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Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work...

La Cerca,” Fenci's solo exhibition, opened at the state museum in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico. The exhibition, which includes twenty-four ceramic pieces, a 5-foot-by-9-foot drawing and several smaller drawings, is the culmination of two years of work, both on the art and in negotiations with the museum officials. All of the works in some way or another deal with defense strategies, and so Fenci chose the Spanish translation for The Wall” as the exhibition's title. We build these elaborate structures that give us a sense of safety and protection, but the fact is, they're all...

El cuerpo contra la pared es una lectura de las representaciones del cuerpo humano en la imagen grafiti con los lentes de la historia del arte, la estética, la sociología y la literatura; exploradas con el propósito de tratar de comprender algo del universo social y cultural contemporáneo. Dentro del amplio espectro de la imagen grafiti se destaca una prolífica vertiente en la que el motivo de representación primordial es el cuerpo humano. Pintadas, estarcidas, adheridas sobre las paredes, esas imágenes son efímeros tatuajes en la piel urbana; en ellas el cuerpo se convierte en una...

The book presents a selection of papers on syntactic variation from different theoretical and methodological points of view. As such, it contributes to a process of reflection on the dialectical relationship between theoretical explanation and empirical description. In the first part, the authors discuss the use of corpora in syntactic variation studies. The rest of the book presents some new approaches to a number of controversial topics. Part Two concentrates on word order, information structure, and its phonological realization, while Part Three enlarges on variations in the encoding of...