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This book is a companion volume to the author's The Anachronism of Time, about which Peter Forster in a Church Times review wrote 'These matters are handled with considerable subtlety and insight'. Here in Dynamism of Space, lain MacKenzie, a Residentiary Canon of Worcester, explores the language used about space and infinity - especially among philosophers of earlier centuries. He also attempts to show how theology and physics walk hand in ha...

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This book reflects on the future of the English language as used by native speakers, speakers of "nativized" New Englishes, and users of English as a lingua franca from a number of different dimensions.

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This book elucidates the nature of semi-fixed formulaic sequences and provides a convincing reassessment of the potential creativity of the formulaic in a variety of linguistic and literary contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

This book offers an original account of the dynamics of syntactic change and the evolving structure of Old Spanish that combines rigorous manuscript-based investigation, quantitative analysis and a syntactic approach grounded in Minimalist thinking. Its analysis of both successful and failed changes demonstrates the degree of unpredictability caused by the interaction of competing factors and will shed fresh light on the assumed unidirectional...

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Intelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to Sao Paulo, where she encounters crime, protests, refugees, gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce, while confronting the crisis slowly building inside her own marriage.

`Brilliant. Among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence abroad' Garth Greenwell

Excerpt from Forgotten PlacesAfterwards, when he believed that they were never to be repeated, with enthusiastic recollection The ways in which we used to Spend those winter after noons! Talking of poetry, and reading What we had been writing, and laughing, and talking, and arguing about silly, futile things that were going on around us. How we broke down all the existing systems, and built them up again after ten minutes' discussion The wild ...

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The life of Paul Metzger is in disrepair. As he travels across New York to visit three people, a violent encounter changes his life, and the lives of those around him, forever.

Spanish: An Essential Grammar is a concise and user-friendly reference guide to the most important aspects of Spanish.It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language that combines traditional and function-based grammar. The book sets out the complexities of Spanish in short, readable sections, and explanations are clear and free from jargon.The Grammar is the ideal reference source for the learner and user of Spanish. It is suit...

Providing an account of major philosophical issues, this essential textbook bridges the gap between linguistics and the philosophy of language. Introduction to Linguistic Philosophy presents the theories of leading linguistic analysts such as Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Carnap and Quine. Ian Mackenzie's exploration into these theories prepares readers for advanced work on most topics in semantics and the study of language. His approach to ...