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The Derivation of VO and OV takes a new look at the relationship between head-final or OV structures and head-initial or VO ones in light of recent work by Richard Kayne and others. The various papers in the volume take different positions with respect to whether one type of structure is derived from the other and if so which of the two orders is primary.

Different options explored include derivation of VO order by head movement from a basic OV structure derivation of VO by fronting of a phrasal VP remnant containing only the verb derivation of OV by fronting of a remnant VP which the verb has vacated and others.

Each paper is thoroughly rooted in empirical observations about specific constructions drawn either from the Germanic languages or from others including Finnish Hungarian Japanese and Malagasy.

The volume consists of eleven original papers by Sjef Barbiers Michael Brody Naoki Fukui & Yuji Takano Liliane Haegeman Hubert Haider Roland Hinterhölzl Anders Holmberg Thorbjorg Hróarsdóttir Matthew Pearson Peter Svenonius and Knut Tarald Taraldsen plus an introduction by the editor.

“Schelling has undergone his philosophical education before the public” — so G. W. F. Hegel in criticism of the novel systematic projects which his philosophical ally and later rival F. W. J. Schelling successively made public. Today however Hegel’s derisive judgment can be seen not to hold: Instead it is much rather the case that Schelling’s productivity expresses the genuine continuity of his thought. Moreover his thought is attractive precisely because it embodies an inconclusive — perhaps the never-ending — search for an abiding philosophical orientation in an ever more complex world.

Schelling — zwischen Fichte und Hegel / Schelling — Between Fichte and Hegel: The title both emphasizes the singularity of Schelling’s thought and recognizes its profound relation to that of his contemporaries. This volume which connects the latest work in Fichte- Hegel- and Schelling-studies contains original contributions in English and German on Schelling’s philosophy from international group of researchers. “Schelling hat seine philosophische Ausbildung vor dem Publikum gemacht” urteilte G. W. F. Hegel und tadelte damit die Folge von immer neuen philosophischen Entwürfen mit denen Schelling vor die Öffentlichkeit trat. Aus heutiger Sicht muî Hegels Urteil in verschiedener Hinsicht revidiert werden: Einerseits ist das Schaffen Schellings durch klare Kontinuität geprägt; andererseits ist sein Produktionsprozeî unter einer modernen Perspektive von hoher Attraktivität zeigt er doch sinnfällig die unabgeschlossene vielleicht unabschlieîbare Suche nach einer philosophischen Orientierung in einer immer komplexer werdenden Welt.

Schelling — zwischen Fichte und Hegel / Schelling — Between Fichte and Hegel: Mit diesem Titel ist die Aufgabe verknüpft die Singularität des Schellingschen Denkens herauszustellen sowie die vielfältigen Beziehungen zu seinen Zeitgenossen angemessen zu würdigen. Das Buch schlägt eine Brücke zwischen den neuesten Arbeiten der Fichte- Hegel- und Schellingforschung. Dabei bleibt es stets fokussiert auf die Philosophie Schellings. Es konnte für dieses Buch eine internationale Autorenschaft gewonnen werden. Alle Beiträge — teils in deutscher teils in englischer Sprache — sind speziell für diesen Band konzipiert.

This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 1–4 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of Acadian French. Chapter 5 outlines the basic features of Acadian French morphosyntax. Chapter 6 provides an overview of the linguistic consequences of language contact in Prince Edward Island. Chapters 7–9 consider three particular cases of grammatical borrowing: the borrowing of the English adverb back and the semantic and syntactic reanalysis it has undergone the borrowing of a wide range of English prepositions resulting in dramatic changes in the syntactic behaviour of French prepositions and the borrowing of English wh-ever words resulting in the emergence of a new type of free relative. Chapter 10 argues for a theory of grammar contact by which contact-induced grammatical change is mediated by the lexicon.

This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at an international conference on Translation Studies in Barcelona in 1998. The papers illustrate four areas that are of particular interest in translation research today in Europe Asia and Latin America. The purpose of the first section ‘Investigating Translation Paradigms’ is to reach a critical revision of existing paradigms and to develop new ones in approaching the translated text. The second section ‘Investigating the Translation Process’ focuses on the skills knowledge and strategies that make up translation competence. The third section ‘Investigating Translation and Ideology’ addresses not only the ‘invisible’ influence of ideologies on the translator but also the role of translators in transmitting ideology. The fourth section ‘Investigating Translation Receivers’ envisages translators as communicators caught between the opposing trends of localisation and globalisation. This tension can be seen in the selection of the papers some of which reflect on research carried out in recently established translation centres in Spain while others discuss the latest work of scholars from long established centres in other countries.

