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The Hidden History of Coined Words How are words coined? That provides the focus of The Hidden History of Coined Words. Based on extensive research, its author, Ralph Keyes, has determined that successful neologisms are as likely…
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In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: Equine medicine and popular romance in late medieval England Francine McGregorhttps://doi.org/10.1163/9789004538405 Equine Medicine and Popular Romance in Late Medieval England explores a seldom-studied trove…
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„F. Scott Fitzgerald: Kein anderer US-amerikanischer Autor hat das Leben der Roaring Twenties so detailliert und schillernd dargestellt wie er. Besonders bekannt und spektakulär verfilmt – Der große Gatsby.“ (SWR, Astrid Mayerle) Sie können die…
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How adjectival can a participle be? Subsective gradience in English 2nd participles Most analyses of the English passive (formed with be + V-ed) claim that there is a verbal passive and an adjectival passive. How…
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„Actor, comedian and Author Ben Miller discusses the colourful, complicated and uncompromising life of William Hazlitt. Born in 1778 William Hazlitt is considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the…
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Unbelief in interwar literary culture: doubting moderns Unbelief offers a new account of the relationship between literary and secularist scenes of writing in interwar Britain. Organized secularism has sometimes been seen as a phenomenon that…
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„“Ich bin eine erstklassige Schriftstellerin zweiter Güte“, hat Vicki Baum, geboren 1888, von sich gesagt. Ihr Erfolgsroman „Menschen im Hotel“ wurde mit Greta Garbo verfilmt und prägte ein ganzes Genre.“ (Bayern 2, Brigitte Kohn) Sie…
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Die Library of Congress hat über Jahrzehnte eine große Audio-Sammlung zur englischen Literatur aufgebaut, die in Teilen bereits online verfügbar ist: Listen to audio-recorded readings of former Consultants in Poetry Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks and…
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Particles in German, English, and beyond Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic…
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Broadening the spectrum of corpus linguistics: New approaches to variability and change This volume presents a snapshot of the current state of the art of research in English corpus linguistics. It contains selected papers from…