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Redefining Global Governance
(2025)
This open access volume offers a unique interdisciplinary analysis of the current structure of global governance on tax, trade, and investment. It explores the interplay between actors, critiques current norm-making ...
Melothesia in Babylonia. Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East
(2014)
This book examines the Babylonian backgroundof melothesia, the science of charting zodiac influences on the human body, which transformed older divination by connecting astrology with medical techniques. Special attention ...
Chapter 19 Subjects, topics and the interpretation of pro
(2018)
In this paper I would like to address the classical issue of the similarities and differences between subject and topic positions. In doing so, I will build on seminal work by Andrea Calabrese, particularly Calabrese (1986) ...
Chapter Epilogue
(2015)
‘Who is in and who is out? – these are the first questions that any political community must answer about itself’ (Walzer 1993: 55). We can agree with Michael Walzer on this point, but there is one important question that ...
Chapter Languages of the Middle Andes in areal-typological perspective
(2012)
Among the indigenous languages of the Andean region of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile and northern Argentina, Quechuan and Aymaran have traditionally occupied a dominant position. Both Quechuan and Aymaran are ...
Chapter Higher order exceptionality in inflectional morphology
(2011)
We start from the notion of ‘canonical’ inflection, and we adopt an inferential-realizational approach. We assume that we have already established the features and their values for a given system (while acknowledging that ...
Chapter Sarazenen als „Fremde“?
(2009)
The subjects of this volume are views and perceptions of the “other” (i.e. strangers, enemies or curiosities) within the Islamic world, as well as in the interplay between the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. More than 20 ...
Chapter 12 Icelandic valency classes
(2015)
The present chapter gives an overview of valency classes in Icelandic and the most common, noticeable, or productive alternations found in the language. The over-view is based on my own native-speaker knowledge of the ...
Chapter 5 Linguistic areas, bottom-up or top-down?
(2014)
In this paper we will take data from four areas of grammatical structure: argument marking (coded by Birchall), subordination (coded by Van Gijn), the noun phrase (coded by Krasnoukhova), and tame marking (tense/aspect/m ...
Chapter 9 From Equal Citizens to Unequal Groups
(2015)
ifferent citizens from other former Yugoslav republics who were permanent residents on their territory when the new citizenship regime came into effect. In their extreme manifestation, citizenship laws and practices have ...
Chapter Languages with longer words have more lexical change
(2013)
The findings to be presented in this paper were not anticipated, but came about as an unexpected result of looking at how the application of a version of the Levenshtein distance to word lists compares with cognate counting. ...
Transformations of Romanness: Early Medieval Regions and Identities
(2018)
Few pre-modern empires had an impact on their subjects comparable to that of the Roman Empire. Over time, being Roman could mean many different things, e.g. Latin speakers under barbarian rule, subjects of the Byzantine ...
Chapter Dependency-sensitive typological distance
(2013)
In this paper, we will develop two kinds of dependency-sensitive distance metrics. The first captures the idea that if it can be shown that one feature can be (partly) predicted by another, then the predictable feature ...
Chapter On a-marking of object topics in the Italian left periphery
(2018)
Standard Italian is known not to mark lexical direct objects through use of a prep-osition.1 This is in contrast with southern varieties, in which lexical direct objects are typically introduced by preposition a, as an ...
Chapter 2 The Trans New Guinea family
(2017)
The island of New Guinea is a region of spectacular, deep linguistic diversity.1It contains roughly 850 languages, which on present evidence fall into at least 18 language families that are not demonstrably related, along ...
Chapter Predicting language-learning difficulty
(2013)
The difficulty people have in learning a foreign language strongly depends on how different this language is from their native tongue (Kellerman 1979). Although this statement seems uncontroversial in the general form as ...
Chapter Predicting language-learning difficulty
(2013)
The difficulty people have in learning a foreign language strongly depends on how different this language is from their native tongue (Kellerman 1979). Although this statement seems uncontroversial in the general form as ...
Jews in Early Christian Law: Byzantium and the Latin West, 6th-11th Centuries
(2014)
What is the place of Jews in medieval Christian societies? in the ninetheenth and early twentieth centuries, this question was largely confined to Jewish scholars, and the academic debates where inseparable from the upheavels ...
La “descrizione dei tempi” all’alba dell’espansione islamica. Un’indagine sulla storiografia greca, siriaca e araba fra VII e VIII secolo
(2014)
The 7-8th centuries are commonly believed tohave beena stagnant phase of Byzantine historiography. This book investigates the writing of history in Greek and Syriacduring this period through the study of four later chronicles ...
