American Literature in Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 1968-2008 A Selection of Articles
Title | American Literature in Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 1968-2008 A Selection of Articles PDF eBook |
Author | Janusz Semrau |
Publisher | |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2009-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9788323219422 |
Studies in American Language, Culture and Literature
Title | Studies in American Language, Culture and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Piotr P. Chruszczewski |
Publisher | |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Articles on American Literature, 1950-1967
Title | Articles on American Literature, 1950-1967 PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Bartholet |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN | 9780822312390 |
Articles on American Literature, 1900-1950
Title | Articles on American Literature, 1900-1950 PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis Leary |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1954 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
Title | Studia Anglica Posnaniensia PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | English philology |
ISBN |
The Unicorn
Title | The Unicorn PDF eBook |
Author | Iris Murdoch |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1987-01-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101494247 |
A brilliant mythical drama about well-meaning people trapped in a war of spiritual forces Marian Taylor, who has come as a “companion” to a lovely woman in a remote castle, becomes aware that her employer is a prisoner, not only of her obsessions, but of an unforgiving husband. Hannah, the Unicorn, seemingly an image of persecuted virtue, fascinates those who surround her, some of whom plan to rescue her from her dream of redemptive suffering. But is she an innocent victim, a guilty woman, a mad woman, or a witch? Is her spiritual life really some evil enchantment? If she is forcibly liberated will she die? The ordinary, sensible people survive, and are never sure whether they have understood.
Article Emergence in Old English
Title | Article Emergence in Old English PDF eBook |
Author | Lotte Sommerer |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2018-05-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 311054105X |
This book investigates nominal determination in Old English and the emergence of the definite and the indefinite article. Analyzing Old English prose texts, it discusses the nature of linguistic categorization and argues that a usage-based, cognitive, constructionalist approach best explains when, how and why the article category developed. It is shown that the development of the OE demonstrative 'se' (that) and the OE numeral 'an' (one) should not be told as a story of two individual, grammaticalizing morphemes, but must be reconceptualized in constructional terms. The emergence of the morphological category ‘article’ follows from constructional changes in the linguistic networks of OE speakers and especially from ‘grammatical constructionalization’ (i.e. the emergence of a new, schematic, mostly procedural form-meaning pairing which previously did not exist in the constructicon). Next to other functional-cognitive reasons, the book especially highlights analogy and frequency effects as driving forces of linguistic change.