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The Syntax of Surprise
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

The Syntax of Surprise

Negation is a universal syntactic phenomenon only employed in human languages. People use negative sentences in everyday conversations, and they display complex semantic and syntactic properties when doing so. Crucially, some languages employ negative sentences to assert affirmative and surprise propositions. A clear example of this is offered by Italian, as in: ‘E non (not) mi è scesa dal treno Maria?!’ (‘Maria got off the train!’). This special type of negation is called surprise negation, and it belongs to the class of expletive negation. This book sheds light on this puzzling phenomenon, by means of a theoretical analysis and an experimental study. It explores the contexts, mainly syntactic, in which negation receives its expletive interpretation, and considers whether expletive negation is grammatically distinct from standard negation.

Heavy Minerals in Use
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1329

Heavy Minerals in Use

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-09-10
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

The book is structured thematically, encompassing principles, processes and products, practice and applications. Discussion of processes that control heavy mineral assemblages throughout the rock cycle are presented by leading experts, whose key-note works are followed by specialist case studies. Each work also provides details on the geology of the study area, techniques and data treatment. The high number of contributions represent the collective experience and wisdom of generations of geologists, and provide an invaluable source of references to works carried out in many parts of the world.* Presents a unique and authoritative resource of immediate relevance and practical use to the researcher and applied geologist * Contains case studies demonstrating the broad range of applications of heavy minerals in a variety of modern and ancient geological settings, and in resource exploration * Includes examples of geological problems from employing heavy mineral analysis and establishing criteria that can be applied before deciding to undertake a study

Heavy Minerals in Colour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Heavy Minerals in Colour

Although some handbooks on the microscopic identi In Part I the concept of heavy mineral analysis is fication of heavy mineral grains are available, a introduced and the relative significance of factors comprehensive manual illustrated in colour has not affecting heavy mineral assemblages is discussed. There been published until now. Because the appearance of are brief references to the commonly used laboratory minerals in grain mounts differs considerably from methods and auxiliary techniques. It concludes with those seen in a thin section, a different approach is some examples of the application of heavy mineral necessary for the identification of detrital grains. studies. Coloured photomi...

Sediment Provenance Studies in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

Sediment Provenance Studies in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production

Sediment provenance studies concern the origin, composition, transportation and deposition of detritus and therefore are an important part of understanding the links between basinal sedimentation, and hinterland tectonics and unroofing. Such studies can add value at many stages of hydrocarbon exploitation, from identifying regional-scale crustal affinities and sediment dispersal patterns during the earliest stages of exploration, to detailed correlation in producing reservoirs and understanding the impact of mineralogy on reservoir diagenesis. The volume showcases the wide variety of techniques available, using examples and applications from all aspects of sediment provenance research. The papers are organized into four sets around the following themes: • Overview: applications of provenance information in hydrocarbon reservoir sandstones • Provenance, diagenesis and reservoir quality • Provenance studies linking sediment to source • Looking forward: development of techniques and data handling This book is dedicated to the memory of Maria Mange and Robert A. Scott.

Pseudogapping and Ellipsis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 203

Pseudogapping and Ellipsis

Kirsten Gengel investigates pseudogapping, which, she proposes, is one variety of ellipsis in natural language. At the heart of her discussion lies the interaction between focus and deletion. Her novel approach, which draws on new empirical data from many languages, has the potential of unifying several elliptical phenomena in generative grammar.

Re: The Ash Lad
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 11285

Re: The Ash Lad

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: noemata.net

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From Wolf to Supermutt and Everything In Between
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 504

From Wolf to Supermutt and Everything In Between

When Erika adopted Mila, she naively believed that, like instant soup, she wouldn’t have to go through the process of cooking all the ingredients from scratch. She wouldn’t have to house train, obedience train or intensely socialise a mature dog. Mila quickly proved how misguided she was! Her favourite pastime was zealously chewing Persian rugs while the living room became her personal toilet. Alternatively, when asked to sit, lie down, or come, she’d throw herself on her back in submission and refuse to move. Thunder and fireworks sent her rushing around in a mindless panic, while the sight of other dogs turned her into a screaming banshee. Does this sound familiar? Introducing From W...

Familjepack
  • Language: sv
  • Pages: 262

Familjepack

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-01-13
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  • Publisher: Ordfront

Styvmamma, låtsaspappa, extrasyskon, bonusbarn. Antalet separationer i barnfamiljer ökar hela tiden och de förändrade könsrollerna innebär nya mönster i familjebildningarna. Få pappor vill vara söndagspappor och få mammor uppfattar sig som ensamt ansvariga för barnen. Istället växer antalet barn med växelvis boende där föräldrarna delar ansvaret jämnare mellan sig. Det är en positiv utveckling, men den ställer nya krav på styvfamiljen. I ett trettiotal djupt personliga berättelser får vi möta styvföräldrar i deras kamp för att få familjerelationerna att fungera. Det är berättelser om sorg och lycka, kärlek och hat, lust och längtan. Vi får möta vuxna kvinnor och män i all deras litenhet och storhet, i deras mod och deras rädslor. Styvfamiljer är precis som riktiga familjer en tummelplats för känslor av olika slag. Skillnaden är kanske främst att många känslor i styvfamiljen är tabu vi pratar inte om dem. Istället bär många dem tyst inom sig. I den här boken bryts tystnaden. Trösterik läsning när man tror att man är den enda som bor i ett dårhus. Tidningen Mama

Linking Discourse Studies to Professional Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Linking Discourse Studies to Professional Practice

This book examines how discourse analysts could best disseminate their research findings in real world settings. Each chapter presents a study of spoken or written discourse with authors putting forward a plan for how to engage professional practice in their work, using this volume's Framework for Application.

Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar

The chapters in this book show how the different flavors of Construction Grammar provide illuminating insights into the syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse-functional properties of specific phenomena in Romance languages such as (Castilian) Spanish, French, Romanian, and Latin from a synchronic as well as a diachronic viewpoint. The phenomena surveyed include the role of constructional meanings in novel verb-noun compounds in Spanish, the relevance of lexicalization for a constructionist analysis of complex prepositions in French, the complementariness of fragments, patterns and constructions as theoretical and explanatory constructs in verb complementation in French, Latin, and Spanish, non-constituent coordination phenomena (e.g. Right Node Raising, Argument Cluster Coordination and Gapping) in Romanian, and variable type framing in Spanish constructions of directed motion in the light of Leonard Talmy’s (2000) typological differences of lexicalization between satellite-framed and verb-framed languages.