David Willis

"Joyce was homeschooled, and college is her first foray into public education. unfortunately, campus is lousy with atheists, drunks, philanderers, caped vigilantes, and frewshater sharks. Chin up, Joyce! It's gonna be a long year."--Page 4 of cover.

Dumbing of Age

I Beg You, Don't Cast Your Body Into the Cragged Shame Pits of the Lustwolves

"Joyce was homeschooled, and college is her first foray into public education. Can Dorothy, her unlikely new friend (she's an atheist! gasp!) help her navigate this diverse social environment, or is everyone here similarly out of their depth?"--Page 4 of cover.

This Campus Is a Friggin' Escher Print

Christopher Lucas

Anne Breitbarth

This is the first book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines the linguistic and social factors that lie behind such changes. The first volume presents linked case studies of particular languages and language groups, including French, Italian, English, Dutch, German, Celtic, Slavonic, Greek, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic. Each outlines and analyses the development of sentential negation and of negative indefinites and quantifiers, including negative concord and, where appropriate, language-specific topics such as the negation of infinitives, negative imperatives, and constituent negation. The second volume (to be pubished in 2014) will offer comparative analyses of changes in negation systems of European and north African languages and set out an integrated framework for understanding them. The aim of both is a universal understanding of the syntax of negation and how it changes. Their authors develop formal models in the light of data drawn from historical linguistics, especially on processes of grammaticalization, and consider related effects on language acquisition and language contact. At the same time the books seek to advance models of historical syntax more generally and to show the value of uniting perspectives from different theoretical frameworks.

Volume I Case Studies

The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean

Sheila Watts

One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the causes of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ‘actuation problem’: why is it that changes occurring in a given language at a certain time cannot be reliably predicted to recur in other languages, under apparently similar conditions? The sixteen contributions to the present volume each aim to elucidate various aspects of this problem, including: What processes can be identified as the drivers of change? How central are syntax-external (phonological, lexical or contact-based) factors in triggering syntactic change? And how can all of these factors be reconciled with the actuation problem? Exploring data from a wide range of languages from both a formal and a functional perspective, this book promises to be of interest to advanced students and researchers in historical linguistics, syntax and their intersection.

Continuity and Change in Grammar

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This is the first of a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It examines the development of sentential negation and negative indefinites and quantifiers in languages and language groups such as Italian, English, Dutch, German, Celtic, Slavonic, Greek, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic.

This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines the linguistic and social factors that lie behind such changes. The aim of both volumes is to set out an integrated framework for understanding the syntax of negation and how it changes. While the first volume (OUP, 2013) presented linked case studies of particular languages and language groups, this second volume constructs a holistic approach to explaining the patterns of historical change found in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean over the last millennium. It identifies typical developments found repeatedly in the histories of different languages and explores their origins, as well as investigating the factors that determine whether change proceeds rapidly, slowly, or not at all. Language-internal factors such as the interaction of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and the biases inherent in child language acquisition, are investigated alongside language-external factors such as imposition, convergence, and borrowing. The book proposes an explicit formal account of language-internal and contact-induced change for both the expression of sentential negation ('not') and negative indefinites ('anyone', 'nothing'). It sheds light on the major ways in which negative systems develop, on the nature of syntactic change, and indeed on linguistic change more generally, demonstrating the insights that large-scale comparison of linguistic histories can offer.

Volume II: Patterns and Processes

Men these days are often stuck in a tough situation, they look into the mirror and see an adult, but look into their mind and see a teenager. They know they have physically grown into a man, but they don't feel like they have mentally grown into one. Many expect to transform in a sudden moment of clarity, an unexpected change in their life that will alter and improve their mindset forever. Manliness, however, isn't always something that just happens, it isn't a characteristic anyone is born with and it isn't something that will ever come naturally to a lot of men. The journey to manliness starts with a conscious effort, it is something that needs to be embraced rather than imagined. It is a series of small efforts and considerations that slowly combine together to achieve something bigger. This book provides you with a path to manliness. Offering tips and tricks to help you socially become the manliest gentleman you can be, this book will help to guide you on your journey towards masculinity.

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