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Competing Comparative Constructions in Europe

Author : Thomas Stolz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3050064994
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Competing Comparative Constructions in Europe by : Thomas Stolz

Download or read book Competing Comparative Constructions in Europe written by Thomas Stolz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth areal-typological study analyzes the grammatical means which are employed in the languages of Europe to express the comparative of inequality/superiority. The extant theories and hypotheses about the morphosyntactic structure and the cross-linguistic distribution of construction types are reviewed. The behavior of comparatives under the conditions of language contact is discussed. Data from more than 170 standard and nonstandard varieties of European languages are scrutinized systematically. The synchronic picture is complemented by a chapter on the diachrony of comparative constructions. The European facts are compared to those of the geographically adjacent Asian and African regions. It is argued that cross-linguistic investigations must take account also of so-called secondary options. These secondary options suggest strongly that the supposedly dominant role of the particle comparative cannot be upheld for Europe. Moreover, only the secondary options allow us to draw isoglosses which cross the borders between Europe and Asia (and Africa).

Discourse Constructions in English

Author : Aneider Iza Erviti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030716805
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Discourse Constructions in English written by Aneider Iza Erviti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book emphasizes the advantages of examining discourse connectivity from a constructionist perspective and highlights the role of discourse configurations in the construction of meaning. The research contained advances the field of cognitive classification and categorization of discourse constructions. The text is a great improvement in the discourse analysis literature, since it uniquely clarifies the subtleties of meaning between different discourse markers that are frequently treated as equivalent by lexicographers. It is unique in being the first contribution to the creation of a Constructicon at the discourse level and it fills an important gap within cognitively oriented constructionist accounts that have mostly restricted their analyses to argument-structure and illocutionary constructions. This yearbook appeals to students and researchers working within corpus linguistics.

The Middle Voice and Connected Constructions in Ibero-Romance

Author : Carlota de Benito Moreno
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027257582
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Middle Voice and Connected Constructions in Ibero-Romance by : Carlota de Benito Moreno

Download or read book The Middle Voice and Connected Constructions in Ibero-Romance written by Carlota de Benito Moreno and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reflexive constructions that are the focus of this book are the constructions broadly described with the term “middle”: i.e., those that can appear in all persons, and in which the reflexive marker (RM) cannot be understood as a full referential pronoun. One goal of this study is to provide a corpus-based typology of middle and related uses that allow us to compare the behaviour of the RM in these constructions with previous typological accounts, where competing models (based either on changes of diathesis or on the semantics of the verbal event) can be found. A second goal is to shed light on the evolution of the different functions of the RM, by exploring the factors that affect its productivity, with a specific focus on those verbs where reflexive marking is most variable, that is, anticausative verbs and verbs with no change of valency. These reflexive constructions show a notable difference in productivity in Spanish and Galician, although the languages are closely related and contiguous. The languages are thus good candidates for a contrastive and variationist analysis serving these two goals. The semantic class of the predicate, its aspectual properties and the animacy of the subject are some of the most relevant factors that are taken into account to understand the motivations behind the presence (or absence) of the RM. By relying on a corpus of interviews from rural communities across peninsular Spain (except Catalonia), space as a relevant extra-linguistic variable is taken into account, helping uncover previously unknown geographical patterns.

Designing, Constructing, and Programming Robots for Learning

Author : Eteokleous, Nikleia
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799874451
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Designing, Constructing, and Programming Robots for Learning written by Eteokleous, Nikleia and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of robotics in a classroom context has seen an increase in global momentum recently because of its positive contributions in the teaching of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and beyond. It is argued that when robotics and programming are integrated in developmentally appropriate ways, cognitive skill development beyond STEM can be achieved. The development of educational robotics has presented a plethora of ways in which students can be assisted in the classroom. Designing, Constructing, and Programming Robots for Learning highlights the importance of integrating robotics in educational practice and presents various ways for how it can be achieved. It further explains how 21st century skills and life skills can be developed through the hands-on experience of educational robotics. Covering topics such as computational thinking, social skill enhancement, and teacher training, this text is an essential resource for engineers, educational software developers, teachers, professors, instructors, researchers, faculty, leaders in educational fields, students, and academicians.

Principles of Dynamo-eletric Machines, and Practical Directions for Designing and Constructing Dynamos

Author : Carl Hering
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Dynamo-eletric Machines, and Practical Directions for Designing and Constructing Dynamos written by Carl Hering and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Perspectives on the Politics of Abortion

Author : Ted G. Jelen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313022429
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Perspectives on the Politics of Abortion by : Ted G. Jelen

Download or read book Perspectives on the Politics of Abortion written by Ted G. Jelen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-08-22 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on the Politics of Abortion examines the abortion issue from ethical, empirical, and legal angles and offers some rather unconventional analyses and surprising conclusions with regard to this familiar issue. One chapter argues that the emphasis on rights has made illegal and occasionally violent activity on the part of pro-life activists increasingly likely. Another chapter suggests that abortion is an instance of the more general right to self-defense. A chapter considers the problem of abortion from the standpoint of participants in the political process. And chapters examine the political tactics of the Roman Catholic Church and abortion rights in terms of constitutional due process. This important volume adds new voices and perspectives to the abortion debate.

(Re)constructing Reality

Author : Linda Stump Rashidi
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820474489
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book (Re)constructing Reality written by Linda Stump Rashidi and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most brilliant fictional works of the twentieth century, Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet is at once a culmination of modernist literature and an exploration of the conscious construction of truth and reality. Structured to reflect Einstein's relativity theory, the Alexandria Quartet is an intricate interweaving of linguistic resources. Using M. A. K. Halliday's systemic linguistic theory of text analysis, (Re)constructing Reality probes the inner workings of Durrell's masterpiece to bring us closer to an understanding of how meaning is created. In the process, this book provides insight into both the Alexandria Quartet itself, as well as into the linguistic nature of literary composition.

The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Focus and Topic Constructions in Italian

Author : M. Frascarelli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401595003
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Focus and Topic Constructions in Italian by : M. Frascarelli

Download or read book The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Focus and Topic Constructions in Italian written by M. Frascarelli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...this work represents a key case study in the study of the prosody and syntax interactions." (Pilar Prieto, Lingua 115, 2005)

Holy War, Holy Peace

Author : Marc Gopin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195146506
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Holy War, Holy Peace written by Marc Gopin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of religion in inflaming the Palestinian/Israeli conflict represents one understanding of the Abrahamic traditions. Marc Goplin argues for a greater integration of the Middle East peace process with the region's religious groups.

Typology of Resultative Constructions

Author : Vladimir P. Nedjalkov
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027228833
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Typology of Resultative Constructions by : Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

Download or read book Typology of Resultative Constructions written by Vladimir P. Nedjalkov and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, originally published in Russian, combines data from a wide range of languages, meticulously analyzed, with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus capable of isolating the most important syntactic and semantic parameters and of drawing those generalizations that are most significant from a cross-linguistic perspective. Many ideas which are at best only hinted at in earlier literature such as the precise relation among resultative, perfect, and stative, or correlations between resultative and passive voice are here for the first time stated precisely and given a firm foundation by means of detailed exemplification from a wide range of languages.

Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions

Author : Rafael Aguilar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319994417
Total Pages : 2536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions by : Rafael Aguilar

Download or read book Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions written by Rafael Aguilar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-18 with total page 2536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions (SAHC) that was held in Cusco, Peru in 2018. It disseminates recent advances in the areas related to the structural analysis of historical and archaeological constructions. The challenges faced in this field show that accuracy and robustness of results rely heavily on an interdisciplinary approach, where different areas of expertise from managers, practitioners, and scientists work together. Bearing this in mind, SAHC 2018 stimulated discussion on the new knowledge developed in the different disciplines involved in analysis, conservation, retrofit, and management of existing constructions. This book is organized according to the following topics: assessment and intervention of archaeological heritage, history of construction and building technology, advances in inspection and NDT, innovations in field and laboratory testing applied to historical construction and heritage, new technologies and techniques, risk and vulnerability assessments of heritage for multiple types of hazards, repair, strengthening, and retrofit of historical structures, numerical modeling and structural analysis, structural health monitoring, durability and sustainability, management and conservation strategies for heritage structures, and interdisciplinary projects and case studies. This volume holds particular interest for all the community interested in the challenging task of preserving existing constructions, enable great opportunities, and also uncover new challenges in the field of structural analysis of historical and archeological constructions.

