De gruyter jul 2004 (110 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This work contains a comprehensive description of Kwaza, which is an endangered and unclassified indigenous language of Southern Rondônia, Brazil. The Kwaza language, also known in the literature as Koaiá, is spoken by around 25 people today. Until recently, our knowledge of Kwaza was based on only three short word lists, from 1938, 1943 and 1984. Like the language, the culture and the history of its speakers are undocumented. The Kwaza people as an ethnic group have been decimated by increasing ecological, physical, social and cultural pressure from Western civilisation since contact in the past century. This is the situation for many indigenous peoples of Rondônia and of the Amazon region in general. Linguists expect that the majority of these peoples will cease to exist as distinct language communities during the coming decades. The present work is intended as a contribution to the documentation and preservation of the languages of the Amazon basin. In this respect, Kwaza has represents an especially urgent case in view of its undetermined classification, the lack of documentation and its endangered status. This work is based on the author¿s personal fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 2002, and it consists of three parts. Part I contains a thorough description of the phonology and morphosyntax of the language and a concise overview of its social, cultural and historical context. Part II contains a diverse selection of transcribed and translated texts with interlinear morphological analyses. Part III is a dictionary of Kwaza, including many examples and an English-Kwaza register. This complete description is of interest to linguists in general, scholars of South American languages in particular, and anthropologists and historians interested in the Guaporé region.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This work contains a comprehensive description of Kwaza, which is an endangered and unclassified indigenous language of Southern Rondônia, Brazil. The Kwaza language, also known in the literature as Koaiá, is spoken by around 25 people today. Until recently, our knowledge of Kwaza was based on only three short word lists, from 1938, 1943 and 1984. Like the language, the culture and the history of its speakers are undocumented. The Kwaza people as an ethnic group have been decimated by increasing ecological, physical, social and cultural pressure from Western civilisation since contact in the past century. This is the situation for many indigenous peoples of Rondônia and of the Amazon region in general. Linguists expect that the majority of these peoples will cease to exist as distinct language communities during the coming decades. The present work is intended as a contribution to the documentation and preservation of the languages of the Amazon basin. In this respect, Kwaza has represents an especially urgent case in view of its undetermined classification, the lack of documentation and its endangered status. This work is based on the author¿s personal fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 2002, and it consists of three parts. Part I contains a thorough description of the phonology and morphosyntax of the language and a concise overview of its social, cultural and historical context. Part II contains a diverse selection of transcribed and translated texts with interlinear morphological analyses. Part III is a dictionary of Kwaza, including many examples and an English-Kwaza register. This complete description is of interest to linguists in general, scholars of South American languages in particular, and anthropologists and historians interested in the Guaporé region. 1068 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German translation. The original texts are comprehensively annotated, and feature an introductory chapter. In the new volumes, additional essays delve into specific aspects of the works, illuminating their historical context and reception to the present day. The high academic quality of the new editions together with clearly written essays and annotations make the Sammlung Tusculum essential reading for students who are discovering an ancient author for the first time as well as professional scholars who would like to gain a deeper understanding of specific aspects of a given work. Moreover, the series is ideal for lay readers who would like to engage with antiquity through a reliable German translation. The series contains over 340 titles, available in print and Elektronisches Buch editions, making previously out-of-print titles and rarities available again for the first time. In order to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the series, De Gruyter is proud to present Tusculum Online, an Elektronisches Buch package which contains all titles that appeared between 1923 and 2013 - a fitting tribute to an important part of German publishing history.; Augustinus' 'Bekenntnisse' erschlossen der Antike einen fremden seelischen Bezirk: das Reich der Innerlichkeit. Nie zuvor hatte ein Mensch seinen Lebensweg so eindringlich als ein Taumeln zwischen Himmel und Erde, dem heißen Sehnen nach wahrem Glück und den verwirrenden Leidenschaften geschildert. Ohne das Vorbild der 'Confessiones' wären weder Luthers Glaubenslehre noch die autobiographischen Werke Rousseaus und Goethes vorstellbar. 