Linguistics
epub |eng | 2011-11-25 | Author:Eli Hinkel & Sandra Fotos [ELI HINKEL AND SANDRA FOTOS]

The writer could have worded these sentences differently; however, she chose to use information focus it-clefts to introduce stylistic variety and (hopefully) maintain reader interest at this midpoint in the ...
( Category: Language Arts March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-11 | Author:James M. Barrie [Unbekannt]

I did not see Scudamour again for a long time, for I took care to keep out of his way; but I heard first from him and then of him. ...
( Category: Humor March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:W. H. Hudson [HUDSON, W. H.]

Chapter 12 TO FOLLOW IMPETUOUS, BIRD-LIKE RIMA IN HER DESCENT OF the hill would have been impossible, nor had I any desire to be a witness of old Nuflo’s discomfiture ...
( Category: Classics March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-08 | Author:van Gelderen, Elly;

From the 13th century on, the choice between a and an and the forms of the possessive (e.g. my or mine) depend on the word that follows. If that word ...
( Category: Linguistics Reference March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-27 | Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

‘Where’s t’ wench?’ said Robson, after he had shaken hands with Kinraid, and spoken a few words to him and to Mrs. Corney. ‘She’s getten’ a basket wi’ sausages in ...
( Category: Humor March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 1990-07-15 | Author:Richard Lederer

29. the fleshy pad just below the thumb uvula 30. the hollow area at the back of the knee vomer (Answers on page 212) FEAR OF PHOBIAS Do you have ...
( Category: Puns & Wordplay March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 1839-01-01 | Author:Honoré de Balzac [de Balzac, Honoré]

*** “Now, that M. le Vicomte d’A—— is attracting so much attention, they will perhaps let me alone,” M. le Vicomte Demosthenes was heard to say yesterday. *** An Ultra, ...
( Category: French March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:English Essays [Essays, English]

Introductory Note Sydney Smith Sydney Smith (1771–1845) was an English clergyman noted as the wittiest man of his time. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford, and in 1798 went ...
( Category: Anthologies March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 1910-03-15 | Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman [Gilman, Charlotte Perkins]

* * * Diantha sat at her window, watching the big soft, brilliant moon behind the eucalyptus trees. After the close of the strenuous meeting, she had withdrawn from the ...
( Category: Feminist Theory March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-19 | Author:Upton Sinclair

CHAPTER XVIII. CLIF FARADAY’S SACRIFICE. It is needless to say that Clif stared at the man in amazement. But an instant before he had heard him state that he was ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Yvonne Oswald

So, are you ready for the big goal? Make this next goal so huge that when you get it, you’ll know that this is the best book you ever read! ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 1983-03-10 | Author:Shirley Brice Heath

A question of degree and kind Both Trackton and Roadville are literate communities and each has its own traditions for structuring, using, and assessing reading and writing. The residents of ...
( Category: Linguistics March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-10 | Author:Lakoff, Robin Tolmach; Bucholtz, Mary;

PART II: CONCEPTS 5 Power, Lady, and Linguistic Politeness in Language and Woman’s Place JANET HOLMES Robin Lakoff is undoubtedly the linguist who has most profoundly influenced the direction of ...
( Category: Feminist Theory March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-08 | Author:Albert Bigelow Paine [Paine, Albert Bigelow]

The work so promptly begun made little progress. Hard days of illness and sorrow followed, and it was not until September that it was really under way. His natural enthusiasm ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-17 | Author:Angela D. Friederici

From Temporal to Frontal Cortex: Toward Higher-Order Computation Both syntactic and semantic processes involve the inferior frontal cortex, which can be subdivided cyto- and receptorarchitectonically into different subparts (Amunts, Schleicher, ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 11,2020 )