This volume covers a broad spectrum of research into the role of events in grammar.

The scum of the galaxy are the last hope of humankind .

Accompanied by author analysis and contemporary applications, this collection of readings, reflections and invitations to dialogue make Interpersonal Communication: Making Worlds Together a highly readable yet sophisticated text that is ...

This collection of essays introduces the reader to the specificities of humour in audiovisual products and presents a series of case studies in audiovisual translation, from films to video-games, exemplifying problems and solutions to ...

This book investigates the semantics and syntax-semantics interface of measurement constructions, such as (non-)split quantifiers and comparatives.

With contributions from leading researchers from industry, academia, and private research institutions, this book serves as a one-stop reference for this field—from print ink manufacture to polymer surface modification and ...

The Better Regulation Executive and government departments are not yet in a position to achieve value for money in their management of regulation.

Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European — Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others.

People with strong health literacy skills enjoy better health and well-being, while those with weaker skills tend to engage in riskier behavior and have poorer health.