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Two Types of Definites in Natural Language
Florian Schwarz's PhD dissertation on semantics. UMass Amherst, Linguistics, 2009
Focus Strategies in African Languages
Over the last two decades, focus has become a prominent topic in major fields in linguistic research (syntax, semantics, phonology). Focus Strategies in African Languages contributes to the ongoing discussion of focus by investigating focus-related phenomena in a range of African languages, most of which have been under-represented in the theoretical literature on focus. The articles in the volume look at focus strategies in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic languages from several theoretical and methodological perspectives, ranging from detailed generative analysis to careful typological generalization across languages. Their common aim is to deepen our understanding of whether and how the infor...
Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions
This volume brings together some of the most recent developments in the field of experimental pragmatics, specifically empirical approaches to theoretical issues in presupposition theory. It includes studies of the online processing of presupposed content; investigations of the interpretive properties of presuppositions in various linguistic contexts; comparative perspectives relative to other aspects of meaning, such as asserted content and implicatures; cross-linguistic comparisons of presupposition triggers; and perspectives from language acquisition. Taken together, these novel contributions provide a snapshot of state-of-the art developments in this area and will serve as a point of reference for numerous emerging avenues of future work. It makes for an ideal set of readings for advanced university courses on experimental studies of meaning and is a must-read for anyone interested in experimental research on meaning in natural language.
Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung 21
The Sinn und Bedeutung conferences are one of the leading international venues for research in formal semantics. The conference "Sinn und Bedeutung 21" took place in Edinburgh in September 2016. Volume 1 contains papers presented at the conference by Sam Alxatib & Natasha Ivlieva; Pranav Anand & Maziar Toosarvandani; Curt Anderson; Nicholas Asher, Julie Hunter, & Soumya Paul; Nadine Bade; Gemma Barberà & Patricia Cabredo Hofherr; Toni Bassaganyas-Bars; Itai Bassi & Moshe E. Bar-Lev; Sigrid Beck & Sonja Tiemann; Anton Benz & Nicole Gotzner; María Biezma & Arno Goebel; M. Ryan Bochnak & Eva Csipak; Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten & Keir Moulton; Brian Buccola & Andreas Haida; Thuy Bui; Sam Carter...
The Oasis of Bukhara, Volume 2: An Archaeological, Sociological and Historical Study
An Archaeological, Sociological and Historical Study, volume 2 of The Oasis of Bukhara, revisits the history of the oasis of Bukhara, giving the reader, specialist and general reader a detailed description of the political and socio-economical features that characterized this Central Asian region from the end of the 1st millennium BCE to the end of the medieval era.
A Handful of Dust
Knowledge of the universe is growing, but human existence is increasingly being called into question. This paradox is the leitmotiv of A handful of dust, a photographic research project by Florian Schwarz. Over a period of four years, he traveled to observatories in the most remote places in the world. He insightfully links the distant view into the expanse of space with close-up views of the people who live in the surroundings of these institutes. He covers a spectrum from the dusty, bleak ends of this world to the center of the universe, where our center is also situated?since we, as the most recent research has shown, consist of up to 97% stardust.00Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Singen, Germany (14.07.-15.09.2019)
Islamic Connections
Well over half of the world's Muslim population lives in Asia. Over the centuries, a rich constellation of Muslim cultures developed there and the region is currently home to some of the most dynamic and important developments in contemporary Islam. Despite this, the internal dynamics of Muslim societies in Asia do not often receive commensurate attention in international Islamic Studies scholarship. This volume brings together the work of an interdisciplinary group of scholars discussing various aspects of the complex relationships between the Muslim communities of South and Southeast Asia. With their respective contributions covering points and patterns of interaction from the medieval to the contemporary periods, they attempt to map new trajectories for understanding the ways in which these two crucial areas have developed in relation to each other, as well as in the broader contexts of both world history and the current age of globalization.
Timurids in Transition
Applying the Weberian concept of the routinization of charisma, the book examines the transformation of the nomadic empire of Tamerlane into a sedentary polity based on the Perso-Islamic model by focusing on the reign of the last Timurid ruler Sul n-?usain Bayqara in fifteenth-century Iran.
