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Chapter Punktzeit als (Ver-)Störung
(2013)
This collected volume aims to generate a concise theoretical presentation of the "perturbation principle" in the humanities and the natural sciences. Incorporating findings from natural scientific research, the contributors ...
Chapter Where Alice fell into
(2014)
The way in which different languages encode motion has been an important topic of investigation in the last few decades. As more data from typologically different languages has become available, the strict dichotomy between ...
Chapter 12 Icelandic valency classes
(2015)
The present chapter gives an overview of valency classes in Icelandic and the most common, noticeable, or productive alternations found in the language. The over-view is based on my own native-speaker knowledge of the ...
Chapter Person by other means
(2013)
As Anna Siewierska notes (2004: 8) ‘the universality of person as a grammatical category is sometimes called into question.’ And indeed, in some languages, an interesting minority, it is not obvious whether there is a ...
Future Narratives: Theory, Poetics, and Media-Historical Moment
(2013)
This head volume of the ´Narrating Futures` series defines and identifies Future Narratives. It parses their characteristic features and aims at an abstract classification of the whole corpus, irrespective of its concrete ...
Chapter Mapping to prosody
(2015)
This study investigates the prosody of different types of sentence-medial parentheticals in Turkish. The results of a production experiment show that clausal parentheticals exhibit cues similar to intonation phrase-level ...
Chapter When Paul Met Ludwig
(2017)
This paper tries to make plausible the following claims: The paragraphs §608–612 of “On Certainty” do not speak in favour of what Boghossian construes as the Master Argument for Relativism; that “On Certainty” introduces ...
Space in Hellenistic Philosophy: Critical Studies in Ancient Physics
(2014)
The volume discusses the notion of space by focusing on the most representative exponents of the Hellenistic schools and explores the role played by spatial concepts in both coeval and later authors who, without specifically ...
Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion
(2015)
The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has different salience, and is understood differently, from place to place and time ...
Chapter Textgemeinschaften und die Erfindung von Rivalität und Toleranz in der Kaiserzeit (2./3. Jh. n. Chr.)
(2016)
1,700 years ago, the Roman emperors Constantine and Licinius granted religious freedom – even and particularly for Christianity. The religious policy of Constantine is often associated with the modern ideal of tolerance. ...