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The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that
fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It
nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital
of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a
quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably shaped the cultural and
intellectual life of the Habsburg Empire. This was particularly
evident in the era's colonial utopian writing, and Tropics of
Vienna blends literary criticism, cultural theory, and historical
analysis to illuminate this curious genre. By analyzing the works
of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Theodor Herzl, Joseph Roth, and other
representative Austrian writers, it reveals a shared longing for
alternative social and spatial configurations beyond the concept of
the "nation-state" prevalent at the time.
Ever since Chomsky laid the framework for a mathematically formal
theory of syntax, two classes of formal models have held wide
appeal. The finite state model offered simplicity. At the opposite
extreme numerous very powerful models, most notable
transformational grammar, offered generality. As soon as this
mathematical framework was laid, devastating arguments were given
by Chomsky and others indicating that the finite state model was
woefully inadequate for the syntax of natural language. In
response, the completely general transformational grammar model was
advanced as a suitable vehicle for capturing the description of
natural language syntax. While transformational grammar seems
likely to be adequate to the task, many researchers have advanced
the argument that it is "too adequate. " A now classic result of
Peters and Ritchie shows that the model of transformational grammar
given in Chomsky's Aspects IJ is powerful indeed. So powerful as to
allow it to describe any recursively enumerable set. In other words
it can describe the syntax of any language that is describable by
any algorithmic process whatsoever. This situation led many
researchers to reasses the claim that natural languages are
included in the class of transformational grammar languages. The
conclu sion that many reached is that the claim is void of content,
since, in their view, it says little more than that natural
language syntax is doable algo rithmically and, in the framework of
modern linguistics, psychology or neuroscience, that is axiomatic."
For the most part, the papers collected in this volume stern from
presentations given at a conference held in Tucson over the weekend
of May 31 through June 2, 1985. We wish to record our gratitude to
the participants in that conference, as well as to the National
Science Foundation (Grant No. BNS-8418916) and the University of
Arizona SBS Research Institute for their financial support. The
advice we received from Susan Steele on organizational matters
proved invaluable and had many felicitous consequences for the
success of the con ference. We also would like to thank the staff
of the Departments of Linguistics of the University of Arizona and
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for their help, as weIl
as a number of individuals, including Lin Hall, Kathy Todd, and
Jiazhen Hu, Sandra Fulmer, Maria Sandoval, Natsuko Tsujimura,
Stuart Davis, Mark Lewis, Robin Schafer, Shi Zhang, Olivia
Oehrle-Steele, and Paul Saka. Finally, we would like to express our
gratitude to Martin Scrivener, our editor, for his patience and his
encouragement. Vll INTRODUCTION The term 'categorial grammar' was
introduced by Bar-Rillel (1964, page 99) as a handy way of grouping
together some of his own earlier work (1953) and the work of the
Polish logicians and philosophers Lesniewski (1929) and Ajdukiewicz
(1935), in contrast to approaches to linguistic analysis based on
phrase structure grammars."
The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that
fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It
nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital
of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a
quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably shaped the cultural and
intellectual life of the Habsburg Empire. This was particularly
evident in the era's colonial utopian writing, and Tropics of
Vienna blends literary criticism, cultural theory, and historical
analysis to illuminate this curious genre. By analyzing the works
of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Theodor Herzl, Joseph Roth, and other
representative Austrian writers, it reveals a shared longing for
alternative social and spatial configurations beyond the concept of
the "nation-state" prevalent at the time.
For the most part, the papers collected in this volume stern from
presentations given at a conference held in Tucson over the weekend
of May 31 through June 2, 1985. We wish to record our gratitude to
the participants in that conference, as well as to the National
Science Foundation (Grant No. BNS-8418916) and the University of
Arizona SBS Research Institute for their financial support. The
advice we received from Susan Steele on organizational matters
proved invaluable and had many felicitous consequences for the
success of the con ference. We also would like to thank the staff
of the Departments of Linguistics of the University of Arizona and
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for their help, as weIl
as a number of individuals, including Lin Hall, Kathy Todd, and
Jiazhen Hu, Sandra Fulmer, Maria Sandoval, Natsuko Tsujimura,
Stuart Davis, Mark Lewis, Robin Schafer, Shi Zhang, Olivia
Oehrle-Steele, and Paul Saka. Finally, we would like to express our
gratitude to Martin Scrivener, our editor, for his patience and his
encouragement. Vll INTRODUCTION The term 'categorial grammar' was
introduced by Bar-Rillel (1964, page 99) as a handy way of grouping
together some of his own earlier work (1953) and the work of the
Polish logicians and philosophers Lesniewski (1929) and Ajdukiewicz
(1935), in contrast to approaches to linguistic analysis based on
phrase structure grammars."
Ever since Chomsky laid the framework for a mathematically formal
theory of syntax, two classes of formal models have held wide
appeal. The finite state model offered simplicity. At the opposite
extreme numerous very powerful models, most notable
transformational grammar, offered generality. As soon as this
mathematical framework was laid, devastating arguments were given
by Chomsky and others indicating that the finite state model was
woefully inadequate for the syntax of natural language. In
response, the completely general transformational grammar model was
advanced as a suitable vehicle for capturing the description of
natural language syntax. While transformational grammar seems
likely to be adequate to the task, many researchers have advanced
the argument that it is "too adequate. " A now classic result of
Peters and Ritchie shows that the model of transformational grammar
given in Chomsky's Aspects IJ is powerful indeed. So powerful as to
allow it to describe any recursively enumerable set. In other words
it can describe the syntax of any language that is describable by
any algorithmic process whatsoever. This situation led many
researchers to reasses the claim that natural languages are
included in the class of transformational grammar languages. The
conclu sion that many reached is that the claim is void of content,
since, in their view, it says little more than that natural
language syntax is doable algo rithmically and, in the framework of
modern linguistics, psychology or neuroscience, that is axiomatic."
This is a comprehensive textbook on the imaging of pediatric
skeletal trauma. It gives radiologists and pediatric surgeons a
detailed description of the techniques used as well as examples of
the imaging findings and details of their clinical relevance. Each
chapter is written by an expert in the field and includes a wealth
of illustrations. The book provides invaluable advice on those
features which will affect the orthopedic management of a
child.
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