Científics universals, I. 'Científicos universales, I'.

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Científics universals, II. 'Científicos universales, II'.

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Científics universals, III. 'Científicos universales, III'.

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Científics universals, IV. 'Científicos universales, IV'.

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The ancient Greek address system and some proposed sociolinguistic universals

This article summarizes the results of a longer study of address forms in Ancient Greek, based on 11,891 address tokens from a variety of sources. It argues that the Greek evidence appears to contradict two tendencies, found in address forms in other languages, which have been claimed as possible sociolinguistic universals: the tendency toward T/V distinctions, and the principle that “What is new is polite.” It is suggested that these alleged universals should perhaps be re-examined in light of the Greek evidence, and that ancient languages in general have more to contribute to sociolinguistics than is sometimes realized. (Address, Ancient Greek, T/V distinctions)

Cultural universals: Measuring the semantic structure of emotion terms in English and Japanese

Research is presented on the semantic structure of 15 emotion terms as measured by judged-similarity tasks for monolingual English-speaking and monolingual and bilingual Japanese subjects. A major question is the relative explanatory power of a single shared model for English and Japanese versus culture-specific models for each language. The data support a shared model for the semantic structure of emotion terms even though some robust and significant differences are found between English and Japanese structures. The Japanese bilingual subjects use a model more like English when performing tasks in English than when performing the same task in Japanese.

Etnopoètica catalana: panoràmica històrica, implicacions universals i perspectives contemporànies

L’etnopoètica, entesa com «la branca del folklore que estudia l’art verbal» és, sens dubte, una disciplina emergent en l’àmbit dels estudis filològics catalans. Arran de la creació del Grup d’Estudis Etnopoètics, auspiciat l’any 2004 per diversos investigadors de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona, la Universitat d’Alacant i la Universitat de les Illes Balears, hi hem assistit en les últimes dues dècades a un contumaç procés de reivindicació, dignificació, modernització, sistematització, planificació, institucionalització, coordinació, producció, difusió, internacionalització i —en definitiva— vivificació d’estudis que paren atenció al complex univers de la literatura popular de transmissió oral.

Antient metaphysics: or, The science of universals.

Imprint varies: v. 2-3, London, Printed for T. Cadell [etc.]--v.4-6, Edinburgh, Printed for Bell & Bradfute [etc.]

TEORIA SINTÁTICA: DE UMA PERSPECTIVA DE -ISMOS PARA UMAPERSPECTIVA DE PROGRAMAS

This paper tries to show that the developments in linguistic sciences are better viewed as stages in a single research program, rather than different ideological -isms. The first part contains an overview of the structuralistas' beliefs about the universality and equivalence of human languages, and their search for syntactic universals. In the second part, we will see that the generative program, in its turn, tries to answer why language is a universal faculty in the human species and addresses questions about its form, its development and its use. In the second part, we will see that the paper gives a brief glimpse of the tentative answers the program has been giving to each of these issues.