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Origins of Language: A Slim Guide offers a concise and accessible overview of what is known about the evolution of the human capacity for language. Non-human animals communicate in simple ways: they may be able to form simple concepts, to feel some limited empathy for...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-03-06
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This book explores sets of movement cases in medieval Italian from 1200 to 1315. It offers an integrated description of all the relevant aspects of word order in Old Italian based on uniform principles (analysing the left periphery of the sentence, of the verbal phrase,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-03-06
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Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events, through an in-depth examination of four major language types: tense-based English, tense-aspect-based Polish, aspect-based Chinese, and mood-based Kalaallisut. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-03-05
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Explorations in Semantics
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This monograph offers an incisive analysis of how the second language learner can achieve cultural proficiency, which is more than a set of rules and facts to be memorized by rote. How can the cultural dimension be taken into account, among the many choices of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-05
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Redaktionell gestaltete Anzeigen stehen unter Verdacht, gegen das ethische und rechtliche Gebot zur Trennung von Werbung und Redaktion zu verstoßen. Wenn Gerichte und der Deutsche Presserat prüfen, wann dies der Fall ist, stützen sie sich auf die Wahrnehmung des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-05
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Imposters are third person DPs that are used to refer to the speaker/writer or addressee, such as :
(i) Your humble servant finds the time before our next encounter very long.
(ii) This reporter thinks that the current developments are extraordinary.
(iii) Daddy will...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-03-04
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This book is the Winner of the OSCLG Outstanding Book Award The loss of a desired pregnancy or the inability to experience pregnancy are intensely personal phenomena; these losses are also, in our culture at least, extremely private. Communicating Pregnancy Loss is a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-03-01
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In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making – not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an experience of building knowledge and understanding...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-03-01
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Communication and Political Crisis explores the role of the global media in a period of intensifying geopolitical conflict. Through case studies drawn from domestic and international political crises such as the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, leading media...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-03-01
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Religion and politics have often been called taboo topics for polite dinner conversation, but in political campaigns and religious services, the two often mix. This book looks at how religious worship remains embedded with inherent political messages and behaviors,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-02-28
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The Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of information sources, as well as inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs in a range of languages.The book investigates...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-28
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In this book John A. Hawkins argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication. Evidence for these comes from languages permitting structural options from which selections are...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-28
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Wie unterscheidet sich die Nutzung neuer Medien bei Kindern und Jugendlichen von derjenigen bei Erwachsenen? Im vorliegenden Band wird diese Frage aus zwei unterschiedlichen Perspektiven beleuchtet. Im ersten Teil steht die theoretische Beschreibung der Kompetenzen im...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-27
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This volume aims to represent the breadth and depth of current linguistic research of predominantly young linguists and thus to produce a snapshot of topical linguistic issues and trends. Therefore, it presents papers from systemic linguistics next to ones on text...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-27
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Speeches of Mark Twain” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
In addition to being a great novelist, Mark Twain was one of the most popular public speakers of his day.This...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2014-02-26
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Die Studie analysiert Fernsehnachrichten erstmals in größerem Umfang sowohl diachron wie auch sprach- und kulturvergleichend und führt dabei verschiedene Ansätze der Medienlinguistik, der kontrastiven Textologie, der Textlinguistik, der Stilistik, der linguistischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-26
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English Lexicogenesis investigates the processes by which novel words are coined in English, and how they are variously discarded or adopted, and frequently then adapted. Gary Miller looks at the roles of affixation, compounding, clipping, and blending in the history of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-20
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This book presents a novel semantic account of weak, or selective, islands. Weak islands are configurations that block the displacement of certain elements in a sentence. Examples of island violations with acceptable counterexamples include '#How much wine haven't you...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-20
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This book offers detailed empirical coverage of the syntax and semantics of Plains Cree, an Algonquian language of western Canada. It combines careful elicitation with corpus studies to provide the first systematic investigation of the two distinct verbal inflectional...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-20
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This book is about the borrowing of inflectional morphemes in language contact settings.This phenomenon has at all times seemed to be the most poorly documented aspect of linguistic borrowing. Contact-induced morphological change is not rare in word formation, but...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-18
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