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Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning
The basic tenet of cognitive linguistics is that every linguistic expression is a construal relation. The first section of this volume focuses on issues of such construal and presentation of information, including figure-ground relations, image-schematic structures, and the role of syntactic constructions in information structure.In sections two and three papers are presented on cross-categorial polysemy between lexical and grammatical uses of a morpheme, and between different grammatical senses, and on the relationship between earlier lexical senses and later grammatical ones.The final section of the volume brings together studies which shed further light on transitivity and argument structure. The study of transitivity necessarily entails exploration of the relationship between syntactic constructions and the pragmatics and semantics conveyed by such constructions.As a whole, this collection of papers gives new evidence on the complexity and motivation of the mapping between linguistic form and function and offers a wealth of new directions for research on the construction of meaning at every level of the sentence.
Spanish Verbs Made Simple(r)
It's time for a new approach to learning Spanish verbs. Unlike popular verb guides that require the rote memorization of hundreds of verb forms, this book clearly explains the rules that govern the conjugation of all classes of Spanish verbs—especially the irregular ones that give second-language learners the most trouble. These simple, easy-to-understand rules for conjugating Spanish verbs are effective learning tools for both beginning students and more advanced speakers who want to perfect their usage of Spanish verb forms. Spanish Verbs Made Simple(r) has many helpful features that you won't find in any other verb guide: Clear explanations of all verb tenses and forms. The simple rules...
Ser y estar
Quel verbe être utiliser en espagnol ? C’est la grande question que se posent tous les étudiants : essence ou circonstance ? Vraie ou Fausse voix passive ? Verbe d’action ou de sentiment ? Il convient déjà de bien avoir assimilé les grandes règles que nous rappelons, avec de nombreux exemples dans cet ouvrage. Des exercices aideront l’étudiant à les mettre en application. Ce livre, unique en son genre, offre un dictionnaire d’usage qui, avec 5 000 exemples, explique, mot après mot, quel verbe utiliser et pourquoi. Les étudiants pourront ainsi assimiler peu à peu l’usage particulièrement complexe de ser y estar, afin de pouvoir choisir sans hésiter le bon verbe être, comme dans les exemples suivants : Este documento es completo pero por desgracia no está disponible. Ese Miguel, que es conocido de todos, ya no es soltero. Por eso está acompañado por su esposa. La reunión no era en el mismo edificio como era debido. Estoy loco con todos esos cambios que siempre están implícitos. El semáforo está verde, ya puedes arrancar, pero baja el volumen de la radio, que ¡está muy alto!
les 3500 mots essentiels - Espagnol
Ces 3500 mots couvrent l'essentiel du vocabulaire espagnol contemporain aussi bien dans les principaux domaines techniques (droits, économie, transports, tourisme, etc.) que dans la langue courante (alimentation, vêtement, sports, etc.). Ils sont accompagnés de nombreuses remarques grammaticales et d'excercices de traduction.
Are You the Foie Gras Correspondent?
A humorous and honest account of an ex-pat reporter’s life in the south west of France. Packed with amusing anecdotes and true stories about the characters and places of the region. A must for anybody even thinking about crossing the Channel for the good life in rural France! Every summer thousands of Brits and other Europeans head to the south west of France for bliss, beauty and freedom. It’s great for a holiday - but what’s it like to actually live and work there? That is what reporter Chris Bockman decided to find out when he set up a Press Agency in Toulouse. His project was doomed (apparently) - he was constantly told by industry sages that nothing goes on there out of season. Bu...
Prefects, Governors and Commissioners
Is the Prefect an exception, surviving only in France and some countries influenced by Napoleon? No! This book tells the varied stories of the resilience, in most European States and under different names, of the prefectoral institution. It is the first comparative book in English studying these territorial administrators who have a go-between role in centre-periphery relations and a nodal role in territorial governance. Gathering a multidisciplinary team of scholars under the auspices of the European Group for Public Administration, this volume offers a fine-grained analysis of 17 national cases, examines cross-country data, and proposes a theoretical frame made of a Weberian ideal-type with three variants, to better comprehend and explain the permanence and changes of the prefectoral figure.
L'espagnol par la presse
Pour bien préparer et réviser les concours des Grandes écoles et les concours administratifs : un recueil de 40 articles extraits de la presse espagnole et latino-américaine portant sur les grands sujets d'actualité (économie, infrastructures, agriculture, science, culture, énergie, environnement, droit, questions de société, immigration, prostitution, discriminations, corruption, trafic de drogue, informatique, corrida, etc.) ; des notes et explications de vocabulaire et de grammaire en bas de chacun des textes ; des compléments de vocabulaire thématique sur tous les grands sujets d'actualité ; un rappel des règles de grammaire qui se limite à l'essentiel, en insistant sur les pièges et fautes fréquentes ; de courts exercices de version et thème avec corrigés en fin d'ouvrage. Une révision claire, complète et raisonnée en quelques semaines de l'espagnol de la presse avec les points fondamentaux de l'espagnol à connaître avant les concours. Une révision efficace portant à la fois sur le vocabulaire, les expressions et la grammaire sans se perdre dans les détails.
Fatal Isolation
In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate change. They were the so-called abandoned victims of the worst natural disaster in French history, the devastating heat wave that struck in August 2003, leaving 15,000 dead. They died alone in Paris and its suburbs, and were then buried at public expense, their bodies unclaimed. They died, and to a great extent lived, unnoticed by their neighbors--their bodies undiscovered in some cases until weeks after their deaths. Fatal Isolation tells the stories of these victims and the catastrophe that took their lives. It explores the multiple narratives of disaster--the official story of the crisis and its aftermath, as presented by the media and the state; the life stories of the individual victims, which both illuminate and challenge the ways we typically perceive natural disasters; and the scientific understandings of disaster and its management. Fatal Isolation is both a social history of risk and vulnerability in the urban landscape and a story of how a city copes with emerging threats and sudden, dramatic change.
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