This book focuses on conversation analysis in Czech, including the prosody-syntax-interface and online-syntax in real time that deals with turn initiating elements in everyday conversations. By combining a pragmatic formal theory with a formal syntax model, this book serves as a guide to the problems of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of spoken everyday talk and as a handbook on conversational analysis.

This book provides a summary of Radical Minimalism, putting forth a neurocognitively implementable theory of grammar as I-language. Radical Minimalism tries to give a ‘fully explicit’ description of syntactic structures mapped into cognitive frames of thought. It focuses on the division of labor between Narrow Syntax and Meaningful Units of the sentence and also on the role of Mental Lexicon (understood as a selection of Roots and Labels), the Labeling Mechanism, and the participation of t...

The volume is a collection of papers in diverse areas of Slavic linguistics, selected from the 14th annual meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, held at the University of Potsdam on 11–13 September 2019. The volume is dedicated to Peter Kosta, longtime chair of Slavic linguistics at the Department of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Potsdam, in recognition of his enormous contributions to the field.Contents: Publications of Peter Kosta – V...

Reviews the development of novel feed sources as feed for poultry, focussing on the use of essential oils, macroalgae, microalgae and corn fermented proteinAddresses the recent advances in understanding the role of individual nutrients and additives in poultry nutritionConsiders the range of methods and techniques implementable to maintain the safety of poultry feed and prevent mycotoxin contamination

Was wäre Griechenland ohne die Ägäis? Das Herz des Mittelmeers versorgt nicht nur die zahllosen Insel der Kykladen, Sporaden oder der Dodekanes mit Leben und Leidenschaft, sondern weit darüber hinaus das Festland und von dort aus weiter nach Europa. Hier, wo das Licht der Sonne die Farbe Blau in ihrer ganzen Herrlichkeit entfaltet, haben wir ein spannendes Panoptikum der Literatur geformt: Kurzgeschichten, Essays, Romanauszüge, Reiseberichte, Lyrik und schmackhafte Kochrezepte. Hier wartet...

Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children’s agency and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a genre allows for children’s spectacular dreams and hopeful realities. Friendship, family, identity, loyalty, belongingness, citizenry, and emotionality are central concepts explored in chapters that are anchored by hum...

The book offers a comprehensive overview of current research in Slavic linguistics from a theoretical and experimental perspective and from a variety of languages. The selected papers from the 11th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 11) that took place at the University of Potsdam in 2015, illustrate the advancement of Slavic linguistic studies and their outreach for the development of general linguistics. The guest paper by Noam Chomsky at the beginning of...

All the Rage introduces Jelinek’s work and its critical relevance for understanding contemporary western society while gaining insight into the vibrancy of her aesthetics. Jelinek’s experimental reconceptualization of theater and literature and her critical interventions into public discourses that support, promote and endure social injustices are central to this volume. Themes of right-wing populism and neoliberalism, war, gender inequalities, racism, migration, the politics of memory, an...

Scientific insight is obtained through the processes of description, explanation, and prediction. Yet grammatical theory has seen a major divide regarding not only the methods of data eliciting and the kinds of data evaluated, but also with respect to the interpretation of these data, including the very notions of explanation and prediction themselves.The editors of the volume organized a conference bringing together adherents of two major strands of grammatical theory illustrating...

Migrations focuses on the impact of migrations on English language, literature and language acquisition. Contributions to the volume bring together diverse methods and historical periods, spanning fields such as literature and cultural studies, film and theatre, general linguistics, sociolinguistics, and English language history. Migrations comprises stimulating essays on language contact, ELF, lexicology, mono-, bi-, multilingualism, exile literature, multicultural ident...