Constructing a Sociology of Translation

Author : Michaela Wolf
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729206X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Constructing a Sociology of Translation by : Michaela Wolf

Download or read book Constructing a Sociology of Translation written by Michaela Wolf and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The view of translation as a socially regulated activity has opened up a broad field of research in the last few years. This volume deals with central questions of the new domain and aims to contribute to the conceptualisation of a general sociology of translation. Interdisciplinary in approach, it discusses the role of major representatives of sociology like Pierre Bourdieu, Bruno Latour, Bernard Lahire, Anthony Giddens or Niklas Luhmann in establishing a theoretical framework for a sociology of translation. Drawing on methodologies from sociology and integrating them into translation studies, the book questions some of the established categories in this discipline and calls for a redefinition of long-assumed principles. The contributions show the social involvement of translation in various fields and focus especially on the translator’s position in an emerging sociology of translation, Bourdieu’s influence in conceptualising this new sub-discipline, methodological questions and a sociologically oriented meta-discussion of translation studies.

Construction Grammar and its Application to English

Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748675868
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Construction Grammar and its Application to English written by Martin Hilpert and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.

Constructing the Coens

Author : Allen Redmon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442244852
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Constructing the Coens written by Allen Redmon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The films of Ethan and Joel Coen have been embraced by mainstream audiences, but also have been subject to intense scrutiny by critics and cinema scholars. Movies such as Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, and Raising Arizona represent the filmmakers’ postmodern tendencies, a subject many academics have written about at length. But is it enough to reduce their features as expressions of postmodernism or are there other ways of viewing their work—not only their individual films but their entire output as a collective whole? In Constructing the Coens: From Blood Simple to Inside Llewyn Davis, Allen H. Redmon looks beyond the postmodern sensibilities of every film written and directed by the Coens to find an unexpected range of recurring ideas expressed in and about contemporary film. In this volume, Redmon tackles all of the films in the Coen brothers’ canon by examining—among other topics—narrative coherence in The Man Who Wasn’t There, intertextuality in No Country for Old Men, and sexuality in Burn after Reading and O Brother, Where Art Thou? Additional chapters look at their films through the prisms of gender studies, adaptation studies, and a constructivist sensibility weaved throughout their work. Considering the whole of the Coens’ output, as well as many of the topics being discussed in contemporary film studies, this book challenges viewers to reexamine their initial responses to these movies. By engaging both the familiar and foreign elements in each film, Constructing the Coens will appeal to fans of the brothers’ cinema, but also to students and scholars of film theory, adaptation studies, queer theory, and gender studies.

Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques

Author : Maria Serna
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642153682
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques written by Maria Serna and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2010, and the 14th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2010, held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2010. The 28 revised full papers of the APPROX 2010 workshop and the 29 revised full papers of the RANDOM 2010 workshop included in this volume, were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 and 61 submissions, respectively. APPROX focuses on algorithmic and complexity issues surrounding the development of efficient approximate solutions to computationally difficult problems. RANDOM is concerned with applications of randomness to computational and combinatorial problems.

Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages

Author : Evie Coussé
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902724930X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages by : Evie Coussé

Download or read book Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages written by Evie Coussé and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents eight studies of linguistic phenomena in Nordic languages (notably Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) from a construction grammar perspective. The contributions both deepen and widen the focus of construction grammar applied to Nordic languages by dealing with a variety of topics, such as the constructional network, pseudo-coordination, additional language learning and emerging multilingualism, prototypical semantics in argument structure constructions, and domain-specific discourse and language behavior. The volume showcases the vibrant research activity within part of the construction grammar community dealing with Nordic languages, contributing to the knowledge about the structure, use and learning of these languages, as well as to the field of construction grammar as a whole.

Statics of Historic Masonry Constructions

Author : Mario Como
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319245694
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Statics of Historic Masonry Constructions written by Mario Como and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This successful book, which is now appearing in its second edition, presents a comprehensive new Statics of Masonry Constructions. Masonry constructions are the great majority of the buildings in Europe’s historic centres and the most important monuments in its architectural heritage. Given the age of these constructions, the demand for safety assessments and restoration projects is pressing and constant. The book you hold in hands contributes to fill this demand. The second edition integrates the original text of the first edition with new developments, widening and revisions, due to recent research studies achievements. The result is a book that gives a complete picture of the behaviour of the Masonry Constructions. First of all, it gives the fundamentals of its Statics, based on the no-tension assumption, and then it develops the Limit Analysis for the Masonry Constructions. In this framework, through an interdisciplinary approach combining Engineering and Architecture, the book also investigates the static behaviour of many historic monuments, such as the Pantheon, the Colosseum, the domes of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and St Peter’s in Rome, as well as the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Gothic Cathedrals. Finally, the book gives an in-depth study of masonry buildings under seismic actions.