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... seconds of film time. In the first shot, the capsule leaves the moon, exiting at the bottom of the frame. In the second shot, the capsule moves from the top of the frame to the bottom of the frame. ... film-maker would pan the camera to follow the characters or cut to the offscreen action, but the Lumières did neither, providing an emblematic instance of the preservation of the space of the pro-filmic ... the history of the cinema is not just a history of this machine, and certainly cannot be told from the point of view of the machine and the people who control it. Nor is industrial cinema the...

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... language the phase which this and later chapters refer to as Old English. Migration of people and the consequent relocation of the languages they speak will therefore be one of the major themes of ... scale over the best part of three centuries. The forms of English that the migrants took with them varied considerably according to such factors as the part of Britain from which they came, their ... cases well into the Christian era. The same is true of Germanic, the last major branch of the family to be mentioned, which will be the main concern of the later part of this chapter. The starting...

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... on the people (the new title of the monarch was not ‘king of France’, but ‘king of the French’). One of the deepest changes it wrought was the incorporation in the constitutional community of ... attending the first performance of The Ring of the Nibelung. But liberation from the patrons of the old regime could also mean enslavement to the new commercial world of the public. All too often ... made them more rigid. It was the ending of détente in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the Polish crisis of 1980–1 that precipi- tated the final crisis of what the new...

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... and the condition of, the substitution of the Hay Bulwer Treaty, p. 24— The rules of the Suez Canal Treaty which serve as the basis of the neutralisation of the Panama Canal, p. 25 meaning of the ... with the text of the letter of Mr Thomas Willing Balch of Philadelphia the worthy son of his father who was the first to demand the settlement of the Alabama dispute by arbitration—which the ... have the exclusive right of providing for the regulation and management of the Canal. Thirdly, the parties agreed—see the preamble of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty—that the general principle of the...

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... prevalent throughout the devel- oping countries of the world and in areas of the United States. Many of these customs are being practiced in the United States, especially given the influx of people from ... The dentist should determine whether the patient has any history of surgery, as well as any medications he If concurrent alcohol and tobacco use is noted during the history- gathering phase of ... use is noted during the history- gathering phase of treatment, the dental practitioner should be alert to the patient’s increased potential for oral cancer. 8 Alteration of the oral mucosa’s permeability induced...

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... of the abstract forms. The “good” or the “form of the good” consti- tutes the highest form of wisdom because it encom- passes all other forms and shows their interrelated- ness. The form of the ... illuminates all other forms and makes them knowable. It is the highest truth. Later, in Christian theology, the form of the good is equated with God. The Allegory of the Cave In the allegory of the cave ... on the immortality of active reason, on the scala naturae (the hierarchi- cal design of nature), on the earth being the center of the universe, and on the unmoved mover. The reconciliation of...

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... 726–52 head of, 730–31, 738, 745n1 syntactic relation of governance among elements of, 730–33 themes for next decade regarding, 744–45 variation of, 729–33 Relational grams boundedness of, 730, ... about, 957 gestures and nature of, 947–48 lexical diffusion of, 952, 953t, 954 perceptually motivated, 955–56 specifying class of, 946–47 theoretical consequences of lexically and phonetically ... 8 NLT. See Neural Theory of Language Nominal classification, 676–96. See also Classifier(s) categorization, CL and, 690–92 central problems of, 686–90 systems of, 678–86 systems of, from world to...

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... and perception is at the core of the present formulation of the embodiment hypothesis. The analogy between the form of the argument for the embodiment hypothesis and the form of the foregoing argument ... soothe the infant the parent could say, ‘‘There, there, there ,’’ giving more stress and amplitude on the first part of the word and trailing off towards the end of the word. Alternatively, the ... neurophysiological issues at this early stage of the research. Over the course of this brief history of the embodiment hypothesis, I have traced the evolution of several senses of the term. I have traced its gradual...

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... indicated by the use of bold lines: they ‘‘profile’’ aspects of the object of conceptualization, but none at the level of the subjects of conceptualization or of the relation between the two levels. ... details. In each of these cases, the landmark with respect to which the trajector is located is part of the ground of the utterance. The position of the ballroom in (3) is calcu- lated from the common ... relevant for the speech participants (i.e., part of the common ground), then the location of the address is calculated from the position of sentence (4) in this document. So, in each of these cases,...

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... is, the object of the main clause ‘‘controls’’ the reference of the un- derstood subject in the infinitive clause; whereas in Johnny asked the teacher to go to the bathroom, the referent of the ... which thus constitutes the matrix domain that is the antecedent of the anaphoric pronoun she. The theory of Ruiz de Mendoza and his coauthors has the advantage of accounting for the difference between ... percept for cause metonymy: the question What’s that noise is about the cause of the noise and the subsequent noun phrase identifies the source of the noise, that is, the cause, here a natural force....

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... (7) The plug’s staying loose let the water drain from the tank. (8) The fan’s being broken let the smoke hang still in the chamber. In fact, these patterns can be seen as the negation of the ... because the intention of the agent to make something happen initiates a sequence of causally related events, from the volitional act of the agent via the moving parts of his or her body and other ... However, the further application of extra heavy stress (factor Db1)to the verb, as in (32c), now undoes the backgrounding effects of the four convergent factors. It overrides them and forces the foregrounding...

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... despite the fact that in both cases the ‘‘origin’’ (O) of the frame is the speaker. (6) a. He is in front of the bush. (FoR: Relative, O: Speaker) b. He is in front of the bush from John’s point of ... acquisition studies. By studying the way second-language learners master the structures of their L2 and the mistakes they make, inferences can be drawn about the nature of their L1 categories (Frisson et ... on the basis of this viewpoint (e.g., in front of the wall) c. Absolute FoR: The system is anchored in fixed geo-cardinal positions (e.g., North of the border) Spatial expressions defined on the...

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... doubtful. Rather, all languages appear to make use of the concept, but they can differ substantially both as to the extension of the regions which they express and as to whether they use primarily ... points are of the same kind, and they should therefore not be lumped together under the cover term ‘‘landmark’’ (or ‘‘ground’’). How, then, is the translocation of trajector defined in the Geocen- tric ... Region: superior b. John walked over the bridge. Region: surface (17) a. The room is at the back of the school. Region: interior b. The tree is at the back of the school. Region: exterior An alternative...

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... and they quickly come along with the activa- tion. ‘Jesus on the Cross’ evokes the frame of ‘Roman crucifixion’, of ‘Jesus the baby’, of ‘Jesus the son of God’, of ‘Mary and the Holy women at the ... the point of view of the speaker, whereas in the second he is described from Ursula’s point of view. Although the first description is true and the second is false, Ursula would acquiesce to the ... space P, in which the coun- terpart of the tortoise ‘is a’ hare. The Access Principle operates here: the counterpart b 2 in the new space P is accessed from the Base by means of the description...

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... Subject—and another element of the construction the Verb. This is the sense in which one says that Heather is the Subject of the Verb sings. In other words, the term ‘‘Subject’’ confounds ... types of relations in a construction: the role of the part in the whole and the relation of one part to another part. The difference between the two is illustrated in (11): (11) Different theories ... is, the meanings of the parts of the construction are combined to form the meaning of the whole construction. The reason that they must be represented as independent constructions is not that the...

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