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Although the interest in the concept of partitivity has
continuously increased in the last decades and has given rise to
considerable advances in research, the fine-grained
morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive
elements across European languages is far from being
well-described, let alone well-understood. There are two main
obstacles to this: on the one hand, theoretical linguistics and
typological linguistics are fragmented in different methodological
approaches that hinder the full sharing of cross-theoretic
advances; on the other hand, partitive elements have been analyzed
in restricted linguistic environments, which would benefit from a
broader perspective. The aim of the PARTE project, from which this
volume stems, is precisely to bring together linguists of different
theoretical approaches using different methodologies to address
this notion in its many facets. This volume focuses on Partitive
Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case in European
languages, their emergence and spread in diachrony, their
acquisition by L2 speakers, and their syntax and interpretation.
The volume is the first to provide such an encompassing insight
into the notion of partitivity.
This book includes papers presented at the 14th International
Conference “Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European
Countries†(EBEEC), held in Florence, Italy, in May 2022. It
sheds new light on the micro- and macroeconomic developments in the
Eastern European and Balkan countries, taking into account also the
broader regional and global factors influencing these developments.
In particular, it includes the latest theoretical and empirical
research and policy insights from Central and Southeastern Europe
and presents new ideas on how to resolve economic problems, also
generated by the pandemic, in the Balkan and Eastern European
economies in a pan-European context. By examining how the decisions
and the performance of economic, social, and political actors in
the area are intertwined with wider events, also at a global level,
the papers highlight the dynamic development in Eastern Europe and
the Balkans region. Further, the book demonstrates how the area is
evolving within the framework of European economic integration and
the global effervescent economy.
Scale is a word which underlies much of architectural and urban
design practice, its history and theory, and its technology. Its
connotations have traditionally been linked with the humanities, in
the sense of relating to human societies and to human form. To
build in scale is an aspiration that is usually taken for granted
by most of those involved in architectural production, as well as
by members of the public; yet in a world where value systems of all
kinds are being questioned, the term has come under renewed
scrutiny. The older, more particular, meanings in the humanities,
pertaining to classical Western culture, are where the sense of
scale often resides in cultural production.
Scale may be traced back, ultimately, to the discovery of
musical harmonies, and in the arithmetic proportional relationship
of the building to its parts. One might question the continued
relevance of this understanding of scale in the global world of
today. What, in other words, is culturally specific about scale?
And what does scale mean in a world where an intuitive, visual
understanding is often undermined or superseded by other senses, or
by hyper-reality? Structured thematically in three parts, this book
addresses various issues of scale. The book includes an
introduction which sets the scene in terms of current architectural
discourse and also contains a visual essay in each section. It is
of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics
and practitioners in architecture and architectural theory as well
as to students in a range of other disciplines including art
history and theory, geography, anthropology and landscape
architecture.
The problem of finding minimal surfaces, i. e. of finding the
surface of least area among those bounded by a given curve, was one
of the first considered after the foundation of the calculus of
variations, and is one which received a satis factory solution only
in recent years. Called the problem of Plateau, after the blind
physicist who did beautiful experiments with soap films and
bubbles, it has resisted the efforts of many mathematicians for
more than a century. It was only in the thirties that a solution
was given to the problem of Plateau in 3-dimensional Euclidean
space, with the papers of Douglas [DJ] and Rado [R T1, 2]. The
methods of Douglas and Rado were developed and extended in
3-dimensions by several authors, but none of the results was shown
to hold even for minimal hypersurfaces in higher dimension, let
alone surfaces of higher dimension and codimension. It was not
until thirty years later that the problem of Plateau was
successfully attacked in its full generality, by several authors
using measure-theoretic methods; in particular see De Giorgi [DG1,
2, 4, 5], Reifenberg [RE], Federer and Fleming [FF] and Almgren
[AF1, 2]. Federer and Fleming defined a k-dimensional surface in
IR" as a k-current, i. e. a continuous linear functional on
k-forms. Their method is treated in full detail in the splendid
book of Federer [FH 1].
This book examines political, social, and economic interactions in
highly interconnected areas, stretching from Europe to Eastern
Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and East Asia, labelled as
Trans-Europe. The first part of the book focuses on the interests
of several leading actors in Trans-Europe. The second part deals
with the actions of national actors trying to compete with the EU
influence in their shared neighbourhood. The third part studies
cross-border issues, such as economic dynamics, migration flows and
energy markets in the Trans-European space.
