scholarly journals The syntax, semantics and pragmatics of ‘optional’ wh-in situ in Greek

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-131
Author(s):  
Christos Vlachos ◽  
Michalis Chiou
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
The Way

Abstract Building on the relevant literature, this paper provides an up-to-now missing overarching approach to ‘optional’ wh-in situ questions in Greek, by arguing that some properties of wh-in situ are computed at the interface between syntax and semantics, other properties relate to the syntax-pragmatics interface, and yet others are derived at the interface between PF and pragmatics. Wh-in situ is not semantically (hence, syntactically) equivalent to wh-fronting, with the latter being the default strategy of Greek on empirical grounds. Wh-in situ assumes distinct syntax and semantics, while its pragmatics is computed partly by the way it is associated to the discourse, and partly by intonation.

scholarly journals Religion in the Yugoslav conflicts: post-war perspectives

2006 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 256-275
Author(s):  
Christian Moe
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Holy War ◽  
Religious Wars ◽  
Yugoslav Wars ◽  
Post War ◽  
Critical Notes ◽  
The Way

The wars that dissolved Yugoslavia – were they religious wars? Why are conflicts increasingly coded as religious, rather than as, for example, social or ethnic? What constitutes a ‘religious’ or ‘holy’ war. This article attempts an inventory of important cat­egories and hypotheses generated in the relevant literature so far, with a few critical notes along the way. The author considers the role assigned to religion in structural, cultural, and actor-oriented explanations of the Yugoslav wars. Structural and cultural explanations downplay the role of human agency and, hence, of moral responsibility; actor-oriented approaches focus on it.

Operation Hiram Revisited: A Correction

1999 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-76
Author(s):  
Benny Morris
Keyword(s):  
Archival Material ◽  
The Way

The author revisits the Israeli Defense Forces' October 1948 Galilee operation in the light of newly available archival material and finds that, contrary to earlier findings, orders were in fact issued to clear the Galilee of Arabs. The reasons that most of the population remained in situ are examined, and the pattern of massacres in the region is discussed. The article concludes by emphasizing the cumulative nature of historiography and the way the picture changes in accordance with the available data.

The Election Campaign as a Liminal Stage — Negotiations over Meanings

1987 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Herzog
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Conceptual Frame ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Symbolic World ◽  
The Way

The paper deals with the role and significance of election campaigns through a consideration of the relevant literature in political science, communication and anthropology. The current interpretation of elections as ritual and drama is altered by focusing on V. Turner's concept of liminality. As liminal periods, it is claimed, election campaigns are an active arena for social construction of political worlds. They take an active part in moulding political cognition and thus produce long-term effects. Perceiving elections in this conceptual frame focuses the empirical concern on the different actors participating in moulding old or new social meanings, the way challenging alternatives are presented, negotiated, included or excluded, the way events as well as symbols become meaningful. It reveals the contested as well as the taken-for-granted, unquestioned and thus reinforced political symbolic world.

scholarly journals Paving the Way towards an Armenian Data Cube

Data ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shushanik Asmaryan ◽  
Vahagn Muradyan ◽  
Garegin Tepanosyan ◽  
Azatuhi Hovsepyan ◽  
Armen Saghatelyan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Data Cube ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Band Ratio ◽  
Earth Observations ◽  
In Situ Data ◽  
Global Concern ◽  
Sentinel 2 ◽  
The Way

Environmental issues become an increasing global concern because of the continuous pressure on natural resources. Earth observations (EO), which include both satellite/UAV and in-situ data, can provide robust monitoring for various environmental concerns. The realization of the full information potential of EO data requires innovative tools to minimize the time and scientific knowledge needed to access, prepare and analyze a large volume of data. EO Data Cube (DC) is a new paradigm aiming to realize it. The article presents the Swiss-Armenian joint initiative on the deployment of an Armenian DC, which is anchored on the best practices of the Swiss model. The Armenian DC is a complete and up-to-date archive of EO data (e.g., Landsat 5, 7, 8, Sentinel-2) by benefiting from Switzerland’s expertise in implementing the Swiss DC. The use-case of confirm delineation of Lake Sevan using McFeeters band ratio algorithm is discussed. The validation shows that the results are sufficiently reliable. The transfer of the necessary knowledge from Switzerland to Armenia for developing and implementing the first version of an Armenian DC should be considered as a first step of a permanent collaboration for paving the way towards continuous remote environmental monitoring in Armenia.

scholarly journals Investigating the Dark Side of Stories of “Good” Leadership: A Discursive Approach to Leadership Gurus’ Storytelling

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Clifton
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Ontological Shift ◽  
Empty Signifier ◽  
Discursive Approach ◽  
The Way

Since the quest for locating an agreed upon prediscursive phenomenon behind the word “leadership” has proved fruitless, some researchers have suggested that leadership is an empty signifier to which many meanings can be attached. Taking this ontological shift seriously, rather than trying to locate leadership as a “thing” that is out there somewhere, it is perhaps better to investigate how meanings of leadership are constructed as in situ social practice. Adopting a discursive approach to leadership and using transcripts of a celebrity interview with management gurus Jack and Suzy Welch, this article analyses the stories they tell in which they provide normative accounts of what good leadership should be. Rather than taking these stories at face value, this article investigates both the way in which these stories are told as in situ social practice and the Discourses of leadership that are used as resources for storytelling and which are (re)produced in the storytelling. Findings indicate that while Jack and Suzy Welch do morally accountable identity work that presents leadership as heroic and positive, these stories also hide a darker side of leadership that is revealed in the analyses of wider societal Discourses that are invoked. The article closes with a call for a more critical approach to stories of leadership.

