Honest and authoritative, The Language of Success will gives readers practical techniques to help readers cut through the fluff, guff, geek, and hyperbole, write exceptional business documents, and get their message heard.
Get up to speed on all the topics and themes of the AP exam in a focused, step-by-step manner. Beginning with an exam overview and ways to get the most out of an AP English class, this book has you covered. With long- and short-range planning advice, detailed chapters that discuss the four main literary genres, and two full-length practice exams complete with detailed answer explanations and scoring guides, this book helps you perfect the skills you need to get your best possible score. As a bonus, two appendixes provide a full list of teacher-recommened titles to choose from for the open-ended essay, as well as a quick grammar review to address the fundamentals of superior essay writing.
The best thing about this book is its brevity. If that sounds like damning with faint praise, it isn’t. So many books about NLP are lengthier than they need to be, making it hard for a busy working person to find the time and motivation to get through them.
Existence: Semantics and Syntax This collection is an important contribution to the semantic and syntactic analysis of the expression of existence. The volume focuses on the three main linguistic constructions expressing existence: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)definiteness. The papers analyze the interaction between the basic notion of existence and pervasive phenomena of natural language, such as quantification and presupposition. The contributions represent state of the art research on theoretical and comparative issues related to the expression of existence, and make extensive reference to the semantic and syntactic facts of English and of various other languages. The richness of new data and the juxtaposition of different theoretical stances bring a number of new questions into focus.
