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  2. Tattersall (cloth) - Wikipedia

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    Tattersall is a style of tartan pattern woven into cloth. The pattern is composed of regularly-spaced thin, even vertical warp stripes, repeated horizontally in the weft , thereby forming squares. The stripes are usually in two alternating colours, generally darker on a light ground. [ 1 ]

  3. Tattersalls - Wikipedia

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    George Tattersall (1817–1849), a son of the second Richard Tattersall, who was a well-known sporting artist. [2] Tattersall, a type of cloth named after the business, [5] used commonly in modern shirts. During the 18th century at Tattersall's horse market blankets with this checked pattern were sold for use on horses. [6]

  4. Community unionism - Wikipedia

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    Tattersall Power in Coalition, Chapter 1 includes an overview of the history of the term and a definition of community unionism, ISBN 978-0-8014-7606-8. "Forms of Solidarity", Article on Community Unionism, by Carla Lipsig-Mumme of York University. One of several articles beginning critical writing on community unionism internationally and ...

  5. Focus (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, focus (abbreviated FOC) is a grammatical category that conveys which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive information. In the English sentence "Mary only insulted BILL", focus is expressed prosodically by a pitch accent on "Bill" which identifies him as the only person whom Mary insulted.

  6. Tattersall - Wikipedia

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    Jonathan Tattersall (born 1994), English cricketer; Kathleen Tattersall (1942–2013), British educationalist; Mark Tattersall (born c. 1984), British journalist; Philippa Tattersall (born 1975), Royal Marine officer; Richard Tattersall (1724–1795), founder of racehorse auctioneer Tattersalls; Roy Tattersall (1922–2011), English cricketer ...

  7. Topic and comment - Wikipedia

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    In English clauses with a verb in the passive voice, for instance, the topic is typically the subject, while the agent may be omitted or may follow the preposition by. For example, in the sentence "The little girl was bitten by the dog", "the little girl" is the subject and the topic, but "the dog" is the agent.

  8. Cognitive linguistics - Wikipedia

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    The roots of cognitive linguistics are in Noam Chomsky's 1959 critical review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior.Chomsky's rejection of behavioural psychology and his subsequent anti-behaviourist activity helped bring about a shift of focus from empiricism to mentalism in psychology under the new concepts of cognitive psychology and cognitive science.

  9. Ian Tattersall - Wikipedia

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    Ian Tattersall (born 1945) is a British-born American paleoanthropologist and a curator emeritus with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York. In addition to human evolution , Tattersall has worked extensively with lemurs .