This volume of essays explores the significance of water and the current ecological crisis and examines this from both scientific and theological insights. It also examines the relevance of key biblic
This timely book examines ethical issues from the beginning of life, right through to the end of life. It deals with matters surrounding conception, family planning, IVF, abortion through to palliativ
This systematic introduction to the concept of point of view in language explores the ways in which point of view intersects with and is shaped by ideology. It specifically focuses on the way in which
This systematic introduction to the concept of point of view in language explores the ways in which point of view intersects with and is shaped by ideology. It specifically focuses on the way in which
In this highly readable and thought-provoking book, Delia Chiaro explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive linguistics. Using examples from personally reco
This book develops a theory of the morpheme in the framework of Distributed Morphology. Particular emphasis is devoted to the way in which functional morphemes receive their phonological form post-syn
Linguists contribute to the ongoing debate about complex syntax by taking into account recent developments in linguistic theory on universal grammar, especially an approach from below that refers to b
Gupton presents students, academics, and researchers with his research into a quantitative and qualitatively based clausal word order for the Iberian Penninsula language of Galician, drawing from his
Oltra-Massuet develops a cross-linguistic analysis of morphologically complex adjectives, which is based on the study of -ble, one of the most productive affixes. The study is cross-linguistic in two
Grammatical structures connect systems of thought and articulation, the conditions of which hardly seem to fit each other. Repairs are productive mechanisms that solve translation problems between mod
Based on the Workshop on Prosody and Meaning in Barcelona on September 17-18, 2009, this volume brings together researchers working on issues of the prosodic encoding and expression of sentence-level
This volume collects papers that discuss theoretical or empirical problems from a multidimensional view of syntax and morphology, presupposing frameworks such as LFG, HPSG, the Parallel Architecture,
This is the first half of a collection of papers presented at a 2007 workshop at Stuttgart University. The second book deals with the syntax of nominalizations. Rathert (linguistics, Wuppertal Univers
The papers in this volume began at a workshop on "Nominalizations across Languages" held at Stuttgart University in 2007. Alexiadou (theoretical and English linguistics, Stuttgart University) and Rath
Phase Theory is the latest model of modern syntactic theorizing in the generative tradition, the larger research enterprise known as the ‘Minimalist Program.’ This volume collects current research of
The majority of the key research of recent years on agreement restrictions in grammar is scattered in journals, conference proceedings, working papers and dissertation chapters. This text assembles in
Hinterwimmer presents a revised version of the Ph.D. thesis he completed at the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin. Based almost exclusively on analysis of English and German data, the text deals with the
Phononics: Interface Transmission Tutorial Book Series provides an investigation of modern systems that includes a discrete matrix description. Classical continuous systems relying on the use of diffe
An Introduction to Green Nanotechnology, Volume 28, provides students, scientists and chemical engineers with an overview of several types of nanostructures, discusses the synthesis and characterizati
Charge and Energy Storage in Electrical Double Layers presents the basic scientific concepts and implementation of procedures devised to obtain capacitive energy from changes in the potential of elect
Theory of Electrophoresis and Diffusiophoresis of Highly Charged Colloidal Particles discusses the electrophoretic and diffusiophoretic motions of various colloidal entities, such as rigid particles,
