1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461906903321

Titolo

Grammar in progress [[electronic resource] ] : glow essays for Henk van Riemsdijk / / Joan Mascaró and Marina Nespor, (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht, : Foris Publications, 1990

ISBN

3-11-086784-2

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (476 p.)

Collana

Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; ; 36

Altri autori (Persone)

NesporMarina

MascaróJoan

Disciplina

428.3

Soggetti

English language - Grammar

Electronic books.

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.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- A note on the aspect-syntax interface / Abraham, Werner -- What Bavarian Negative Concord Reveals about the Syntactic Structure of German / Bayer, Josef -- On the morphosyntactic nature of the sequence "Aux+Past Participle" in Italian / Belletti, Adriana -- TI: A note on modal passives / Bennis, Hans -- The syntax of nominatives in SOV Germanic / Besten den, Hans -- On the COMP of Relatives / Bok-Bennema, Reineke -- Verbal chain and verbal cluster: a discussion between linguist A and linguist B / Bordelois, I. / Evers, Arn. -- Subject/object asymmetries in German null-topic constructions and the status of specCP / Cardinaletti, Anna -- On a difference between English and Italian 'Complement Object Deletion' contructions / Cinque, Guglielmo -- A Note on Bars and Barriers / Coopmans, Peter -- Auxiliaries and sentence structure in Romanian / Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen -- Onset clusters in Greek / Drachman, G. -- NP-movement 'across' secondary objects / Everaert, Martin -- Floating Quantifiers in Germanic / Giusti, Giuliana -- Generative grammar in Italy / Graffi, Giorgio -- Particles, Prepositions, and Verbs / Guéron, J. -- Non-overt subjects in diary contexts / Haegeman, Liliane -- Datives in German "ECM"-constructions / Haider, H. -- A principle of global binding / Hellan, Lars -- On the Fate of Stray Syllables / Hermans, Ben -- Agreement and variables / Hoekstra, Teun -- Assumptions about asymmetric coordination in German / Höhle, Tilman N. -- On bare



infinitivals in Swedish / Holmberg, Anders -- The segmental spine and the non-existence of [±ATR] / Hulst van der, Harry -- What ever happened to dialect B? / Kaye, Jonathan -- Why noun-complement clauses are barriers / Kiss, Katalin É. -- Some thoughts on the cycle / Kooij, Jan G. -- Remarks on headless partitives and case in Turkish / Kornfilt, Jaklin -- Pork without pigs / Koster, Jan -- Old heads and new heads / Lightfoot, David -- A new formalization for locality theory / Manzin, M. Rita -- On empty theta-marked subjects in Romance and Germanic languages / Platzack, Christer -- Readjustment rules in Somali plural formation / Puglielli, A. / Scalise, S. -- Reflexives and beyond: non-local anaphora in Italian revisited / Reuland, Eric -- The semantic nature of some Romance prepositions / Rigau, Gemma -- Speculations on Verb Second / Rizzi, Luigi -- Some notes on VP-fronting and head government / Roberts, Ian -- Züritüütsch umlaut and the non-existence of the feature [tense] / Smith, Norval / Hulst van der, Harry -- Across-the-board binding meets verb second / Szabolcsi, Anna -- D-projections and N-projections in Norwegian / Taraldsen, Knut Tarald -- COMP° as a licensing head: an argument based on cliticization / Tomaselli, Alessandra -- The clitic group in prosodic phonology / Vogel, Irene -- Are they parasitic gaps? / Liejiong, Xu

Sommario/riassunto

Grammar in Progress



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453626903321

Autore

McMahan David L.

Titolo

Empty vision : metaphor and visionary imagery in Mahayana Buddhism / / David L. McMahan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-138-86260-6

1-315-02897-2

1-136-85726-5

1-136-85719-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

The Curzon critical studies in Buddhism series

Disciplina

294.392

Soggetti

Mahayana Buddhism

Metaphor - Religious aspects - Buddhism

Vision - Religious aspects - Buddhism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 2002 by RoutledgeCurzon.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Technical Note on Terms; Introduction; 1 The Devaluation of Language and the Privileging of Perception; Language and Concepts in Early Buddhism; Abhidharma and Dharma Theory; Mahāyāna Views on Language and Concepts; Dialectical Patterns in the Perfection of Wisdom Literature; Dialectic, Paradox, and Discourse; The Paradoxical Dialectic and Buddhist History; Discursive Thinking and the Construction of the Lifeworld; Perception in Indian Buddhism and Indian Philosophy

2 Buddhist Visuality in History and MetaphorVision in Indo-European Language and History; Metaphors and Their Functions; Visual Metaphor in Buddhist Discourse; Related Metaphors for Knowledge and Awakening; The Meaning and Significance of Space in Buddhist Discourse; Conclusion; 3 Orality, Writing, and Authority: Visionary Literature and the Struggle for Legitimacy in the Māhayāna; Orality In Early Buddhism; Writing in the Early Mahāyāna; Writing and the Survival of the Mahāyāna; Sacred Text and Sacred Site; Writing and the Visual



The Buddhavacana and Strategies of Legitimation in the MahāyānaVisionary Literature and Grounds for Legitimacy; Conclusion; 4 Realms of the Senses: Buddha Fields and Fields of Vision in the Gandavyūha Sūtra; Historical Context of the Gandavyūha; Visionary Literature and Thaumaturgy in India; Buddha-Fields and Images of Kingship; Elements of the Narrative; Vision and Doctrine; Dialectics of Words and Dialectics of Vision; Concretization of Metaphor; 5 The Optics of Buddhist Meditation and Devotion; Vision and Visualization in Early and Non-Mahāyāna Meditation; Meditation and Mental Imagery

Vision and DevotionDharma, Buddha, Stupa, and Saint; Recollection of the Buddha and Visualization Sūtras; Image Worship and Darśan; Asaṅga on the Buddha's Bodies; Tantric Visualization Practices; Stages of Tantric Sādhana; Mandala and Sūtra Imagery; Embodiment and Resemblance; The Somaticization of Doctrine; 6 Conclusions and Occlusions; Ocularcentrism in European and American Philosophy; Ocularcentrism in Buddhist Traditions; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Visual metaphors in a number of Mahayana sutras construct a discourse in which visual perception serves as a model for knowledge and enlightenment. In the Perfection of Wisdom (Prajnaparamita) and other Mahayana literature, immediate access to reality is symbolized by vision and set in opposition to language and conceptual thinking, which are construed as obscuring reality. In addition to its philosophical manifestations, the tension between vision and language also functioned as a strategy of legitimation in the struggle of the early heterodox Mahayana movement for authority and legitimacy. T