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The status of agreement is a core issue in current morphological and syntactic theory. The collection of papers in this volume focuses on important issues such as the nature of the relation between syntax and morphology in determining agreement relations; whether and which syntactic configurations are relevant for determining agreement; the relevance of verbal agreement for the purposes of EPP; the inquiry into the existence of connections between verbal and DP-internal agreement; on the morphological and syntactic distinction of person number and gender agreement; how and why AGREE and Spechead relations trigger different agreement effects; and the type of relation that exists between head-movement and morphological agreement. The data collected come from a wide variety of languages and the studies presented discuss innovative and thought-provoking ideas for dealing with agreement phenomena.

The focus of this collection is on important themes in L2 acquisition the nature of grammatical systems developed by language learners in L1 acquisition third language acquisition and bilingualism and language attrition. The chapters present an interesting mix of theoretical contributions overview studies and experimental designs exploring various research questions such as learnability and access to UG L1 influence the nature of initial and endstate grammars and variability. The linguistic domains investigated are also extremely diverse: morphosyntax phonology the lexicon argument realization language processing and interface phenomena. This book edited and written by McGill University alumni is intended as a tribute to Lydia White's contribution to the field of generative second language acquisition. The authors present current work on language acquisition which further investigates several themes developed by White's research. Through these state-of-the-art contributions the reader will be able to identify important new directions in which generative language acquisition is developing and expanding.

Textual Patterns introduces corpus resources tools and analytic frameworks of central relevance to language teachers and teacher educators. Specifically it shows how key word analysis combined with the systematic study of vocabulary and genre can form the basis for a corpus informed approach to language teaching. The first part of the book gives the reader a strong grounding in the way in which language teachers can use corpus analysis tools (wordlists concordances key words) to describe language patterns in general and text patterns in particular. The second section presents a series of case studies which show how a key word / corpus informed approach to language education can work in practice. The case studies include: General language education (i.e. students in national education systems and those following international examination programmes) foreign languages for academic purposes literature in language education business and professional communication and cultural studies in language education.

While ideology has been treated widely in CDA-literature the role played by the interaction of text and image in multiplying meaning and furthering ideological stances has not so far received a lot of attention. Mediating Ideology in Text and Image offers a number of approaches to such analysis offering students and academics valuable tools for identifying possible discrepancies between the world and the way it is represented through various mediational means. The authors’ common aim is one of assisting the audience in reading between the lines thus offering a variety of approaches that may contribute to a better understanding of how ideologies possibly work and how they may be denaturalised from text and image. The articles in part I look at rhetorical strategies used in meaning construction processes unfolding in various kinds of mass media. Part II focuses on the re-semiotization of meaning and looks at how analysing the combination of text and image may contribute to a better understanding of ideological processes brought about by multimodal resources. Foreword by Ruth Wodak.

Aristoteles’ De Anima ist einer der zentralen Texte der Philosophiegeschichte. Seine grundlegende Leistung liegt in der alle Lebewesen umfassenden ontologisch-ontischen Bestimmung der Seele und ihrer Vermögen einschließlich der Lehre vom Geist (nous) deren nähere Explikation seit der Antike Anlaß zu vielfältigen Diskussionen gab. Die vorliegende Studie ermittelt unter Rückgriff auf die traditionellen Schulen des Alexandrismus Neuplatonismus Averroismus und Thomismus diejenigen mannigfaltigen philosophischen und theologischen Konstellationen des 16. und 17. Jh.s die von innerkatholischen wie interkonfessionellen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Katholiken Lutheranern und Calvinisten geprägt waren. Unter diesem Gesichtspunkt werden die entsprechenden Werke der Reformatoren Luther und Melanchthon der Renaissance-Aristoteliker Portio Toletus Zabarella und die Conimbrincenser sowie die hier erstmals berücksichtigten Schriften der lutherischen und calvinistischen Schulphilosophen des 17. Jh.s. interpretiert.





Aristotle’s On the soul is one of the most important books in the history of philosophy. Its fundamental achievement is based on the ontological-ontical definition of the soul and its virtues which embrace all living beings including the doctrine of the mind (nous) and whose further explication has been interpreted controversially since antiquity. With respect to the traditional schools of Alexandrism Neoplatonism Averroism and Thomism the present study studies the various philosophical and theological constellations of the 16th and 17th century which were determined by the intracatholical as well as by the interdenominational controversies between the Catholics Lutherans and Calvinists. From this point of view the works of Luther and Melanchthon of the Renaissance-Aristotelians Portio Toletus Zabarella and the Conimbricenses as well as the works of the Lutheran and Calvinistic Philosophers of the 17th century are interpreted these last ones being taken into consideration here for the first time.

