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Chapter Postverbal subjects and nuclear pitch accent in Italian wh-questions
(2018)
The structure of this chapter is as follows. We first illustrate the phenomenon of subject inversion in Italian wh-questions (§ 2). In Section 3, we present the results of a syntactic experiment on the distribution of ...
Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues
(2018)
Franz Köchers standard work on Babylonian and Assyrian medicine, which was designed to provide copies of the texts with translation and commentary, had remained unfinished at his death in 2002. Six volumes of transcriptions ...
Chapter Quantitative explorations of the worldwide distribution of rare characteristics, or
(2011)
In this article, the distribution of rare features among the world’s languages is investigated based on the data from the World Atlas of Language Structures (Haspelmath et al. 2005). A Rarity Index for a language is defined, ...
Chapter Wittgenstein as a Commentator on the Psychology and Anthropology of Colour
(2014)
As is well known, Wittgenstein had a life-long interest in the philosophy of colour, from the Tractatus all the way to the last notebooks that were posthumously published as two books, Remarks on Colour and On Certainty. ...
Staging Doubt Skepticism in Early Modern European Drama
(2019)
This volume considers the influential revival of ancient philosophical skepticism in the 16th and early 17th centuries and investigates, from a comparative perspective, its reception in early modern English, Spanish and ...
L'harmonie des Sirènes du pythagorisme ancien à Platon
(2015)
The Pythagorean theory of the "Harmony of the Spheres" has been influential in the history of philosophy and science. While much ink has been spilt over its scientific implications, its mythological formulation has not yet ...
Penser une démocratie alimentaire - Volume 2
(2014)
food safety - law - development - natural resources - agriculture - consumption - international trade - ecological transistion
Chapter Punktzeit als (Ver-)Störung
(2013)
This collected volume aims to generate a concise theoretical presentation of the "perturbation principle" in the humanities and the natural sciences. Incorporating findings from natural scientific research, the contributors ...
Chapter 12 The tense-mood-aspect systems of the languages of Suriname
(2017)
This chapter deals with tense, mood, and aspect (TMA) marking in the languages of Suriname, focusing on the stability of forms, meanings, and structural pat-terns. Despite its prominent position in the creolization debate ...
Chapter 3 Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus as a Case Study: Using a Precautionary Risk Management Approach for Emerging Blood-Borne Pathogens in Canada
(2012)
In October 2009 it was reported that 68 of 101 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in the United States, when tested, were infected with a novel gamma retrovirus, xenotropic
murine leukemia virus-related virus ...
Chapter On a theorem of Erdős and Simonovits on graphs not containing the cube
(2013)
Turán graph problem; bipartite extremal graphs; cube graph
Borderlands
(2021)
The book proposes a profound rethink of the complex relationship between Europe—defined here as the European Union and its members—and the states of the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe’s ‘southern ...
The Everyday Life of an Algorithm
(2019)
This open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three ...
Chapter Udug
(2014)
Assyriology; Mesopotamia; Ancient Near East
Future Narratives: Theory, Poetics, and Media-Historical Moment
(2013)
This head volume of the ´Narrating Futures` series defines and identifies Future Narratives. It parses their characteristic features and aims at an abstract classification of the whole corpus, irrespective of its concrete ...
Chapter 6 Statistical observations on implicational (verb) hierarchies
(2015)
Implicational hierarchies have been one of the key ingredients in linguistic typology for around half a century, i.e., ever since the discovery of Berlin & Kay (1969) that the presence of a certain color term in a language ...
Chapter 44 A “Composite Utterances” approach to meaning 45. Towards a grammar of gestures
(2013)
This chapter argues for a composite utterances approach to research on body, language, and communication. It argues that to understand meaning we need to begin with the utterance or speech act as the unit of analysis. From ...
Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality
(2021)
This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a ...
Chapter Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings
(2013)
In the past 20 years, the application of quantitative methods in historical linguistics has received a lot of attention. Traditional historical linguistics relies on the comparative method in order to determine the ...
Powers of Protection
(2021)
This volume explores the most extensive tradition of Buddhist dharani literature and provides access to the earliest available materials for the first time. The Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha collections have been present in South Asia, ...
