Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs
Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs

Author: Artemis Alexiadou

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2014-02-19

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9027270694

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This book is a research monograph that investigates the crosslinguistic distribution of multiple determiners. In some languages, noun phrases permit or even seem to require a double or multiple realization of definite/indefinite markers in certain modification environments. The book develops tools that can be used to keep the different instantiations of the phenomenon apart and argues that a uniform account thereof is not desirable. On the basis of these tools, it advances the proposal that there are different types of multiple occurrences of determiners (and sub-types thereof), some are syntactic, while others are purely morphological. It then puts forth a theoretical proposal that regulates the presence of the different types of multiple determiners across languages. The book will be of interst to researchers and students working on the structure of DP, the syntax of modification and the typology of noun phrases. Languages discussed include Greek, Romanian, Scandinavian, English, dialects of German, Hebrew, Albanian, Chinese, French, and Slovenian.

Cross-linguistic Variation in Sentence Processing
Cross-linguistic Variation in Sentence Processing

Author: Despoina Papadopoulou

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-08-27

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1402046901

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This book argues in favour of cross-linguistic variation in sentence processing by providing empirical data from ambiguity resolution in Greek as L1 and L2. It is maintained that in highly inflected languages, like Greek, initial parsing decisions are determined by the interaction of morphological and lexical cues rather than by universal parsing principles.

Diplomacy in the Early Islamic World
Diplomacy in the Early Islamic World

Author: Maria Vaiou

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-02-13

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1786734451

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Arab messengers played a vital role in the medieval Islamic world and its diplomatic relations with foreign powers. An innovative treatise from the 10th Century ("Rusul al-Muluk", "Messengers of Kings") is perhaps the most important account of the diplomacy of the period, and it is here translated into English for the first time. "Rusul al-Muluk" draws on examples from the Qur'an and other sources which extend from the period of al-jahiliyya to the time of the 'Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim (218-227/833-842). In the only medieval Arabic work which exists on the conduct of messengers and their qualifications, the author Ibn al-Farr rejects jihadist policies in favor of quiet diplomacy and a pragmatic outlook of constructive realpolitik. "Rusul al-Muluk" is an extraordinarily important and original contribution to our understanding of the early Islamic world and the field of International Relations and Diplomatic History.

Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions
Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions

Author: Jacques Waardenburg

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1999-08-19

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0195104722

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Since its inception, Islam and its civilization have been in continuous relationships with other religions, cultures, and civilizations, including not only different forms of Christianity and Judaism inside and outside the Middle East, Zoroastrianism and Manicheism, Hinduism and even Buddhism, but also tribal religions in West and East Africa, in South Russia and in Central Asia, including Tibet. The essays collected here examine the many texts that have come down to us about these cultures and their religions, from Muslim theologians and jurists, travelers and historians, and men of letters and of culture.

Mount Athos
Mount Athos

Author: Graham Speake

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0300093535

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Mount Athos, a spectacularly beautiful rocky peninsula on the coast of Greece has been a monastic preserve since the ninth century. This richly illustrated book tells the entire story of Athos, the Holy Mountain, from the first anchorite monks who lived in caves and huts through centuries of political and religious controversy to the thriving monastic communities of today.

Gospel
Gospel

Author: Wilton Barnhardt

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1995-02-15

Total Pages: 817

ISBN-13: 0312119240

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The search is on for a lost first-century gospel of the Bible, a document that could shake the foundations of Christianity. The narrative races through dozens of locales as a theologian and an ex-priest pursue rumors and clues about the gospel. In the end, what they discover will challenge and forever change the nature of faith.

Cutting-edge Technologies in Ancient Greece
Cutting-edge Technologies in Ancient Greece

Author: Marina Panagiotaki

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2020-04-30

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 1789252997

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This volume examines materials produced with the use of fire and mostly by use of the kiln (metals, plasters, glass and glaze, aromatics). The technologies based on fire have been considered high-tech technologies and they have contributed to the evolution of man throughout history. Papers highlight technical innovations of the technician/artist/pyrotechnologist that lived in the Aegean (mainland Greece and the islands) during the Bronze Age, the Classical and the Byzantine periods.

Crusades
Crusades

Author: Benjamin Z. Kedar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-08-12

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 1351985388

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Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions.