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Middle English Prepositions and Adverbs with the Prefix «Be-» in Prose Texts: A Study in Their Semantics, Dialectology and Frequency
ISBN: 9783631724811 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The book is a study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs with the prefix "be-" in prose texts. "Before, beyond, behind, beneath, between" and "betwixt" are analysed for the semantics, textual and dialectal distribution and frequency, synchronic and diachronic. The study draws on full texts from the "Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose".
The book is a study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs with the prefix "be-" in prose texts. "Before, beyond, behind, beneath, between" and "b...
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331,49 zł |
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Language and Meaning; Cognitive and Functional Perspectives
ISBN: 9783631561584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The collection of papers addresses the perennial problem of the relation between language and meaning. It proposes various theoretical approaches to the issue ranging from a synergetic theory of meaning merging the cognitive and the socio-historical perspectives, through holistic, evolutionary models and a revision of some of the assumptions of Cognitive Metaphor Theory to the discussion of the role of pragmatic competence in meaning construction. A number of papers make recourse to corpus based studies and psycholinguistic experiments. The topics of specific linguistic investigations cover...
The collection of papers addresses the perennial problem of the relation between language and meaning. It proposes various theoretical approaches to t...
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498,35 zł |
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Grammaticalisation Paths of «Have» in English
ISBN: 9783631600276 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This book explores the diachronic emergence of the verb have in English in its various grammatical uses. The development of grammatical functions of have is analysed from pragmatic-semantic, morphosyntactic and phonetic angles. Apart from the well-known and formerly studied cases of the rise of perfect and obligative have, the author describes the developments of the had better structure as well as causative have which have not received much scholarly attention thus far. He shows that the first examples of the fully grammaticalised constructions with...
This book explores the diachronic emergence of the verb have in English in its various grammatical uses. The development of grammatical functio...
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439,01 zł |
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Studies in English Historical Liguistics and Philology: A Festschrift for Akio Oizumi
ISBN: 9783631386170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 525 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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716,12 zł |
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English Contrastive Studies: From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9783631620038 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Contrastive linguistics has a much longer history than is commonly assumed in the literature on the subject. This monograph is an account of contrastive studies conducted in England and documented in written materials originating between the middle of the fifteenth century and the end of the eighteenth century. These materials show that contrastive studies were conducted systematically, covered a large scope of language data in various languages, and occasioned a number of theoretical and methodological issues, anticipating those that have constituted the mainstream of modern contrastive...
Contrastive linguistics has a much longer history than is commonly assumed in the literature on the subject. This monograph is an account of contrasti...
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336,33 zł |
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Translating Anthroponyms: Exemplified by Selected Works of English Children's Literature in Their Polish Versions
ISBN: 9783631630983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The subject of the present book are literary anthroponyms and their translation. The examples, taken from English children s literature of the Victorian and Edwardian period, show that literary names are usually motivated and linked to their bearers, therefore it is necessary to investigate them in terms of their meaning, functions and role as narrative elements. The study focuses on how anthroponyms function in the context of the narrative, situation and culture, and shows similarities and differences between the name systems of the original and the translation. Also, it gives an overview of...
The subject of the present book are literary anthroponyms and their translation. The examples, taken from English children s literature of the Victori...
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289,49 zł |
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Middle English Names of Medical Preparations: Towards a Standard Medical Terminology
ISBN: 9783631747797 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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310,02 zł |
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Elements of Slavic and Germanic Grammars: A Comparative View: Papers on Topical Issues in Syntax and Morphosyntax
ISBN: 9783631578575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English, German, Czech, Polish, and Russian), stemming from the Syntax Session of the 2006 PLM conference in Poznan (Poland). Gisbert Fanselow and Caroline Fery discuss lack of Superiority with German movement; Gereon Muller links pro-drop to non-impoverished inflectional morphology; Christopher Wilder deals with English constructions with a directional locative and imperative; Adam Bialy decomposes event structure; Katarzyna Sowka analyses the semantics of German verbs of...
This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English, German, Czech, Polish...
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405,01 zł |
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Rethinking Middle English: Linguistic and Literary Approaches
ISBN: 9783631520321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This volume presents Middle English studies as a modern discipline which unites linguistics, literature, philology, the history of ideas, textual studies including recent developments in the study of text types and genres, as well as the sociohistorical perspective. This large variety of both traditional and new approaches is mirrored in the four main parts of the book, starting with texts and text types, and moving on to vocabulary, syntax and morphology, and finally phonology and orthography. Aspects of language contact as well as corpus linguistic studies are also addressed in a number of...
This volume presents Middle English studies as a modern discipline which unites linguistics, literature, philology, the history of ideas, textual stud...
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401,40 zł |
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Ironies of Art/Tragedies of Life: Essays on Irish Literature
ISBN: 9783631544181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In Plato s Symposium, Socrates says that the true poet must be tragic and comic at the same time, and the whole of human life must be felt as a blend of tragedy and comedy. The present collection of essays investigates the presence of comic and tragic elements in Irish literature. The works by Irish authors, be they classical or contemporary, capture the struggles of the lives of individuals and communities in Ireland. Irish literature in various ways deals with the tragic and complex past of the country, as well as an equally interesting present. The irony of the art is always...
In Plato s Symposium, Socrates says that the true poet must be tragic and comic at the same time, and the whole of human life must be felt as a...
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355,65 zł |
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Pragmatic Aspects of Reported Speech: The Case of Early Modern English Courtroom Discourse
ISBN: 9783631553442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This book focuses on historical pragmatics. The author presents the use of reported speech in the Early Modern English records of a state trial of the Elizabethan period. It is worthy of note that the few acquitted defendants were more efficient in the application of manipulative reported speech strategies. The results of qualitative and quantitative analyses confirm that reported speech is a marker of stance.
