Motion, Direction and Location in Languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier

Erin Shay, Uwe Seibert, “Motion, Direction and Location in Languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier”
English | 2003 | ISBN: 9027229643 | PDF | pages: 320 | 25,6 mb

This book contributes to an area of study that is of interest to linguists of all backgrounds. Typological in nature this volume presents data analysis from the major language families of Africa as well as Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Japanese, Indo-European, Siouan and Penutian. The 16 contributors to the volume share a commitment to examining the language phenomena pertaining to the volume’s theme with a fresh eye. While most of the papers make reference to existing theoretical frameworks, each also makes a novel and sometimes surprising contribution to the body of knowledge and theory concerning motional, directional and locational predicates, complements, morphology, adpositions and other phenomena. This collection of articles suitably complements courses on comparative and diachronic linguistics, semantics, syntax, typology, or field methods.

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In Search of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin

In Search of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin by Andrea Radasanu and Ryan Balot
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0739184164 | 562 pages | PDF | 3 MB

This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more prominent other-regarding virtues like justice and generosity, humanity and later compassion become the true north of the modern moral compass. Contributors to this volume consider various aspects of this virtue, by comparison with what came before and with attention to its development from early to late modernity, and up to the present.