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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

The 1960s: a time of protests and civil rights marches, sit-ins and speak-outs, free-love rallies and anti-establishment Yip-ins. Yet going largely unnoticed was another powerful revolution: the explosive growth of the two-year college. In The Profession of English in the Two-Year College, those on...

Author: David BaguleyISBN-10: 0719085853ISBN-13: 9780719085857Publisher: Manchester University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2012Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d

How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and...

The Spanish picaresque novel of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is not only a major genre in its own right; it was a decisive influence on the subsequent literature of Spain and the development of the modern European novel. When first published Professor Rico's...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study which takes students from complete beginner to post-intermediate level. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it...

The Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities explores the digital methods and tools scholars use to observe, interpret, and manage nature in several different academic fields.Employing historical, philosophical, linguistic, literary, and cultural lenses, this handbook explores how the digital environmental humanities (DEH), as...

This in-depth study of the works of major Francophone writers Assia Djebar and Leïla Sebbar redefines postcolonial literature by focusing on three characteristics. Donadey understands postcolonial literature as being both oppositional to and complicit with a variety of power structures. This literature also reclaims...

François Recanati has pioneered the 'mental file' framework for thinking about concepts and how we refer to the world in thought and language. Mental files are based on 'epistemically rewarding' relations to objects in the environment. Standing in such relations to objects puts the...

"A Bibliography of the Works of John Galsworthy" is a definitive reference work meticulously compiled by H.V. Marrot. It provides an exhaustive guide to the literary output of one of the early twentieth century's most prominent English writers and Nobel Prize laureates. This volume...

Author: João DionísioISBN-10: 9042034750ISBN-13: 9789042034754Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2012Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.53d

Court decisions can neither be made nor drafted without references to other texts; citations are omnipresent in judicial rulings. Every decision takes relevant normative texts or precedents into account, primarily to ensure coherent case law. Through the act of referencing, courts demonstrate that their...

This edition of Cicero's In Catilinam I-IV, edited by H.W. Auden, presents Cicero's powerful orations against Catiline. These speeches, delivered to the Roman Senate, exposed Catiline's conspiracy to overthrow the Roman Republic. This book provides the original Latin text, offering students and enthusiasts direct...

"The Game of the Chesse" is a seminal work in the history of English printing, attributed to William Caxton and based on the writings of Jacobus de Cessolis and Jean de Vignay. This allegorical treatise uses the game of chess as a framework to...

This book makes an important contribution to existing knowledge on the processes of reading and comprehension by identifying the various approaches and corresponding theories. The book is organized in various chapters that cumulatively lead to our entry into the three key areas. Chapter One...

The arrival of the Reformation was the decisive impetus for literary development in Finland. The principle of Lutheranism was that the people had to get to hear and read the word of God in their own mother tongue. If there previously was no literary...

Migrants and Literature in Finland and Sweden presents new comparative perspectives on transnational literary studies. This collection provides a contribution to the production of new narratives of the nation. The focus of the contributions is contemporary fiction relating to experiences of migration. When people...

White field, black seeds - who can sow? Although the riddle from which this these words are taken comes from oral tradition, it refers to the ability to write, a skill which in most Nordic countries was not regarded as necessary for everyone. And...

This book presents some of the most recent research on Finnish and Estonian pronouns and other minimal forms of reference. The articles deal with features particular to the pronoun systems of Finnic languages, such as logophoricity and the use of demonstratives for human referents,...

The present study discusses the ways black men are portrayed in the early creative writings of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Toni Cade Bambara, three major African American women authors of the post-Civil Rights Movement era.Author: Komla Messan NubukpoISBN-10: 3962030433ISBN-13: 9783962030438Publisher: Galda VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This is a morphosyntactic analysis of Dholuo verb system in Chomsky's (2008) Derivation by Phase theory of syntax. Dholuo is a member of the Western Nilotic group in the larger Nilo-Saharan language family. The study is an attempt to account for the various aspect...

Gradation is usually considered to be a property of adjectives. Examples like "The boy loves his mother very much" and "The boy has grown a lot" reveal that gradation is not limited to adjectives but verbs are gradable too. Verb gradation has received considerably...

Semantics is one of the core disciplines of philosophy of language. There are basically two strands of established theories: use-based and truth-conditional, with the latter being the dominant variety. This dominance has been questioned recently by linguists who embrace a research paradigm that is...

No detailed description available for "Instruments and Related Concepts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface".Author: Koen Van HoosteISBN-10: 3957580595ISBN-13: 9783957580597Publisher: Dusseldorf University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2018Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.91d

The aim of this book is to investigate how definiteness is expressed in Polish, a language which is claimed to have no definite and in-definite articles. The central question is how the difference in definiteness is indicated between 'a woman' and 'the woman' in...

No detailed description available for "Frames interdisziplinär: Modelle, Anwendungsfelder, Methoden".Author: Alexander ZiemISBN-10: 3957580021ISBN-13: 9783957580023Publisher: Dusseldorf University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/25/2018Pages: 354Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.79d

The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, either by applying it to the analysis...

In these essays the English author and critic Edmund Gosse analyses how personal character acts upon the work of literary artists in the 19th century. His detailed study includes the writings of such great authors as Swinburne, Tennyson and Gide. Reprint of the original...

In his detailed study Henry Bonnell analyses the works of three of the greatest literary women in 19th century England. He examines aspects of realism, the attitude towards nature and the role of passion in the writings of Brontë. Eliot's work is investigated with...

The articles in this volume present contemporary and original research on linguistic meaning, concept formation and conceptual analysis. A central theme across the articles is the question of how concepts are structured, how they are represented in the mind, and how they are expressed...

The comparison of sound sequences (words, morphemes) constitutes the core of many techniques and methods in historical linguistics. With the help of these techniques, corresponding sounds can be determined, historically related words can be identified, and the history of languages can be uncovered. So...

The papers collected in this book cover contemporary and original research on semantic and grammatical issues of nouns and noun phrases, verbs and sentences, and aspects of the combination of nouns and verbs, in a great variety of languages. A special focus is put...

Crawford explores the developments and trends in European literature of the late Nineteenth Century. Her study includes the works of Rostand, Daudet, Huysmans, d'Annunzio and Tolstoi. Reprint of the original edition from 1899.Author: Virginia M. CrawfordISBN-10: 3867414270ISBN-13: 9783867414272Publisher: Europaischer Hochschulverlag Gmbh & Co. KgLanguage:...

A Hand-book of the English Language - For the use of Students of the Universities and Higher Classes of Schools is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research...

Treasures From the Prose World - With Portraits and Biographical Sketches is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,...

Occasional Papers - Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review / 1846-1890 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions,...

Salammbo of Gustave Flaubert is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus...

The works of Thomas Gray - Volume IV. is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As...

The collected writings of Thomas de Quincey - Vol-Xiii is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...

Clarissa - The history of a young lady is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1862. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As...

The works of William Shakespeare - King John, The Winter's tale and several others is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking...

The new method of learning to read, write and speak the Italian language - Adapted for the use of schools and private teachers is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1864. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas...