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"Based around seven primary texts spanning 130 years, this volume explores the conceptual boundaries of structuralism [...]. The texts are made accessible to present-day English-speaking readers through translation and extensive critical notes; each text is also accompanied by a detailed introduction that places it in its intellectual and historical context and outlines the insights it contains"--Jacket.
An innovative and unified grammar of sentence intonation, applied to six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian).
Le libéralisme classique partait du principe arithmétique que le bonheur du plus grand nombre est le produit de l'activité libre de tous les membres de la société. Certains ont toutefois la nostalgie d'un univers où il y une place pour chaque chose et où chaque chose est à sa place.Les articles ici réunis posent la question de l'identité culturelle, de l'aliénation et de l'intégrité perdue ou retrouvée dans un monde où les points de repère, économiques et culturels, tendent à s'estomper.
Setting out the historical national and religious characteristics of the Italians as they impact on the integration within the European Union, this study makes note of the two characteristics that have an adverse effect on Italian national identity: cleavages between north and south and the dominant role of family. It discusses how for Italians family loyalty is stronger than any other allegiance, including feelings towards their country, their nation, or the EU. Due to such subnational allegiances and values, this book notes that Italian civic society is weaker and engagement at the grass roots is less robust than one finds in other democracies, leaving politics in Italy largely in the hands of political parties. The work concludes by noting that EU membership, however, provides no magic bullet for Italy: it cannot change internal cleavages, the Italian worldview, and family values or the country’s mafia-dominated power matrix, and as a result, the underlying absence of fidelity to a shared polity—Italian or European—leave the country as ungovernable as ever.
Zwei Forschungstraditionen dominieren die phonologische Beschreibung von Rhythmus: zum einen die aus der Phonetik hervorgegangene Typologie silben- und akzentzählender Sprachen, zum anderen die Metrische Phonologie. Dabei bestimmt der erste Ansatz rhythmische Qualität temporal, der zweite akzentuell. Die vorliegende Monographie begründet, warum beide Explikationen als Grundlage einer universellen Rhythmusphonologie problematisch sind und entwickelt eine neue Typologie, die die prosodischen Dimensionen der Zeit und der akzentuellen Prominenz gleichermaßen berücksichtigt und ihre jeweiligen Kodierungsleistungen auf Wort- und Satzebene als typdefinierend versteht. Insgesamt ergeben sich vi...
Negation has always been and still is a central topic in typological studies and theoretical research. Its centrality shows itself in the fact that it is not restricted to a given linguistic field but compasses the whole domain of linguistic studies. Very often, works on negation are brought about in a one-sided perspective which excludes other points of view. This book, on the contrary, puts together studies on negation based on various theoretical frameworks and aims to cover a wide range of theoretical perspectives. The book offers contributions on negation in Old Occitan, in Old Italic languages, and in several modern Romance languages (Italian, Roumanian, French, Spanish, Occitan, Catal...