... should disappear in England as it has in France, alldistinctions would thereby be lost. Here Burke avows the central role ofmasculine heterosexual discipline in creating and maintaining social,political, ... not so much withhow femininity figures in the Reflections, but in what ways and for whatpurposes it is written out, or written in, as a force in maintaining ordisturbing the Burkean status quo. ... other)novelists play in constituting and contesting Irish and English nationalidentities. Marking writers or writings in these ways, moreover, occludestheir heterogeneous origins and destinations: that...
... Verbs: infinitives, -ing forms, etc. Verbs with and without objects37 Verb + to-infinitive or bare infinitive38 Verb + to-infinitive or -ing?39 Verb + -ing40 Verb +41 Have/get something done; ... The Waterfront, Town 8001, South Africaâ CambridgeUniversity Press First published 1999Seventh printing 2002Printed in Great Britain by Security PrintingA catalogue record for this book is ... 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...
... expressing subjunctive infinitive or imperative, respectively. This brings us to the last possible interpretation, namely that (6) may refer to the linking verb BE in general, as we would find ... 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...
... 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 ... ‘against’ (counterbalance, counterexample), endo- ‘internal to X’ (endocentric, endocrinology), epi- ‘on, over’ (epiglottis, epicentral), inter- ‘between’ (interbreed, intergalactic), intra- ‘inside’...
... 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 ... building for growing plants’ ‘a house that is green’ c. óperating instructions operating instrúctions ‘instructions for operating something’ ‘instructions that are operating’ d. instálling ... was a special training for members of the university teaching award committee, we could refer to that training as the university teaching Chapter 6: Compounding 202Finally in (33c) we have...
... derivatives. Word-formation inEnglish by Ingo Plag Universität Siegen in press Cambridge UniversityPress Series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics’ 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...
... implicit in his own history and in that of theplaces he and his have inhabited, which also continuously inhabit him. Allegories of Union in Irish and English writing Introduction In Seamus ... this bookowes much to the in uence of their writings on my own.Yet my disciplinary training and location in US English studies, aswell as my investment in a feminist postcolonial mode of analysis, ... in Irish and English writing map of ‘ English studies’’ in a fashion that will provoke a more compre-hensive rethinking of what Irishness meant for the construction ofEnglishness in the nineteenth...