Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 550
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Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 550
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Library of Congress
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 710
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter de Swart
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis dissertation shows how languages differ in their morphosyntactic sensitivity to variations in the semantics of direct objects. Whereas some languages reflect semantic changes of the direct object in its marking others do not. As a result, we observe mismatches between semantic and morphosyntactic transitivity in the latter type of languages. This becomes particularly clear in a detailed study of the cognate object construction in English. Besides, this dissertation shows that a cross-linguistically uniform phenomenon can be driven by various motivations. This is demonstrated for differential object marking, a cross-linguistically recurrent phenomenon in which direct objects are overtly case marked depending on their semantic features. Two factors appear to govern differential object marking cross-linguistically: prominence-based marking and recoverability of grammatical roles. For some languages only one of these factors can be identified to be of importance, but in other languages, they are simultaneously responsible for object marking. In order to accommodate the full pattern of differential object marking, a bidirectional optimality-theoretic model is developed in which speakers take into account the perspective of the hearer. By doing so, this study shows how typological and optimality theoretical insights can be combined in order to gain more insight in the interaction of the universal principles that guide the marking of direct objects in natural language.
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Published: 1758
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter J. M. Nas
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9789087281250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCities are full of symbols that bear the meanings that together constitute urban culture. These interdisciplinary case studies, from Yogyakarta to Leiden and from Buenos Aires to New York, employ urban symbolism theory and a focus on such symbols as the city's layout, statues, street names and popular culture. This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of Cape Town derived from a remnant of Dutch colonial architecture, or the mass pilgrimage to Elvis's Graceland in Memphis. 'Cities Full of Symbols' develops urban symbolic ecology and hypercity approaches into a new perspective on social cohesion. Approaches of architects, anthropologists, sociologists, social geographers and historians converge to make this a book for anyone interested in urban life, policymaking and city branding.--Cover.
Author: P. Nas
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9789004098558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume consists of twenty articles on the symbols and images of Third World cities, such as Jakarta, Padang, Bangkok, Beijing, Baghdad, Kathmandu, Lucknow, Francistown, Vitoria and Buenos Aires. It provides fascinating new information on a neglected phenomenon in urban studies.
Author: Ole Peter Grell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-06-20
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521894128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn expert re-interpretation of how religious toleration and conflict developed in early modern Europe.
Author: Ana Aguilar-Guevara
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2014-12-15
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9027269386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together studies in the domain of weak referentiality, the phenomenon that a definite or indefinite noun phrase lacks its usual referential force. Several papers investigate syntactic or semantic properties of indefinite noun phrases, such as modality, number neutrality, narrow scope, incorporation, predication, and case marking, and that in a range of languages (Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, German, Papiamentu, Russian). Other papers deal with weakly referential definite noun phrases in various languages (Basque, Dutch, English, French) involving scrambling, modification, possession, and accessibility. The papers demonstrate a range of empirical methods and theoretical models. This volume will not only be of interest to researchers and students in syntax and semantics, but also in psycholinguistics and language typology.
Author: Chris Cummins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 1125
ISBN-13: 0192509551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics. In the past 20 years, experimental data has become a major source of evidence for building theories of language meaning and use, encompassing a wide range of topics and methods. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters in this volume offer an up-to-date account of research in the field spanning 31 different topics, including scalar implicatures, presuppositions, counterfactuals, quantification, metaphor, prosody, and politeness, as well as exploring how and why a particular experimental method is suitable for addressing a given theoretical debate. The volume's forward-looking approach also seeks to actively identify questions and methods that could be fruitfully combined in future experimental research. Written in a clear and accessible style, this handbook will appeal to students and scholars from advanced undergraduate level upwards in a range of fields, including semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
Author: Alexandra Walsham
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2006-09-05
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780719052392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharitable Hatred offers a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Setting aside traditional models charting a linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasizes instead the complex interplay between these two impulses in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.