A Hebrew Political Romance

Superconsumer, a postmodern romance

“Postmodernism” is a key word today, wielded by philosophers, cultural theorists, artists, people in the media, and intellectuals in general. When most people talk about postmodernism, they envisage the revolutionary imagery of our life and times— information revolution, hyperglobalisation, and consumerist culture—and they herewith feel the risks, anxieties, and ills associated with life in the...

The Hebrew Republic : Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought

This book by Eric Nelson, Professor of Government at Harvard University, is a significant contribution to the current debate on the use of Jewish sources in early modern political thought, particularly in the republican currents of the 17th century. According to Nelson, while Renaissance humanists concentrated on the pagan inheritance of Greek and Roman antiquity, “in the seventeenth century, i...

Romance is so complex

In this paper I want to look at what the evidence from Complex Predicates can tell us about the design parameters of an empirically adequate theory of Universal Grammar (UG). This is a fertile field for investigation because, according to the standard assumptions of the field, complex predicates are monoclausal with respect to some properties and multiclausal with respect to others and this ten...

A Hebrew verb-complement dictionary

We present a verb-complement dictionary of Modern Hebrew, automatically extracted from text corpora. Carefully examining a large set of examples, we defined ten types of verb complements that cover the vast majority of the occurrences of verb complements in the corpora. We explored several collocation measures as indicators of the strength of the association between the verb and its complement....

“Three Kingdoms” to Romance