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De Franse semioticus Algirdas Julien Greimas is ongetwijfeld een van de belangrijkste denkers in het Europese structuralisme. Zijn werk vormt dan ook de inspiratiebron voor onderzoekers uit diverse disciplines. Het Greimassiaanse model gaat er immers vanuit dat de meest uiteenlopende verschijnselen geanalyseerd kunnen worden in termen van betekenisrelaties: niet alleen verhalen en andere tekstsoorten maar ook beeldende kunst en architectuur gedragsvormen en emoties.Dit boek wil – voor het eerst in het Nederlands – Greimas zelf aan het woord laten. Het bevat de basisteksten van zijn semiotisch project en belangrijke toepassingen op het vlak van de literatuurstudie de esthetica en de epistemologie van de menswetenschappen. De teksten worden toegelicht door de vertalers en zijn voorzien van een uitvoerige algemene inleiding en een geannoteerde bibliografie.

This book is about particles in the narrower sense of the word as opposed to the broader meaning covering all uninflected words of a language. In the narrower meaning of the linguistic term particles can be distinguished between logical or scalar particles and modal or pragmatic particles. The semantic pragmatic and syntactic properties of modal particles differ vastly from those of the scalar particles on the one hand and their homonymic counterparts functioning in different syntactic categories on the other hand. The contributions to this volume offer the latest research on the semantic pragmatic and syntactic properties of particles in the English and German language.

The principal objective of this book is to provide a unified treatment of morphological case in Korean. Focussing on the nominative accusative and dative suffixes the author seeks to show that each of these morphemes consistently encodes a corresponding combinatorial relation in the 'surface' form of sentences.In support of his analysis the author discusses a broad and representative range of Korean case marking patterns providing one of the more complete treatments of case available for any language. This book should therefore be useful not only to Koreanists but also to researchers interested in the case systems of other languages.Written in a style that makes it accessible to readers from a variety of backgrounds in linguistics and other disciplines Categories and Case also provides a good introduction to many important syntactic phenomena in the Korean language.

Establishing the notion of reasonable foolishness and foolish reason as a generic principle of the old French farce Boucquey's study examines the interdependencies among four key mimetic phenomena: the demented universe of the Feast of Fools festival the genre of the farce Bruegel's representation of the world and the euphoric comedies of triumphant madness created by Moliere. This reinterpretation of French farce according to the principle of a topsy-turvy world reveals the link of madness that unites the four modes of production studied from textual linearity through representational surface to theatrical three-dimensionality. Of pluralist conception the book's eclectic critical apparatus draws readily on foundations as diverse as historicism semiotics structuralism Foucauldian theory iconography Derridean textualization and etymology.

This volume focuses on priorities for research in language pedagogy. The aim is to give an up-to-date overview of current thinking about important research issues such as the viability of large scale comparisons the quantitative/qualitative research controversy new trends in language testing and evaluation and the role of different learning environments. In their discussions of these issues researchers from the US and from different countries in Europe show to what extent the priorities differ on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Errors are information. In contrastive linguistics they are thought to be caused by unconscious transfer of mother tongue structures to the system of the target language and give information about both systems. In the interlanguage hypothesis of second language acquisition errors are indicative of the different intermediate learning levels and are useful pedagogical feedback. In both cases error analysis is an essential methodological tool for diagnosis and evaluation of the language acquisition process. Errors too give information in psychoanalysis (e.g. the Freudian slip) in language universal research and in other fields of linguistics such as linguistic change.This bibliography is intended to stimulate study into cross-language cross-discipline and cross-theoretical as well as for language universal use of the numerous but sometimes hard to come by error analysis studies. 5398 titles covering the period 1578 up to 1990 (with work in more than 144 languages and language families) are cited cross-referenced and described. The subject areas covered are numerous. For example: Theoretical Linguistics (Linguistic Typology Cognitive Linguistics) Historical Linguistics (Language Change) Applied Linguistics (e.g. Speech Disorders) Translation Mother Tongue Acquisition Foreign Language Learning (Negative Transfer Intralingual and Interlingual Errors) Psychoanalysis (Slips of the Tongue) Typography Shorthand Clinical Linguistics and Speech Pathology Reading Research Automatic Error Detection Contact Linguistics (Code-switching Interference) etc.

When child language began to be studied in the sixties what interested researchers most was what could be considered language per se. Holophrases were excluded as seemingly having no syntax and research work was carried out as of the two-word stage. Language development was studied up to around age seven the age at which natural acquisition processes were considered to be contaminated by formal schooling in language.In opposition to such an attitude this volume has ignored this heavily studied area of language development preferring to present research being carried out at the two ends of the development process that had been rejected: that of prelinguistic speech skills at the one end and the development of discourse at the other. This book thus begins with the physical properties in human development necessary for language to occur. It also offers studies on a child's initial equipment i.e. intra-uterine skills and skills acquired before first words. At the other end are studies on the development of discourse i.e. the child's acquisition of the ability not only to juxtapose ideas but to link them into cohesive coherent texts and to use argumentation skills that are not fully acquired until the child is well into adolescence and nearing adulthood.

This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally interacted with Bickerton and been influenced by his work. While the papers make independent thematic contributions they also discuss augment present alternatives to or are inspired in some way by Bickerton's seminal ideas or penetrating analyses. The book is organized into 5 sections each a reflection of a major research period in Bickerton's career: Section 1: Identifying Creoles; Section 2: Language Variation; Section 3: Creole Processes; Section 4: Creole Syntax and Semantics; Section 5: Serial Verbs.

Die Protestbewegungen und gesellschaftlichen Umwälzungen unserer Zeit haben dazu beigetragen das Interesse an den antiken Kynikern und ihrer Lehre von der Umwertung aller Werte neu zu wecken. Geprägt durch Diogenes von Sinope und Krates von Theben seinen markantesten Vertretern war der Kynismus zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil der griechischrömanischen Popularphilosophie geworden. Zweck dieses Sammelbandes ist es durch Wiederabdruck wegweisender Beiträge zu Persönlichkeiten Aspekten und einzelnen Begriffen dieser geistigen Bewegung sowie durch eine kritische Einleitung und eine ausführliche Bibliographie einen Überblick über 150 Jahre Kynikerforschung zu geben die seit Eduard Zellers griechischer Philosophiegeschichte bemüht war aufzuzeigen wie nachhaltig kynisches Gedankengut bis ins ausgehende Altertum die Literatur beeinfluîte und selbst bei frühchristlichen Autoren seine deutlichen Spuren hinterließ .

The philosophy of Plotinus is usually depicted as a quest for the absolute outside and beyond the world of human knowledge and experience. Yet in the late treatise Ennead 5.3 [49] Plotinus shows himself a philosopher of the transcendental rather than of the transcendent. Starting from a critical analysis of the idea of self-knowledge he develops a world-view in which central notions of his metaphysics are represented not as different “hypostases” or transcendent beings but as limiting cases of reality as we human beings know it. Fundamental to this world-view is Plotinus' assumption that a close analogy can be established between the psychological and the physical description of man.