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Argument And Rhetoric - Adverbial Connectors In The History Of English

by Ursula Lenker

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 A corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-Day English. It analyses different characteristics of the make-up, functions and use of connectives, and also considers morphological and syntactic factors.
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Modality In English - Theory And Description

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 Presents corpus-based studies of a range of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions in specific uses. This work approaches some of the classic issues in the field of modality from fresh perspectives, notably that of the 'Theory of Enunciative Operations' developed by the French linguist Antoine Culioli and his colleagues.
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Mensch Und Computer 2015 Â€“ Usability Professionals - Workshop

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 Deals with the practical applications of human-machine interaction research. It is organized by the German ACM specialty section of the UPA (Usability Professionals Association). This volume presents the research findings through case studies and practice reports along with discussions.
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Simplicity And Typological Effects In The Emergence Of New Englishes - The Noun Phrase In Singaporean And Kenyan English

by Thomas Brunner

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 The book is based on a detailed corpus-based investigation of the structure of noun phrases (NPs) in Singaporean English and Kenyan English with the aim of detecting, on the one hand, typological effects from substrate languages and, on the other hand, simplification patterns known to play a role in such varieties.
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Stem Cells - From Drug To Drug Discovery

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 Stem cell based therapy is a 21st century approach of therapeutic intervention which epitomizes a shift from conventional symptomatic treatment strategy to addressing the root cause of the disease process.
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Getting At Get In World Englishes - A Corpus-Based Semasiological-Syntactic Analysis

by Elisabeth Bruckmaier

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 Despite its exceptional frequency, GET has so far gone largely unnoticed in linguistic analysis. It not only offers a comprehensive semasiological-syntactic analysis of this extremely versatile verb, but also contributes to the understanding of factors that are at work in variation in World Englishes.
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English In Computer-Mediated Communication - Variation, Representation, And Change

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 This book addresses the nature of English use within contexts of computer-mediated communication (CMC). The volume therefore examines the English language in particular in CMC â€" what it looks like, what it accomplishes, and what it means to speakers.
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Perspectives On Northern Englishes

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 The present volume about Northern Englishes includes studies not only on phonology but also on semantics, syntax and sociolinguistics from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, with a special emphasis on the process of enregisterment.
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Studies In The History Of The English Language Vi - Evidence And Method In Histories Of English

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 The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume challenges a wide variety of assumptions and practices and illustrates how diverse methods and approaches construct evidence for historical linguistic arguments from an increasingly large and diverse body of linguistic data.
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Pipac - Pressurized Intraperitoneal Aerosol Chemotherapy Â€“ Cancer Under Pressure

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 Pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC) is a novel approach for treating peritoneal carcinomatosis. First encouraging results have been obtained in human patients. This book deals with this topic.
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Variational Text Linguistics - Revisiting Register In English

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 Deals with the field of 'variational text linguistics'. This book focuses on both functional and regional types of textual variation that provides new insights into the concept of 'register'. It is a forum for the description and discussion of registers which have not received enough linguistic attention so far.
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Case Studies

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 Part of a series dedicated to exploring the role of "Submerged Literature" in ancient Greek culture, this title provides case studies on several genres (such as: oracles, phlyax plays, epigrams, Aesopic fables, periplus, mysteries, medical treatises, dance, and music) from the archaic to the Hellenistic and imperial period of Greek culture.
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Actions, Reasons And Reason

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 Through the whole history of mankind philosophers have taken pride in being reasonable agents. Bittner, a German philosopher has developed a different picture: We are much more part than master of the universe. The volume discusses this challenging view from various angles of practical philosophy including the aesthetics of film and theater.
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Universal Or Diverse Paths To English Phonology

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 Deals with the acquisition of English phonology, both segmental and supra segmental, by learners of English as a second language, as a third language and by speakers of a post colonial variety of English. This book focuses on the acquisition process and factors influencing it, based on insights from all three disciplines.
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Changing English - Global And Local Perspectives

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 Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the research into these fields has so far not been sufficiently brought into
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Salience In Sociolinguistics - A Quantitative Approach

by Péter Rácz

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 This work proposes a definition of the notion of salience in sociolinguistics. Salient linguistic variants are those that are easily picked up by the listeners, and these stand in opposition to `invisible' variants, which are, even if they also show complex social stratification, completely ignored.
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Extra-Grammatical Morphology In English - Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, And Related Phenomena

by Elisa Mattiello

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 Extra-grammatical morphology is a hitherto neglected area of research, highly marginalised because of its irregularity and unpredictability. Yet many neologisms in English are formed by means of extra-grammatical mechanisms, such as abbreviation, blending and reduplication, which therefore deserve both greater attention and more systematic study.
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Entrenchment In Usage-Based Theories - What Corpus Data Do And Do Not Reveal About The Mind

by Alice Blumenthal-Dramé

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 This book explores the usage-based claim that high usage frequency leads to the entrenchment of complex words in the minds of language users.
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Origin Of The Moon. New Concept - Geochemistry And Dynamics

by Anton M. Krivtsov e Erik M. Galimov

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 The origin of the Moon remains an unsolved problem of the planetary science. The birth and development of a planet-moon system always play a role in the formation of an entire planetary system around our Sun or around another star.
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English Modality - Core, Periphery And Evidentiality

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 Presents new issues and areas of work in Modality and Evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other languages.
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Areal Features Of The Anglophone World

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 The present volume seeks to unite the research of a range of scholars working on features of non-standard, vernacular English which show an areal distribution, i.e. The volume is concerned with dialect input, innovations among varieties of English andthe areal diffusion of features among varieties.
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The English It-Cleft - A Constructional Account And A Diachronic Investigation

by Amanda Patten

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 The English it-Cleft
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Ditransitives In British English Dialects

by Johanna Gerwin

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 What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this `dative alternationâ€™ as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames.
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The Variability Of Current World Englishes

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 This book explores through fresh detail and approaches unanticipated, heterogeneous dispersions of the English language world-wide. Through data collection, comparative analysis, and typological study, the book's chapters capture patterns that now affect established dialects and shape those recently emerging.
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