Third Person Singular

Author : K. J. Erickson
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429973625

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Third Person Singular by K. J. Erickson Pdf

Set against the black backdrop of a ruthless Minnesota winter, KJ Erickson's debut novel is bursting with masterfully plotted suspense and intricately rendered characters. Prickly but gifted Minneapolis Special Detective Marshall "Mars" Bahr is a man whose devotion to his eight-year-old son is eclipsed only by his love of the hunt. Mars hasn't won any popularity contests among his fellow officers, but his commitment to his job and his investigative talents have gotten him a plumb assignment: Special Detective in charge of the First Response Unit, reporting directly to the chief. On a winter morning, when Mars is called to the scene of a homicide near the outskirts of town, his first thought is that a homeless drunk passed out in the wrong place on a freezing cold night. What he finds turns out to be much more menacing, a nightmare case involving a teenage girl from the right side of the tracks. With few clues and increasing pressure from the mayor on down to apprehend the killer, Mars is forced to turn away from the details of the crime on the bluffs and instead focus on the victim herself. Mary Pat Fitzgerald seemed to have a storybook lifestyle, at least from the outside. With a little digging, however, it becomes clear that appearances can be deceiving. Mars and his partner, Nettie Frisch, turn up some provocative clues in the search to uncover the truth about the young woman's lonely death-- but can they trust them? Third Person Singular is a multilayered screamer of a debut that will have readers breathlessly awaiting KJ Erickson's next effort.

Author : Merja Kytö,Päivi Pahta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108744346

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The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics by Merja Kytö,Päivi Pahta Pdf

English historical linguistics is a subfield of linguistics which has developed theories and methods for exploring the history of the English language. This Handbook provides an account of state-of-the-art research on this history. It offers an in-depth survey of materials, methods, and language-theoretical models used to study the long diachrony of English. The frameworks covered include corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics and manuscript studies, among others. The chapters, by leading experts, examine the interplay of language theory and empirical data throughout, critically assessing the work in the field. Of particular importance are the diverse data sources which have become increasingly available in electronic form, allowing the discipline to develop in new directions. The Handbook offers access to the rich and many-faceted spectrum of work in English historical linguistics, past and present, and will be useful for researchers and students interested in hands-on research on the history of English.

Author : Sayed Kashua
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802194640

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Second Person Singular by Sayed Kashua Pdf

An award-winning novel of love, betrayal, and Arab Israeli identity by the author of Dancing Arabs—“one of the most important contemporary Hebrew writers” (Haaretz). A successful Arab criminal attorney and a social worker-turned-artist find their lives intersecting under the most curious of circumstances. The lawyer has a thriving practice in Jerusalem, a large house, and a Mercedes. He speaks both Arabic and Hebrew, and lives with his wife and two young children. To maintain his image as a sophisticated Israeli Arab, he makes frequent visits to a local bookstore and picks up popular novels. But on one fateful evening, he decides to buy a used copy of Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata, a book his wife once recommended. Tucked in its pages, he finds a love letter, in Arabic . . . in his wife’s handwriting. Consumed with suspicion and jealousy, he decides to hunt down the book’s previous owner—a man named Yonatan. But Yonatan’s identity is more complex than the attorney imagined. In the process of dredging up old ghosts and secrets, the lawyer breaks the fragile threads that hold all of their lives together. Winner of the 2011 Bernstein Prize, Second Person Singular is “part comedy of manners, part psychological mystery” (The Boston Globe) that offers “sharp insights on the assumptions made about race, religion, ethnicity, and class that shape Israeli identity” (Publishers Weekly). “[Kashua’s] dry wit shines.” —Los Angeles Times “Kashua’s protagonists struggle, often comically . . . making his narratives more nuanced than some of the other Arabs writing about the conflict” —Newsweek “Sayed Kashua is a brilliant, funny, humane writer who effortlessly overturns any and all preconceptions about the Middle East. God, I love him.” —Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

Author : Joanne Scheibman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9027226210

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Point of View and Grammar by Joanne Scheibman Pdf

This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject, tense, and verb type are those that are used by speakers to personalize their contributions, not to present unmediated descriptions of the world. These findings are informed by current research and practices in linguistics which argue that the emergence, or conventionalization, of linguistic structure is related to the frequency with which speakers use expressions in discourse. The use of conversational data in grammatical analysis illustrates the local and contingent nature of grammar in use and also raises theoretical questions concerning the coherence of linguistic categories, the viability of maintaining a distinction between semantic and pragmatic meaning in analytical practice, and the structural and social interplay of speaker point of view and participant interaction in discourse.

Author : Swagatam SenGupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798676114664

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Third Person Singular Number by Swagatam SenGupta Pdf

Marital and extra marital relationship is nothing, just a search of love and shelter . But today people feels to give the priority of money and lust, where love is misguided. Third person comes in everyone's life like a cold wind which helps us to take a comfortable breathe but it as per the situation it doesn't take a long time to become a storm. Expectation of love and possessiveness leads to make a person monster.

Author : Robin Jeffrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : OCLC:1097143261

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About Writing by Robin Jeffrey Pdf

Author : Ian Berry,Anne Ellegood,Amy Sillman
Publisher : Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0976572354

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Amy Sillman by Ian Berry,Anne Ellegood,Amy Sillman Pdf

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385696159

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First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami. The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator, a lonely man. Some of them (like "With the Beatles," "Cream" and "On a Stone Pillow") are nostalgic looks back at youth. Others are set in adulthood--"Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," "Carnaval," "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey" and the title story, "First Person Singular." Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Haruki himself is present, as in "The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection." Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. The stories touch beautifully on love and loss, childhood and death . . . all with a signature Murakami twist.

