The Legacy of Gildas: Constructions of Authority in the Early Medieval West (Studies in Celtic History) by Stephen J. Joyce
2022 | ISBN: 178327672X | English | 204 pages | EPUB/PDF (True) | 6 + 11 MB

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1107110688 | 785 Pages | PDF | 13 MB
Why did the Greeks of the archaic and early Classical period join in choruses that sang and danced on public and private occasions? This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of representations of chorality in the poetry, art and material remains of early Greece in order to demonstrate the centrality of the activity in the social, religious and technological practices of individuals and communities. Moving from a consideration of choral archetypes, among them cauldrons, columns, Gorgons, ships and halcyons, the discussion then turns to an investigation of how participation in choral song and dance shaped communal experience and interacted with a variety of disparatespheres that include weaving, cataloguing, temple architecture and inscribing. The study ends with a treatment of the role of choral activity in generating epiphanies and allowing viewers and participants access to realms that typically lie beyond their perception.

Efficient and Sustainable Wood-based Constructions
pdf, epub | 9.69 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B09PQFTZTB | Author: Jozef Švajlenka, Mária Kozlovská | Year: 2022

Unbounded Dependency Constructions - Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives
pdf | 4.84 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 978-0198785002 | Author: Chaves, Rui P. | Year: 2021

Unbounded Dependency Constructions: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives by Rui P. Chaves, Michael T. Putnam
English | February 15, 2021 | ISBN: 0198784996, 0198785003 | 352 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In the sentence This is technology that most people think about, but rarely consider the implications of, the word 'technology' is interpreted as if it were simultaneously next to the words 'about' and 'of'. This kind of long-distance dependency has been the subject of intense linguistic and psycholinguistic research for the last half century, and offers a unique insight into the nature of grammatical structures and their interaction with cognition. The constructions in which these unbounded dependencies arise are remarkably difficult to model and come with a rather puzzling array of constraints that have often defied characterization or proper explanation. This work provides a detailed survey of these constructions and the factors responsible for their creation and comprehension, describes new experimental evidence that sheds light on the nature of the phenomenon, and suggests new avenues for future research. The volume will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in the fields of morphosyntax, psycholinguistics, and cognitive science.