Then follow interpretations of some of the main philosophical concepts of Aristotle’s De Anima in the 16th and 17th century namely the Protestant Aristotelianism of Luther (1483–1546) and Melanchthon (1497–1560) the ‘Second Scholastic’ of the Jesuits Toletus (1532–1596) and Emmanul de Goes the Natural Philosophy of Portio (1496–1554) and Zabarella (1533–1589) and at least the New Protestant Aristotelianism of Martini (1570-1649) Evenius (1585/9–1639) Scheibler (1589–1653) Leuschner (1589–1641) and Dannhauer (1603–1666) at the Lutheran Universities in Germany in the early 17th century.

Modeling of linguistic knowledge generally involves the compartmentalization of grammar into phonological morphological lexical syntactic semantic and pragmatic components. These components are not isolated but interacting components. It is the resulting interfaces between grammatical components that forms the main topic of this volume discussed from the perspective of bilingual L1 acquisition in early childhood and L2 in adulthood as well as L1/L2 in late childhood. The book contains ten contributions by members of the Research Center on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg and by other international scholars all of them experts on multilingualism. Several pairs of languages are dealt with among them Spanish and German Mandarin and English French and German Italian and German Turkish and English Turkish and German Dutch and Turkish as well as Spoken German and German Sign language. Throughout the volume the central issue is that of representation at the interface of grammatical components.

The main focus of generative language development research in recent decades has been the logical problem of language acquisition - how learners go beyond the input to acquire complex linguistic knowledge. This collection deals with the complementary issue of the developmental problem of language acquisition: How do learners move from one developmental stage to another and how and why do grammars develop in a certain fashion? Building on considerable previous research the authors address both general and specific issues related to paths of development. These issues are tackled through considering studies of L1 and L2 children and L2 adults learning a range of languages including Dutch English French German Greek and Japanese.

This book endorses Coleridge's statement: "nothing can permanently please which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so". It conceives 'Kubla Khan' as of a hypnotic poem in which the "obtrusive rhythms" produce a hypnotic emotionally heightened response giving false security to the "Platonic Censor" so that our imagination is left free to explore higher levels of uncertainty. Critics intolerant of uncertainty tend to account for the poem's effect by extraneous background information. The book consists of three parts employing different research methods. Part One is speculative and discusses three aspects of a complex aesthetic event: the verbal structure of 'Kubla Khan' validity in interpretation and the influence of the critic's decision style on his critical decisions. The other two parts are empirical. Part Two explores reader response to gestalt qualities of rhyme patterns and hypnotic poems in perspective of decision style and professional training. Part Three submits four recordings of the poem by leading British actors to instrumental investigation.

This book presents a comprehensive account of quantifier scope in German. The author investigates scope behavior of ordinary quantifiers and negative adverbial interrogative relative and particle quantifiers. The areas which are dealt with include: relative scope in simple sentences absolute and relative scope in complex sentences noun-phrase internal scope and scope behavior of indefinite noun phrases. A theory of explicit and implicit quantification is proposed and a uniform process of scope determination is sketched which encompasses the scope of explicit as well as implicit quantifiers. Quantifier scope is a challenge to linguistic theory as it is a phenomenon which is determined by the interplay of diverse syntactic and semantic factors which interact in a weighted and cumulative way. The factors' interplay is part of the syntax/semantics-interface i.e. the constraints relating syntax and semantics which are considered to be relatively autonomous parallel levels connected by an interface of correspondence constraints.

This monograph proposes a minimalist phase-based approach to the derivation of coordinate structures utilizing the operations Copy and Match to account for both the symmetries and asymmetries of coordination. Data are drawn primarily from English German and Dutch. The basic assumptions are that all coordinate structures are symmetric to some degree (in contrast to parasitic gap and many verb phrase ellipsis constructions) and these symmetries especially with ellipsis allow syntactic derivations to utilize Copy and Match in interface with active memory for economizing with gaps and assuring clarity of interpretation. With derivations operating at the feature level troublesome properties of coordinate structures such as cross-categorial and non-constituent coordination violations of the Coordinate Structure Constraint as well as coordinate ellipsis (Gapping RNR Left-Edge Ellipsis) are accounted for without separate mechanisms or conditions applicable only to coordinate structures. The proposal provides support for central assumptions about the structure of West Germanic.