864 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German translation. The original texts are comprehensively annotated, and feature an introductory chapter. In the new volumes, additional essays delve into specific aspects of the works, illuminating their historical context and reception to the present day. The high academic quality of the new editions together with clearly written essays and annotations make the Sammlung Tusculum essential reading for students who are discovering an ancient author for the first time as well as professional scholars who would like to gain a deeper understanding of specific aspects of a given work. Moreover, the series is ideal for lay readers who would like to engage with antiquity through a reliable German translation. The series contains over 340 titles, available in print and Elektronisches Buch editions, making previously out-of-print titles and rarities available again for the first time. In order to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the series, De Gruyter is proud to present Tusculum Online, an Elektronisches Buch package which contains all titles that appeared between 1923 and 2013 - a fitting tribute to an important part of German publishing history.; Augustinus' 'Bekenntnisse' erschlossen der Antike einen fremden seelischen Bezirk: das Reich der Innerlichkeit. Nie zuvor hatte ein Mensch seinen Lebensweg so eindringlich als ein Taumeln zwischen Himmel und Erde, dem heißen Sehnen nach wahrem Glück und den verwirrenden Leidenschaften geschildert. Ohne das Vorbild der 'Confessiones' wären weder Luthers Glaubenslehre noch die autobiographischen Werke Rousseaus und Goethes vorstellbar.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Reihe Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte (GCS) veröffentlicht seit 1897 (zuerst in Leipzig, dann in Berlin) die Ergebnisse des Akademieprojektes Griechische Christliche Schriftsteller, begonnen in der damaligen Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, unter dem Titel Die alexandrinische und antiochenische Bibelexegese fortgeführt in der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Sie bietet in großen kritischen Ausgaben mit historisch orientierenden Einleitungen und Registern diejenigen Werke, die ursprünglich im griechischsprachigen Teil des antiken kaiserzeitlichen Christentums entstanden sind und nicht von den anderen großen Editionsreihen herausgegeben werden. Für die ersten drei Jahrhunderte wird dabei Vollständigkeit angestrebt. 196 pp. Mehrere Sprachen.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -War Nietzsche ein radikaler Gegner der Aufklärung, oder war er ein radikaler Aufklärer In den Beiträgen des Bandes von der Internationalen Tagung der Nietzsche-Gesellschaft in Zusammenarbeit mit der Kant-Forschungsstelle Mainz und der Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen vom 15.-17. Mai 2003 in Weimar zeigt sich, bei aller Vielschichtig- und manchmal Gegensätzlichkeit der Argumentationen, ein dreifacher Konsens. Den ersten bildet die Aktualität einer notwendigen Thematisierung von 'Aufklärung' angesichts des sich im Kontext allgemeiner Globalisierung vollziehenden kulturellen Wertewandels und der Radikalisierung grundsätzlicher Menschheitsfragen durch die Möglichkeiten moderner Bio- und Gentechniken und allgemeiner medialer und digitaler Vernetzungen aller Kultur- und Wissensprozesse, eine Problematik, die unter dem Stichwort von der 'Zukunft des Humanen' tief in die menschliche Lebenspraxis hineinreicht und zu verhandeln ist. Der zweite ist die Produktivität der durch Nietzsches radikale Aufklärungskritik aufgeworfenen generellen Problematisierung des 'Projekts Aufklärung' unter den Bedingungen der Moderne und die gleichzeitig durch ihn weitergeführte Selbstinfragestellung der Aufklärung, diese als eine Chance ihrer Neubewertung und perennierenden Wirkmächtigkeit zu verstehen. Und der dritte besteht darin, Nietzsche in der Spannung zwischen Radikalität von Aufklärung und Gegenaufklärung, Geschichtlichkeit und Aktualität anzusiedeln, um ihn zu befragen nach der Zukunft einer Aufklärung, die ihre 'Unschuld' schon im Prozess ihres Entstehens im 18. Jahrhundert verloren hat.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - War Nietzsche ein radikaler Gegner der Aufklärung, oder war er ein radikaler Aufklärer In den Beiträgen des Bandes von der Internationalen Tagung der Nietzsche-Gesellschaft in Zusammenarbeit mit der Kant-Forschungsstelle Mainz und der Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen vom 15.-17. Mai 2003 in Weimar zeigt sich, bei aller Vielschichtig- und manchmal Gegensätzlichkeit der Argumentationen, ein dreifacher Konsens. Den ersten bildet die Aktualität einer notwendigen Thematisierung von 'Aufklärung' angesichts des sich im Kontext allgemeiner Globalisierung vollziehenden kulturellen Wertewandels und der Radikalisierung grundsätzlicher Menschheitsfragen durch die Möglichkeiten moderner Bio- und Gentechniken und allgemeiner medialer und digitaler Vernetzungen aller Kultur- und Wissensprozesse, eine Problematik, die unter dem Stichwort von der 'Zukunft des Humanen' tief in die menschliche Lebenspraxis hineinreicht und zu verhandeln ist. Der zweite ist die Produktivität der durch Nietzsches radikale Aufklärungskritik aufgeworfenen generellen Problematisierung des 'Projekts Aufklärung' unter den Bedingungen der Moderne und die gleichzeitig durch ihn weitergeführte Selbstinfragestellung der Aufklärung, diese als eine Chance ihrer Neubewertung und perennierenden Wirkmächtigkeit zu verstehen. Und der dritte besteht darin, Nietzsche in der Spannung zwischen Radikalität von Aufklärung und Gegenaufklärung, Geschichtlichkeit und Aktualität anzusiedeln, um ihn zu befragen nach der Zukunft einer Aufklärung, die ihre 'Unschuld' schon im Prozess ihres Entstehens im 18. Jahrhundert verloren hat.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -War Nietzsche ein radikaler Gegner der Aufklärung, oder war er ein radikaler Aufklärer In den Beiträgen des Bandes von der Internationalen Tagung der Nietzsche-Gesellschaft in Zusammenarbeit mit der Kant-Forschungsstelle Mainz und der Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen vom 15.-17. Mai 2003 in Weimar zeigt sich, bei aller Vielschichtig- und manchmal Gegensätzlichkeit der Argumentationen, ein dreifacher Konsens. Den ersten bildet die Aktualität einer notwendigen Thematisierung von 'Aufklärung' angesichts des sich im Kontext allgemeiner Globalisierung vollziehenden kulturellen Wertewandels und der Radikalisierung grundsätzlicher Menschheitsfragen durch die Möglichkeiten moderner Bio- und Gentechniken und allgemeiner medialer und digitaler Vernetzungen aller Kultur- und Wissensprozesse, eine Problematik, die unter dem Stichwort von der 'Zukunft des Humanen' tief in die menschliche Lebenspraxis hineinreicht und zu verhandeln ist. Der zweite ist die Produktivität der durch Nietzsches radikale Aufklärungskritik aufgeworfenen generellen Problematisierung des 'Projekts Aufklärung' unter den Bedingungen der Moderne und die gleichzeitig durch ihn weitergeführte Selbstinfragestellung der Aufklärung, diese als eine Chance ihrer Neubewertung und perennierenden Wirkmächtigkeit zu verstehen. Und der dritte besteht darin, Nietzsche in der Spannung zwischen Radikalität von Aufklärung und Gegenaufklärung, Geschichtlichkeit und Aktualität anzusiedeln, um ihn zu befragen nach der Zukunft einer Aufklärung, die ihre 'Unschuld' schon im Prozess ihres Entstehens im 18. Jahrhundert verloren hat. 376 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is conceived as an introductory text into the theory of syntactic and semantic information, and information flow. Syntactic information theory is concerned with the information contained in the very fact that some signal has a non-random structure. Semantic information theory is concerned with the meaning or information content of messages and the like. The theory of information flow is concerned with deriving some piece of information from another. The main part will take us to situation semantics as a foundation of modern approaches in information theory. We give a brief overview of the background theory and then explain the concepts of information, information architecture and information flow from that perspective. 244 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Diese Reihe präsentiert innovative Studien in deutscher oder englischer Sprache, die aktuelle Themen der praktischen Philosophie aus analytischer Perspektive behandeln. Dazu gehören Fragen aus den Bereichen der Metaethik, der normativen und der 'angewandten' Ethik ebenso wie Fragen der politischen Philosophie, der Rechtsphilosophie und der Handlungstheorie. 184 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die klassische Moralphilosophie des Abendlandes lässt sich in zwei Modellen bündeln: in Aristoteles' Ethik des gelungen-glücklichen Lebens und in Kants Ethik des kategorischen Imperativs. Ein drittes, zwar wirkungsmächtiges, aber nicht klassisches Modell bündelt sich im Werk des Philologen, Schriftstellers und vor allem Philosophen Friedrich Nietzsche. In seiner 'Streitschrift' 'Zur Genealogie der Moral' führt er die abendländische Moralkritik zu einem Höhepunkt. Zugleich schafft er eine Wende dieser Moralphilosophie, die sich allerdings nicht weitflächig durchzusetzen vermag. Der folgende kooperative Kommentar versammelt elf Originalbeiträge, in denen Nietzsches 'Genealogie der Moral' vorgestellt und diskutiert wird. 196 pp. Deutsch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume, which represents a major advance on Simon Dik's final statement of the theory (1997), lays the foundation for the future evolution of FG towards a Functional Discourse Grammar. It rises to the double challenge of specifying the interface between discourse and grammar and of detailing the expression rules that link semantic representation and morphosyntactic form. The opening