Reflejos de la Comedia Ática en la Declamación XXVI de Libanio

[ES] El objetivo que se propone el presente trabajo es poner de manifiesto la influencia de la Comedia Atica en la Declamación XXVI de Libanio, una de las llamadas "declamaciones etopoéticas", que se centran en la descripción de caracteres. Estos se construyen a partir de los tipos fijados por la comedia, en el caso de la obra estudiada un δύσκολος y una mujer charlatana, personajes con una amplia tradición detrás de ellos. Por otra parte, se aborda desde un punto de vista "cómico" el tema del matrimonio, sobre el que tratan también, en un sentido muy diferente, los moralistas y los autores de epitalamios. Aflora además la influencia de la comedia ática en el uso de diversos elementos para la caracterización de los personajes (hipérboles, riqueza en imágenes y comparaciones), así como de ciertos recursos propios del género, principalmente el πνῖγος.

Processing Facilitation Strategies in OV and VO Languages: A Corpus Study

The present corpus study aimed to examine whether Basque (OV) resorts more often than Spanish (VO) to certain grammatical operations, in order to minimi ze the number of arguments to be processed before the verb. Ueno & Polinsky (2009) argue that VO/OV languages use certain grammatical resources with different frequencies in order to facilitate real-time processing. They observe that both OV and VO languages in their sample (Japanese, Turkish and Spanish) have a similar frequency of use of subject pro-drop; however, they find that OV languages (Japanese, Turkish) use more intransitive sentences than VO languages (English, Spanish), and conclude this is an OV-specific strategy to facilitate processing. We conducted a comparative corpus study of Spanish (VO) and Basque (OV). Results show (a) that the fre- quency of use of subject pro-drop is higher in Basque than in Spanish; and (b) Basque does not use more intransitive sentences than Spanish; both languages have a similar frequency of intransitive sentences. Based on these findings, we conclude that the frequency of use of grammatical resources to facilitate the processing does not depend on a single typological trait (VO/OV) but it is modulated by the concurrence of other grammatical feature.

Zoning a cross-border city

This paper investigates zoning in a cross-border linear city that consists of two bordering towns. In each town a local regulator has a say in the location of the local firm. The incentive to gain consumers from the other town, or not to lose local consumers, may push regulators to approve only locations for firms close enough to the frontier. When zoning is costly an asymmetric equilibrium may emerge: only one regulator resorts to zoning. In the case of towns of different sizes the regulator of the larger town is the only one that zones in an asymmetric equilibrium.