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This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication - a hot topic in syntax and semantics research - from a crosslinguistic perspective. It maps out all the relevant phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties....

Second EditionThe book illuminates Calvin's thought by placing it in the context of the theological and exegetical traditions--ancient, medieval, and contemporary-- that formed it and contributed to its particular texture. Steinmetz addresses a range of issues almost as wide as the Reformation itself, including the knowledge of God, the...

The endurance of gender inequality, despite many factors that work against it, remains a puzzle. Framed by Gender presents a new way to understand gender inequality, showing how commonly held beliefs about gender differences are used to organize interactions and thereby introduce inequalities into new social arrangements and organizations as they...

This book sets out a new understanding of the penal law of a liberal legal order.          The prevalent view today is that the penal law is best understood from the        standpoint of a moral theory concerning when it is fair to blame and censure an        individual character for engaging in proscribed conduct. By contrast, this...

A readable, far-reaching history of a multi-denominational, multi-regional, and        multi-ethnic religious group, Protestants in America explores the physical and        ideological roots of the denomination up to the present day, and traces the origins        of American Protestants all the way back to the first English colony at...

In   Electric Folk - Revival and Transformation of English Traditional Music, Britta Sweers chronicles the history of the genre and explores its cultural implications. She characterizes electric folk as both a result of the American folk revival of the early 1960s and a reaction against the dominance of American pop music abroad. Sweers creates a...