Hydrogen Science and Engineering E-Book

• Herausgeber: Wiley-VCH
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 2058

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Authored by 50 top academic, government and industry researchers, this handbook explores mature, evolving technologies for a clean, economically viable alternative to non-renewable energy. In so doing, it also discusses such broader topics as the environmental impact, education, safety and regulatory developments.

The text is all-encompassing, covering a wide range that includes hydrogen as an energy carrier, hydrogen for storage of renewable energy, and incorporating hydrogen technologies into existing technologies.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Notes on Contributors

1 History and Current Setting

1. From Latin to Portuguese—Main Linguistic changes and conditioning factors

2. Old and Middle Portuguese

3. The historical dimension of Brazilian Portuguese

4. European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese: main contrasting features and changes

5. Conclusions

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2 European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese

1. Introduction

2. Surface similarities between the two varieties

3. Two systems of clitic placement in Portuguese

4. Divergences in the word order of declarative sentences

5. Word order in contrastive (or emphatic) focus constructions

6. Word Order in

wh

-questions

7. Conclusion

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3 Portuguese in Contact

1. Introduction

2. The emergence of pidgin and creole languages and the process of irregular language transmission

3. Brazil

4. Africa

5. Asia

6. Portuguese in contact with Spanish

7. Conclusion

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4 A Comparative Study of the Sounds of European and Brazilian Portuguese

1. Consonants

2. Vowels

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5 Phonological Processes Affecting Vowels

1. Introduction

2. Unstressed vowel neutralization

3. Pretonic Mid-Vowel Harmony in BP

4. Nasal vowels and nasal diphthongs

5. Conclusion

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6 Syllable Structure

1. Introduction

2. The structure of the Portuguese syllable

3. Syllable structure and syllabification

4. Conclusion

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7 Main Stress and Secondary Stress in Brazilian and European Portuguese

1. Introduction

2. A note on the history of Portuguese stress

3. Primary stress: the data

4. The formal modeling of primary stress

5. The syllable weight controversy

6. Stress in compounds

7. Secondary stress

8. Conclusion

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8 The Phonology–Syntax Interface

1. Introduction

2. Evidence for prosodic structure from Portuguese

3. Construction of prosodic domains and the syntax–phonology interface

4. Concluding remarks

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9 Intonation in European and Brazilian Portuguese

1. Introduction: Intonation and its functions in Portuguese

2. Intonation and phrasing

3. Intonation and focus

4. Intonation and utterance types

5. Intonation across varieties of Portuguese

6. Portuguese intonation within Romance

Acknowledgements

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10 The Phonology and Morphology of Word Formation

1. Affixation

2. Modification

3. Compounding

4. Conclusion

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11 The Morphology and Phonology of Inflection

1. Nominal inflection

2. Verbal inflection

3. Discussion

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12 Clitic Pronouns

1. Introduction

2. Survey

3. Clitic pronouns in European Portuguese

4. Clitic pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese

5. Final remarks

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13 The Null Subject Parameter and the Structure of the Sentence in European and Brazilian Portuguese

1. Introduction

2. Null Subjects: distribution and licensing

3. VS Order

4. Concluding remarks

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14 The Structure of DPs

1. Introduction

2. Deverbal nominalizations and the argument structure of nouns

3. Entity/object nouns, PP modifiers and possessive constructions

4. Adjectives: classes and positions

5. DP-internal agreement and bare nouns

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15

Wh-

movement

1. Introduction

2. Interrogatives

3. Relatives

4. Clefting

5. Concluding remarks

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16 Null Objects and VP Ellipsis in European and Brazilian Portuguese

1. Introduction