Chapter 8 Voice-enabled assistive robots for handling autism spectrum conditions
(2014)
Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) are neurodevelopmental conditions, characterized by impairments in social interaction, communication (i.e., verbal and non-verbal language), and by restricted interests and repetitive ...
Chapter 52 Experimental methods in co-speech gesture research
(2013)
This chapter provides an introductory overview of some of the basic experimental paradigms traditionally employed in the field of gesture studies to investigate both comprehension and production in adult and child populations. ...
Chinese Historical Thinking
(2015)
The book presents Chinese historical thinking by four articles. It is covered the ancient origin and the development to modernity and is commented by seven international experts. Presentation and comments find ›second ...
Conversational Repair and Human Understanding
(2013)
Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we 'repair' and correct such problems as they arise in conversation and other forms ...
Chapter The Gospel according to Mark in two Latin Mixed-text Manuscripts
(2016)
Two late eighth-century Latin gospel books have recently been identified as witnesses to the pre-Vulgate text of the Gospel according to John. In this article, their text of Mark is analysed and shown also to contain ...
Chapter Plasma Polymerization for Tissue Engineering Purposes
(2018)
The ability of non-equilibrium plasmas to modify surfaces has been known for many years. And a promising way to perform surface modifications without altering the bulk properties is plasma polymerization since this technique ...
LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe
(2023)
This Open Access book argues that Southern European countries offer valuable, though historically overlooked, knowledge regarding intimate citizenship. Guided by the fundamental sociological question of how change takes ...
The Cultural Net
(2018)
I developed the basic theoretical approach here outlined, which consists in a network theory of cultural (specifically literary) production. The main area of exemplification for the theoretical assumptions, early modern ...
Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion
(2015)
The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has different salience, and is understood differently, from place to place and time ...
Chapter 3 Challenges and opportunities for optochemical genetics
(2013)
The transmembrane proteins that underlie neural processing are now known at a level of detail that has greatly increased our understanding of these sophisticated molecular machines. Starting with MacKinnon’s seminal structure ...
Code-switching Between Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives
(2015)
This volume brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives on code-switching. Featuring new data from five continents and languages with a large range of linguistic affiliations, the ...
Reconsidering Constitutional Formation II Decisive Constitutional Normativity: From Old Liberties to New Precedence
(2018)
Precedence of Constitution; Normativity and Constitution; Constitutional History of Europe; Constitutionality of Revolutions; American Constitutional History; Constitutional Normativity; Fundamental Laws; Old Liberties ...
Chapter Some Remarks on Babylonian Pharmacology
(2017)
This volume brings together contributions covering different periods of the history of ancient pharmacology and medical writing, from Greek, Byzantine, and Syriac medicine to the Rabbinic-Talmudic medical discourses. It ...
Techné/Technology
(2014)
This fourth title in the series The Key Debates sets out where the term techne comes from, how it unleashed a revolution in thought and how the concept in the midst of the current digital revolution, once again, is influencing ...
Transactions on Modularity and Composition I
(2016)
The LNCS Transactions on Modularity and Composition are devoted to all aspects of software modularity and composition methods, tools, and techniques, covering requirement analysis, design, implementation, maintenance, and ...
Social Media in Southeast Turkey
(2016)
This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in ...
Housing Estates in Europe
(2018)
This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups originally had access to residential space in ...
Chapter Labeling (Romance) causatives
(2017)
Classical analyses of Romance causatives of the Italian/French type illustrated in examples like (2) and (3) below for Italian, proposed that an overt process of VP-preposing occurs in the derivation of these structures ...
Chapter Person by other means
(2013)
As Anna Siewierska notes (2004: 8) ‘the universality of person as a grammatical category is sometimes called into question.’ And indeed, in some languages, an interesting minority, it is not obvious whether there is a ...
The Legal status of ḏimmī-s in the Islamic West
(2013)
The first monograph devoted to the legal status of religious minorities status accorded to dimmī-s ( Jews and Christians) in the Muslim law in the medieval Muslim west (the Maghreb and Muslim Spain). The articles in this ...
