... italicized words in (13) and think about the question whether
kicks in (13a), drinking in (13b), or students in (13c) should be regarded as ‘new words’
in the sense of our definition.
(13) ... meaning through which speakers signal their
belonging to a certain group. In sum, truncations can be assigned a meaning, but the
nature of the morph expressing that meaning is problematic.
In ... should
be redefined as “a phonetic string which can be connected to a linguistic entity
outside that string” (1976:15). In the case of verbs involving the phonetic string
[fär], the ‘linguistic...
... actions we find
instrument nouns such as blender, mixer, steamer, toaster, nouns denoting entities
associated with an activity such as diner, lounger, trainer, winner (in the sense
‘winning shot’). ... certain sets of affixes can also be
illustrated by another interesting phenomenon. Both in compounding and in certain
cases of affixation it is possible to coordinate two words by leaving out ... nouns denoting a collective entity or quantity, as in acreage, voltage,
yardage. Due to inherent ambiguities of certain coinages, the meaning can be
extended to include locations, as in orphanage....
... when
combined with a vowel-initial final combining form, but that do take -o- when
combined with a consonant-initial final combining form. And indeed, such data exist:
the initial combining form ... b. gréenhouse a green h use
‘a glass building for growing plants’ ‘a house that is green’
c. óperating instructions operating instrúctions
‘instructions for operating something’ ‘instructions ... was a special training for members of the university
teaching award committee, we could refer to that training as the university teaching
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Finally in (33c) we have...
... derivatives.
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Draft version ... what we find in the OED. Unfortunately, this does not
work for the other words in (5). If we assume that in- is a prefix meaning in, into’ we
would predict that infer would mean ‘carry into’, ... real
meaning of infer. The meaning of con- in confer is impossible to discern, but again
Latin experts might think of the Latin preposition cum ‘with, together’ and the
related Latin prefix...
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... train him in body, while his tutor
shaped his mind, had other ideas. Palsgrave repeatedly complained that the
duke’s household servants were distracting his charge from learning with
hunting ... not the day forth in vain idleness,” gained his king’s love by conduct-
ing his business. Thanks to Wolsey, Henry could live the life of pleasure his
minister eschewed:
The King was young and ... disappoint. The conjoining
of governmental experience and the authority of Greek and Latin texts, ini-
tially adopted in order to provide a meliorating supplement to Elyot’s expe-
rience in government,...
... Harris.
Neil McIntosh (Chapter 21), a consultant paediatrician in Scotland, oVers
a practising clinician’s slant on disability, in the context of ethical issues in
withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. ... pregnancy – in part because it is
intended for a clinical audience, in part because the stages of pregnancy oVer
a narrative framework for understanding the recent debates in maternal–fetal
medicine. ... publicly funded IVF clinics in London, combines her
clinical background with an interest in diVerence to suggest a new and
thought-provoking analysis of human reproductive cloning. Drawing on the
work...
... and Legal Theory
Twining: Rethinking Evidence
Twining & Miers: How to Do Things with Rules
Ward: A Critical Introduction to European Law
Ward: Shakespeare and Legal Imagination
Zander: Cases ... Convention
GiventhatthecasesIdiscussinthebookaremerelyillustrative,thereisastrong
elementoffortuityinthewaythefive‘criticallight’chaptersareassembled.The
imageofthekaleidoscopecomestomindinthatitpointstoaninfinitenumberof
combinationsofeithertheoreticalorempiricalelements,orboth.Ineachchapter
itisasifIhadcollectedpiecesofcaselaw,shakenthem,andobservedthe
resultingcombination–ifnotexactlysymmetry–inthemirror(orlight)of
aparticulartheory.Icouldhaverepeatedtheexerciseoverandoveragain,
adinfinitum,eitherwiththesameorwithslightlydifferentmaterial(caselaw)
ormirrors(critiques).
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Eachtimetheresultwouldhavebeendifferentbut,
Iwouldargue,nolesscompelling.
Theimageofthekaleidoscopedrawsattentiontothewayoursensesconstruct
patternswhichdonot‘really’existexceptthroughtheartificeofreflection
(theory).ItcouldbesaidthatIofferakaleidoscopicreadingoftheConvention,
i.e.onegeneratingarrangementswhichare,ifnotaestheticallypleasing,atleast
deceptivelyattractiveintheirsimplicityand(imposed)regularity.Afriendwho
readChapter3wasnotdeceived.Sheremarked,disapprovingly,thatitwasas
though ... Iwas‘musing’.Itookthisasacompliment;theMuses,offspringofZeusand
Mnemosyne,aretraditionallyseenasinspiringcreativityandlearning.‘Musing’
alsoembracestheideaofmeditation,perhapsofwastingtimebutinorder
bettertoponderandreflect.
Theselectionofajudicialinstitutionasthepracticalfocusofmyreflection
resultsinabookwhichcontainsfarmorelawthannon-lawyersareusedto,
thoughlesslawthanlawyersmayhavewished.IbrieflyintroducetheConvention
inChapter2sothatthereadercanseehowthecasesIdiscussfitwithinthelawof
the...
... to use it with their students.
Verbs: infinitives, -ing forms, etc.
Verbs with and without objects
37 Verb + to-infinitive or bare infinitive
38 Verb + to-infinitive or -ing?
39 Verb + -ing
40 ... to die )
D We often use be to + infinitive in //-clauses to say that something must take place first (in the main
clause) before something else can take place (in the //-clause):
ã are to survive ... John's being )
ã I'm going to be in Tokyo in May. (not I'm being in Tokyo )
We tend to avoid going to + go and use the present continuous form of go instead:
ã I'm going to town...