Linguistics
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-06 | Author:John R Searle [JOHN R. SEARLE]
Consciousness and Value Any attempt to describe consciousness, any attempt to show how consciousness fits into the world at large, always seems to me inadequate. What we are leaving out ...
( Category:
Humanism
April 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-23 | Author:Julie Tetel Andresen & Phillip M. Carter
South Asia Dravidian (Kannad'a, Malayālam, Telugu, Tamil) The proposed homeland for this stock is the Indus Valley in the northwest region of the Indian subcontinent, and the Harappan language and ...
( Category:
Linguistics
April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Lesley M. M. Blume
KERFUFFLE This flowery, old-fashioned word for a “commotion” or “disturbance” is particularly amusing when the kerfuffle in question is not particularly flowery. KETTLE OF FISH When you landed in this ...
( Category:
Linguistics
April 10,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carnie, Andrew; Siddiqi, Dan; Sato, Yosuke
3 Weak lexicalism: inflection versus derivation There is a series of well-known connections between syntax and the three types of inflectional morphology: case, agreement, and verbal inflection (tense, aspect, mood, ...
( Category:
Linguistics
April 8,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-04 | Author:Tony Thorne
jingle n 1. British cash, money, coins. A term used in raffish circles since the 1930s, if not earlier. It has also been recorded in Australian speech. I’m a bit ...
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Linguistics
April 5,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Smith [Smith, Daniel]
CROWN JEWELS – Tools The rhyme elegantly suggests the great value of tools to the workman. * Benny Hill – drill. Hill was a comedian and actor most famous for ...
( Category:
Linguistics
March 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Noam Chomsky
4 | THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE: HOW DEEPLY HIDDEN? THE TITLE FOR this chapter is drawn from Hume’s observations about the man he called “the greatest and rarest genius that ...
( Category:
Ethics & Morality
March 18,2016 )
mobi |rus | 2015-11-04 | Author:Dorren, Gaston [Dorren, Gaston]
33 Small, sweet, slim, sturdy, sexy, stupid little women Italian Donna is the Italian word for ‘woman’. This is straightforward enough, but a donna is frequently not merely a donna. ...
( Category:
Linguistics
March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-13 | Author:Fraser McAlpine
WHAT TO SAY: “Remember the year it rained and Cliff Richard led the crowd in a singsong?” WHAT NOT TO SAY (ANY MORE): “Come on, Tim!” Grade-B Swearwords If you ...
( Category:
Humor & Satire
March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Crystal & David Crystal [Crystal, Ben Crystal and David]
A SCOTTISH PLAYER BEN Hilton – Yeah, that’s a good question . . . When I was at university, [assumes RP] the George Square University, in the summer holiday, we ...
( Category:
Phonetics & Phonics
March 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-05 | Author:Roald Hoffmann & Iain Boyd Whyte
Why the Sublime Is a Religious Concept There is another, possibly deeper reason why the sublime matters to a contemporary sense of pictures, and why it is so important—and so ...
( Category:
Linguistics
March 6,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Rosen, Alan [Rosen, Alan]
The ascription of “strangely disembodied” to audio recorded testimony and the voices that it conveys has them lose exactly what Boder had hoped they would gain. This is true in ...
( Category:
Holocaust
March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Bernstein, Richard J.;
Brandom’s Contribution I cannot do justice to Brandom’s complex and intricate pragmatic account of discursive justificatory practices, truth claims, and objectivity. His discussion of objectivity appears only at the end ...
( Category:
Pragmatism
March 2,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Crystal, David
Central, middle; coming between the eldest and youngest in age. From Cumberland: ‘Is that t’auldest lad er youngest?’ ‘It’s nowder, it’s middlemer’. mim (adjective) Berkshire, Cornwall, Durham, Ireland, Norfolk, Northumberland, ...
( Category:
Vocabulary
March 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-02 | Author:James McGilvray
In effect, X-bar theory requires that each lexical item project three bar levels: X (which in effect says what category of lexical item it is), X′ (which is less intuitively ...
( Category:
Linguistics
February 22,2016 )
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