Current theorizing about the human language faculty, particularly about recursion, is dominated by the biolinguistics perspective. This perspective has been part of the generative enterprise since its inception and can be summarized as follows: The core of language is individual-psychological and may ultimately be explained in terms of human biology. A classical formulation of this program was ...

A common view of the history of morphological research within the tradition of Generative Grammar, and one that the present author has himself retailed on various occasions, goes as follows. As successors to the American Structuralists, early generative grammarians (especially Noam Chomsky, a student of Zellig Harris) inherited the structuralist theory of the morpheme as a basic component of li...

This volume consists of a collection of solicited articles, presented as a tribute to G6sta Bruce, one of the leading researchers in the field of prosody. The papers are for the most part review articles (as perhaps befits a volume of this kind), and the volume thus serves an important function in prosody research in giving a broad snapshot of the field as it stands at the dawn of the new mille...

regarded as one of the most important concepts in structuralism, the theory of binary opposition has long been used as a yardstick against which structuralists measure their researches in the wide realms of linguistics, narratives, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, and psychology. employing binary opposition in structural anthropology, lévi-strauss aimed to discover human’s cognitive ...

The in-depth description of game playing experience needs a suitable terminology which, in turn, shall reflect appropriate concepts. The introduced story space concept is compliant with a variety of recent research endeavors and allows for a lucid representation of phenomena which are crucial to the understanding of ways in which stories may be perceived when playing a digital game. The particu...

The paper outlines and compares two models of how globalization is likely to affect the risk of civil war – a liberal model and structuralist model. Overall, we find considerably more support for the liberal model than for the structuralist, anti-globalist model. Trade does appear to have a capacity for increasing internal peace – not directly, but via trade’s beneficial effects on growth and i...

SHIRLEY A. ROE, Matter, life, and generation. Eighteenth-century embryology and the HallerWolffdebate, Cambridge University Press, 1981, pp. x, 214, illus., £16.00. Professor Roe has set herself modest aims, but she fulfils them with convincing scholarship and clarity of exposition. Recognizing, as Jacques Roger showed in his magisterial Les sciences de la vie dans la pense'e franCaise du XVIIi...

The main idea of contrastive analysis, as propounded by Robert Lado in his book Linguistics Across Cultures (1957), was that it is possible to identify the areas of difficulty a particular foreign language will present for native speakers of another language by systematically comparing the two languages and cultures. Where the two languages and cultures are similar, learning difficulties will n...