1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813108603321

Autore

Buck Pearl S (Pearl Sydenstricker), <1892-1973, >

Titolo

Death in the castle : a novel / / Pearl S. Buck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Open Road Media Integrated Media, , 2013

©1965

ISBN

1-4804-2120-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Castles

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Author''s Note; Contents; Part One; Part Two; A Biography of Pearl S. Buck; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

An ancient castle, a cash-strapped and psychologically unstable aristocratic couple, and the rumor of ghosts weave together in this sparkling historical mystery from Pearl S. BuckSir Richard Sedgeley and Lady Mary are broke and without an heir to the castle that's been in their family for centuries. Tourists are infrequent, and the offers they've received are not ones they can live with: a state-run prison or a museum in America. What is the remedy, and is it true that there's treasure hidden somewhere under their noses? Featuring a cast of outsize characters-timid Mary, her possibly mad husba



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955903703321

Autore

Mertins Barbara <1974->

Titolo

At the same time .. : the expression of simultaneity in learner varieties / / by Barbara Schmiedtova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2004

ISBN

9786613396518

9781283396516

1283396513

9783110197488

3110197480

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

Studies on language acquisition ; ; 26

Disciplina

400

Soggetti

Language acquisition - Research

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"SOLA, Studies on language acquisition"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-296) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Simultaneity in native speaker and learner language -- Chapter 2. The notion simultaneity and its categorization -- Chapter 3. The expression of simultaneity in English, German and Czech -- Chapter 4. Experimental part -- Chapter 5. Coding and Analysing data -- Chapter 6. Results: native speakers -- Chapter 7. Results: learners -- Chapter 8. Some explanatory factors -- Chapter 9. Conclusions -- Back matter

Sommario/riassunto

The study endeavors a detailed and systematic classification of linguistic simultaneity expressions. Further, it aims at a well described survey of how simultaneity is expressed by native speakers in their own language. On the basis of real production data the book answers the questions of how native speakers express temporal simultaneity in general, and how learners at different levels of proficiency deal with this situation under experimental test conditions. Furthermore, the results of this study shed new light on our understanding of aspect in general, and on its acquisition by adult learn