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When philosophers of religion address the special problems of religious language they often restrict their scope to semantics, the English language, and the Christian tradition. The essays and discussions in this volume extend those frontiers to include syntactical and performative issues, a global perspective...

The articles in this collection explore the relationship between minorities, minority languages, and state language policies. Five articles focus on southern Balkan languages (Macedonian, Albanian, Romany, Greek, Turkish) and the sixth on Kurdish as a transition between the Balkans and the Near East. Although...

Papers from the Conference at the State University of New York at Binghamton on October 28-29, 1988. Contributors include Hugo Bekker, Martin Bidney, Haskell Block, Christopher Fynsk, Joel Golb, Pierre Joris, and Dennis Schmidt. The papers explore aspects of Paul Celan's poetic thought and...

This exhaustive study of a set of Old High German particles, thoh, ia, and thanne, focuses on the pragmatic functions of those particles. After categorizing modal particles - particles which indicate implicitly a speaker's relationship to or attitude toward his or her own discourse...

This special collection of original articles is designed to acquaint readers with the most recent American scholarship on colloquial Russian (CR). The individual contributors have explored and advanced some of the earlier findings of Soviet colleagues, applying a refreshingly broad spectrum of linguistic, literary,...

This book investigates the interaction of the morphology and syntax of some deverbal suffixes in Gothic in synchronic and diachronic perspectives. The suffixes under examination include: the past participle forming suffixes -pa-/-na-, the fourth class weak verb forming suffixes -nõ-/-na-, and action/state noun forming...

Myers uses a new and theoretically provocative comparative approach to bring into view and then to question the pervasive but often unsuspected influence of the classical conception of Shakespeare's canon dominant since Dowden first suggested it in the middle of the nineteenth century. As...

The accepted change from movable pitch accent to fixed dynamic accent in Germanic is so substantial that it must have been multi-staged. The author posits stages, using acoustic phonetics, Verner's Law and accent markings in Old High German. He tests his theory in all...

This edition provides a scholarly text, based on the oldest extant vellums, of a little known but fascinating chivalrous romance written in 14th-century Iceland. The texts of the older redaction, as represented by Swedish Royal Library 7, 4to (A) and 7, fol. (B), are...

This book serves as an introductory text and reference manual for the study of American German and American Icelandic bilingualism. Specifically, the book deals with English influence on the spoken dialects of American German and compares these results with similar data for spoken American...

Readers and critics alike have found the dense - Joyce-like - verbal inventions of these two experimental Latin American novels gratuitous and incomprehensible. This study, however, by articulating the grammar of the neologisms, relating them to the thematic, stylistic, and semiotic elements of the...

The triangular clause relationship not previously studied in detail comprises two subordinate clauses relating back to one head clause. Because of the comparative tightness of such a relationship, preferred patterns and possible influencing factors of the clause order can be discerned in AElfric's Lives...

The English language has proved inadequate to express and activate the expanding functions of government. A new language known as Federal Prose has triumphantly risen to fill this need. It can give voice to the government mind or express the purposes of administrative democracy....

What is the true nature of meaning? Where does meaning exist or reside? In what ways does it exist? How does it arise? What is human mind and how does it work? What is human nature? What is language? What is the appropriate attitude...

Virgil's agricultural poem, the Georgics, forms part of a long tradition of didactic epic going back to the archaic poet Hesiod. This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition, particularly Lucretius' De Rerum Natura ("On the Nature...

Judged as a stubborn reactionary, inefficient and maladroit in the administration of his high office, inflexible and vindictive of temper, Lord George Germain alienated generals and shouldered the blame for Britain's humiliation at Saratoga. Secretary of State for the American Department from 1775 to...

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: keine, University of Leipzig (Institut für Anglistik), course: Spy Novels, language: English, abstract: Eric Clifford Ambler was born in 1909. His parents were very creative in earning money: they ran...

Well-known scholars in the field explore the important qualities and functions of English studies' constituent disciplines--Ellen Barton on linguistics and discourse analysis, Janice Lauer on rhetoric and composition, Katharine Haake on creative writing, Richard Taylor on literature and literary criticism, Amy Elias on critical...

IMPORTANT BANNED BOOKS IN HISTORY AND TODAY STAND WITH THE BANNED: Dozens of essential literary works have been threatened by censorship in recent years. Stand up for free speech with this new calendar that celebrates the wisdom, lessons, and humor found in these important,...

Social English is not about big vocabulary. It's about saying the right thing in the right way: greeting people, introducing yourself, making short conversations, accepting or declining invitations politely, thanking clearly, and keeping boundaries without sounding rude.Osprey English For Real Life Social Life (Level...

This book is a selection of shorter Old English poems, or fragments, containing both the original texts in Old English and Modern English translation running parallel. The en face arrangement of Old English text on the verso and Modern English translation on the recto...

"The World's Literature" by Mary Elizabeth Burt, originally published in 1890, is a comprehensive course in English designed for colleges and high schools. This enduring anthology aims to cultivate a deep appreciation for literature and enhance students' understanding of literary techniques and historical context....

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Ce livre tire, en effet, son origine du constat des difficultés de nombreux apprenants burundais à s'exprimer avec aisance en français. Devant ce constat, nous avons cherché à connaître les causes qui expliquent ce handicap, alors que ces apprenants burundais passent plus de 600...

A dramatization in blank verse of the central situation in Bulwer's Last Days of Pompeii, published for the first time.Author: George Henry BokerISBN-10: 1512810436ISBN-13: 9781512810431Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press AnniversaryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/1929Pages: 120Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.31d

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

This volume offers a complete survey and bibliography of Italian literature from 1827 to 1930, giving its three stages of development: historical, naturalistic, reflective.Author: Domenico VittoriniISBN-10: 1512808318ISBN-13: 9781512808315Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press AnniversaryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/1930Pages: 308Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

In this fourth volume of Joseph E. Gillet's monumental study, Propalladia and Other Works of Bartolomé De Torres Naharro, all students of Renaissance drama will find a wealth of material on the origins of the modern European theater. Torres Naharro created the cloak-and-sword play...

A selective compilation of nearly 600 of the letters Dreiser wrote between 1897 and 1945, gleaned from the massive collection on Dreiser at the University of Pennsylvania.Author: Robert H. EliasISBN-10: 1512801852ISBN-13: 9781512801859Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press AnniversaryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/1959Pages: 384Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 9.21h x...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.Author: B. a. HinsdaleISBN-10: 1498037720ISBN-13: 9781498037723Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.70d

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This is a new release of the original 1959 edition.Author: Herbert Wey,John CoreyISBN-10: 1494073102ISBN-13: 9781494073107Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 290Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.61d

In Literacy Strategies for Grades 4-12: Reinforcing the Threads of Reading, Karen Tankersley provides a multiplicity of practical, research-based reading strategies tailored specifically for use with older students. These students may no longer have a reading class as part of the school day, but...

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