This book offers foundations for a literary criticism which seeks to mediate between writers and readers belonging to different historical periods or social groupings. This makes it among other things a timely intervention in the postmodern “culture wars” though the theory put forward will be of interest not only to students of literature and culture but also to linguists. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Sell describes communication in general as strongly interactive as very much affected by the disparate situationalities of “sending” and “receiving” yet as by no means completely determined by them. Seen this way men and women are both social beings and individuals capable of empathizing with sociohistorical formations which are alien to them sometimes even to the extent of changing their own life-world. By treating literary activity as communicational in this same dynamic sense Sell radically modifies the main paradigms of twentieth-century literary theory casting much new light on questions of genre interpretation affect and ethics.

Translation in Context is a collection of contributions from the 1998 Congress arranged by EST the European Society for Translation Studies in Granada Spain. It illustrates some of the latest research interests and achievements in Translation Studies at the turn of the millennium. The contributions show how the context of Translation Studies has expanded to cover new documentation techniques cultural and psychological factors the latest computer tools ideological issues media translation and new methodologies. A total of 32 papers deal with: (I) Conceptual analysis in Translation Studies (II) Situational sociological and political factors (III) Psychological and cognitive aspects (IV) Translation effects (V) Computer aids (VI) Text-type studies (VII) Culture-bound concepts and (VIII) Translation history. The languages of the papers and abstracts are English French German and Spanish.

This is the only book that examines the theory and data on the development of implicit and explicit memory. It first describes the characteristics of implicit and explicit memory (including conscious recollection) and tasks used with adults to measure them. Next it reviews the brain mechanisms thought to underlie implicit and explicit memory and the studies with amnesics that initially prompted the search for different neuroanatomically-based memory systems. Two chapters review the Jacksonian (first in last out) principle and empirical evidence for the hierarchical appearance and dissolution of two memory systems in animal models (rats nonhuman primates) children and normal/amnesic adults. Two chapters examine memory tasks used with human infants and evidence of implicit and explicit memory during early infancy. Three final chapters consider structural and processing accounts of adult memory dissociations their applicability to infant memory dissociations and implications of infant data for current concepts of implicit and explicit memory. (Series B)

This volume critically examines the effects of the spread of English from colonialism to the ‘New World Order’. The research explores the complex and often contradictory roles English has played in national development. Historical analyses and case studies by leading researchers in language policy studies reveal that deterministic relationships between imperial languages such as English and societal hierarchies are untenable and that support of vernacular languages in education and public life can serve diverse ideologies and political agendas. Areas and countries investigated include Europe North America Australia Hong Kong India Malaysia Singapore South Africa and Sri Lanka. The role of theory in language policy scholarship and practice is critically evaluated. A variety of research methodologies is used ranging from macro-sociopolitical and structural analyses to postmodern approaches. The work collectively represents a new direction in language policy studies.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>

This volume brings together cognitive psychologists interpreting scholars and translation researchers who look at the process phenomena involved in translation and interpreting (T/I) from various linguistic vantage points.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The focus is on methodology and the problems that loom large in a multidisciplinary discipline. The authors include Annette de Groot Juliane House Kirsten Malmkjaer and Miriam Shlesinger.<br/>The topics discussed range from simultaneous interpreting subtitling translating in pairs the sub-skills involved in T/I to expertise and management issues.<br/>Three major challenges emerge from T/I process research as it is portrayed in this book:<br/>- How to maintain a clear vision of the object of study?<br/>- How to ensure methodological sobriety?<br/>- How to transfer the emerging knowledge of expertise to translation pedagogy?

Spatial Cognition brings together psychology computer science linguistics and geography discussing how people think about space (our internal cognitive maps and spatial perception) and how we communicate about space for instance giving route directions or using spatial metaphors. The technological applications adding dynamism to the area include computer interfaces educational software multimedia and in-car navigation systems. On the experimental level themes as varied as gender differences in orientation and — of course wholly unrelated — the role of the hippocampus in rodent navigation are described. Much detailed analysis and computational modeling of the structure of short term memory (STM) is discussed. The papers were presented at the 1998 annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland Mind III. (Series B)