Author: Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: monographs, inquiry, linguistic, morphology, asymmetry
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 2005-12-16
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 026254184X
ISBN-13: 9780262541848
In this groundbreaking monograph, Anna Maria Di Sciullo proposes that asymmetry—the irreversibility of a pair of elements in an ordered set—is a hard-wired property of morphological relations. Her argument that asymmetry is central in derivational morphology, would, if true, make morphological objects regular objects of grammar just as syntactic and phonological objects are. This contrasts with the traditional assumption that morphology is irregular and thus not subject to the basic hard-wired regularities of form and interpretation. Di Sciullo argues that the asymmetric property of mor
Authors:J. J. Halliwell, J. Pérez-Mercader, W. H. Zurek,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: asymmetry, time, origins, physical
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 1996-03-29
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0521568374
ISBN-13: 9780521568371
In the world about us, the past is distinctly different from the future. More precisely, we say that the processes going on in the world about us are asymmetric in time or display an arrow of time. Yet this manifest fact of our experience is particularly difficult to explain in terms of the fundamental laws of physics. Newton’s laws, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, Einstein’s theory of gravity, etc., make no distinction between past and future - they are time-symmetric. Reconciliation of these profoundly conflicting facts is the topic of this volume. It is an interdisciplinary
Authors:Massimo Marrelli, Giacomo Pignataro,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: asymmetry, information, processes, making, decision, public
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0792372387
ISBN-13: 9780792372387
The issue of asymmetric information and public decision-making has been widely explored by economists. Most of the traditional analysis of public sector activities has been reviewed to take account of the different incentive problems arising from an asymmetric distribution of relevant information among the actors of the public decision-making process. A normative approach has been developed, mainly employing the principal agent paradigm to design incentive schemes which tackle adverse selection and moral hazard problems within public organizations. Still, this analysis is under way in many fie
Author: Edna Andrews
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: jakobson, roman, series, linguistics, poetics, meaning, sound, union, theory, asymmetry, semiosis, language, markedness
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1989
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0822309599
ISBN-13: 9780822309598
Edna Andrews clarifies and extends the work of Roman Jakobson to develop a theory of invariants in language by distinguishing between general and contextual meaning in morphology and semantics. Markedness theory, as Jakobson conceived it, is a qualitative theory of oppositional binary relations. Andrews shows how markedness theory enables a linguist to precisely define the systemically given oppositions and hierarchies represented by linguistic categories. In addition, she redefines the relationship between Jakobsonian markedness theory and Peircean interpretants. Though primarily theoretical,
Author: Georges H. Wagnière
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Keywords: image, mirror, reflections, asymmetry, universal, chirality
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-08-27
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 3906390381
ISBN-13: 9783906390383
Until half a century ago, it was assumed that the forces of nature were symmetric and that they did not distinguish between right and left, between image and mirror image. The discovery of the violation of parity in 1956 was more than a sensation, for some it was a shock. It implied that the universe displays handedness, or chirality, and that it is fundamentally asymmetric. Remarkably, a most striking asymmetry is encountered in the realm of biology. Living organisms contain proteins built almost exclusively from L-amino acids, and nucleic acids derived from D-sugars only. Yet a mirror
Author: Joseph B. Hellige
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: cognitive, neuroscience, perspectives, right, asymmetry, hemispheric
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2001-03-16
List price: $41.00
ISBN-10: 0674005597
ISBN-13: 9780674005594
Is "right-brain" thought essentially creative, and "left-brain" strictly logical? Joseph B. Hellige argues that this view is far too simplistic. Surveying extensive data in the field of cognitive science, he disentangles scientific facts from popular assumptions about the brain’s two hemispheres. In Hemispheric Asymmetry, Hellige explains that the "right brain" and "left brain" are actually components of a much larger cognitive system encompassing cortical and subcortical structures, all of which interact to produce unity of thought and action. He further explores questions of whether
Author: Chris McManus
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: hand, atoms, cultures, bodies, asymmetry, origins, right, brains
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2004-10-25
List price: $20.50
ISBN-10: 0674016130
ISBN-13: 9780674016132
"A labor of love and enthusiasm as well as deep scientific knowledge, Right Hand, Left Hand takes the reader on a trip through history, around the world, and into the cosmos, to explore the place of handedness in nature and culture. Chris McManus considers evidence from anthropology, particle physics, the history of medicine, and the notebooks of Leonardo to answer questions like: Why are most people right-handed? Are left-handed people cognitively different from right-handers? Why is the heart almost always on the left side of the body? Why does European writing go from left to right, while A
