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The Ziggurat of Grammar : In honor of Ur Shlonsky
Nov 2025What is the extent to which various grammatical levels – from features through subjecthood through cleft layers – reuse and reemploy certain structure-building operations? In this volume organized in terms of successively expanding domains leading contributors report research into the complex edifice of grammatical structure of human language that one might liken to the terraced layers of a ziggurat. Following the heuristics of reverse-engineering the chapters in this collection draw on theoretical and experimental analyses from Taqbaylit Berber to the sign language Cena from the Romance language family to the Semitic family in a kind to ‘reverse-architecture’ effort to understand the modes that compose multiple planes of morphosyntax. The volume presented to honor the work and influence of Ur Shlonsky within linguistics is aimed at a readership accessible to advanced undergraduates as well as specialists placed at distinct vantage points.
This ebook is Open Access under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Zur mittelalterlichen Herkunft einiger Theoreme in der modernen Aristoteles-Interpretation : Eine Fallstudie anhand der Kommentare von Albertus Magnus und Thomas von Aquin zu Aristoteles’ Metaphysik XII
Mar 2024Die vorliegende Studie versucht an Hand der Kommentare von Albertus Magnus und von Thomas von Aquin zu Metaphysik XII diese Wirkung der Rezeption zu belegen. Ein Nebenprodukt der Arbeit besteht in der Einsicht in den Paradigmenwechsel in der Theologie bei den zwei Genannten.
The reception of Aristotle’s texts in different worlds has led to transformations some of which are still claimed today as the opinions of Aristotle himself. If it is possible to make these transformations coming from different worlds explicit they can be methodically eliminated. Examples of such reception sediments concern central themes for example that Aristotle developed a metaphysics of substance from which a theological orientation or at least a theological climax ultimately follows. The fact that this is one of the effects of the reception determined by various pseudo-Aristotelian texts is hardly noticed today because the modern reading of the Corpus Aristotelicum is already steered accordingly.
The present study attempts to demonstrate this effect of reception using the commentaries of Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas on Metaphysics XII. A by-product of the work is the insight into the paradigm shift in theology among the two mentioned.
Zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache : New edition
Dec 1995His first and most important contribution to the development of linguistic science was his monumental work of 508 pages Zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache published in 1868.
His stated objective was “to subject all aspects of the Germanic grammar to a new treatment.” While such a wording sounds rather modest the actual implementation in his book if viewed within the framework of his time might very appropriately be called revolutionary. He broke with August Schleicher’s distinction between ‘development’ (in prehistorical time) and ‘decay’ (in historical time) in the history of language and replaced it with his notion of continuous uninterrupted development. His survey of the relevant literature of his time is almost exhaustive and his findings serve as the solid stepping stone for his own advances.
To facilitate reading the editor has supplied an index of names (with life dates) a complete listing of the literature referred to by Scherer as well as an introduction to Scherer’s life and his general scholarly achievements.
Zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Altniederländischen
Jan 1992
Zarathustra and the Ethical Ideal : Timely meditations on philosophy
Jan 1991