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Deixis – the rooting of utterances in the speech situation – is one of the most salient universals of natural language. The ways in which different languages link utterances to pragmatic factors such as speech time speech place and speech participants show a rich variation. This makes deixis a particular fruitful domain for the study of universals language comparison and the relationship between language and reality. This volume presents and discusses deictic systems of both Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages including Russian Czech Spanish German (standard and dialect) Hungarian Chinese Japanese Hausa Swahili Hopi Eipo Tolai Diyari. Focus is on spatial deixis but other deictic and demonstrative expressions are treated as well.

René Thom the famous French mathematician and founder of catastrophe theory considered linguistics an exemplary field for the application of his general morphology. It is surprising that physicists chemists biologists psychologists and sociologists are all engaged in the field of catastrophe theory but that there has been almost no echo from linguistics. Meanwhile linguistics has evolved in the direction of René Thom’s intuitions about an integrated science of language and it has become a necessary task to review update and elaborate the proposals made by Thom and to embed them in the framework of modern semantic theory.

This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format following guidelines provided by the editors and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. The contributions to this volume are salvage studies giving all the information that is available on four languages which are on the point of extinction and an assessment of what linguistic impressions can be inferred from the scant material that is available on the extinct languages of Tasmania.

In this study the works of Wilhelm Raabe (1831–1910) are being discussed taking into account the emerge of the perspectival narration culminating in the Braunschweig period (1870–1920). The book starts with a survey of the point of view theory including the concept of multiple perspective and then focusses on the works of Raabe in which these various techniques will be demonstrated. Special attention is paid to three works of the Braunschweig period; Der Dräumling Das Horn von Wanza and Kloster Lugau.

The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Těšitelová; Jiří Kraus; Ján Horecký & E. Nemcová; J. Sabol; Z. Lišková; V. Smetáček & M. Königová; J. Štěpán; L. Klimeš; P. Vašák. Part 2 Algebraic Linguistics contains contributions by M. Novotný; L. Nebeský; Petr Sgall; Eva Hajičová; Petr Pitha; J. Weisheitelová; Jarmila Panevová A. Goralčíková & Eva Hajičová.

Unlike studies which confine psychologism to the second half of the nineteenth century and to an explicit claim of psychology as a ‘Grundwissenschaft’ during that period this work attempts to trace psychologism's emergence in Greek antiquity in hedonistic tendencies of the Renaissance and in British Empiricism. Thus psychologism figures as a generic concept embracing a variety of both positivistic and idealistic arguments concerning the localization of normative sciences particularly aesthetics and literary theory in psychological space. This study also considers the implicit psychologism of even those psychoaesthetic theories which claimed to be against the exclusive status of psychology. In their actual treatment of aesthetic and literary facts such theories inadvertently did indeed resort to psychologistic arguments. The position from which I have chosen to look at psychologistically committed aesthetics and literary theory is essentially phenomenological. The author seeks to present psychologism as a central tendency of psychoaesthetics as well as to assert critically psychologism's basic assumptions.

The aim of the present bibliography is to provide a single and reasonably comprehensive list of books and articles which deal with problems related to prepositions in natural languages. If most of publications listed consider syntax or semantics they also take into account morphological stylistic psycholinguistic or historical aspects.

By focusing on the “East European” dialogues and polemics both contemporary and past the present volume pursues two aims: 1) It would like to locate the discussion between semiotics and dialectics in an historical context. 2) It would like to make the reader familiar with the solutions proposed by theoreticians like Bakhtin Lotman Voloshinov Fischer and Mukařovský solutions which in the past were frequently ignored by European Marxists semioticians and sociologists of literature. At present one cannot help feeling that if they had been familiar with the works of these authors Marxism Critical Theory semiotics and the sociology of literature (of the text) would have evolved differently.

Die vorliegende Arbeit sollte beitragen an ein besseres Verständnis der romantischen Literatur im zeitgenössischen Kontext. Es wird untersucht wie die die Klassik und die Romantik sich mit einander verhalten haben anhand von Einzelanalysen. Auf tradiotionelle Grenzen wie Früh- Hoch- oder Spätromantik wird verzichtet sowie auch auf die Idee daß in romantische Werke nur aesthetische Tendezen zum Ausdruck kamen; sondern daß auch politisch operative und sozialpolitische funktionale Tendenzen wichtig waren.

Le manuscrit 26092 de la célèbre collection de Cheltenham comprend les ouvrages suivants dont les quatre premiers sont en vers et le cinquième en prose: 1) Hernaut de Beaulande 2) Renier de Gennes 3) Girart de Vienne 4) Galien 5) La Chronique de Saint-Denis. Une édition critique du quatrième élément est offerte dans le présent volume.