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Games and Goals
Simen Agdestein was awarded the title of chess grandmaster at the age of eighteen, the youngest in the world at the time. Two years later he wrote in his diary that he believed he could become the best in the world. But chess wasn't his only passion. He also excelled at football and was selected nine times for the Norwegian national team. Foreign clubs wanted to sign him as a professional. Simen Agdestein's combined careers are unique and amazing. 'I can't choose between my left and my right arm', he once said of the choice between chess and football. His international football career was cut short when he refused to play for Norway in a World Cup qualifier against Scotland. He opted instead...
Outside the Clause
This volume brings together a number of articles on the form and function of extra-clausal constituents, a group of linguistic elements which have puzzled linguists by defying analysis in terms of ordinary sentence grammar. Given their high frequency and communicative importance, these elements can, however, no longer be dismissed as a marginal linguistic phenomenon. In recent years this awareness has resulted not only in more systematic treatments of extra-clausal constituents, but has also highlighted the need to account for them in grammatical theory. Based on (mainly English) corpus data, the volume investigates the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, syntactic and phonological features of a range of extra-clausal constituents, including discourse markers, free adjuncts, left dislocands, insubordinate clauses and various kinds of adverbials. The individual chapters adopt a number of different perspectives, investigating the diachronic development of extra-clausal constituents, their multi-functionality and their use in bilingual settings, also addressing the question of how they can be incorporated into existing models of grammar.
Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives
This book investigates the syntax and semantics of proportional most and other majority quantifiers across languages. Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Giurgea draw on data from around 40 languages to demonstrate the existence of two distinct semantic types of most: a distributive type, which compares cardinalities of sets of atoms, and a cumulative type, which involves measuring plural and mass entities with respect to a whole. On the syntactic side, the most significant difference is between partitive and non-partitive configurations: certain majority quantifiers are specific to partitive constructions, while others are also allowed in non-partitives. The volume also explores complex expressio...
The Semantics of Evidentials
This book provides argues for a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. Central to the proposed theory is the distinction between what propositional content is at-issue and what content is not-at-issue. Evidentials contribute not-at-issue content, and can affect the level of commitment a sentence makes to the main proposition, which is contributed by sentential mood. In this volume, Sarah Murray builds on recent work in the formal semantics of evidentials and related phenomena, and proposes a semantics that does not appeal to separate dimensions of illocutionary meaning....
Das Erbe der Zwergenrüstung
Der Zwergenkrieger Gronn lebt ein einfaches Leben. Seit sein Dienst in der Brandungsfeste endete, verdingt er sich als Kopfgeldjäger für zwielichtige Gestalten. Eines Tages nimmt er einen besonders gefährlichen Auftrag an und der Kampf mit einem Minotauren verändert sein Leben. Es folgen schwere Schicksalsschläge, die ihn in ein tiefes Loch reißen. Nur der Fund eines magischen Artefaktes und ein unerwarteter Freund bieten Gronn die Chance auf ein neues Leben. Unterdessen bedroht ein Orkheer, angeführt von einem uralten Schamanen, seine Heimat, das Donnergebirge. Es ist die Schlacht zwischen Zwergen, Menschen und Orks, die eine noch größere Bedrohung für die gesamte Welt enthüllt. Gronn und sein neuer Freund begeben sich daraufhin auf eine Mission in die Spitzen des Donnergebirges, um seine Heimat zu retten.
The Linguistic Cycle
Cyclical language change is a linguistic process by which a word, phrase, or part of the grammar loses its meaning or function and is then replaced by another. This can even happen on the level of an entire language, which can experience a change in the language family it is a part of. This new text is a comprehensive introduction to this phenomenon, the mechanisms underlying it, and the relations between the different types of cycles. Elly van Gelderen reviews the subject widely and holistically, defining key terms and comprehensively presenting diverse theoretical perspectives and empirical findings. With coverage of a variety of micro cycles and the more controversial macro cycles, incorp...
Schauer der Vorwelt
"Bachmanns Erzählungen gleichen dunkel-schimmernden Perlen, in deren Kern ein nebulöser Inhalt verborgen ist."- Markus K. Korb ... so auch in diesem Band, der dreizehn teilweise längst vergriffene Kurzgeschichten im lovecraftschen Gewand vereint.Dabei sind Bachmanns Besuche bei "Papa Lovecraft" stets eigenständig und aus dem Bestreben heraus geschrieben, den Schauern der Vorwelt zu entkommen.Sämtliche Geschichten wurden exklusiv für diesen Band überarbeitet. Abgerundet wird die Sammlung durch das persönliche Vorwort "Lovecraft und ich".
Im Zeichen des Schwarzen Einhorns
1. komplett revidierte und nun auch illustrierte Neuauflage des bestehenden Romans Schwertpriester in der Reihe Im Zeichen des Schwarzen Einhorns. In einer fantastischen Welt stehen sich zwei Machtblöcke gegenüber. Erstreckt sich im Norden das Friedensreich der Einhörner in undefinierbaren Weiten und eint Völker, Kulturen und Nationen in Eintracht und Harmonie, so erstreckt sich im Süden das Imperium Tamichans, das in permanentem Machthunger Eroberungskriege gegen seine benachbarten Völker führt und diese skrupellos unterdrückt. Gegen das Friedensreich jedoch scheitert jeder noch so gut vorbereitete Angriff und der Fürst Tamichans muss sich damit begnügen, mit Sticheleien die Hohei...
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