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In this paper I describe a number of agreement-type phenomena in the Australian language Kayardild, and assess them against existing definitions, stating both the boundaries of what is to be considered agreement, and characteristics of prototypical agreement phenomena. Though conforming, prima facie, to definitions of agreement that stress semantically based covariance in inflections on different words, the Kayardild phenomena considered here pose a number of challenges to accepted views of agreement: the rich possibilities for stacking case-like agreement inflections emanating from different syntactic levels, the fact that inflections resulting from agreement may change the word class of their host, and the semantic categories involved, in particular tense/aspect/mood, which have been claimed not to be agreement categories on nominals. Two types of inflection, in particular - 'modal case' and 'associating case' - lie somewhere between prototypical agreement and prototypical government. Like agreement, but unlike government, they are triggered by inflectional rather than lexical features of the head, and appear on more than one constituent; like government, but unlike agreement, the semantic categories on head and dependent are not isomorphic. Other types of inflection, though unusual in the categories involved, the possibility of recursion, and their effects on the host's word class, are close to prototypical in terms of how they fare in Corbett's proposed tests for canonical agreement.

Deutschland kann derzeit mit unter acht Prozent Jugendarbeitslosigkeit auftrumpfen - der geringsten Quote in der Europäischen Union. Das deutsche System der dualen Ausbildung gilt daher vielen Ländern als Vorbild. Doch der schöne Schein trügt. Ein Drittel der Jugendlichen, unter jenen mit Hauptschulabschluss sogar die Hälfte, findet keine Ausbildungsstelle, sondern beginnt eine berufsvorbereitende Maßnahme im sogenannten Übergangssystem. Einige können zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt noch eine Ausbildung beginnen, dennoch gelten über 15 Prozent (2,2 Millionen) der jungen Menschen in Deutschland im Alter von 20 bis 34 Jahren als ausbildungslos (Autorengruppe Bildungsberichterstattung 2012; Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung 2012). Gleichzeitig berichten viele Betriebe von Schwierigkeiten, Ausbildungsplätze zu besetzen. Wirtschaft und Politik erwarten in naher Zukunft einen Fachkräftemangel.

This article deals with the role of developing countries in strengthening the global ecological security, because the focus of environmental crisis has been shifting towards them. Taking into consideration the dynamics of their socio-economic and demographic changes, these countries will determine environmental situation in the world. Ecological crisis in developing countries is subjected to the industrial society formation that is accompanied by heavy demand on natural resources and pollution of environment. The author concludes that inevitable environmental costs of extensive economic growth are multiplied by continuing population growth and poverty increase. Today the developing countries are in extremely hard situation: they won't overcome economic gap which is the main cause of ecological disruption without accelerating the development. But at the same time, the uncontrolled increase of economic production results in intensification of environmental crisis. It determines the urgent need to shift from the traditional model of industrial development relying on the postulate "growth first clean up later" to the model of "green" development. This economic concept is defined as eco-industrial revolution. In order to carry this task these states have to include the elements of post-industrial "green" development into the model of the industrial type development catch up. In its practical realization this model may cause further differentiation of developing countries and inequality on the global level. The emerging economics of the Asia Pacific region possess enough technological, financial resources and political will to join the "green world". But scarcely the poor countries of Africa or South Asia will demonstrate the same high interest in providing secure ecological development. Sustainable economics will probably facilitate entering the "green world".