English mediopassive constructions: A cognitive, corpus-based study of their origin, spread, and current status
This book provides the first empirical study of the history and spread of mediopassive constructions. It investigates the productivity of the pattern, the spread of the construction in Modern English, and looks into text type-specific preferences for the construction.
This manual is intended to aid enterprises in designing and implementing a business ethics program that meets emerging global standards of responsible business conduct. Owners and managers can explore the substantial body of global standards, procedures, and expectations described here. They can adopt or adapt them on a sector-by-sector and enterprise-by-enterprise basis, taking into account their particular circumstances, such as applicable laws and regulations, the size of the enterprise, and the enterprise’s purpose.
This book explores literary texts of the Roman empire to offer a depiction of actual events and the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read.
Pound/Joyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, With Pound's Critical Essays and Articles About Joyce
During the winter of 1913 Ezra Pound was in Sussex with William Butler Yeats, acting as the elder poet's secretary. Temporarily free of the rush of London, each was assessing the other's work and both were laying out new directions.
Ezra Pound as Literary Critic contributes to the current debate surrounding the modernist movement by examining in detail the methods by which Pound came to dominate the discourse of modernism.
