L’ouvrage de 295 p., bibliographie et index compris, est un volume d’hommages en l’honneur d’Helen Cooper dont la carriere se partagea entre les universites d’Oxford Cambridge, au Magdalene College (dont elle Professeur emerite) ou occupa chaire litterature medievale Renaissance anglaise. qui lui dedie traduit l’interet d’H. Cooper pour romance, genre auquel consacra nombreuses etudes, notammen...

O presente trabalho propõe apresentar brevemente algumas considerações do teórico da literatura Boris Eikhenbaum (1886-1959) a respeito romance Anna Kariênina, de Lev Tolstói (1828-1910). A partir leitura dos comentários feitos pelo crítico em seu livro nos anos setenta sobre o romance, pretendemos percurso análise proposto teórico, já que se trata, até momento, um texto indisponível para públi...

Note here that this subtrigging strategy does not work for all types of FCIs. Chierchia (2005) points out that, in Italian, subtrigging rescues the universal type of FCI qualsiasi, but not the existential counterpart uno qualsiasi. The same contrast holds for other Romance languages like Spanish: adding a relative clause improves the universal FCI cualquier in (4), but not the existential FCI u...

This paper compares two reduction principles in child language, Tense/Agreement Omission (Schütze 1997, Wexler 1998) and Root Peripheral Truncation (Rizzi 1994, 2001). The paper argues that the empirical content of these proposals as well as their partial overlap follows from an inherent hierarchy of acquisition steps of the kind predicted in Jakobson (1942). The empirical support for this rein...

From its Gate of the Sun to its Gate of the Moon, temples and palaces lined its spacious streets. Marbled columns and glittering statues dazzled visitors. Alexandria witnessed not only the romance of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra but also the genius of the greatest mathematicians and boasted the world‟s first and greatest public library, a library whose aim was to contain a copy of every book eve...

We perform a content analysis of twenty marriage and family textbooks published between 1950 and 2000 to study how the voluntarily childless are presented in undergraduate courses. Throughout the time period studied, independence, pursuit of a career, and romance were prominent themes in the representation of voluntary childlessness. Other themes emerged specific to each decade - the 1950s port...