chapter, by Kees Hengeveld, sets out in programmatic form a new architecture for FG which both preserves the best of the traditional model and offers a place for numerous recent insights. The remaining chapters are devoted to refining and developing the programme laid down by Hengeveld, bringing in data from a range of languages as well as theoretical insights inspired by adjoining frameworks. Of special interest are an account by Matthew Anstey of how current proposals arise from the history of FG and various chapters in which the model is brought much closer to an account of real-time language production, notably including the first ever detailed account of the workings of expression rules, by Dik Bakker and Anna Siewierska. The final chapter, also by Hengeveld, draws together the findings of the various chapters, culminating in an elaborated model that represents the most sophisticated statement of Functional Grammar currently available. The volume thus gives a coherent account of FG as a theory which combines formal explicitness with a broad account of language functions. 408 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In 1215 a young cleric from Friaul composed the first great didactic poem in German on how to lead a life in the world pleasing to God. This work, which marks an important milestone in cultural history, is made available here in extracts for the first time to a wider audience. It provides an unparalleled entry into modes of thought and life in the High Middle Ages.; Mit dieser Textauswahl (rd. 5000 von 14700 Versen) wird das erste große Lehrgedicht des Mittelalters über ein Gott wohlgefälliges Leben in dieser Welt zum ersten Mal einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht. Der Verfasser, ein junger Friauler Kleriker, schrieb es in deutscher Sprache 'für vrume rîter, guote vrouwen und wîse phaffen'. Die genauen Beobachtungen seiner Umwelt, die vielfach dokumentierten Kenntnisse der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Zustände seiner Zeit sowie sein enzyklopädisches Ausgreifen in viele Wissensgebiete machen das Werk zu einem psychologisch wie kulturhistorisch überaus interessanten Dokument, das wie kein Zweites geeignet ist, in Denk- und Lebensformen des frühen 13. Jahrhunderts einzuführen. 208 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -At the centre of the metaethical debate that took off from G.E. Moore's Principia Ethica (1903) was his critique of ethical naturalism. While Moore's own arguments against ethical naturalism find little acceptance these days, an alternative ground for thinking that ethical properties and facts could not be natural has gained prominence: No natural account can be given of normativity. This collection contains original essays from both sides of the debate. Representing a wide range of metaethical views, the authors develop diverse accounts of normativity and discuss what it means for a concept to be natural.Contributions are by Norbert Anwander, David Copp, Neil Roughley, Peter Schaber, Thomas Schmidt, Tatjana Tarkian, and Theo van Willigenburg.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 184 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'This collective volume is one of the most important works presenting the new role of libraries and therefore provides the theoretical basis for all new library buildings. The book presents innovative developments and visions of how library planning and construction can be implemented in the future in a dialogue between architects and librarians.'Prof. Dr. Claudia Lux, Director General of the Foundation Central and Regional Library Berlin; 'Dieser Sammelband ist eines der wichtigsten Werke, das die neue Rolle der Bibliotheken darstellt, und bildet daher die theoretische Basis für alle neuen Bibliotheksbauten. Es zeigt innovative Entwicklungen und Visionen auf, wie zukünftig Bibliotheksplanung und Bibliotheksbau im Dialog zwischen Architekten und Bibliothekaren aussehen kann.'Prof. Dr. Claudia Lux, Generaldirektorin der Stiftung Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin 212 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Is the world en route to becoming a linguistic colony of the United States Or is this dramatic view an exaggeration, and there is no danger to linguistic diversity at all The German language is at the center of an intensive debate on this issue. Its position in the world is under increasing pressure due to the growing importance of (American) English as the language of globalization. The articles in this volume deal with the national and international position of German in relation to English, language policies, the future of German as a language of science, German in the USA, and the intellectual and aesthetic dimensions of encountering a foreign language. They present critical assessments addressing the dangers for the future of languages other than English, as well as positions which perceive the growing importance of English as a challenge and resource rather than as a threat. 