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One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement,
where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to
another position. Syntactic theory has long been concerned with
properties of movement, including locality restrictions. Smuggling
in Syntax investigates how different movement operations interact
with one another, focusing on the special case of smuggling. First
introduced by volume editor Chris Collins in 2005, the term
'smuggling' refers to a specific type of movement interaction. The
contributions in this volume each describe different areas where
smuggling derivations play a role, including passives, causatives,
adverb placement, the dative alternation, the placement of measure
phrases, wh-in-situ, and word order in ergative languages. The
volume also addresses issues like the freezing constraint on
movement and the acquisition of smuggling derivations by children.
In this work, Adriana Belletti and Chris Collins bring together
leading syntacticians to present a range of contributions on
different aspects of smuggling. Tackling fundamental theoretical
questions with empirical consequences, this volume explores one of
the least understood types of movement and points the way toward
new research.
‘n Sterk sintuiglike aanslag en oorspronklike beeldgebruik.
Hierdie bundel roep temas in die lewe wat nie dikwels in die Afrikaanse digkuns voorkom nie.
Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji is variously read as a work of
feminist protest, the world's first psychological novel and even as
a post-modern masterpiece. Commonly seen as Japan's greatest
literary work, its literary, cultural, and historical significance
has been thoroughly acknowledged. As a work focused on the
complexities of Japanese court life in the Heian period, however,
the The Tale of Genji has never before been the subject of
philosophical investigation. The essays in this volume address this
oversight, arguing that the work contains much that lends itself to
philosophical analysis. The authors of this volume demonstrate that
The Tale of Genji confronts universal themes such as the nature and
exercise of political power, freedom, individual autonomy and
agency, renunciation, gender, and self-expression; it raises deep
concerns about aesthetics and the role of art, causality, the
relation of man to nature, memory, and death itself. Although
Murasaki Shikibu may not express these themes in the text as
explicitly philosophical problems, the complex psychological
tensions she describes and her observations about human conduct
reveal an underlying framework of philosophical assumptions about
the world of the novel that have implications for how we understand
these concerns beyond the world of Genji. Each essay in this
collection reveals a part of this framework, situating individual
themes within larger philosophical and historical contexts. In
doing so, the essays both challenge prevailing views of the novel
and each other, offering a range of philosophical interpretations
of the text and emphasizing the The Tale of Genji's place as a
masterful work of literature with broad philosophical significance.
How the three independent asset managers Coronation, Allan Gray and
Investec (later Ninety One) , dubbed the CIA, came to dominate and
continue to dominate the South African asset management industry,
particularly the pension fund market.
There are plenty of colourful big ego personalities such as Hendrik du
Toit at Ninety One, Leon Campher at Coronation and the late Allan Gray
plus kingmakers reshaping thr industry such as Patrice Motsepe.
From urgently scribbling out his debut Killing Floor in pencil (the
stub of which he still owns), to taking a step back with Blue Moon, and
everything in between, here are 24 honest, witty and wise personal
reflections on his life and work, crafted across decades.
Whether it is through Lee’s moving account of meeting a fan years after
her mother brought her to a book signing; facing his first computer and
the coming of the internet; writing about New York just before – and
just after – 9/11, to later seeing his novels adapted for the big
screen, each riveting piece deftly evokes where he was psychologically
and physically when he wrote each novel.
Lee has clearly felt unwavering gratitude for his readers since 1997.
And these stories were originally designed for fans of Reacher who may
be interested in a ‘behind-the-scenes’ – or, in Lee’s words: ‘why the
books turned out the way they did’.
But this collection is also so much more. It is the story of a man who
once put pencil to paper in an attempt to turn his luck around . . .
and who made every word count.
Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic
combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the
imagination of generations of readers. It is one of the most
popular science fiction novels ever written, has won awards, sold
millions of copies around the world and spawned multiple
motion-picture adaptations.
Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's eldest
son, tells the provocative story of his father's extraordinary life
in this honest and loving chronicle. He has also brought to light
all the events in Herbert's life that would find their way into
speculative fiction's greatest epic. From his early years in
Tacoma, Washington, through his time at university and in the Navy,
to the difficult years of poverty while struggling to become a
published writer, Herbert worked long and hard before finding
success after the publication of Dune in 1965.
Brian Herbert writes
about these years with a truthful intensity that brings every facet
of his father's brilliant, and sometimes troubled, genius to full
light. Insightful and provocative, containing family photos never
published anywhere, this absorbing biography offers Brian Herbert's
unique personal perspective on one of the most enigmatic and
creative talents of our time.
A recent wave of research has explored the link between wh- syntax
and prosody, breaking with the traditional generative conception of
a unidirectional syntax-phonology relationship. In this book, Jason
Kandybowicz develops Anti-contiguity Theory as a compelling
alternative to Richards' Contiguity Theory to explain the
interaction between the distribution of interrogative expressions
and the prosodic system of a language. Through original and highly
detailed fieldwork on several under-studied West African languages
(Krachi, Bono, Wasa, Asante Twi, and Nupe), Kandybowicz presents
empirically and theoretically rich analyses bearing directly on a
number of important theories of the syntax-prosody interface. His
observations and analyses stem from original fieldwork on all five
languages and represent some of the first prosodic descriptions of
the languages. The book also considers data from thirteen
additional typologically diverse languages to demonstrate the
theory's reach and extendibility. Against the backdrop of data from
eighteen languages, Anti-contiguity offers a new lens on the
empirical and theoretical study of wh- prosody.
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