POETRY:Poetry can be targeted for any age reader from PICTURE BOOK to ADULT. Many PICTURE BOOKS tend to rhyme anyway and should revolve around an image or action specific to the young reader. YOUNG ADULT poetry tends to be anthologies or collections and can be more open-ended and abstract. ...
Here, the focus lies on the semantics of co-occurring landmark and trajector noun phrases. Verbs often bear valency-related derivational morphology when used with these locatives whose status in terms of syntactic category is therefore not entirely clear. Consequently, it is problematic to ...
Let us assume that the concessive meaning is the default, unless the noun phrase constrained by 都 to 1 is a determiner phrases with a plural quantifier. In this particular situation, 都 to 1 would take on the distributive function and become a universal operator. The concessive meaning would...
the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows: ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS The terms defined in this Article shall have the following respective meanings for all purposes of this Agreement: 1.1 "Acquisition" means the acquisition of all of the outstanding commo...
Famously played by Henry Winkler, the Fonz is the classic leather-jacket-wearing cool guy from 1960s culture who quickly became the fan-favorite character of the show. One of his classic catchphrases was "Ayyy," which had several meanings ranging from an expression of disgust to a celebratory...
“step for” when used in a claim is intended to and should be interpreted to embrace the corresponding acts that have been described and their equivalents. The absence of these phrases from a claim means that the claim is not intended to and should not be interpreted to be limited to ...
In this study, we framed constructions popularly known as “jargon” or “slang” within a usage-based approach in which “all elements of grammar, be they morphemes, lexical items, idiomatic phrases or larger syntactic structures are considered as symbolic (or constructions) stored in the ...
discarded. They’re not rote pats on the back, a la Stuart Smalley, wherein you try to make yourself feel better. No; true affirmations are more than just words; they’re statements of intent. They’re the same thing that magic spells and prayers are made of; they’re action phrases....