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This book explores if/si-constructions in spoken English, French and Spanish, from a functional-pragmatic and corpus-based perspective. The analysis comprises instances of subordination, namely, conditional constructions – including prototypical cause-consequence...
The Book Goodbye America: Fifty Years of American-Jewish Women’s Immigration to Israel, a Collective Autobiography (1967-2017), is composed of 18 autobiographical essays written by American-Jewish women who made aliyah between 1967 and 2017. Each essay traces the...
This volume examines the determining role of context in the production and reception of news texts from the seventeenth century until the first half of the twentieth century. The context is understood as historical, social, political, professional, textual and material,...
Vocational education, apprenticeship included, is subject to reviews and updates that the recent crises are demanding. The role of education and training systems in different welfare regimes is key in shaping what it involves becoming an adult, a worker and a citizen....
Der Band basiert auf den Beiträgen des Klassik-Kollegs »The Queen’s Two Bodies«, das im Juni 2018 an der Klassik-Stiftung-Weimar zwischen den drei Herausgeberinnen und In-stitutionen veranstaltet wurde: Elena Agazzi (Università degli Studi di Bergamo), Gesa Dane (Freie...
Der vorliegende Sammelband enthält eine Auswahl der Beiträge, die auf der vierten internationalen Konferenz über Heimat in der deutschsprachigen Literatur an der Universität des Baskenlandes vorgestellt wurden. Darunter sind international anerkannte und mehrfach...
This book deals with the characterization and history of the reaction object construction (ROC), as in Pauline smiled her thanks. The ROC consists of an intransitive verb followed by a nonprototypical object that expresses a reaction such that the whole syntactic unit...
The portrayal of nature in the genre of fantasy fiction, from the Middle Ages to more modern times, has been conditioned by the diverging social, political and historical contexts. This book seeks to disclose how the natural world has been depicted within this genre...
This volume contains the refined proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG), which took place at Ryerson University, Toronto, as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in May 2017.
For many areas of social science research, including conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and international state-building, Kosovo remains a uniquely interesting and relevant case. This book is motivated by the belief that there is much to be gained, analytically and...
All the chapters in this volume somehow and quite diversely, directly or indirectly, address the relation of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, or at least of Wittgenstein- inspired philosophical thought, with scepticism, here generally envisaged as a many-sided tradition and...
Romance continues to stand as the most profitable literary genre and the second most read book category. The developments reshaping the conventions and marketing practices of popular fiction, both inside and beyond the books themselves, have affected the romance genre...
El Diccionario histórico fraseológico del español (DHISFRAES). MUESTRA ARQUETÍPICA ofrece un repertorio concentrado de unidades fraseológicas de carácter adverbial y prepositivo representativo de diferentes períodos históricos de la lengua española. Los datos, obtenidos...
William Mountfort’s Greenwich Park (1691), produced in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, takes comic action to the green spaces east of London where urbane rakes court witty young ladies surrounded by a lively gallery including roistering citizens, an adulterous...
The book focuses on the heroism of Jews throughout Europe who risked their lives to save their coreligionists under Nazi rule.The contributors discuss and analyze the actions of Jews who rescued other Jews from the hands of the Nazis. These actions took place, to...
In these moments of health crisis, happiness management and social marketing are not teaching that it is possible to build a more committed, innovative and productive society. To achieve this end, countries and organizations must undertake a wave of human resource...
The class of verbs of Desire comprises verbs whose syntax and semantics have undergone important changes in the course of their histories. Their argument structure involves a Desirer and a Desired, and in earlier English they could be used impersonally in constructions...
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