The Verb in Contemporary English
The Verb in Contemporary English

Author: Bas Aarts

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-05-04

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780521460392

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This collection of essays sheds new light on the verb in English. The authors illustrate that verbs can only be properly understood if studied from both a theoretical and descriptive perspective. In Part One, the authors explore topics such as the terminological problems of classification, verb complementation, the semantics and pragmatics of verbs and verbal combinations, and the notions of tense, aspect, voice and modality. In Part Two, computer corpora are used to study various types of verb complements and collocations, to trace the development in English of certain verb forms, and to detail the usage of verbs in different varieties and genres of English.

Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang

Author: Patrick McGilligan

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 1032

ISBN-13: 1452940649

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The name of Fritz Lang—the visionary director of Metropolis, M, Fury, The Big Heat, and thirty other unforgettable films—is hallowed the world over. But what lurks behind his greatest legends and his genius as a filmmaker? Patrick McGilligan, placed among “the front rank of film biographers” by the Washington Post, spent four years in Europe and America interviewing Lang’s dying contemporaries, researching government and film archives, and investigating the intriguing life story of Fritz Lang. This critically acclaimed biography—lauded as one of the year’s best nonfiction books by Publishers Weekly—reconstructs the compelling, flawed human being behind the monster with the monocle.

Australian Cinema
Australian Cinema

Author: Scott Murray

Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9781863733113

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Historical overview of Australia's cinematic history starting from 1896.

Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness
Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness

Author: John Perry

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780262661355

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Physicalism is the idea that if everything that goes on is physical, our consciousness and feelings must also be physical. This book defends a view called antecedent physicalism.

Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy
Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy

Author: Brian Kahin

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 9780262612142

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International experts discuss the generation and management of knowledge in the face of an explosion of data, a revolution in information technology, and the increasingly blurred distinction between private and public knowledge.