Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Grammar & Punctuation

For those with a competitive nature and those who want to increase their vocabulary while improving their spelling, this is a self-contained spelling adventure for any individual of any age A series of tests ranging from 3 to 50 questions are not just related to spelling but also pronunciation and...

This book examines the relationship between magic, philosophy and the investigation of nature in presocratic Greece. Did the presocratic thinkers, often praised for their rejection of the supernatural, still believe in gods and the divine and the efficacy of magical practices? Did they use animism, astrology, numerology and mysticism in their explanations of the world? This book analyses the evidence in detail and argues that we need to look at each of these beliefs in context.

This is the fourth and last volume of the translation in this series of the commentary on Aristotle On the Soul, wrongly attributed to Simplicius. Its real author, most probably Priscian of Lydia, proves in this work to be an original philosopher who deserves to be studied, not only because of his detailed explanation of an often difficult Aristotelian text, but also because of his own psychological doctrines. In chapter six the author discusses the objects of the intellect. In chapters seven to eight he sees Aristotle as moving towards practical intellect, thus...

In this commentary on Aristotle Physics book eight, chapters one to five, the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius quotes and explains important fragments of the Presocratic philosophers, provides the fragments of his Christian opponent Philoponus' Against Aristotle On the Eternity of the World, and makes extensive use of the lost commentary of Aristotle's leading defender, Alexander of Aphrodisias.

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies...

Diese auf die neueren modularisierten Studiengange zugeschnittene Einfuhrung in die Morphologie des Italienischen baut auf der heute weithin geteilten Meinung auf, die Morphologie habe zwei Hauptfunktionen: eine lexikalische, das Lexikon bereichernde und erneuernde Funktion sowie einesyntaktische, innersprachlich beziehungskodifizierende. Das Buch umfasst, wenngleich speziell dem Italienischen gewidmet, vielfaltige Aspekte, die auch die Morphologie als Disziplin im Allgemeinen betreffen: So fuhrt es in die Funktionen der Morphologie ein, stellt Grundkonzepte und Basisterminologie dar,...

With Essential Korean Vocabulary you will learn to speak Korean the way that Koreans do by learning key words and expressions they use everyday in their natural contexts. You'll also learn closely-related vocabulary together, which will help you remember and use a wider vocabulary. Each word in this book is clearly explained and useful sentences are given to demonstrate how it's used. Author Kyubyong Park also provides tips on Korean grammar and modern colloquial...

Ausfuhrlich dargestellt werden die Verhaltnisse der Sprachforschung in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, mit einer Dokumentation der Verfolgten und ins Exil Getriebenen (insgesamt 301 verfolgte Personen) und einer ausfuhrlichen Darstellung der Forschungssituation im "Reich." Ausgehend von dieser Darstellung wird die Entwicklung der Sprachforschung seit dem 19. Jahrhundert skizziert, bei der sich zeigt, da diese bis in die Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts von einem kulturanalytischen Fachverstandnis bestimmt war. Der Bruch damit in der neueren Entwicklung fallt in Deutschland mit der...