388 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The monograph produces a new interpretation of the opening chapter of 1 Samuel by combining several hermeneutical models, including the theory of chaotic (dynamically unstable) systems and the most recent, essentially post-modern, form criticism, to produce a new interpretation of the opening chapters of 1 Samuel. It argues that 1 Samuel 1-8 is an integral literary unit whose stance on such pivotal issues as monarchy and cultic centralization poorly agrees with that of the balance of Deuteronomy - Kings. In the diachronic perspective, this unit can be construed as a post-Deuteronomistic redactional interpolation polemically directed against several planks of the Deuteronomic/Deuteronomistic agenda. In the synchronic perspective, the pattern of relationship between 1 Samuel 1-8 and the balance of Genesis - Kings calls for a non-linear, multi-dimensional reading of the corpus. Both interpretational trajectories lead to the conclusion that the thrust of the Former Prophets in its final form is controlled to a considerable extent by non-Deuteronomistic elements.; In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu sämtlichen Gebieten der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die Hebräische Bibel, ihr Vor- und Nachleben im antiken Judentum sowie ihre vielfache Verzweigung in die benachbarten Kulturen der altorientalischen und hellenistisch-römischen Welt. Die BZAW akzeptiert Manuskriptvorschläge, die einen innovativen und signifikanten Beitrag zu Erforschung des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt leisten, sich intensiv mit der bestehenden Forschungsliteratur auseinandersetzen, stringent aufgebaut und flüssig geschrieben sind. ; Dissertationsschrift 292 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Interest in the age-old problems of universals and individuation has received a new impetus from the current revival of ontology in the analytic tradition, the development of theories of individual properties (and the related application of mereological calculi to the analysis of predication), and the particular problems posed by relational predication and the nature of particulars. The essays explore aspects of the history of the issues and attempt to deal with the issues and with challenges to the distinctions that give rise to them. They continue the debates stemming from the revival of metaphysics rooted in Freges realism, the Austrian tradition of Brentano-Husserl-Meinong, and the early 20th century revolt against idealism embodied in writings of Moore and Russell and culminating in Wittgensteins Tractatus. 260 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -¿This collective volume is one of the most important works presenting the new role of libraries and therefore provides the theoretical basis for all new library buildings. The book presents innovative developments and visions of how library planning and construction can be implemented in the future in a dialogue between architects and librarians.¿Prof. Dr. Claudia Lux, Director General of the Foundation Central and Regional Library BerlinGruyter, de Saur, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 212 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -No detailed description available for 'Complete Bibliographical Manual of Books about the Pulitzer Prizes 1935-2003'.; Seit 1917 wird der Pulitzer-Preisjährlichvon der School of Journalism an der New Yorker Columbia Universität vergeben. MittlerweileexistierenPreise in 21 Kategorien aus den Bereichen Journalismus, Literaturund Musik. The Pulitzer Price Archive stelltdie Geschichte dieser Auszeichnung von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart vor: Die Abteilungen A bis E dokumentieren und kommentieren, chronologisch geordnet, die Preisverleihungen. Abteilung F erschließt dieGeschichte der Preise bio- und bibliographisch. Abteilung G liefert die Hintergründe zu den Entscheidungen. 444 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Australia's English raises many questions among experts and the general public. What is it like How has English changed by being transplanted to other parts of the world Does the rise of AusE and other varieties endanger the role of English as a world language Past studies have often been selective, focusing on the esoteric and non-typical, and ignoring the contact situation in which Australian English has developed. This book and its companion, Australia's Many Voices. Ethnic Englishes, Indigenous and Migrant Languages. Policy and Education, develop and apply a comprehensive and integrative approach that anchors English in the entire 'habitat' of Australia's languages that it both upset and transformed. Based on a wide range of data and on the assumption that all manifestations of Australian English must cohere as a system, this book retraces the social, psycholinguistic and linguistic history of the language. It locates the contact with indigenous and migrant languages and with American English in the appropriate sociohistorical context and shows how several layers of migration have shaped it. As it stratified, it was gradually accepted and developed into a fully-fledged national variety or epicentre of English that could be raised to the status of national language. Implications on educational policy and attempts to reach out into the Asia-Pacific region have followed logically from national status. The study is of interest for specialists of English and Australian Studies as well as a range of other disciplines. Its discursive, non-technical style and presentation makes it accessible to non-specialists with no background in linguistics. 