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Three years after earning a full-ride baseball scholarship to Ohio
State, "Golden" Jake Standen has burned out. Working as a furniture
mover and bouncing between meaningless relationships, he's
convinced that his baseball dreams are over. But after the 1994
Major League Baseball strike prematurely ends the season, the
playoffs, and even the World Series, Jake is about to get his lucky
break. Strike be damned, the owners will have a team for the '95
season, even if they have to open tryouts and spring training to
anyone who can hit or throw the ball. After scoring contracts for
the Toronto Blue Jays, Jake, his best friend Brian Sloan, and an
unlikely cast of new teammates have just six weeks to learn how to
play like never before, amid a slowly building crescendo of public
curiosity, media scrutiny, and a labor dispute that could put them
on the field come Opening Day-or dash their dreams at any minute.
Based on the true stories of the 1994-95 replacement players,
Chasing the Big Leagues is an exciting novel about shared dreams
and competing interests, best friends and second chances, growing
up and finding love.
Complex predicates are multipredicational, but monoclausal
structures. They have proven problematic for linguistic theory,
particularly for proposed distinctions between the lexicon,
morphology, and syntax. This volume focuses on the mapping from
morphosyntactic structures to event structure, and in particular
the constraints on possible mappings. The volume showcases the
'coverb construction', a complex predicate construction which,
though widespread, has received little attention in the literature.
The coverb construction contrasts with more familiar serial verb
constructions. The coverb construction generally maps only to event
structures like those of monomorphemic verbs, whereas serial verb
constructions map to a range of event structures differing from
those of monomorphemic verbs. The volume coverage is truly
cross-linguistic, including languages from Australia, Papua New
Guinea, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, East Africa and
North America. The volume establishes a new arena of research in
event structure, syntax, and cross-linguistic typology.
Complex predicates are multipredicational, but monoclausal
structures. They have proven problematic for linguistic theory,
particularly for proposed distinctions between the lexicon,
morphology, and syntax. This volume focuses on the mapping from
morphosyntactic structures to event structure, and in particular,
the constraints on possible mappings. The volume showcases the
'coverb construction' a complex predicate construction which,
though widespread, has received little attention in the literature.
The coverb construction contrasts with more familiar serial verb
constructions. The coverb construction generally maps only to event
structures like those of monomorphemic verbs, whereas serial verb
constructions map to a range of event structures differing from
those of monomorphemic verbs. The volume coverage is truly
cross-linguistic, including languages from Australia, Papua New
Guinea, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, East Africa and
North America. The volume establishes a new arena of research in
event structure, syntax, and cross-linguistic typology.
"Word Structure in Ngalakgan" is the first major theoretical work
on the phonology and morphology of an Australian language in 20
years. Ngalakgan is a non-configurational, polysynthetic, and
agglutinative language of the Gunwinyguan family. The morphological
structures of Ngalakgan require a two-level analysis: ROOT-level
and WORD-level. Only the WORD-level shows regular phonologically
conditioned alternations. The ROOT-level is entirely frozen. Baker
demonstrates that Optimality Theory must take account of
differences in the productivity of morphological relations in the
input, in order to maintain the simplest analysis. Ngalakgan has a
quantity-sensitive stress system which is hitherto undescribed and
which contradicts the predictions of current Moraic Theory.
Syllables closed by codas which share place with a following onset
do not count as heavy even though heterorganic codas do. The same
system is found in neighbouring languages. This and other patterns
suggest that syllabification in these languages is gesture-, rather
than timing-, based.
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