Author : Emma Grove
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770466449

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The Third Person by Emma Grove Pdf

In the winter of 2004, a shy woman named Emma sits in Toby’s office. She wants to share this wonderful new book she’s reading, but Toby, her therapist, is concerned with other things. Emma is transgender, and has sought out Toby for approval for hormone replacement therapy. Emma has shown up at the therapy sessions as an outgoing, confident young woman named Katina, and a depressed, submissive workaholic named Ed. She has little or no memory of her actions when presenting as these other two people. And then Toby asks about her childhood . . . As the story unfolds, we discover clues to Emma’s troubled past and how and why these other two people may have come into existence. As Toby juggles treating three separate people, each with their own unique personalities and memories, he begins to wonder if Emma is merely acting out to get attention, or if she actually has Dissociative Identity Disorder. Is she just a troubled woman in need of help? And is “the third person” in her brain protecting her, or derailing her chances of ever finding peace? The Third Person is a riveting memoir from newcomer Emma Grove. Drawn in thick, emotive lines, with the refined style of a comics vet, Grove has created a singular, gripping depiction of the intersection of identities and trauma. The Third Person is a testament to the importance of having the space to heal and live authentically.

Author : Lester Kaufman,Jane Straus
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119652847

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The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation by Lester Kaufman,Jane Straus Pdf

The bestselling workbook and grammar guide, revised and updated! Hailed as one of the best books around for teaching grammar, The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation includes easy-to-understand rules, abundant examples, dozens of reproducible quizzes, and pre- and post-tests to help teach grammar to middle and high schoolers, college students, ESL students, homeschoolers, and more. This concise, entertaining workbook makes learning English grammar and usage simple and fun. This updated 12th edition reflects the latest updates to English usage and grammar, and includes answers to all reproducible quizzes to facilitate self-assessment and learning. Clear and concise, with easy-to-follow explanations, offering "just the facts" on English grammar, punctuation, and usage Fully updated to reflect the latest rules, along with even more quizzes and pre- and post-tests to help teach grammar Ideal for students from seventh grade through adulthood in the US and abroad For anyone who wants to understand the major rules and subtle guidelines of English grammar and usage, The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation offers comprehensive, straightforward instruction.

Author : Cindy L. Vitto
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1551117789

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Grammar By Diagram - Second Edition by Cindy L. Vitto Pdf

Grammar by Diagram, second edition is a book designed for anyone who wishes to improve grammatical understanding and skill. Using traditional sentence diagraming as a visual tool, the book explains how to expand simple sentences into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, and how to employ verbals (infinitives, gerunds, and participles) and other structures for additional variety. The text addresses the most frequent usage errors by explaining how to distinguish between adjectives and adverbs; how to avoid problems of pronoun case, agreement, and consistency; how to ensure that verbs will agree with their subjects and will be appropriate in terms of tense, aspect, voice, and mood; and how to phrase sentences to avoid errors in parallelism or placement of modifiers. Six appendices incorporate further exercises, a summary of key basics from the text, and supplemental material not included in the body of the text but useful for quick reference. This new edition includes additional exercises and has been revised and updated throughout.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Philistine Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Third person by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1850753792

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Idioms of the Greek New Testament by Stanley E. Porter Pdf

The Greek grammar, newly revised and reset for the second edition, which is also available in paperback, can be used as an instructive handbook, as an intermediate level textbook and as a basic reference work to New Testament Greek. The major topics of Greek grammar are treated in a useful pedagodical sequence. Among the innovative treatments are those on tense and aspect, Mood and Attitude, conditional clauses, word order and clause structure, and discourse analysis. The grammar takes account both of the traditional categories of Greek grammar and of recent discussions on structural linguistics.

Author : Joan L. Bybee,Paul Hopper
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229481

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Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure by Joan L. Bybee,Paul Hopper Pdf

A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used in discourse and second, the question of how frequency of use affects cognitive representations. Reporting on evidence from natural conversation, diachronic change, variability, child language acquisition and psycholinguistic experimentation the original articles in this book support two major principles. First, the content of people s interactions consists of a preponderance of subjective, evaluative statements, dominated by the use of pronouns, copulas and intransitive clauses. Second, the frequency with which certain items and strings of items are used has a profound influence on the way language is broken up into chunks in memory storage, the way such chunks are related to other stored material and the ease with which they are accessed to produce new utterances.

Author : Dennis Baron
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781631496059

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What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron Pdf

“If you want to know why more people are asking ‘what’s your pronoun?’ then you (singular or plural) should read this book.” —Joe Moran, New York Times Book Review Heralded as “required reading” (Geoff Nunberg) and “the book” (Anne Fadiman) for anyone interested in the conversation swirling around gender-neutral and nonbinary pronouns, What’s Your Pronoun? is a classic in the making. Providing much-needed historical context and analysis to the debate around what we call ourselves, Dennis Baron brings new insight to a centuries-old topic and illuminates how—and why—these pronouns are sparking confusion and prompting new policies in schools, workplaces, and even statehouses. Enlightening and affirming, What’s Your Pronoun? introduces a new way of thinking about language, gender, and how they intersect.