The true born Englishman by Daniel Defoe [E-book

Defoe's most successful poem, The True-Born Englishman (1701), defended the king against the perceived xenophobia of his enemies, satirising the English claim to racial purity.

Garden Design - March 2010

Garden Design Magazine: If you long for a garden that blooms with style and color, then youll want to read Garden Design. This magazine features eye-popping photos, understandable illustrations and useful advice on how to create a picture-perfect garden. Writing in the magazine, the editors claim, is intended to be “as stylish as the gardens we feature.

This book develops from a strong claim: namely, that style is meaningful. A textbook may not be the best place to advance a strong claim, so, to make this claim less conspicuous, I could downgrade it by describing it as in keeping with established views. I could point out that few authors of composition textbooks deny the importance of style, and most offer advice on words and sentences. And I could point out that many researchers, especially those working in English for Special Purposes, have analyzed style in the scholarly genres. In turn, these inquiries could be seen as developing the long standing sociol-inguistic idea of "register," the condition which indexes language for use in definable social settings.

With this study of Maori and Chamorro, Sandra Chung and William Ladusaw make a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the formal semantic analysis of non-Indo-European languages. Their ultimate focus is on how the study of these Austronesian languages can illuminate the alternatives for semantic interpretation and their interaction with syntactic structure. Revisiting the analysis of indefiniteness in terms of restricted free variables, they claim that some varieties of indefinites are better analyzed by taking restriction and saturation to be fundamental semantic operations.

Comparative linguistics.