This book focuses on historical pragmatics. The author presents the use of reported speech in the Early Modern English records of a state trial of the...
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284,47 zł |
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Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Functioning of English in Post-1989 Poland
ISBN: 9783631636770 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The fall of communism fully opened Poland to the processes and phenomena operating in ever globalizing world. In line with global trends, English in post-socialist Poland has been steadily growing in importance. By employing a holistic integrative approach utilizing relevant theoretical, descriptive, and empirical insights, the author builds up a comprehensive picture of the sociolinguistic functioning of English in post-1989 Poland. In order to supplement his integration and analysis of the state-of-the-art knowledge, the author devises an original investigation probing into the perceived...
The fall of communism fully opened Poland to the processes and phenomena operating in ever globalizing world. In line with global trends, English in p...
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302,94 zł |
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Speaking from the Margin: Global English from a European Perspective
ISBN: 9783631526637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The papers in this volume analyze the language situation under globalization in several European countries. How does the spread of Global English affect the integrity of the local systems? Changes in lexical and discursive repertories are evidenced and discussed. It is shown how new social identities are linguistically constructed and redefined in the social consciousness of the various local communities. The authors see globalization as a major change-in-progress that sets in relief the dual capacity of language: communication and identification. The collection reconciles empirical...
The papers in this volume analyze the language situation under globalization in several European countries. How does the spread of Global English <...
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355,65 zł |
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The Synonyms of «Fallen Woman» in the History of the English Language
ISBN: 9783631644508 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This data-oriented study aims at providing an onomasiological account of the historical synonyms of the term fallen woman from Old English up to Early Modern English. It focuses on linguistic mechanisms which are at work in the formation of euphemisms and dysphemisms semantically linked to the conceptual category Fallen Woman. Additionally, the book highlights the historical and cultural variations in the approach to sex relations in different parts of the world and in different epochs. The cognitive methodological apparatus is the core of the analytical part of the work. The results...
This data-oriented study aims at providing an onomasiological account of the historical synonyms of the term fallen woman from Old English up t...
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348,17 zł |
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The Trojan Mirror: Middle English Narratives of Troy as Books of Princely Advice
ISBN: 9783631605936 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The book examines four Middle English narratives of the Trojan War as examples of the medieval appropriations of classical history and classical narrative traditions as a discourse related to issues of contemporary politics and morality. The medieval stories of the fall of Troy are viewed as educational texts offering advice on moral and political conduct related in their aims to the genre of the medieval speculum. Four major verse narratives of the history of the Trojan War composed in Middle English at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century are discussed: the...
The book examines four Middle English narratives of the Trojan War as examples of the medieval appropriations of classical history and classical narra...
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400,90 zł |
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The Katherine Group: A Three-Manuscript Parallel Text- Seinte Katerine, Seinte Marherete, Seinte Iuliene, and Hali Meiðhad- With Wordlists
ISBN: 9783631611722 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The Katherine Group is a set of Early Middle English works composed for devout women, renowned for both their vigorous and flexible prose and their rich and distinctive language. This volume for the first time brings together all the manuscripts of four of the five works, printing them in parallel for easy comparison. Scrutiny of the manuscripts has made it possible to correct a considerable number of errors in the standard editions, and to present the Royal and Titus texts in a more diplomatic form than hitherto available. The notes pay particular attention to paleographic details and...
The Katherine Group is a set of Early Middle English works composed for devout women, renowned for both their vigorous and flexible prose and their ri...
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429,62 zł |
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Middle English from Tongue to Text: Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Middle English: Language and Text, Held at Dublin, Irel
ISBN: 9783631387801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The papers in this book cover an impressive range of research into all aspects of the study of Middle English Language and Texts, hence the title From Tongue to Text. The topics dealt with are arranged according to this spectrum of approach, beginning with spelling evidence (which may tell us something about sounds), and moving forward through phonology, sound symbolism, morphology, syntax, discourse analysis, and vocabulary, to the study of dialects, Middle English in contact with other languages, and to text explication. The authors come from all parts of Europe, north, south, east...
The papers in this book cover an impressive range of research into all aspects of the study of Middle English Language and Texts, hence the title F...
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397,31 zł |
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Contrastive Linguistics: Prospects and Problems
ISBN: 9789027932600 / Angielski / Twarda / 1984 / 459 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as... TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work ... |
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553,50 zł |
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Change in Life, Change in Language: A Semantic Approach to the History of English
ISBN: 9783631634530 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This book provides the reader with a description of the semantic change that took place over two periods of the history of English language: Middle English and Early Modern English. In view of the fact that semantic change is the type of change by which the relationship between language and society can be traced best, notes on the socio-historical background of the period have been included. They are followed by the analysis of language change in general in which some of the literature on the topic is reviewed and the author s interpretation of change as being caused by external factors is...
This book provides the reader with a description of the semantic change that took place over two periods of the history of English language: Middle En...
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218,83 zł |
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Historical Dialectology: Regional and Social
ISBN: 9783110115505 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 708 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In this volume of 29 papers, readers interested in language variation and historical linguistics will find interesting theoretical proposals as well as suggestions concerning ways of approaching previously unsolved empirical problems in the field. The papers deal with various aspects of historical regional dialectology, and some border on the issue of dialectology and linguistic change. Although many deal with English, a number discuss Romance languages in general as well as Norwegian, German, relic languages of the eastern Alpine region, Coptic, and Fox. Some are devoted to more general...
In this volume of 29 papers, readers interested in language variation and historical linguistics will find interesting theoretical proposals as well a...
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851,66 zł |