Offering a cognitive approach to semantics, this highly accessible textbook place cognitive linguistics at the centre of lexical semantics while covering the field in a broader sense. It explains the fundamental concepts underlying the stud...Lasīt vairāk
Offering a cognitive approach to semantics, this highly accessible textbook place cognitive linguistics at the centre of lexical semantics while covering the field in a broader sense. It explains the fundamental concepts underlying the stud...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a dictionary of fuck and its many permutations, from absofuckinglutely to zipless fuck. Like the Oxford English Dictionary, it is a historical dictionary. It illustrates every sense of every entry with quotations, from the ear...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Jun-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, ISBN-13: 9783034346443)
This book explains the competition in the complementation of Old English aspectual and manipulative verbs that arises between finite and non-finite clauses on the one hand and between clauses and noun phrases on the other hand. The book combines text...Lasīt vairāk
The concept of politeness permeates all aspects of modern life and society. However, to what extent has this phenomenon changed over time? This book traces the elusive concept of politeness from its beginnings in the Middle Ages up to the present day...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a complete and detailed overview of modern English syntax, and offers a thorough grounding in the essentials of sentence structure and syntactic argumentation. Clear, accessible and comprehensive, it contains a wealth of materia...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a complete and detailed overview of modern English syntax, and offers a thorough grounding in the essentials of sentence structure and syntactic argumentation. Clear, accessible and comprehensive, it contains a wealth of materia...Lasīt vairāk
A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics.A major question for linguistic theory concerns how the structure of sentences relates to their mea...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Nov-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Thomas Nelson Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781400337972)
Why are spectacularly successful movies called blockbusters? Why does putting your best foot forward mean you hope to make a good impression? Why is rowdy and prankish behavior called horseplay and what does it have to do with the rarity...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Oct-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512825558)
What does the keyword continence in Loves Labors Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contemporary identification of the quince with weddings that is crucial for A Midsummer Nigh...Lasīt vairāk
The range of meanings expressed by derivatives formed by the attachment of the four principal verb-forming suffixes - ate, - en, - ify and - ize has been the subject of extensive analysis for over two decades. From a descr...Lasīt vairāk
An in-depth digital investigation of several 18th-century British corpora, this book identifies shared communities of meaning in the printed British 18th century by highlighting and analysing patterns in the distribution of lexis. There a...Lasīt vairāk
This book proposes a radically new account of clefts in English. Since the 1960s, functional as well as formal linguists have generally restricted clefts to constructions with an identifying matrix (it-clefts) and have claimed that they only code inf...Lasīt vairāk
From Mental Floss, the premier destination for curious minds, comes a deep dive into the the world of words! Youll discover the surprising (and sometimes very dark) origins of common terms, a guide to quirky old-timey words, a timeline of popular...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Mar-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399504607)
This clear and accessible textbook introduces the crucial concepts essential to your study of the semantics and pragmatics of English. Coverage is wide-ranging, taking you from word meaning to the level of discourse, and explaining how these topic...Lasīt vairāk
An introduction to the linguistic study of meaning, this book outlines the meaning potential (semantics) of English and how language knowledge is put to use (pragmatics). This clear and accessible textbook introduces the crucial concepts e...Lasīt vairāk
