The Babel Lexicon of Language
The Babel Lexicon of Language
The Babel Lexicon of Language
The Babel Lexicon of Language
Formulaic Language and the Lexicon
A considerable proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic'. It is predictable in form, idiomatic, and seems to be stored in fixed, or semi-fixed, chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patter...
Exploring the Second Language Mental Lexicon
Unlike many recent books on L2 vocabulary and processing, this volume does not set out to offer a complex perspective of the L2 lexicon, but rather represents a sustained attempt to come to grips with some very basic questions clustered around the...
Lexicon
Sticks and stones break bones. Words kill. They recruited Emily from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words. They'll live to regret it. Wil survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember it. Now they're after hi...
Lexicon
'About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash.' --Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King 'Best thing I've read in a long time . . . a masterpiece.' --Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool Stick and stones break bones. Words kill. They recruited Emily Ruff from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words. They'll live to regret it. They said Wil Parke survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember. Now they're after him and he doesn't know why. There's a word, they say. A word that kills. And they want it back . . .
Dari Language Mini Vocabulary Builder
Dari Language Mini Vocabulary Builder
Korean Language Mini Vocabulary Builder
Korean Language Mini Vocabulary Builder
Tigrinya Language Mini Vocabulary Builder
Tigrinya Language Mini Vocabulary Builder
Family Lexicon
'A masterpiece.' -- The New Yorker'A glowing light of modern Italian literature.' -- New York Times'The places, events, and people in this book are real. I haven't invented a thing.'Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful autobiographical novel Famil...
Lovecraft Lexicon
For decades, H.P Lovecraft's horror stories -- such as The Dunwich Horror and The Call of Cthulhu -- have intrigued and horrified readers from all over the world. But Lovecraft's world is filled with a daunting array of bizarre and obscure charact...
Lexicon Urthus
Lexicon Urthus
KGB Lexicon
In this volume Mitrokhin presents two dictionaries produced by the KGB itself to define their activities in both offensive and defensive intelligence work. The translated documents tell the story of the KGB's methods and targets and should interes...
Family Lexicon
A masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fiction An Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon. Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking--when he isn't provoked into angry remonstration by someone misspeaking or misbehaving or wearing the wrong thing. Giuseppe is Jewish, married to Lidia, a Catholic, though neither is religious; they live in the industrial city of Turin where, as the years pass, their children find ways of their own to medicine, marriage, literature, politics. It is all very ordinary, except that the background to the story is Mussolini's Italy in its steady downward descent to race law and world war. The Levis are, among other things, unshakeable anti-fascists. That will complicate their lives. Family Lexicon is about a family and language--and about
Syriac Lexicon
The second edition of Carl Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, published in 1928, is rightly considered to be the best dictionary of Syriac ever written. However, its Latin language and the ordering of words according to triliteral Semitic roots make ...
Demon's Lexicon
Nick and his brother Alan are on the run with their mother, who was once the lover of a powerful magician. When she left him, she stole an important charm - and he will stop at nothing to reclaim it. Now Alan has been marked with the sign of death...
Bay Lexicon
As human populations inhabiting cities have grown dramatically, we have lost the ability to understand and even to see the natural world around us. We lack the vocabulary to describe our surroundings, and this lack of understanding limits our abil...
Teilhard Lexicon
Written to enable researchers and students to better understand the specialised language of Teilhard's transdisciplinary approach, which he found himself compelled to develop as a means of expressing that extraordinary vision of a universe in proc...
Ecotopian Lexicon
Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation ¿ As the scale and gravity of climate change becomes undeniable, a cultural revolution must ultimately ma...
Jung Lexicon
Jung Lexicon
KGB Lexicon
In this volume Mitrokhin presents two dictionaries produced by the KGB itself to define their activities in both offensive and defensive intelligence work. The translated documents tell the story of the KGB's methods and targets and should interes...
YSL LEXICON
Yves Saint Laurent (1936 2008) is credited with reviving French haute couture in the 1960s, with making ready-to-wear reputable, and with using non-European cultural references. In addition to the kaleidoscope of images in this book, a coterie of ...
Chinese Lexicon
The Chinese Lexicon is a detailed study of the words and word combinations used in modern Chinese. Yip Po-Ching defines the general properties of a language's lexicon, or vocabulary, prior to a thorough discussion of the organizational features of...
Colonial Lexicon
A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the "colonial encounter" paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about au...
Cross-linguistic Influences in the Second Language Lexicon
This volume contains a selection of papers analyzing language transfer, a phenomenon which results from language contact in bilingual and multilingual language acquisition and learning contexts. The main focus of the volume is on the lexical aspec...
Armenian Language Mini Vocabulary Builder: Stress Labeled!
Armenian Language Mini Vocabulary Builder: Stress Labeled!