1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451746603321

Titolo

Cognitive linguistics and non-Indo-European languages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Eugene H. Casad, Gary B. Palmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003

ISBN

1-282-19373-2

9786612193736

3-11-019715-4

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 p.)

Collana

Cognitive linguistics research ; ; 18

Classificazione

ER 940

Altri autori (Persone)

CasadEugene H

PalmerGary B. <1942->

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Cognitive grammar

Grammar, Comparative and general

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from a theme session at the International Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, July 10-16, 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction - Rice taboos, broad faces and complex categories -- Completion, comas and other “downers”: Observations on the semantics of the Wanca Quechua directional suffix -lpu -- Speakers, context, and Cora conceptual metaphors -- Reduplication in Nahuatl: Iconicities and paradoxes -- Conceptual autonomy and the typology of parts of speech in Upper Necaxa Totonac and other languages -- Hawaiian ‘o as an indicator of nominal salience -- Animism exploits linguistic phenomena -- The Tagalog prefix category PAG-: Metonymy, polysemy, and voice -- Conceptual structure of numeral classifiers in Thai -- A cognitive account of the causative/inchoative alternation in Thai -- Conceptual metaphors motivating the use of Thai ‘face’ -- Holistic spatial semantics of Thai -- The bodily dimension of meaning in Chinese: what do we do and mean with “hands”?* -- What cognitive linguistics can reveal about complementation in non-IE languages: Case studies from Japanese and Korean -- Zibun reflexivization in Japanese: A Cognitive Grammar approach -- Subjectivity and the use of Finnish emotive verbs -- From



causatives to passives: A passage in some East and Southeast Asian languages -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

This book applies the theory of cognitive linguistics to the analysis of a variety of grammatical phenomena in non-Indo-European languages. In previous studies of languages from non-Indo-European families, cognitive linguistics has been remarkably useful in explaining non-prototypical structures as well as more common ones. The book expands that effort into a new set of families and languages.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779072703321

Autore

Boadway Robin W. <1943->

Titolo

From optimal tax theory to tax policy : retrospective and prospective views / / Robin Boadway

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012

ISBN

0-262-30093-1

1-280-49903-6

9786613594266

0-262-30168-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Munich lectures in economics

Disciplina

336.2001

Soggetti

Taxation

Fiscal policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- From tax theory to policy : an overview -- Landmarks of optimal tax theory -- The evolution of policy and advice -- Challenges for the theory of tax policy -- Commitment -- Heterogeneity of individual utility functions -- Behavioral issues -- Responsibility and compensation -- Political economy -- Optimal analysis versus reform analysis -- Summary of lessons for tax policy -- Policy lessons from optimal tax theory -- Uniformity of commodity taxes -- The Corlett-Hague theorem -- The Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem -- Production efficiency : implications and caveats -- Capital taxation



and the personal tax base -- Linear taxation in a dynamic setting -- Nonlinear taxation in a dynamic setting -- The issue of progressivity -- Asymmetric information and market failure -- Policy lessons from normative analysis -- Relaxing the second-best constraints -- The use of supplementary policy instruments -- Making use of, and acquiring, more information -- Conclusions -- Challenges for second-best analysis -- Fundamentals of the standard approach -- The commitment issue -- Heterogeneous preferences and utility -- Behavioral issues -- Political economy -- Concluding comments.

Sommario/riassunto

Many things inform a country's choice of tax system, including political considerations, public opinion, bureaucratic complexities, and ideas drawn from theoretical analysis. In this work, Robin Boadway examines the role of optimal tax analysis in informing and influencing tax policy design.