This article, for the first time in domestic and foreign historiography, examines coverage by press of visits Bulgarian prince Ferdinand Coburg to Russia at end 19th century. After death Alexander III, Bulgaria began take steps order restore relations with Russia. Personal diplomacy was great importance such situations. baptism Prince Boris into Orthodox faith, visit St. Petersburg I took place...

Non-structure preserving phonological processes are defined by the emergence of a segment which is assumed to be absent from the lexical inventory of the language in question and, hence not contrastive. A central tenet of Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004, McCarthy & Prince 1993, 1995, 1999), the Richness of the Base Hypothesis (RotB; Prince & Smolensky 1993) states that lingu...

This article reports on a series of 5 analyses of spontaneous production of verbal inflection (tense and person-number agreement) by 2-year-olds acquiring French as a native language. A formal analysis of the qualitative and quantitative results is developed using the unique resources of Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky, 2004). It is argued that acquisition of morphosyntax proceeds via...

In this paper, I will give a detailed account of vowel harmony, disharmony, dissimilation, and elision in Yucatec Maya. These phenomena provide insights for the treatment of assimilation in Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993). The theoretical topics to be dealt with are (i) an adequate formalisation of phonological feature assimilation within Correspondence Theory (McCarthy & Prince 199...

Levin and Prince (1982) note that gapped sentences do not give rise to causal implicatures often associated with their nongapped counterparts. For instance, while (a) can have both a symmetric and asymmetric (causal) reading, the gapped version in (b) can only have the symmetric reading. (a) Sue became upset and Nan became downright angry. (b) Sue became upset and Nan ; downright angry. We show...

This paper investigates the prominence patterns of nominal triconstituent compounds in English. The standard assumption for such NNN compounds is that the branching-direction is responsible for stress assignment. In left-branching compounds, i.e. those of the structure [[NN] N], the leftmost noun is assigned highest prominence whereas in right-branching compounds, i.e. [N [NN]], the second noun...

" Is it possible, by excision of the initial lesion, to destroy the syphilitic virus and prevent infection of the general system ?" This is the extremely important question which Dr. Prince A. Morrow endeavours to answer in a very able and well reasoned paper published in the Transactions of the New York Academy of Medicine for the year 1883. The practice of surgeons has undergone a revolution ...

Why should a project about an organizational merger be interesting? What do the Petit Price and the fox teach us about the mergers? Antoine de Saint-Exupéry tells us a story about to become friends. Knowing the Petit Prince the fox breaks its life style; it learns a new verbal and emotional language and consequently re organizes tis life In this paper, I argue that reading a merger event as a b...

This paper provides an analysis of the reduplicative patterns of Kavalan, an endangered Formosan plains tribe language spoken by fewer than one hundred people on the eastern coast of Taiwan. Kavalan reduplication is special in that the reduplicant takes several distinct shapes depending on the initial syllable of the base (Lee 2009). Within the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky...