This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface. It is rooted within the tradition of model theoretic semantics, and develops an explicit fragment of both the syntax and semantics of a rich portion of English. Professor Jacobson adopts a Direct Compositionality approach, whereby the syntax builds the expressions while the semantics simultaneously assigns each a model-theoretic interpretation.

Alongside this approach, the author also presents...

Un été, au hasard de ses déambulations new-yorkaises, Line découvre dans un musée l'existence d'Albert Dadas, premier cas, au XIXe siècle, de "tourisme pathologique". L'histoire de ce fugueur maladif, sans cesse jeté sur les routes par son Impérieuse soif d'ailleurs, fait remonter en Line d'autres souvenirs, liés aux "voyageurs malgré eux" de sa propre famille : Thinh, l'oncle si étrange, Hoai, la cousine disparue et, surtout, son père. Cet homme bousculé par l'Histoire, cet immi...

Success in today's globalized business environment requires deep knowledge of varied areas, and the willingness to engage in commerce not just across geographic areas, but cross-culturally and environmentally as well. Doing Business in Latin America offers an in-depth look at a complex region, integrating practitioners’ and scholars’ ideas to examine business conducted in Latin America through the lens of international business and globalization. The book introduces, discusses, and explai...

Stresses the importance of argumentation in everyday life Critical Thinking and Communication, 7/e, encourages students to develop skills in constructing and refuting arguments in contexts ranging from informal conversations to structured debates. The authors stress the importance of argumentation in everyday life while building student competence and critical awareness. Through exercises and examples, students learn to create arguments and develop, understand, and interpret extended cases.

This new edition of one of the most widely used course books on Islamic civilizations around the world has been substantially revised to incorporate the new scholarship and insights of the last twenty-five years. Ira Lapidus' history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam's worldwide diffusion. The history is divided into four parts.

Part I is a comprehensive account of pre-Islamic late antiquity; the beginnings of Islam; the ...

Teaching Entrepreneurship moves entrepreneurship education from the traditional process view to a practice-based approach and advocates teaching entrepreneurship using a portfolio of practices, which includes play, empathy, creation, experimentation, and reflection. Together these practices help students develop the competency to think and act entrepreneurially in order to create, find, and exploit opportunities of all kinds in a continuously changing and uncertain world. Divided into two par...

This third edition of Human Rights: Between Idealism and Realism presents human rights in action, focusing on their effectiveness as legal tools designed to benefit human beings. By combining conceptual analysis with an emphasis on procedures and mechanisms of implementation, this volume provides a multidimensional overview of human rights. After examining briefly the history of human rights, the author analyses the intellectual framework that forms thebasis of their legitimacy.

In particular...

Through close study of Avicenna's statements and major works, Dimitri Gutas traces Avicenna's own sense of his place in the Aristotelian tradition and the history of philosophy in Islam, and provides an introduction to reading his philosophical works by delineating the approach most consistent with Avicenna's intention and purpose in philosophy. The second edition of this foundational work, which has quickened fruitful research into the philosopher in the last quarter century, is completely r...

Rekenwiskundedidactiek verhoudingen, procenten, breuken en kommagetallen 2e druk is een boek van Marc van Zanten uitgegeven bij ThiemeMeulenhoff bv. ISBN 9789006955378

Verhoudingen, procenten, breuken en kommagetallen hebben van alles met elkaar te maken. Tegelijkertijd zijn ze ook verschillend van elkaar. Dit deel van de driedelige serie Reken-wiskundedidactiek beschrijft deze domeinen in hun onderlinge samenhang. Aan bod komt vooral hoe je basisschoolkinderen greep kunt laten krijgen op dez...

Goed contact tussen cliënt en hulpverlener leidt tot betere zorg Cliënten zijn mondiger geworden en kwaliteitseisen worden hoger, waardoor de werkdruk toeneemt. Als zorgverlener/hulpverlener wil je je werk goed doen, maar hoe zorg je tegelijkertijd voor jezelf, hoe bewaak je je eigen grenzen? Hoe kun je nabijheid bieden en tegelijk ook jezelf blijven? Met dit boek laten de auteurs zien dat goed contact en verbinding helend is voor de zorgvrager en uitputting van de zorgverlener voorkomt. He...