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by Jacques Laurin
Language: French
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Si la conjugaison est votre bête noire, voici un petit livre qui vous rendra la vie plus facile. Clair et accessible, il répertorie les temps, les modes, les exceptions et présente la conjugaison sous sa forme la plus accessible. Les verbes n'auront plus aucun secret pour vous!
Le bon mot
Déjouer les pièges du français
Language: French
Release Date: October 3, 2011
S'exprimer correctement vous paraît-il une tâche laborieuse ? Faut-il dire partir ou lancer un commerce ? Le bon mot présente plus d'un millier de termes qui prêtent à confusion. Vous n'y trouverez pas de longues explications mais des exemples clairs, présentés sous une forme qui les rend compréhensibles dès la première lecture.
by Peppina Po-lun Lee
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong and its neighboring province, has an unusually rich repertoire of verbal particles. This volume significantly augments the academic literature on their semantics, focusing on three affixal quantifiers, -saai, -hoi and -maai. The author shows how these verbal...
by J. Aissen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
xv NOTES ON THE ORTHOGRAPHY AND CITATIONS xxi LIST OF ABBREVIA TIONS XXIIl CHAPTER 1: GRAMMATICAL NOTES 1 1. Introduction 1 2. Basics 1 3. Major Lexical Classes 2 3. 1. V 3 3. 2. N 3 3. 3. A 5 3. 3. 1. Quantifiers 6 3. 3. 2. Existentials and Locatives 6 4. Minor Lexical Classes 7 4. 1. Clitics 7 4....
Purpose Clauses
Syntax, Thematics, and Semantics of English Purpose Constructions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The purpose clause is a common fonn of adverbial modification in English. The bracketed phrases below are purpose clauses, and they look and sound unremarkable. We hear and see these things all the time. John came [to play with the children] [to play with] I brought John along Insofar as purpose clauses...
Dúvidas em português nunca mais
com exercícios
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Um guia prático e direto na solução de questões linguísticas, com base no padrão formal escrito da língua. Não é um dicionário de dificuldades, nem uma gramática, mas um manual de esclarecimento às dúvidas que frequentemente angustiam o usuário da língua no ato da comunicação. São...
Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective
A Corpus-Based Study
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be categorized into clausal adjuncts, attendant circumstances...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
This volume offers a selection of interface studies in generative linguistics, a valuable “one-stop shopping” opportunity for readers interested in the ways in which the various modules of linguistic analysis intersect and interact. The boundaries between the lexicon and morphophonology, between...
Grammatical Approaches to Language Processing
Essays in Honor of Lyn Frazier
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
This book contains papers that were written to honor Professor Lyn Frazier on the occasion of her retirement from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Some were presented at the Lynschrift on May 19-20, 2018; others were written especially for this volume. The papers report original research...
Your Amazing Itty Bitty® Message Mastery Book
15 Simple Steps to Improving Your Image through Your Written Words
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Master Your Life By Mastering Your Message: Make An Incredible Impact On Your Business & Life By Applying 15 Steps To Improve Your Image Through Your Written Words! When communication fails, the costs are countless. Business deals are lost. Relationships are ruined. Hearts are broken. In this...
Le français en diachronie
Nouveaux objets et méthodes
Language: French
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Ce recueil met en lumière quelques axes novateurs dans la recherche actuelle sur la diachronie du français, présentés lors de la sixième édition du colloque international Diachro, qui s’est tenue à Leuven en octobre 2012. Le premier axe, méthodologique, a trait à la valeur heuristique de...
Verbes portugais
100 verbes conjugués
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2018
Écrit spécialement pour les livres électroniques, Les verbes portugais a une introduction à la formation de tous les temps verbaux en portugais, ainsi que 100 verbes complètement conjugués et accompagnés de leur traduction. Le lecteur peut chercher dans tout le livre parce qu'il n'y a pas d'images ni texte illisible.
Verbes allemands
100 verbes conjugués
Language: French
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Écrit spécialement pour les livres électroniques, Les verbes allemands a une introduction à la formation de tous les temps verbaux en allemand, ainsi que 100 verbes complètement conjugués et accompagnés de leur traduction. Le lecteur peut chercher dans tout le livre parce qu'il n'y a pas d'images ni texte illisible.
German Temporal Semantics
Three-Dimensional Tense Logic and a GPSG Fragment
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
First published in 1985, this book analyses temporal meaning in German. The framework is that of a model-theoretic semantics, more specifically one incorporating a multi-dimensional tense logic. The first chapter presents this logic and argues that three dimensions are optimal for the description...