Stranger thingies : from Felafel to now / / John Birmingham

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910659668203321
• Autore: Birmingham John <1964->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sydney, Australia : , : New South Wales Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• ISBN: 1-74224-401-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (152 pages)
• Disciplina: 820.80994
• Soggetti: Australian literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Things Themselves -- If magazines profiled men like women -- Batten down the hashtags -- Precious freedom thingies -- Why I miss the '90s -- Hip hop is old-people music now -- How Big Waterbed sprung a leak -- Hotel beds are the best beds -- Fox in socks and sandals -- Johnny Depp robbed my car -- An extraordinary meeting of the Bounders Club -- An extraordinary meeting of the Bounders Club -- An extraordinary meeting of the Bounders Club -- The upside of the end of the world -- Ferris Bueller's day of the undead -- Stuffing Your Piehole -- Apocalypse pudding -- I take it back, soccer -- Save my bacon -- Potato cake terrorist -- Oh Christmas ham, how did it come to this? -- Pig night out -- Grand theft mango -- Work it, Bitch -- The meeting -- Procrastination masterclass -- I am from the Microsoft Security -- There will be typos -- Sports and Leisure -- Licence to drink -- Eating his way to the top -- The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race is a naval battle in the never-ending class war -- The Biggest Loser recap: appetite for reduction -- Yoga for the modern bro -- Leisure Suit Larry and the joystick of destiny -- Knocked off your perch -- There is a level 200 squirtle at the end of this think piece -- Domestic Affairs -- He died with a felafel in his hand -- The magpie war -- I have frozen my last toad -- Problem solver needed. Moral flexibility a must -- Dog beach -- We would become Volvo ; drivers -- 'This car's from the future!' -- Modern Man -- Manspreading -- Without pants -- Cold snap -- Bachelor pad -- The Tasmanian Babes fiasco -- Manflu -- Dad bod -- Modern dad -- Inside the Sausage of Politics -- Flopping it out -- Ho, fellow conservative Australians!.; Statement by the League of Australians for a Muntstitutional Conarchy on the occasion of the Prime Minister's treasonous plot to raise the Natives above their lowly station -- From the office of the Prime Minister -- The Ballad of Admiral Morrison -- From Scott Morrison: Minister for Stopping Immigration -- Spy vs spy -- Minutes of an intelligence briefing -- The new reality -- Let Turnbull be Turnbull -- There is no such thing as 22 avocado toast -- Exciting marketing opportunity -- I read Senator Malcolm Roberts's scorching indictment of the CSIRO's criminal conspiracy to ruin us all so you wouldn't have to -- Election wrap -- I can haz kompromat? -- Why I voted for Cthulhu -- The triumph of neo-stupidity -- The phone call.

Constructions in Spanish / Inga Hennecke

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911008967403321
• Autore: Hennecke Inga
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023; ©2023
• ISBN: 9789027250001; 9027250006
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 pages)
• Collana: Constructional approaches to language series ; vol. 34
• Altri autori (Persone): WiesingerEvelyn
• Disciplina: 465.01836; 460
• Soggetti: Spanish language - Syntax; Spanish language - Morphology; Spanish language - Grammar; Construction grammar; Essays.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Construction grammar meets Hispanic linguistics / Inga Hennecke and Evelyn Wiesinger -- Comparative word-formation constructions. Collection nouns as a derivational category in Spanish: analysing the productivity of collective suffixes on the basis of ad hoc constructs / Désirée Kleineberg -- Lexical reduplication in Spanish and Italian: a constructional approach / Ewa Urbaniak -- Phrase-level constructions. A constructional approach to causative support verbs in Spanish / María Isabel Jiménez Martínez and Chantal Melis -- From idioms to semi-schematic constructions and vice versa: the case of [a un paso de X] / Carmen Mellado Blanco -- The construction [a TODO Nsg] in Spanish / Belén López Meirama and Nely M. Iglesias Iglesias -- Abstract and schematic constructions. On deconstructing mood: a construction grammar approach to the Spanish subjunctive / Hans-Ingo Radatz -- Quotative que constructions in Spanish: a constructional variational approach / Pedro Gras, Sofia Pérez Fernández and Frank Brisard -- Que conste/sepas and como si constructions in Spanish / Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez and Victor Pérez Béjar -- A constructional analysis of digo yo in peninsular Spanish / Montserrat Martínez-Vázquez -- Extending the scope of constructionist research on Spanish. From he aquí to aquí está: a case of constructional substitution and syntactic regularization / Felix Tacke -- On the role of verb-particle constructions in Old Spanish: onomasiological networks and typological change / Evelyn Wiesinger -- What can collaboratively produced lists tell us about constructions? A multimodal analysis of co-constructed enumeration practices in spoken Spanish / Dennis Dressel, Philipp Dankel and Alexander Teixeira Kalkhoff -- Construction grammar and foreign language learning (L3): target and non-target language patterns including the Spanish verbs tener and ser / Kathleen Plötner.
• Sommario/riassunto: Constructions in Spanish is the first book-length English-language volume in the field of usage-based and Cognitive Construction Grammar dedicated exclusively to Spanish. The contributions investigate a wide range of constructions from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective, cutting across morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.