Verbs as Linguistic Markers of Agency - The Social Side of Grammar

Basic grammatical categories may carry social meaning irrespective of their semantic content. In a set of four studies, we demonstrate that verbs – a basic linguistic category present and distinguishable in most languages – are related to the perception of agency, a fundamental dimension in social perception. In an archival analysis on actual language use in Polish and German, we found that targets stereotypically associated with high agency (men and young people) are presented in the immediate neighborhood of a verb more often than non-agentic social targets (women and old people). Moreover, in three experiments using a pseudo-word paradigm, verbs (but not adjectives and nouns) were consistently associated with agency (but not communion). These results provide consistent evidence that verbs, as grammatical vehicles of action, are linguistic markers of agency. In demonstrating meta-semantic effects of language, these studies corroborate the view of language as a social tool and of language as an integral part of social perception.

Natural Hedging of Exchange Rate Risk: The Role of Imported Input Prices

In this paper, we estimate ERPT into imported input prices and export prices using disaggregated quarterly trade data for Switzerland over 2004–2011. We find evidence for high pass-through rates into imported input prices. This demonstrates the effectiveness of natural hedging. On the export side, ERPT exhibits substantial sectoral heterogeneity and changes in imported input costs are not transmitted to foreign consumers in most cases. This suggests the use of cheaper imported inputs to offset adverse effects of currency appreciation on export profit margins.

Abundance and opal input of radiolarian species of two sediment cores from the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean

Radiolarian-based paleoceanographic reconstructions generally use the abundance of selected radiolarian species. However, the recent focus on the opal flux and the development of isotope measurements in biogenic opal and the organic matter embedded in it demands a better knowledge of the origin of the opal. We present here an estimation of the opal content of the skeleton of 63 radiolarian species from two sites in the Southern Ocean. The skeletons are modelled as associations of simple geometrical shapes, and the volume thus obtained is combined with opal density to obtain the amount of opal. These data are, thus, used to determine the most important opal carriers in the radiolarian assemblage in both cores.

Insumo producto; Input output.

Mode of access: Internet.

Research input for computer simulation of automobile collisions. Volume IV: staged collision reconstructions. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Research input for computer simulation of automobile collisions. Volume III: staged collisions. Tests no. 6 through no. 12. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Handbook of the linguistic geography of New England,

Issued as part of the author's Linguistic atlas of the United States and Canada.

The pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States; based upon the collections of the linguistic atlas of the Eastern United States.

Mode of access: Internet.

Joy and freude; a comparative study of the linguistic field of pleasurable emotions in English and German,

Bibliography; p. 134-141.

Research input for computer simulation of automobile collisions. Interim report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Research input for computer simulation of automobile collisions. Volume II: staged collisions. Tests no. 1 through no. 5. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Research input for computer simulation of automobile collisions. Volume I: development of data bank. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.