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This book provides a pioneering and data-oriented investigation of the syntax and semantics of important prepositional complementation patterns dependent on the prepositions in, to, at, on, with, and of in current English. The investigation is based on a sample of matrix verbs that governs the pattern of sentential complementation. The data includes the Brown and LOB corpora, English dictionaries and grammars, and the intuitions of native speakers.Rudanko sets up taxonomies of matrix verbs and argues that they often can be based on relatively few core classes. He questions whether verbs selecting a pattern also select other patterns of sentential complementation. Noting the quantity and quality of such alternation, he observes how differences in form are linked to differences in meaning. The study of relevant matrix verbs, supplemented with discussion of alternation and other syntactic and semantic properties of the patterns, points to the semantic functions that are associated typically with each pattern of complementation.

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Medical recipes written before the birth of modern scientific writing, at least as we know it today, are frequently characterised by the inclusion of expressions aimed at validating the efficacy of the remedies. These expressions have been traditionally considered as promises of efficacy. This research hypothesises that a closer examination of the context in which they are embedded may render interpretations that are different from promissory speech acts in the strictest sense. The corpus of study has been excerpted from the Corpus of Early English Recipesand it comprises medical recipes written in English between 1500 and 1600. The texts have been analysed using AntConc and the results have been manually checked afterwards. The detection of potential promises of efficacy has relied on Speech Act Theory and particularly on Searle¿s (1969) constitutive rules for promises. Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson 1995) has been used to account for the process of contextual enrichment the reader follows so as to derive the illocutionary force of efficacy statements. This work shows that not all efficacy statements are necessarily interpreted as promises in the Searlean sense. In fact, it has been observed that the occurrence of stance elements, i.e. epistemic and/or evidential devices, together with the authors¿ lexico-grammatical choices crucially shape their illocutionary force, normally by lowering the promissory value of the locutions.

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This edited volume presents 30 years of English didactics research (1988-2017) in Norway. As a collection of chapters, each representing a doctoral study, the book is a complete overview of all doctoral research within the field. Each study discusses empirical, methodological and theoretical contributions, and implications for teaching English as a second or additional language (L2) today.

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Bajo la dirección de Robert Wilson, director de la colección y fundador de la colección "Aprender idiomas en 5 días". ¿Aprender inglés de manera sencilla y divertida? ¡Ahora es posible! Con el famoso método Wilson y sus cursos en 30 minutos cada día, no más, el lector tiene la mejor oportunidad de aprender inglés con éxito. Sin perder el tiempo con informaciones innecesarias, con una lección por día y con una colección de 10 libros que abordan, según las necesidades, los temas más importantes que hay que dominar en la práctica: las errores mas frecuentes (el primer tomo); las bases del ingles (este tomo); las frases claves (el Nº3); el inglés americano (tan alejado del inglés de Gran Bretaña, y que constituye el tomo el Nº 4), etc., se podrá asimilar y aprender la gramática, el vocabulario, la construcción de sus propias frases... Este método serio, lúdico y atractivo, adecuado para todos, de aprendizaje rápido, organizado en lecciones de 30 minutos, de dificultad gradual, le permitirá dominar en poco tiempo las nociones básicas del inglés de manera que pueda entablar y mantener una conversación. Cada capitulo incluye ejercicios y ejemplos que le ayudarán a asimilar fácilmente las cuestiones gramaticales y la sintaxis de esta lengua. El libro también le ofrece un diccionario básico con las palabras más habituales. Gracias a esta obra (la Nº 2 en la colección), el lector descubrirá que el inglés no es un idioma que resulte difícil de aprender.

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Bringing together an international range of contributors, this book explores face-to-face uses of English in a range of grassroots multilingual contexts.

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