Chapter 8.1 Reaction-Diffusion Models of Pattern Formation in Developmental Biology
(2012)
In this paper we present mathematical approaches to understand a symmetry break and formation of spatially heterogenous structures during development. We focus on the models given by reaction-diffusion equations and approach ...
Chapter 6 On representing anchored parentheses in syntax
(2015)
The paper is organised as follows. In order to establish which kinds of parentheses should be considered ‘anchored’, I present a global overview in §2. This is followed by a discussion of the core properties of anchored ...
Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe
(2015)
The name of Bernhard Blumenkranz is well known to all those who study the history of European Jews in the Middle Ages and in particular the history of Jewish-Christian relations. Blumenkranz was born in Vienna in 1913; he ...
Chapter Incomplete parenthesis
(2014)
While customarily considered ‘peripheral’ linguistic phenomena, both parenthesis and ellipsis raise interesting and far-reaching theoretical questions. It is worth bearing in mind that research in theoretical linguistics ...
Penser une démocratie alimentaire (vol. I)
(2013)
food safety - democracy - law - food
Natural causes of language: Frames, biases, and cultural transmission
(2014)
What causes a language to be the way it is? Some features are universal, some are inherited, others are borrowed, and yet others are internally innovated. But no matter where a bit of language is from, it will only exist ...
Rhetoric and Drama
(2017)
In this preface, a synopsis of the conference preceding this volume is followed by a concise description of the DramaNet project; after an outline of various ties between rhetoric and drama, including copious references ...
The Multi-Agent Transport Simulation MATSim
(2016)
"The MATSim (Multi-Agent Transport Simulation) software project was started around 2006 with the goal of generating traffic and congestion patterns by following individual synthetic travelers through their daily or weekly ...
A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja – Critical Edition
(2019)
A hitherto unpublished scripture of Buddhist dharani literature, the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja has been recently discovered in five Nepalese manuscripts. This rare Sanskrit text from around the fifth century focuses on the ...
The Patient Griselda Myth
(2019)
The Patient Griselda myth tells the story of a marquis who is reluctant to get married, but, under pressure from his subjects, agrees to take a wife and chooses a poor young country girl for her virtues. Once married, he ...
Chapter On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals
(2015)
Parenthetical comment and reporting clauses exhibit various interesting properties, which are shown to be related. Three different word order pat-terns are attested in Dutch and German: apparent V1, V2 and V-final; the ...
Chapter On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals
(2015)
Parenthetical comment and reporting clauses exhibit various interesting properties, which are shown to be related. Three different word order pat-terns are attested in Dutch and German: apparent V1, V2 and V-final; the ...
Chapter Wittgenstein’s On Certainty and Relativism
(2016)
One important strand in the contemporary debate over epistemological relativism focuses on the question whether, and to what extent, Wittgenstein in “On Certainty” (1969) leaned towards this position. This paper is a ...
Chapter There’s Always the Sun
(2016)
The present paper asks how Macrobius thinks his extensive allegories of statues of the gods and other elements of traditional religion are possible. He can be shown to espouse a Neoplatonic theory of images. This entails ...
Chapter Lexikostatistik 2.0*
(2014)
In the middle of the 20th century there were various attempts to classify
Languages with the help of word lists that correspond to the basic vocabulary of the relevant
Languages are taken to automate. These methods ...
Chapter Contacts between indigenous languages in South America
(2012)
This chapter I will try to describe a few aspects of language contact in the history of the languages of the American Indian communities of South America. The topic ofcontacts between the indigenous languages in South ...
Chapter 3 Implicature and explicature
(2012)
In this paper, we look in detail at some of the particular micro-processes involved in the online, relevance-driven derivation of explicature and implicatures. But before that, we set out some background intellectual history ...
Chapter 1 A multi-factor approach to understanding socio-economic segregation in European capital cities
(2015)
Growing inequalities in Europe, even in the most egalitarian countries, are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competive- ness of European cities. Surprisingly, though, there is ...
Chapter ‘Tested’ Remedies in Mesopotamian Medical Texts
(2015)
This contribution investigates the phraseology of descriptions of efficacy (efficacy phrases) in Mesopotamian medical texts, concentrating on the qualification latku ‘tested, tried, proven’, which implies that knowledge ...