Abstract One of the great unknowns in language evolution is transition from unstructured sign combination to grammatical structure. This paper investigates central — while hitherto overlooked role functor–argument metaphor. type metaphor pervades modern language, but absent animal communication. It arises semantic clash between default meanings terms. Functor–argument became logically possible ...

The emergence of discursive institutionalism as a fourth institutionalism in political science was predicated on the success ideational scholars enjoyed in arguing that 'ideas matter' (Schmidt 2008). To defend the emphasis on ideas as an explanatory factor in political analysis, the first generations of ideational scholarship took pains to demonstrate and theorize that indeed ideas do matter, a...

Multilingual Natural Language Generation is an interesting and challenging field of Natural Language Processing. Automatic generation of texts in natural language could be viewed as a final part of automated translation process from one language to another. Alternative approach is given the chance with development of modern Natural Language Processing technologies, which concentrate the researc...

The objective of the present study was to investigate the body-cognitive relationship through behavioral and electrophysiological measures in an attempt to uncover the underlying mediating neuronal mechanism for movement-induced cognitive change. To this end we examined the effects of Quadrato Motor Training (QMT), a new whole-body training paradigm on cognitive performance, including creativit...

This paper attempts to point out the shortcomings of mainstream regional integration theory: neorealism and neoliberal institutionalism. The 1999-2001 Mercosur crisis is chosen as a tour de force for regionalist theories. The “redefinition” of South American integration process during the following years shows the necessity to introduce complementary approaches focused on ideational factors –id...

This response addresses the data analysis issues raised by Wierenga and van Bruggen (1998) concerning Massetti (1998). Their analysis suggestions were performed and resulted in no significant differences between the treatment conditions. However, these analyses are misleading because of normality and variance problems present in Massetti’s dataset. Specifically, not controlling for individual p...