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The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given informa

Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets marks an important chapter in the study of Antebellum southern slavery and the credit system. Kilbourne analyzes the systems which credit intermediaries such as chartered banks and commercial partnerships used to finance slave agriculture, using the Mississippi branch of the Second Bank of the United States as a case study. He explains in detail how the Bank supported the government's and the nation's credit abroad by providing apparently limitless credit facilities to southern planters along the Mississippi river.This ground-breaking new book

Main description: Einzelne Lebewesen fassen wir als Individuen auf, die über die Zeit hin Einheit besitzen und sich verändern können. Doch wie können sie Einheit besitzen, wenn sie sich verändern? Diese seit der Antike diskutierte ontologische Frage beantwortet Friedemann Buddensiek mit der These: Individuen sind Funktionsgefüge. Teil eines solchen– gegebenenfalls veränderlichen– Gefüges ist, was das Gefüge bildet und was durch Interaktion und Kooperation mit anderen Teilen zu dessen Selbständigkeit beiträgt. In der Kohärenz des Gefüges besteht die Einheit des Individuums.

Symbol theories exist where the concept of symbol is applied. This concept of symbol is referred to in different theoretical contexts: in language theory, cognitive theory, art historical theory, semiotics, awareness theory, and sociological theory. The book addresses 38 different approaches. The description covers theorists from Aristotle to Searle