Author: Hans Benni
Publisher: Amsterdam University Pre
Keywords: amsterdam, archaeological, studies, press, university, dummies, gaps
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-08-15
List price: $67.00
ISBN-10: 905356859X
ISBN-13: 9789053568590
In this study the syntactic properties of empty categories and dummy pronouns are investigated within the framework of Government-Binding theory.The assumption that clauses must have a subject is present in most, if not all, linguistic theories. In GB theory the requirement that clauses have a subject is stipulated as a consequence of the base rules or the Extended Projection Principle. In this book it is claimed that no such stipulation is necessary. The presence of a subject is exclusively determined by the theories of thematic roles and Case.This view is supported by the fact that the alleg
Author: Harm Pinkster
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: amsterdam, archaeological, studies, press, university, adverbs, latin
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-09-15
List price: $53.50
ISBN-10: 9053568433
ISBN-13: 9789053568439
This study deals with a number ofaspects of the words usually calledadverbs in Latin. It contains on theone hand a critical discussion of theirtreatment in Latin grammatical studies- the characteristics attributed to them, their relationship to other words - andon the other hand a discussion of theconditions that have to be met in orderto achieve a better (sub)classification. The study contains, therefore, bothlanguage-specific sections and moregeneral ones. The author wrote thepassages specifically dealing withLatin in such a way that they are clearenough to the non-Latinist linguists.
Author: Mieke Bal
Publisher: Amsterdam University Pre
Keywords: amsterdam, university, press, archaeological, studies, opposition, rembrandt, word, image, reading
Number of Pages: 498
Published: 2006-09-05
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 9053568581
ISBN-13: 9789053568583
Reading Rembrandt questions the traditional boundaries between literary and visual analysis with close, side-by-side readings of some of the Dutch master’s works alongside paintings of the same era whose attribution is still debated. A new understanding of the role of visuality in our culture emerges, one that makes significant inroads, most particularly, for the study of gender in Rembrandt’s work. Demonstrating acute sensitivity to Rembrandt’s art, acclaimed scholar and author Mieke Bal gives new depth to an old master, a perspective with vast consequences for our views of gender, the
Author: Jurgen Pieters
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: amsterdam, university, press, archaeological, studie, greenblatt, negotiation, new, historicism, stephen, moments
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2002-03-26
List price: $39.25
ISBN-10: 9053565027
ISBN-13: 9789053565025
Moments of Negotiation offers the first book-length and indepth analysis of the New Historicist reading method, which the American Shakespeare-scholar Stephen Greenblatt introduced at the beginning of the 1980s. Ever since, Greenblatt has been hailed as the prime representative of this movement, whose critical acclaim has been one of the dominant trends in recent literary and cultural studies. In this new book, Jürgen Pieters attempts to fill a remarkable lacuna in the critical reception of Greenblatt’s work.The book’s aim is to provide a thorough analysis of the theoretical backg
Authors:Louis Andriessen, Elmer Schonberger,
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: amsterdam, archaeological, studies, press, university, stravinsky, apollonian, clockwork
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2006-12-15
List price: $59.90
ISBN-10: 9053568565
ISBN-13: 9789053568569
’I think my music deserves to be considered as a whole’, Igor Stravinsky remarked at the end of a long and restless career, and that is exactly what the authors of The Apollonian Clockwork do. In 1982, convinced that there is no essential difference between ’early’ and ’late’ Stravinsky, Louis Andriessen and Elmer Schönberger were the first to write a monograph on the composer which radically breaks with the habit of dividing his works into ’Russian’, ’neoclassical’ and ’serial’. In an essay which continually shifts in i
Authors:Miranda van Tilburg, Ad Vingerhoets,
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: amsterdam, press, archaeological, studies, university, psychological, geographical, moves, aspects
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-04-12
List price: $53.50
ISBN-10: 9053568603
ISBN-13: 9789053568606
Mobility of mankind has increased enormously in the past few decades. People leave their homes and native countries for business and study, for vacation or to flee from unsafe conditions like wars and natural disasters. In all cases the sojourner faces a dual challenge of breaking with the familiar home environment and adjusting to new surroundings. This book deals with the psychological and health consequences of leaving the familiar home and the process of creating a new one. The focus is mainly on acculturation stress and homesickness, which both are relevant to those who travel. Acculturat
Author: Nico Roymans
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: amsterdam, university, press, archaeological, studies, empire, roman, identity, imperial, power, batavians, ethnic
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-01-15
List price: $60.75
ISBN-10: 9053567054
ISBN-13: 9789053567050
This probing case study examines the evolution of the ethnic identity of the Batavians, a lower Rhineland tribe in the western marches of the Roman Empire. Drawing on extensive historical and archaeological data, Nico Roymans examines how between 50 BCE and 70 CE, the Romans cultivated the Batavians as an ethnic "other" by intensively recruiting them to the Roman army while simultaneously carrying out extermination campaigns against other tribes in the region. Roymans also considers how the status of the Batavian settlement reveals intriguing insights into Roman definitions of "civilization" a
