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UNINA9910813108603321 |
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Buck Pearl S (Pearl Sydenstricker), <1892-1973, > |
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Death in the castle : a novel / / Pearl S. Buck |
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New York, New York : , : Open Road Media Integrated Media, , 2013 |
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©1965 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (310 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover; Title Page; Author''s Note; Contents; Part One; Part Two; A Biography of Pearl S. Buck; Copyright |
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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 |
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UNINA9910955903703321 |
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Mertins Barbara <1974-> |
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At the same time .. : the expression of simultaneity in learner varieties / / by Barbara Schmiedtova |
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Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2004 |
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9786613396518 |
9781283396516 |
1283396513 |
9783110197488 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Studies on language acquisition ; ; 26 |
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Language acquisition - Research |
Language and languages - Study and teaching |
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Materiale a stampa |
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"SOLA, Studies on language acquisition"--Cover. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-296) and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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