Future Times Future Tenses

Author : Philippe de Brabanter
Publisher : Oxford Studies of Time in Lang
ISBN 13 : 0199679150
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future Times, Future Tenses written by Philippe de Brabanter and published by Oxford Studies of Time in Lang. This book was released on 2014 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the expression of the future in a range of diverse languages and from a variety of theoretical perspectives. It reveals the value of linking linguistic considerations of tense and aspect to philosophical approaches to modality and time and will be a valuable resource for all those working on time, tense, and temporal reference.

Author : Tracy Dennis-Tiwary
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063062127
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future Tense written by Tracy Dennis-Tiwary and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychologist confronts our pervasive misunderstanding of anxiety and presents a powerful new framework for reimagining and reclaiming the confounding emotion as the advantage it evolved to be. We taught people that anxiety is dangerous and damaging, and that the solution to its pain is to eradicate it like we do any disease—prevent it, avoid it, and stamp it out at all costs. Yet cutting-edge therapies, hundreds of self-help books, and a panoply of medications have failed to keep debilitating anxiety at bay. A third of us will struggle with anxiety disorders in our lifetime and rates in children and adults continue to skyrocket. That’s because the anxiety-as-disease story is false—and it’s harming us. In this radical reinterpretation, Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary argues that anxiety is an evolved advantage that protects us and strengthens our creative and productive powers. Although it’s related to stress and fear, it’s uniquely valuable—allowing us to imagine the uncertain future and compelling us to make that future better. That’s why anxiety is inextricably linked to hope. By distilling the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, including her own, combining it with real-world stories and personal narrative, Dennis-Tiwary shows how we can acknowledge the discomfort of anxiety and see it as a tool, rather than something to be feared and reviled. Detailing the terrible cost of our misunderstanding of anxiety, while celebrating the lives of people who harness it to their advantage, she argues that we can—and must—learn to be anxious in the right way. Future Tense blazes the way for a paradigm shift in how we relate to and understand anxiety in our day-to-day lives—a fresh set of beliefs and insights that allow us to explore and leverage even very distressing anxiety rather than to be overwhelmed by it. Through this new prism of thinking, even anxiety disorders can be alleviated. Achieving a new mindset will not fix anxiety itself—because the emotion of anxiety is not broken; the way we cope with it is. By challenging our long-held assumptions about anxiety, this book provides a concrete framework for how to reclaim it for what it has always been—a gift rather than a curse, and a source of inner strength, joy, and ingenuity.

Author : S. Robert Ramsey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069126824X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Languages of China written by S. Robert Ramsey and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incredible source of information about the Chinese language and China’s minority languages In this accessible and informative book, S. Robert Ramsey lucidly explains what the Chinese language is—its social and geographical situation, its history, its range of dialects, the structure of the modern standard language, and the writing system. He goes on to describe the languages of China’s national minorities, showing how they interrelate with each other and with Chinese. Readers learn about the peoples who speak the languages of China, what China is like linguistically, and the cultural and historical settings of the country’s languages. For those who want more linguistic detail, Ramsey provides lists, maps, charts, and descriptions along with technical references in notes at the end of the book. Invaluable to general linguists and Sinologists alike, The Languages of China is an excellent introduction to Chinese and East Asian linguistics.

Author : Günter Radden
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027292337
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive English Grammar written by Günter Radden and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive English Grammar is designed to be used as a textbook in courses of English and general linguistics. It introduces the reader to cognitive linguistic theory and shows that Cognitive Grammar helps us to gain a better understanding of the grammar of English. The notions of motivation and meaningfulness are central to the approach adopted in the book. In four major parts comprising 12 chapters, Cognitive English Grammar integrates recent cognitive approaches into one coherent model, allowing the analysis of the most central constructions of English. Part I presents the cognitive framework: conceptual and linguistic categories, their combination in situations, the cognitive operations applied to them, and the organisation of conceptual structures into linguistic constructions. Part II deals with the category of ‘things’ and their linguistic structuring as nouns and noun phrases. It shows how things are grounded in reality by means of reference, quantified by set and scalar quantifiers, and qualified by modifiers. Part III describes situations as temporal units of various layers: internally, as types of situations; and externally, as located relative to the time of speech and grounded in reality or potentiality. Part IV looks at situations as relational units and their structuring as sentences. Its two chapters are devoted to event schemas and space and metaphorical extensions of space.Cognitive English Grammar offers a wealth of linguistic data and explanations. The didactic quality is guaranteed by the frequent use of definitions and examples, a glossary of the terms used, overviews and chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading, and study questions. For the Key to Study Questions click here.

Author : John Carroll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New English Grammar written by John Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eliphalet Oram Lyte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammar and Composition written by Eliphalet Oram Lyte and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Otto Jespersen
Publisher : London, Allen and Unwin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Grammar written by Otto Jespersen and published by London, Allen and Unwin. This book was released on 1925 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Stillman Greene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of the English Language written by Samuel Stillman Greene and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Chilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107010136
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Space and Mind written by Paul Chilton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to linguistic meaning and grammatical constructions based on simple geometric principles.

Author : Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9402419322
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Trends in Language Acquisition Within the Generative Perspective written by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art treatment of the acquisition of Indo- and Non-Indo-European languages in various contexts, such as L1, L2, L3/Ln, bi/multilingual, heritage languages, pathology as well as language impairment, and sign language acquisition. The book explores a broad mix of methodologies and issues in contemporary research. The text presents original research from several different perspectives, and provides a basis for dialogue between researchers working on diverse projects with the aim of furthering our understanding of how languages are acquired. The book proposes and refines new theoretical constructs, e.g. regarding the complexity of linguistic features as a relevant factor forming children’s, adults’ and bilingual individuals’ acquisition of morphological, syntactic, discursive, pragmatic, lexical and phonological structures. It appeals to students, researchers, and professionals in the field.