary audience that reflects relevant scholarly developments related to the legacy and legitimacy of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (1916) today. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-23
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This book interprets the close intimacy between poetry and painting from the perspective of intersemiotic translation, by providing a systematic examination of the bilingual and visual representation of landscape in the poetry of Wang Wei, a high Tang poet who won...
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Springer
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2020-04-16
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Des montagnes de l’Asie centrale aux déserts d’Egypte, des rues de Paris au pôle Nord, les agents d’une équipe d’élite mènent une lutte acharnée contre un ennemi redoutable. Disposant des toutes dernières technologies en matière de renseignement et de matériel...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre
Parution :
2020-04-13
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Manuels
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This book discusses the morphological properties of intonation, building on past research to support the long-recognized relationship between the functions and meanings of discourse particles and the functions and meanings of intonation. The morphological status of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-04-09
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This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication. Since Aristotle, it has been claimed that a sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. Niuean...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-09
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This edited book examines language perceptions and practices in multilingual university contexts in the aftermath of recent theoretical developments questioning the conceptualization of language as a static entity, drawing on case studies from different Northern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-03
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The book provides an assessment of the contribution of pronoun omission to the complexity and efficiency of varieties of English and the influence of language contact on its attestation and pervasiveness. On the one hand, omitted pronouns result in simpler and more...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-31
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In this book, the author investigates a central issue in language testing research: What are the key features that contribute to item difficulty in a reading test? Results of various statistical analyses of the multiple-choice reading items from the Austrian 2009...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-03-30
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In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-25
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In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-25
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This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-25
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
This book explores possible and impossible...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-19
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