412 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Interest in the age-old problems of universals and individuation has received a new impetus from the current revival of ontology in the analytic tradition, the development of theories of individual properties (and the related application of mereological calculi to the analysis of predication), and the particular problems posed by relational predication and the nature of particulars. The essays explore aspects of the history of the issues and attempt to deal with the issues and with challenges to the distinctions that give rise to them. They continue the debates stemming from the revival of metaphysics rooted in Freges realism, the Austrian tradition of Brentano-Husserl-Meinong, and the early 20th century revolt against idealism embodied in writings of Moore and Russell and culminating in Wittgensteins Tractatus.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 260 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -European Portuguese, like other Romance languages, display a great amount of word order variation. Out of the six logically possible permutations between Subject, Verb and Complement in a transitive sentence, five are possible: SVO, VSO, VOS, OVS and OSV. The primary goal of this book is to provide an analysis of the several positions where the subject may surface in European Portuguese. Departing from an architecture of the clause as sketched in early minimalist work, containing two subject-related functional categories above VP (AgrP and TP), it is shown that the subject may surface in all potential landing sites: Spec,AgrP, Spec,TP and Spec,VP. Moreover, just like any other argument of the clause, it is claimed that subjects also have the possibility of surfacing in a left-dislocated position, arguably adjoining to the clause's left periphery. It is shown that there is no free variation. Each of these positions may be occupied by the subject, only if two requirements are met:i) The position is made available by syntax;ii) The position does not violate any interface condition.In other words, the following model is argued for: syntax generates legitimate outputs. At the interface levels, each output may be selected or filtred out, according to requirements of the interface. The picture emerging from the proposal made in this book is the following: syntax proper does not need to refer to conditions best placed at the interface. All that is needed from syntax is that it generates an array of well-formed outputs. Such outputs may be evaluated a posteriori by each of the interfaces. If they meet requirements of the interface, they are selected as legitimate. If, on the contrary, some interface condition is violated, they are ruled out. Under this approach, three in-dependent results are derived: i) an explanation is found for the patterns of word order variation; ii) syntax proper may be reduced to its own tools, not having to manipulate semantic, discourse or prosodic variables; iii) the intuition that European Portuguese is an SVO language is derived: this word order corresponds to the one in which the subject occupies the only specifier position in which the other interfaces play no role. 220 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -No detailed description available for 'IFLA Cataloguing Principles: Steps towards an International Cataloguing Code'. 192 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Pacific Pidgins and Creoles discusses the complex and fascinating history of English-based pidgins in the Pacific, especially the three closely related Melanesian pidgins: Tok Pisin, Pijin, and Bislama. The book details the central role of the port of Sydney and the linguistic synergies between Australia and the Pacific islands in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the role of Pacific islander plantation labor overseas, and the differentiation which has taken place in the pidgins spoken in the Melanesian island states in the 20th century. It also looks at the future of Pacific pidgins at a time of increasing vernacular language endangerment.; Pacific Pidgins and Creoles discusses the complex and fascinating history of English-based pidgins in the Pacific, especially the three closely related Melanesian pidgins: Tok Pisin, Pijin, and Bislama. The book details the central role of the port of Sydney and the linguistic synergies between Australia and the Pacific islands in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the role of Pacific islander plantation labor overseas, and the differentiation which has taken place in the pidgins spoken in the Melanesian island states in the 20th century. It also looks at the future of Pacific pidgins at a time of increasing vernacular language endangerment. 