This book intends to make NI more accessible and viable, especially
as a critical device for better understanding contemporary
politics. The purpose is to refresh the debate on NI and to explore
this fascinating concept, appreciating its multifaceted and
malleable nature. Throughout time, NI has been presented as an
ambiguous but obstinate concept in politics, political discourse,
and theoretical elaboration. NI has constantly resurfaced, and many
designate themselves as its protectors. Its increasing relevance,
pertinence and recurrence make it clear that it can no longer be
ignored in political analysis.
Founded upon more than a century of civil bloodshed, the first
imperial regime of ancient Rome, the Principate of Caesar Augustus,
looked at Rome's distant and glorious past in order to justify and
promote its existence under the disguise of a restoration of the
old Republic. In doing so, it used and revisited the history and
myth of Rome's major success against external enemies: the wars
against Carthage. This book explores the ideological use of
Carthage in the most authoritative of the Augustan literary texts,
the Aeneid of Virgil. It analyses the ideological portrait of
Carthaginians from the middle Republic and the truth-twisting
involved in writing about the Punic Wars under the Principate. It
also investigates the mirroring between Carthage and Rome in a poem
whose primary concern was rather the traumatic memory of Civil War
and the subsequent subversion of Rome's Republican institutions
through the establishment of Augustus' Principate.
This edited collection addresses the dynamics of the post-Communist
transition in Central Eastern Europe. Its contributors present a
detailed analysis of the events unfolding during the last three
decades in the region, focusing in particular on identity-building
processes and reforms in Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia,
Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and
Ukraine. The contributors outline reasons why some of these states
accomplished a decisive break with the Communist past and became
members of European and transatlantic structures, while some opted
for pseudo-transition and fostered hybrid political regimes,
jeopardizing their genuine integration with the West. A group of
states which decided to preserve their Communist legacy is also
explained. The collection describes and scrutinizes the formation
of geopolitical affiliations and the evolution of discourses of
belonging. It also traces the fluctuating dynamics of national
decision-making and institution-building, as many of the
post-Communist states reconsider and re-elaborate their initial
ideas and visions of Europe today. Finally, the collection brings
to light the rapidly changing perceptions of the region by the
major global actors-the European Union, People's Republic of China,
Russian Federation, and others.
Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded
internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. From
the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was
pre-eminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil.
Subsequently, cane sugar industries in the Americas were
transformed by a fusion of new and old forces of production, as the
international sugar economy incorporated production areas in Asia,
the Pacific, and Africa. Sugar's global economic importance and its
intimate relationship with colonialism offer an important context
for probing the nature of colonial societies. This book questions
some major assumptions about the nexus between sugar production and
colonial societies in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, especially
in the second (post-1800) colonial era.
The book addresses the challenges faced by women on the two shores
of the Mediterranean from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary
perspective. While in the European Union's (EU) Mediterranean
countries inequality is mostly linked to the social sphere and, in
particular refers to labour market dynamics, in the Middle East and
Northern Africa (MENA) area, the situation is more complicated as
the social and private spheres are blended and cultural and
religious factors have a great impact on women autonomy and
opportunities beyond the family perimeter. The different challenges
women are facing on the two sides of the Mediterranean have
sometimes originated incomprehension and misperceptions.
Western-supported policies devoted to fill the gap between men and
women in the MENA area have overlooked countries' peculiarities
simply exporting models tailored for EU's member states. The EU's
attempts to strengthen relations with the Mediterranean countries
on a multilevel basis have not rescued women from marginalisation.
Nevertheless, during the 2011 awakening, women played an important
role in activating civil society. They are still considered as a
key part of the fight against terrorism and radicalisation,
although in some countries their condition has worsened after
secular regimes have been downturned. The number of migrant women
has increased and, not differently from men, they are looking for
opportunities and better conditions of life while Western media
tend to present them in a stereotyped way either as traumatized
victim and/or as caring mother. There are other misleading common
places, which need to be better conceptualised and understood, such
as the alleged incompatibility between Islam and women rights.
Unfortunately, women's rights are still under attack even in
European countries where they are considered consolidated. The
chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue
of the Journal of the Balkans and Near Eastern Studies.
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