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Preposition placement, the competition between preposition stranding (What is he talking about?) and pied-piping (About what is he talking?), is one of the most interesting areas of syntactic variation in English. This is the first book to investigate preposition placement across all types of clauses that license it, such as questions, exclamations and wh-clauses, and those which exhibit categorical stranding, such as non-wh relative clauses, comparatives, and passives. Drawing on over 100 authentic examples from both first-language (English) and second-language (Kenyan) data, it combines experimental and corpus-based approaches to provide a full grammatical account of preposition placement in both varieties of English. Although written within the usage-based construction grammar framework, the results are presented in theory-neutral terminology, making them accessible to researchers from all syntactic schools. This pioneering volume will be of interest not only to syntacticians, but also second-language researchers and those working on variation in English.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Prepositions. --- Language arts & disciplines --- English language --- Grammar --- Prepositions --- Syntax --- Grammar. --- Syntax. --- General. --- Analysis and parsing --- Diagraming --- Composition and exercises --- Prepositional phrases --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Germanic languages --- English language - Prepositions --- English language - Syntax --- English language - Grammar

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"What do speakers of a language have to know, and what can they 'figure out' on the basis of that knowledge, in order for them to use their language successfully? This is the question at the heart of Construction Grammar, an approach to the study of language that views all dimensions of language as equal contributors to shaping linguistic expressions. The trademark characteristic of Construction Grammar is the insight that language is a repertoire of more or less complex patterns - constructions - that integrate form and meaning. This textbook shows how a Construction Grammar approach can be used to analyze the English language, offering explanations for language acquisition, variation and change. It covers all levels of syntactic description, from word-formation and inflectional morphology to phrasal and clausal phenomena and information-structure constructions. Each chapter includes exercises and further readings, making it an accessible introduction for undergraduate students of linguistics and English language"--

Grammar --- English language --- Construction grammar. --- Syntax. --- Construction grammar --- Syntax

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The general topic of this study is the literary status and function of the Qur ‘an, but the specific topic is its poetic status and function. Though not poetry in the strict Arabian and Islamic sense, it nonetheless displays and foregrounds several textual and pragmatic features, which are associated with decidedly poetic framing devices. Such poetic devices comprise, among others, various forms of recurrence, techniques of defamiliarization, semantic ambiguities, iconicity, entextualization, deictic volatility, self-referentiality, and cantillation. Drawing on an interdisciplinary conception of the poetic, a number of exploratory readings are undertaken to substantiate the poetic-aesthetic potential of the Qur ‘anic text, i.e. its ability to invoke a certain ’thick’ and heightened attention in the minds of its users. These readings are of course informed by the state of the art within Qur ‘anic studies, but they also integrate insights gained from ritual studies, anthropological linguistics, cognitive semantics, and various literary theories on enunciation, meta-textuality, and anxiety of influence.

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Confidential communications --- Credit --- Loans --- Banking --- Law and legislation --- Law and legislation

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Willenskonzepte in der Geistigbehindertenpädagogik und deren Bezugswissenschaften werden sowohl in ihren theoretischen Begründungen als auch im Kontext unterschiedlicher Willenspraktiken analysiert. Thomas Hoffmann geht von der These aus, dass für das pädagogische Verständnis der Bildungs- und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten von Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung die dynamischen Wechselbeziehungen von Denken und Wollen eine zentrale Rolle spielen. Das Problem der Willensentwicklung rückt damit ins Zentrum der theoretischen Auseinandersetzung um die strittige Frage, welche Ursachen und Bedingungen dem Phänomen geistiger Behinderung zugrunde liegen und wie Bildung und Erziehung darauf angemessen und sinnvoll antworten können. Ziel ist es, einen historischen und systematischen Überblick der unterschiedlichen Willenskonzepte in der Geistigbehindertenpädagogik und deren Bezugswissenschaften zu geben, um daraus entsprechende pädagogisch-psychologische Perspektiven zu gewinnen.   Der Inhalt Neuropsychologie des Willens Eine kurze Geschichte des Willens Willenspraktiken Kulturhistorische Theorie der Willensentwicklung   Die Zielgruppen Lehrende und Studierende der Pädagogik und Psychologie (Sonderschul-)LehrerInnen, PsychologInnen und HeilpädagogInnen (Geistigbehindertenpädagogik)   Der Autor Thomas Hoffmann ist Akademischer Oberrat an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Fakultät für Sonderpädagogik, Förderschwerpunkt Geistige Entwicklung.  .

Free will and determinism. --- Cognition disorders. --- Intellectual disability.