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A discussion with Edith Moravcsik about singulative markers and individualizers
No full textMartin Haspelmath: Edith, we have a long history of interacting, starting with the first course on universals that I attended at the University of Vienna (back in 1982, as I noted here). So I’m really glad that you took an interest in some of my recent work on singulative marking (Haspelmath & Karjus 2017). Edith Moravcsik: I was reminded of it by the recent LINGTYP discussion about singulatives. I re-read the your 2017 paper on the topic (Haspelmath & Karjus) and also your relevant 2018 blog..
Current Approaches to Syntax: A Comparative Handbook/ András Kertész, Edith Moravcsik, Csilla Rákosi.
No full textIn English.Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Even though the range of phenomena syntactic theories intend to account for is basically the same, the large number of current approaches to syntax shows how differently these phenomena can be interpreted, described, and explained. The goal of the volume is to probe into the question of how exactly these frameworks differ and what if anything they have in common.Descriptions of a sample of current approaches to syntax are presented by their major practitioners (Part I) followed by their metatheoretical underpinnings (Part II). Given that the goal is to facilitate a systematic comparison among the approaches, a checklist of issues was given to the contributors to address. The main headings are Data, Goals, Descriptive Tools, and Criteria for Evaluation. The chapters are structured uniformly allowing an item-by-item survey across the frameworks. The introduction lays out the parameters along which syntactic frameworks must be the same and how they may differ and a final paper draws some conclusions about similarities and differences.The volume is of interest to descriptive linguists, theoreticians of grammar, philosophers of science, and studies of the cognitive science of science.Moravcsik, Edith -- Broccias, Cristiano -- Chaves, Rui P. -- Culicover, Peter W. / Jackendoff, Ray -- Dalrymple, Mary / Findlay, Jamie Y. -- Featherston, Sam -- Hornstein, Norbert -- Jackendoff, Ray / Audring, Jenny -- Laury, Ritva / Ono, Tsuyoshi -- Legendre, Géraldine -- Mackenzie, J. Lachlan -- Müller, Stefan / Machicao y Priemer, Antonio -- Osborne, Timothy -- Steedman, Mark -- Carr, Philip -- Itkonen, Esa -- Kertész, András / Rákosi, Csilla -- Kornmesser, Stephan -- Ludlow, Peter -- Hacken, Pius ten -- Kertész, András / Rákosi, Csilla -- Frontmatter -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- Biographical Sketches -- 1. Introduction / Part I: Approaches to syntax -- 2. Cognitive Grammar / 3. Construction Grammar / 4. Simpler Syntax / 5. Lexical Functional Grammar / 6. The Decathlon Model / 7. The Stupendous Success of the Minimalist Program / 8. The Parallel Architecture / 9. Usage-based Grammar / 10. Optimality-theoretic Syntax / 11. The Functional Discourse Grammar approach to syntax / 12. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar / 13. Dependency Grammar / 14. Combinatory Categorial Grammar / Part II: Metatheoretical foundations -- 15. Syntactic knowledge and intersubjectivity / 16. Hermeneutics and generative linguistics / 17. The uncertainty of syntactic theorizing / 18. The multiparadigmatic structure of science and generative grammar / 19. The philosophy of generative linguistics: best theory criteria / 20. The research programme of Chomskyan linguistics / 21. Conclusions: On the use of the comparison of syntactic theories / Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index1 online resource (616 p.)
[News Clip: Edith Deen]
No full textVideo footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about author, columnist, and lecturer Edith Alderman Deen receiving an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Texas Women's University
Conversations with authors: Edith Pearlman
No full textA 2011 conversation with the author Edith Pearlman about her life and the inspiration for her work
Interview with Major Edith Vowell Part 2
No full textAnna Maria Island author included Major Edith Vowell in his book, Combat Nurses of World War II. Here she tells her story, with adventures in Brisbane, Australia, on ships and a GI troop train. She also lists her postwar nursing postings
Book reviews
No full textMoravcsik E, Bárány A. Book reviews. Acta Linguistica Hungarica. 2014;61(2):225-243
Dangerous Domesticity: Gossip and Gothic Homes in Edith Wharton's Fiction
No full textIn the United States of the late nineteenth century, the home was increasingly discussed in terms of privacy and the domestic was viewed as a protected “feminine sphere.” Focusing on the work of an author almost synonymous with the literary depiction of homes, Edith Wharton, this article questions domestic myths of the US home. As a vehicle for its critique, it relies on a mode of communication that is firmly located in the domestic sphere and yet destabilizes its premises of privacy and sanctity: gossip. By analyzing the depiction of homes and the reliance on “idle talk” as both content and narrative technique in “The Lady's Maid's Bell,” The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and Summer, the article shows how Wharton exposes the feminine sphere as a dangerous place. To this end, she combines elements of Gothic fiction that subvert the domestic ideal with depictions of homes that are porous to gossip, which both uncovers abuses and invites them. Concentrating her attention on female protagonists (rather than enfranchised white men), Wharton paints a drastically different picture of the home and the possibility of shielding the private from economic or public concerns than evoked in contemporary legal and journalistic discourses.https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/editwharrevi.35.1.0022?seq=1Copyright © 2019 by The Pennsylvania State University. This article is used by permission of the Pennsylvania State University Press
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