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Signgram blueprint. A guide to sign language grammar writing
Current grammatical knowledge about sign languages is fragmentary and of varying reliability and is scattered in scientific publications where the description is often intertwined with the analysis. Comprehensive grammars are rare. This work is an innovative tool for the grammar writer: a full-fledged guide to describing all components of the grammars of sign languages in a thorough and systema…
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- 9781501511806
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- 824 p.; 22 cm.
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- De Gruyter Reference
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- 419 SIG s
Oregon writes open writing text : a project of Oregon writes
This textbook guides students through rhetorical and assignment analysis, the writing process, researching, citing, rhetorical modes, and critical reading. Using accessible but rigorous readings by professionals throughout the college composition field, the Oregon Writes Writing Textbook aligns directly to the statewide writing outcomes for English Composition courses in Oregon. Created thro…
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- 228p. : ill.
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- 808.066 KEP o
Pro TBB : C++ parallel programming with threading building blocks
This open access book is a modern guide for all C++ programmers to learn Threading Building Blocks (TBB). Written by TBB and parallel programming experts, this book reflects their collective decades of experience in developing and teaching parallel programming with TBB, offering their insights in an approachable manner. Throughout the book the authors present numerous examples and best practice…
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- 9781484243978
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- lvi, 754p. : ill.
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- 005.13 VOS p
Fact and Fiction
Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined, the contributors to this collection probe how authors from that time onwards have assessed and affe…
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- 9781487511401
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- 830.936 LEH f
Origins of human language: continuities and discontinuities with nonhuman pri…
This book proposes a detailed picture of the continuities and ruptures between communication in primates and language in humans. It explores a diversity of perspectives on the origins of language, including a fine description of vocal communication in animals, mainly in monkeys and apes, but also in birds, the study of vocal tract anatomy and cortical control of the vocal productions in monkeys…
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- 9783631737262 (hardcover)
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- 365 pages ; 22 cm.
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- Speech production and perception ; vol. 4
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- 401 ORI o
Handwritten newspapers
"This book is the first edited volume focusing on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium from a wide interdisciplinary and international perspective. Our primary focus is on handwritten newspapers as a social practice. The case studies contextualize the source materials in relation to political, cultural, literary, and economic history. The analysis reveals both continuity and change a…
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- 9789518581591
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- 229p.: ill.
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- 070.9 HAN h
Archaelogist in print: publishing for the people
Archaeologists in Print is a history of popular publishing in archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a pivotal period of expansion and development in both archaeology and publishing. It examines how British archaeologists produced books and popular periodical articles for a non-scholarly audience, and explores the rise in archaeologists’ public visibility. Notably, it analyses…
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- 9781787352575
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- xii, 295p.: ill.
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- 930.109 THO a
The Alor-Pantar languages: history and typology. Second edition.
The Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Papuan (Non-Austronesian) languages. Its twenty or so languages are spoken on the islands of Alor and Pantar, located just north of Timor, in eastern Indonesia. Together with the Papuan languages of Timor, they make up the Timor-Alor-Pantar family. The languages average 5,000 speakers and are under pressure from the local Mala…
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- 2nd Edition
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- 9783961100224
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- 509 p.; 23 cm.
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- 499.12 KLA a
The cultural net: early modern drama as a paradigm
This volume offers a new theoretical approach to cultural production inspired by the metaphor of culture as a virtual network. Following a thorough outline of this approach, the theoretical framework is elucidated in a second part through examples drawn from early modern European drama. A third and final part then presents a critical discussion of the concept of national culture and literature,…
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- 9783110536638
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- vi, 328p.
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- 800 KUP t
Introduction to scientific programming with Python
This open access book offers an initial introduction to programming for scientific and computational applications using the Python programming language. The presentation style is compact and example-based, making it suitable for students and researchers with little or no prior experience in programming. The book uses relevant examples from mathematics and the natural sciences to present prog…
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- 9783030503567
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- xiv, 148p. : ill.
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- 005.133 SUN i
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