580 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The monograph produces a new interpretation of the opening chapter of 1 Samuel by combining several hermeneutical models, including the theory of chaotic (dynamically unstable) systems and the most recent, essentially post-modern, form criticism, to produce a new interpretation of the opening chapters of 1 Samuel. It argues that 1 Samuel 1-8 is an integral literary unit whose stance on such pivotal issues as monarchy and cultic centralization poorly agrees with that of the balance of Deuteronomy - Kings. In the diachronic perspective, this unit can be construed as a post-Deuteronomistic redactional interpolation polemically directed against several planks of the Deuteronomic/Deuteronomistic agenda. In the synchronic perspective, the pattern of relationship between 1 Samuel 1-8 and the balance of Genesis - Kings calls for a non-linear, multi-dimensional reading of the corpus. Both interpretational trajectories lead to the conclusion that the thrust of the Former Prophets in its final form is controlled to a considerable extent by non-Deuteronomistic elements.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 292 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The School of Journalism at Columbia University has awarded the Pulitzer Prize since 1917. Nowadays there are prizes in 21 categories from the fields of journalism, literature and music. The Pulitzer Prize Archive presentsthe history of this award from its beginnings to the present: In parts A toE the awarding oftheprize in each category is documented, commented and arranged chronologically. Part F covers the history of the prize biographically and bibliographically. Part G provides the background to thedecisions.Gruyter, de Saur, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 444 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Australia's English raises many questions among experts and the general public. What is it like How has English changed by being transplanted to other parts of the world Does the rise of AusE and other varieties endanger the role of English as a world language Past studies have often been selective, focusing on the esoteric and non-typical, and ignoring the contact situation in which Australian English has developed.This book and its companion, Australia's Many Voices. Ethnic Englishes, Indigenous and Migrant Languages. Policy and Education, develop and apply a comprehensive and integrative approach that anchors English in the entire 'habitat' of Australia's languages that it both upset and transformed. Based on a wide range of data and on the assumption that all manifestations of Australian English must cohere as a system, this book retraces the social, psycholinguistic and linguistic history of the language. It locates the contact with indigenous and migrant languages and with American English in the appropriate sociohistorical context and shows how several layers of migration have shaped it. As it stratified, it was gradually accepted and developed into a fully-fledged national variety or epicentre of English that could be raised to the status of national language. Implications on educational policy and attempts to reach out into the Asia-Pacific region have followed logically from national status.The study is of interest for specialists of English and Australian Studies as well as a range of other disciplines. Its discursive, non-technical style and presentation makes it accessible to non-specialists with no background in linguistics.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 412 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book seeks to move twentieth-century German literary history away from its stubbornly persistent reliance on the political turning-points of 1933 and 1945. In the first part of the book, the authors analyze a synchronic corpus of literary journals, identifying a restorative aesthetic mood in the years 1930-1960 which persists across political date boundaries. In the second part, the careers of five writers are considered diachronically against this prevailing restorative climate: Gottfried Benn, Johannes R. Becher, Bertolt Brecht, Günter Eich, and Peter Huchel. Combining these two approaches, the authors show that a fresh perspective that challenges established literary-historical periodisations can shed light on the common cultural and aesthetic ground shared by writers, editors and critics across the ideological divides of the era. 404 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control includes titles which provide detailed information on bibliographic standards and norms, the cultivation and development of which has become indispensable to the exchange of national bibliographic information on an international level. The Series also gives a comprehensive, accurate overview of a wide range of national bibliographic services on offer.Gruyter, de Saur, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 192 pp. Englisch.…