‘Core’ and ‘Periphery’ in Historical Perspective

1992 ◽  
Vol 19 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 317-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Binding Theory ◽  
The Core ◽  
Theoretical Status ◽  
Government And Binding Theory

Summary This article traces the changing fortunes of Chomsky’s concepts of ‘core’ and ‘periphery’, from the beginnings of Government and Binding Theory in the late 1970s to the incipient minimalism of the early 1990s. Ten different characterizations of core and periphery are found in Chomsky’s work of the period, which alternatively questions the need for the distinction and promotes it to central theoretical status. Core and periphery are found to pertain to several different conceptual and phenomenological levels: universality, systematicity, typology, and historicity. Furthermore, they covertly recapitulate some of the oldest dichotomies of linguistic thought: nature/convention, analogy/anomaly, synchronic/diachronic, and marked/unmarked. The conclusions reached support recent changes in the theory which greatly reduce the prominence of the core/periphery distinction.

A Semi-Formalization of the Dynamic Capability View

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Wilden ◽  
Timothy M. Devinney ◽  
Nidthida Lin
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Dynamic Capability ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Structured Model ◽  
The Core ◽  
Theoretical Status ◽  
Core Components ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Core Construct

Some management scholars doubt the value of the dynamic capability view when compared to existing theories. The concern expressed is often related to unclear definitions of the core construct and the relationship among the components that make up that construct. The end result is potentially confused and conflicting interpretations of empirical findings and non-commensurate measurement. One solution is to formalize core components of the theory at hand. The purpose of this paper is not to discuss or argue for (or against) the theoretical status of the dynamic capability view, but to provide a simple, yet insightful, structured model of its core components. Specifically, this paper takes as its basis the perspective of dynamic capabilities as comprising the sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring processes that are deployed to create a resource base aimed at satisfying evolving market demand; it presents a simple but formal way of characterizing its components.

The History and Afterlife of Soviet Demography: The Socialist Roots of Post-Soviet Neoliberalism

Slavic Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (01) ◽  
pp. 149-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inna Leykin
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Individual Behavior ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Soviet Science ◽  
Population Problem ◽  
The Core ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Population Policies ◽  
Demographic Behavior ◽  
Political Project

The discourse on the demographic crisis in contemporary Russia resonates with a neoliberal political project that attempts to govern populations through the market logic of optimization, responsibilization, and efficacy. Yet, as this article argues, the basic categories of the discourse, although evocative of a new neoliberal rationality, were in fact born of epistemological changes that took place in the Soviet science of population in the last decades of the USSR. Specifically, the analytical shift from Marxist-Leninist demography, which stressed a strong economic determinism, to the concept of demographic behavior, which became central to the discipline's analytical toolkit in the late Soviet period, produced political ideas in which individual behavior became both the core of the population problem and its solution. The article follows these institutional and conceptual transformations and shows how knowledge produced by Soviet demographers in that period continues to provide the foundation for neoliberal state efforts to solve the population problem. When seen from a historical perspective, the neoliberal character of the new population policies loses its apparent ideological and political coherence.

scholarly journals 2 Planning, knowledge and technocracy in historical perspective

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Michael Hebbert
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
The Core ◽  
Modern Project ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter examines the planning histories associated with writings on technocracies. It highlights some of the core distinctions that exist between different schools of thought over the form, character, and roles of technical knowledge in the planning of cities and reflects on the extent to which we are now living in an era within which ‘new’ technocracies can be said to exist and what these might consist of. To make sense of the new technocracy, the chapter thus offers an understanding of the old. It puts the present critique of expert knowledge into historical perspective, looking back to the interplay of planning and technocracy in the century of two world wars, the New Deal, the Welfare State, and the Modern Project. It traces the roots of the technocratic critique to planning up to the mid-1980s.

scholarly journals Wh-P and the Intervention Effect of negation

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-36
Author(s):  
Aiqing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Head Position ◽  
Focus Position ◽  
Binding Theory ◽  
Late Archaic ◽  
Intervention Effect ◽  
Functional Projection ◽  
Inverted Order ◽  
Government And Binding Theory ◽  
Archaic Chinese ◽  
The Government

Following the Government and Binding theory mainly developed by Chomsky (1981, 1982, 1986), I explore wh-P and the Intervention Effect of negation in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC). I propose that the inverted order of wh-P in LAC is generated via PP inversion followed by the separate preposing of wh and P. The wh-complement raises to [Spec, PP] and further moves to the specifier position of a functional projection. If the wh-PP is base-generated preverbally, the preposition moves to the head position of the functional projection directly; if the wh-PP is base-generated postverbally, the preposition must first incorporate to a V0 and then move to the head position of the functional projection through excorporation. In terms of the Intervention Effect, wh-arguments and adverbials that usually move to the Low focus position below negation are subject to a blocking effect caused by negation, so these wh-phrases have to land in the High focus position above negation which is expected to accommodate ‘high’ adverbials exclusively. I argue that the Intervention Effect in LAC is a consequence of Q-binding as feature movement of [wh], interacting with fronting into the hierarchy of clause-internal positions driven by [Focus] feature.

scholarly journals Ontological Knowledge-base for English Syntactic Grammar using Government and Binding Theory

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (16) ◽  
pp. 43-39
Author(s):  
Manpreet SinghSehgal ◽  
Twinkle Sehgal ◽  
Manjeet Singh
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Binding Theory ◽  
Government And Binding Theory

scholarly journals Music for the Pria Dewasa: Changes and Continuities in Class and Pop Music Genres

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Baulch
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Political History ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
New Order ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Core

This paper presents Rolling Stone Indonesia1 (RSI) and places it in an historical context to tease out some changes and continuities in Indonesian middle-class politics since the beginning of the New Order. Some political scientists have claimed that class interests were at the core of the transition from Guided Democracy to the New Order, and popular music scholars generally assert that class underlies pop genre distinctions. But few have paid attention to how class and genre were written into Indonesian pop in the New Order period; Indonesian pop has a fascinating political history that has so far been overlooked. Placing RSI in historical perspective can reveal much about the print medias classing of pop under New Order era political constraints, and about the ways these modes of classing may or may not have endured in the post-authoritarian, globalised and liberalised media environment

scholarly journals The Silenced and Unsought Beneficiary: Investigating Epistemic Injustice in the Fiduciary

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Helen Mussell
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
Original Formulation ◽  
Legal Concept ◽  
The Core ◽  
Familial Context ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

This article uses philosopher Miranda Fricker’s work on epistemic injustice to shed light on the legal concept of the fiduciary, alongside demonstrating the wider contribution Fricker’s work can make to business ethics. Fiduciary, from the Latin fīdūcia, meaning “trust,” plays a fundamental role in all financial and business organisations: it acts as a moral safeguard of the relationship between trustee and beneficiary. The article focuses on the ethics of the fiduciary, but from a unique historical perspective, referring back to the original formulation of the fiduciary within a familial context to investigate presuppositions regarding agential capabilities, whilst also paying attention to the power mechanism embedded in the trustee–beneficiary relationship. Using Fricker’s theory of pre-emptive testimonial injustice, the analysis elucidates the impact of cumulative beneficiary silencing in contemporary contexts, and the article uncovers ethical issues of an epistemological kind at the core of the fiduciary—of epistemic injustice.

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