Combinatory Linguistics
(2012)
The book examines to what extent the mediating relation between constituents and their semantics can arise from combinatory knowledge of words. It traces the roots of Combinatory Categorial Grammar, and uses the theory to ...
Chapter On the optimal weight function in the Goldston–Pintz–Yıldırım method for finding small gaps between consecutive primes
(2013)
We work out the optimization problem, initiated by K. Soundararajan, for the choice of the underlying polynomialused in the construction of the weight function in the Goldston–Pintz–Yıldırım method for finding small gaps ...
Chapter 3 Brothers Re-United! Federal Citizenship in Socialist Yugoslavia
(2015)
The creation of the multinational federation involved at the same time the re-creation of the Yugoslav polity and a laborious construction of the sub-state entities and their own political communities. The creation of ...
Chapter Catastrophes, the Imaginary and Citizenship
(2015)
This article reflects on the relationship between the media and the construction of publics, taking these to be based on identities and the processes of creating identities activated in concrete, well-defined contexts. ...
Snapshots of Evolving Traditions: Jewish and Christian Manuscript Culture, Textual Fluidity, and New Philology
(2017)
Eschewing the search for the hypothetical original, this volume of essays places manuscripts and manuscript culture center stage and provides new readings of texts from various Christian and Jewish traditions in their ...
Everything Flows
(2018)
This collection of essays explores the metaphysical thesis that the living world is not ontologically made up of substantial particles or things, as has often been assumed, but is rather constituted by processes. The ...
Chapter Measures of Pseudorandomness
(2013)
In the second half of the 1990s Christian Mauduit and András Sárközy [86] introduced a new quantitative theory of pseudorandomness of binary sequences. Since then numerous papers have been written on this subject and the ...
Chapter 3 Brothers Re-United! Federal Citizenship in Socialist Yugoslavia
(2015)
The creation of the multinational federation involved at the same time the re-creation of the Yugoslav polity and a laborious construction of the sub-state entities and their own political communities. The creation of ...
Everything Flows
(2018)
This collection of essays explores the metaphysical thesis that the living world is not ontologically made up of substantial particles or things, as has often been assumed, but is rather constituted by processes. The ...
Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons
(2021)
This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes. This book in particular focuses on testing whether the ...
Chapter Disentangling geography from genealogy
(2013)
In this paper I will not seek to settle this question for individual cases of shared characteristics between two specific languages (e.g. why do French and German have no distance contrast in demonstratives?; see Diessel ...
Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons
(2021)
This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes. This book in particular focuses on testing whether the ...
Texts, Transmissions, Receptions
(2015)
The papers collected in this volume study the function and meaning of various kinds of narrative texts from the perspective of New Philology, Linguistics, Iconography and Reception studies. Their purpose is to understand ...
Chapter A corpus-based approach to manual simultaneity
(2013)
The purpose of this paper is to describe a corpus-based approach to the study of manual simultaneity (in particular manual holds) and our first attempt at implementing it for the Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse ...
Chapter A corpus-based approach to manual simultaneity
(2013)
The purpose of this paper is to describe a corpus-based approach to the study of manual simultaneity (in particular manual holds) and our first attempt at implementing it for the Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse ...
Chapter When Paul Met Ludwig
(2017)
This paper tries to make plausible the following claims: The paragraphs §608–612 of “On Certainty” do not speak in favour of what Boghossian construes as the Master Argument for Relativism; that “On Certainty” introduces ...
Texts, Transmissions, Receptions
(2015)
The papers collected in this volume study the function and meaning of various kinds of narrative texts from the perspective of New Philology, Linguistics, Iconography and Reception studies. Their purpose is to understand ...
Chapter When Paul Met Ludwig
(2017)
This paper tries to make plausible the following claims: The paragraphs §608–612 of “On Certainty” do not speak in favour of what Boghossian construes as the Master Argument for Relativism; that “On Certainty” introduces ...
Chapter Lost and found in translation
(2015)
This book examines the ways that texts from the humanities have fostered particular approaches to knowledge by constructing different versions of a ‘scientific ethos’. The studies contained in this volume reveal how and ...
Chapter 13 Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism in Infancy
(2016)
Exposure to multiple languages is a very common phenomenon even during early childhood. Although learning just one language is a major accomplishment in itself, the challenge for infants born in multilingual environments ...