Mykotisches Aneurysma der infrarenalen Aorta

VASA ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 218-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Papadimitriou ◽  
Tachtsi ◽  
Koutsias ◽  
Pitoulias ◽  
Mpompoti
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Aortic Aneurysms ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Infrarenal Aorta ◽  
Autologous Vein ◽  
Abdominal Aortic ◽  
Mycotic Aneurysms ◽  
Post Traumatic

The mycotic aneurysms of the infrarenal aorta (MAIA) are extremely rare and the associated morbidity and mortality is very high. The classification of infected aneurysms considers four types: a) true mycotic aneurysms, b) secondary mycotic aneurysms due to bacterial arteritis, c) infected preexisting abdominal aortic aneurysms and d) post-traumatic infected false aneurysms. The prognosis of true MAIA’s is better than the other forms of infected aneurysms. The standard treatment includes the resection of the aneurysm and infectious surrounding tissues and the restoration of the flow using ex situ (axillobifemoral) bypass or in situ replacement with autologous vein or a rifampicine-bonded graft. We present a case of mycotic aneurysm of the infrarenal aorta and a brief discussion of the alternative treatments from the relevant literature.

scholarly journals New cave-dwelling amphipods (Lysianassidae, Hadziidae) from the Dominican Republic (Hispaniola)

1998 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damià Jaume ◽  
H.P. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Swimming Behaviour ◽  
Marine Origin ◽  
Fresh Waters ◽  
Anchialine Caves ◽  
The Way

Two new stygobiont amphipods are described from anchialine caves located in the Jaragua region (Pedernales Prov., Dominican Republic, Hispaniola). Ottenwalderia kymbalion gen. et sp. nov. is the first lysianassoid known to have penetrated into completely fresh waters, and the fourth colonizing hypogean habitats. Bahadzia jaraguensis sp. nov. is the second representative of this West Indian thalasso-stygobiont genus to be reported from fresh waters; it exhibits the most troglomorphic aspect (i.e. elongation of first antennae and sixth pereiopods) recorded for the genus. Its diagnosis is complemented with a key to the species of the genus Bahadzia. The in situ swimming behaviour of both taxa is briefly described. It is postulated that both amphipods share a rather recent, Plio-Pleistocene marine origin, having invaded passively the continental waters in the way described by the so-called Regression model.

Acting for a Change: Using Psychodrama to Enhance Spontaneity, Connection, and Change in the Development of a Senior Improvisational Theater Group

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Linda L. Richmond ◽  
Ron Wiener
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Improvisational Theater ◽  
The Way

This article describes the development of a senior improvisational theater group designed to draw on concepts and methods from psychodrama to maximize members' spontaneity and connection and provide opportunities for positive staged sociopsychodramatic interactions in the community. It describes changes that took place at various social and psychological levels because of participation in the group and presents some of the director's inspirations and insights about theater, psychology, and community outreach that emerged along the way. The group, composed of about 15 seniors, aged 60 to 90 years, met in 30 weekly, 2-hr sessions and gave several performances over a 1-year period. A preliminary conceptual model of process and change, based on a qualitative analysis of observations, self-report, and relevant literature, is presented.

scholarly journals On the Phonetics and Phonology of Focus marking in Boro

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shakuntala Mahanta ◽  
Kalyan Das ◽  
Amalesh Gope
Keyword(s):  
Target Word ◽  
High Tone ◽  
Tone Languages ◽  
Focus Marking ◽  
The Way

It is discussed widely in the literature on tone and intonation that both these phenomenon make use of changes in the f0. It is often assumed that intonation in tone languages is only slightly more limited than it is in non-tonal ones (Yip 2002). This paper addresses the question of tone assignment in Boro and investigates how it operates as a function of focus. This paper studies both the phonetics and phonology of intonation in Boro and delineates the way in-situ and morphological focus markers influence sentence prosody. The results show that in-situ focus does not result in any change of the f0 value of the target word. The only consistent acoustic correlate for focus marking is found to be post focus compression. The morphological focus marker leads to discrete downstepping of the following High tone and also emerges with an H* by deleting the neighboring H tones. One of the significant results of this experiment is that while H tones were realized at a higher f0 while co-occurring with the H* of the MF marker, L tones did not lead to any changes unless the stem were disyllabic, showing that there are phonological factors constraining sentential prosody.

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