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This volume describes Old Kingdom Egypt as a linguistic crossroads that profoundly shaped the history of Egyptian-Coptic. It traces the development of demonstratives, establishes the regional patterns in their use, and explains the role that joint attention played in deixis.
This is an extensively revised and substantially enlarged 2000 edition of the acclaimed Using French.
Written entirely in French, this book provides a structured two-year course in French and marketing.
Cet ouvrage fait découvrir au lecteur un nouvel outil de communication appelé "Elevator Pitch". celui-ci vous apprend comment communiquer oralement pour pouvoir convaincre, vous imposer et "vous vendre" en un temps record. Cette méthode originale de présentation à un entretien permet, tant aux débutants qu'aux personnes ayant un bagage professionnel, de se mettre en valeur avec conviction pour augmenter leurs chances de décrocher un emploi. Elle montre comment: - répondre à la question la plus pertinente de l'employeur "Que me proposez-vous?"; - vous différencier des autres à chaque étape du processus de recrutement, y compris l'étape de formulation de la demande, dans le but d'...
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The aim of this book is to give the first large-scale typological investigation of pluractionality in the languages of the world. Pluractionality is defined as the morphological modification of the verb to express a plurality of situations that can additionally involve a plurality of participants and/or spaces. Based on a 246-language sample, the main characteristics of pluractionality are described and discussed throughout the book. Firstly, a description of the functions that pluractional markers cross-linguistically express is presented and the relationships occurring among them are explained through the semantic map model. Then, the marking strategies that languages display to express such functions are illustrated and some issues concerning the formal identification are briefly discussed as well. The typological generalizations are corroborated showing how pluractional markers work in three specific languages (Akawaio, Beja, Maa). In conclusion, the theoretical conceptualization of pluractionality is discussed referring to the Radical Construction Grammar approach.
A Reference Grammar of French is a lively, wide-ranging and original handbook on the structure of the French language. It includes new information on register, pronunciation, gender, number, foreign words (Latin, Arabic, English, Spanish, Italian), adjectives and past participles used as nouns, texting, word order, frequency of occurrence of words, and usage with all geographical names. Examples come not only from France, but also from Quebec, Belgium and Switzerland. Readers will appreciate the initial passages illustrating the grammatical features of a given chapter. Also included is a user-friendly introduction to the French language, from its Latin origins to modern times. A full glossary explains any terms that might confuse the less experienced reader, and the index leads the student through the detailed labyrinth of grammatical features. This handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and teachers who want to perfect their knowledge of all aspects of French grammar.
Modality refers to the attitudes a speaker can adopt toward the propositional content of an utterance including, among others, possibility and necessity. After introducing different theoretical perspectives on this concept, this manual presents the markers of modality (moods, modal verbs, adverbs) in Romance languages. It also addresses diachronic questions and the overlaps between modality and other grammatical categories.