Abstract It is not the main intention of this paper to prove that people are unfaithful, neither does it present scale phenomenon, as hard, for objective reasons, obtain reliable data on subject. The text analyses motives for, and consequences infidelity from two different perspectives: sociobiology sociology emotions, while gender constitutes axis analysis. Regardless whether we will explain m...

The main goal of this article is to outline a new approach to syncretism in optimality theory, one that does not rely on tools like underspecification or rules of referral that are taken over from grammatical theories which do not recognize constraint ranking and constraint violability. The analysis is based on a concept of morphological exponents as leading forms. Instances of syncretism can b...

The main goal of this article is to outline a new approach to syncretism in optimality theory, one that does not rely on the concept of underspecification taken over from grammatical theories which do not recognize constraint ranking and constraint violability. The analysis is based on a concept of morphological exponents as LEADING FORMS. Instances of syncretism can be traced back to the selec...

The present paper describes some orientalist stereotypes concerning women and manifesting themselves in Le Harem entr’ouvert (1919), a short story collection by Aline Réveillaud de Lens (1881–1925), French painter writer, whose works are devoted mainly to North Africa. focuses on three, most common, stereotypical representations of the Oriental woman according which she is, firstly, beautiful o...