Unraveling the Semantic Evolution of Core Nodes in a Global Contribution Network

Verbi a supporto nel latino tardo: il caso di facio

Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae ◽

10.1556/068.2019.59.1-4.15 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 59 (1-4) ◽

pp. 145-160

Author(s):

Giovanbattista Galdi

Keyword(s):

Direct Object ◽

Late Period ◽

Present Contribution ◽

Verbal Noun ◽

Verb Constructions ◽

History Of ◽

Semantic Evolution

SummarySupport verb constructions are documented throughout the history of Latin. These syntagms are characterized by the presence of a support verb with a more or less reduced semantic force, and a predicative (abstract or verbal) noun that often constitutes its direct object. The present contribution deals, specifically, with the use of facio as a support verb (as in bellum facere, iter facere, insidias facere etc.), focussing on the post-classical and late period. Two main questions shall be discussed: (a) whether, and if so, how facio becomes more productive in later centuries in both non-Christian and Christian sources; (b) what type of semantic evolution the verb undergoes in later Latin and whether, in this respect, continuity or rupture should be assumed with regard to the earlier period. This last point will enable us to suggest a more convincing explanation of an often-quoted passage of Cicero (Phil. 3. 22), in which the expression contumeliam facere is found.

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Modelling of Semantic Processes and Evolutional Semantic Model

Naukovy Visnyk of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K D Ushynsky Linguistic Sciences ◽

10.24195/2616-5317-2018-27-23 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (27) ◽

pp. 197-210 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anastasia Fedorova

Keyword(s):

Key Words ◽

Dynamic Models ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Semantic Model ◽

Vast Array ◽

Special Procedure ◽

Semantic Models ◽

Semantic Evolution ◽

Semantic Processes ◽

The Way

In Linguistics the terms model and modelling have a vast array of meanings, which depends on the purpose and the object, and the type of the scientific research. The article is dedicated to the investigation of a special procedure of semantic processes modelling, deducing and substantiating the notion “evolutional semantic model”, the content and operational opportunities of which differ drastically from the essence and purpose of the known from the scientific literature phenomenon of the same name. In the proposed research this variety of modelling is oriented towards the description of the dynamics of the legal terms content loading, the estimation of possible vectors of the semantic evolution on the way of its terminalization/determinalization. The evolutional model of semantics has here as its basis the succession of sememes or series of sememes, the order of which is determined with accounting of a number of parameters. The typical schemes of the meaning development, illustrated by the succession of sememes, are considered to be the models of semantic laws (evolutional semantic models = EMS). Their function is the explanation of the mechanism and the order of the stages of the semantic evolution of the system of the words which sprung from one root on the way of its legal specialization, and, therefore, the proposed in the paper experience of semantic laws modelling differs from the expertise of the “catalogue of semantic derivations”, proposed by H. A. Zaliznjak, which doesn’t have as its purpose the explanation of meaning displacements, and from the notion of semantic derivation, models of derivation, dynamic models, worked out by O. V. Paducheva, which also only state such a displacement, without proving its reality. Key words: evolutional semantic model (EMS), modelling, semantic law, sememe, pre(law).

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Premises, Policies and Multilateral Whitewashing of Broad Security Doctrines: A Southeast Asia-Based Critique of “Non-traditional” Security

ERIS – European Review of International Studies ◽

10.3224/eris.v6i1.01 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (1-2019) ◽

pp. 5-26

Author(s):

Delphine Allès

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

Human Security ◽

Armed Forces ◽

Southeast Asian ◽

Political Elites ◽

Multilateral Cooperation ◽

The Core ◽

Political Roles ◽

Policy Transformation ◽

Semantic Evolution

This article highlights the formulation of comprehensive conceptions of security in Indonesia, Malaysia and within the framework of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), well before their academic conceptualisation. These security doctrines have been the basis of the consolidation of state and military apparatuses in the region. They tend to be overlooked by analyses praising the recent conversion of Southeast Asian political elites to the “non-traditional security”? agenda. This latter development is perceived as a source of multilateral cooperation and a substitute for the hardly operationalisable concept of human security. However, in the region, non-traditional security proves to be a semantic evolution rather than a policy transformation. At the core of ASEAN’s security narrative, it has provided a multilateral anointing of “broad” but not deepened conceptions of security, thus legitimising wide-ranging socio-political roles for the armed forces.

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The Contribution of Peripheral Large Scientific Infrastructures to Sustainable Development from a Global and Territorial Perspective: The Case of IFMIF-DONES

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13020454 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 454

Author(s):

Virginia Fernández-Pérez ◽

Antonio Peña-García

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Social Development ◽

Economic Impact ◽

Neutron Source ◽

Major Focus ◽

Fusion Materials ◽

Indirect Impact ◽

Global Contribution

Large scientific infrastructures are a major focus of progress. They have a big impact on the economic and social development of their surroundings. Departing from these well-known facts, it is not trivial to affirm whether the global contribution to Sustainable Development (SD) is higher when they are built in peripheral and not highly developed provinces instead of capitals and rich areas. Besides the economic impact on depressed areas, other SD-related parameters like the attachment of young and skilled people to their homeland, the avoidance of uncontrolled migrations from rural to dense urban zones, the growth of new focuses of knowledge independent from the lines of research established in the universities of the capitals, the indirect impact of auxiliary infrastructures and others must be analyzed. Concerning the next implementation of the “International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility—Demo Oriented Neutron Source” (IFMIF-DONES) project in Granada (Spain), one depressed and tourism-dependent zone, an analysis and comparison with similar infrastructures were done and presented.

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