Cohabitation and Marriage in the Americas: Geo-historical Legacies and New Trends
(2016)
This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. Using an extensive sample of individual census data for nearly all countries on the ...
Cohabitation and Marriage in the Americas: Geo-historical Legacies and New Trends
(2016)
This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. Using an extensive sample of individual census data for nearly all countries on the ...
Chapter Mainland Southeast Asian languages: State of the art and new directions.
(2015)
Mainland Southeast Asia (hereafter: MSEA) can be broadly defined as the area occupied by present day Cambodia, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam, along with areas of China south of the Yangtze River. ...
Chapter 13 Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism in Infancy
(2016)
Exposure to multiple languages is a very common phenomenon even during early childhood. Although learning just one language is a major accomplishment in itself, the challenge for infants born in multilingual environments ...
Chapter Depersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia
(2015)
Standard histories of medicine identify Hippocratic texts such as Epidemics as the earliest medical case histories in human history. In contrast to the Hippocratic case histories, it is often stated that Babylonian medicine ...
Lernwelt Hochschule
(2020)
The college learning environment is in flux. The shift from teaching to learning entails extensive processes of change. A three-year research project conducted by the Learning Research Centers at the Stuttgart Media ...
Chapter 6 Optogenetic actuation, inhibition, modulation and readout for neuronal networks generating behavior in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
(2013)
Elucidating the mechanisms by which nervous systems process information and generate behavior is among the fundamental problems of biology. The complexity of our brain and plasticity of our behaviors make it challenging ...
Lernwelt Hochschule
(2020)
The college learning environment is in flux. The shift from teaching to learning entails extensive processes of change. A three-year research project conducted by the Learning Research Centers at the Stuttgart Media ...
Chapter 2 Phonetics
(2012)
Sign and spoken languages differ primarily in their perceptual channel, vision vs. audition. This ‘modality difference’ has an effect on the structure of sign languages through-out the grammar, as is discussed in other ...
Chapter Final Phases of Medieval Hebraism
(2010)
"The relationship between Jews and Christians and between Judaism and Christianity during the 13th and 14th century is a matter of concrete and contingent historical circumstances; and its ideological elements ...
L’historiographie tardo-antique et la transmission des savoirs
(2015)
This volume focuses on the role played by historiography in the selection, processing and transmission of knowledge in Late Antiquity. In particular, the transmission of documents (civil and ecclesiastical, authentic and ...
The Leap of Faith
(2018)
This is the first book to compare the history of tax compliance in several countries (Sweden, Britain, Italy, Romania, and the United States).
The book clearly elaborates the policy lessons from the five cases explored ...
Chapter 2 Phonetics
(2012)
Sign and spoken languages differ primarily in their perceptual channel, vision vs. audition. This ‘modality difference’ has an effect on the structure of sign languages through-out the grammar, as is discussed in other ...
Chapter 62 Doing fieldwork on the body, language, and communication.
(2013)
This chapter gives a brief and selective overview of how to approach research on bodilyand linguistic aspects of communication by doing fieldwork. Here I do not address tech-nological issues such as specific choices of ...
Alternate History: Playing with Contingency and Necessity
(2013)
While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate ...
The Leap of Faith
(2018)
This is the first book to compare the history of tax compliance in several countries (Sweden, Britain, Italy, Romania, and the United States).
The book clearly elaborates the policy lessons from the five cases explored ...
Chapter Final Phases of Medieval Hebraism
(2010)
"The relationship between Jews and Christians and between Judaism and Christianity during the 13th and 14th century is a matter of concrete and contingent historical circumstances; and its ideological elements ...
Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund
(2014)
The relation between the Surinam Creoles and the languages of West Africa, where slaves who created the creoles originated, has been hotly debated. This book argues that the close relationship can be viewed in terms of a ...
Chapter The Fruit of the Tree of Life
(2014)
The Gospel of Philip, preserved only in Nag Hammadi Codex II,1 has proven to be a difficult text for its modern interpreters. In addition to its numerous lacunae, scholars have consistently been frustrated by its seemingly ...
Chapter The Fruit of the Tree of Life
(2014)
The Gospel of Philip, preserved only in Nag Hammadi Codex II,1 has proven to be a difficult text for its modern interpreters. In addition to its numerous lacunae, scholars have consistently been frustrated by its seemingly ...
AcrossBorders I
(2017)
The present volume is the first in a series of monographs dedicated to the results achieved by AcrossBorders, a European Research Council Project (Austrian Academy of Sciences and Ludwig Maximilian University Munich). With ...